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• Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift Panyptila cayennensis

  

  This swift has a dark body, white throat and chest, and a deeply forked tail. It searches for food above forest.

• Greater Streaked Honeyeater Myza sarasinorum

  The Greater Streaked Honeyeater lives in Sulawesi's montane rainforest. Fine streaks on its dark plumage and a large ear patch are useful field marks.

• Palila Loxioides bailleui

  The Palila is closely tied to dry forest with māmane trees on Mauna Kea, Hawaiʻi Island. Immature māmane seeds make up most of its diet.

• Sunda Crow Corvus enca

  The Sunda Crow is a black crow with a slender bill and a purplish sheen. On Borneo it also occurs along forest edges and near the coast.

• Dusky Starfrontlet Coeligena orina

  The Dusky Starfrontlet is a hummingbird recorded in high-elevation forest in western Colombia. Males and females differ in head and throat color, and the paper treats it as distinct from Coeligena bonapartei.

• Sula Cuckoo-Dove Turacoena sulaensis

  Sula Cuckoo-Dove is a forest dove of the Sula and Banggai Islands. Adults show a conspicuous white face and red eye-ring.

• Javan Owlet Glaucidium castanopterum

  A small owl with a rounded head, chestnut back, and white underparts marked by long brown streaks. It is mainly nocturnal and lives in forest and forest edge on Java.

• Yellow-browed Tyrant Satrapa icterophrys

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs widely in South America. It has olive upperparts and bright yellow underparts; a study on Carabajal Island in Argentina found both animal and plant material in stomach samples.

• White-browed Bulbul Pycnonotus luteolus

  The White-browed Bulbul is a resident breeder in peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Its white eyebrow is distinctive, and it searches bushes for fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Sabine's Gull Xema sabini

  Breeding adults show triangular black, white, and gray wing patches, a dark head, and a red eye ring; they feed in Arctic wetlands.

• Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops

  The Red-headed Quelea lives around wetlands and damp grassland; breeding males stand out with red heads.

• Red-headed Bluebill Spermophaga ruficapilla

  The Red-headed Bluebill is a small bird of forests in Central and East Africa. It is active by day and mainly eats plant seeds.

• Blacksmith Thrush Turdus subalaris

  The Blacksmith Thrush was recorded in Paraguay’s Atlantic Forest in October. A 2017 specimen account treated three birds under the older name Turdus nigriceps and assigned them to the eastern form subalaris.

• Rufous-sided Warbling Finch Poospizopsis hypocondria

  This small bird lives on dry, high Andean slopes and in scrub. It has brownish-gray upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and rufous sides.

• Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus

  In southern Africa, the Black Cuckoo is a migrant that breeds in summer. It is often noticed by its call because the bird itself is hard to see. It lays its eggs in nests of other birds, including boubous.

• Torresian Kingfisher Todiramphus sordidus

  The Torresian Kingfisher is a large kingfisher of coastal northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It uses mudflats and mangroves, where it searches for crabs and other prey.

• Campo Flicker Colaptes campestris

  The male Campo Flicker is marked by a yellow face and breast, with a black crown and nape. At Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve in Buenos Aires, it is often recorded along paths and the outer sidewalk.

• Riparian Antbird Cercomacroides fuscicauda

  The Riparian Antbird uses riverside floodplain forest and dense river-island thickets. Males are gray and females brown to rufous. Habitat and voice help distinguish it from similar antbirds.

• Chestnut-cheeked Starling Agropsar philippensis

  The Chestnut-cheeked Starling breeds in Japan and Sakhalin and moves south for the winter. Males have chestnut cheek patches, and the species eats insects and fruit.

• Masked Duck Nomonyx dominicus

  The Masked Duck rests and dives in wetlands with dense vegetation. A breeding male has a black face and reddish body, while females and nonbreeding males show strong dark stripes on the face.

• Scaly Laughingthrush Trochalopteron subunicolor

  The Scaly Laughingthrush occurs in eastern Himalayan mountain forest and scrub, and may move to lower elevations in winter. A museum specimen is also recorded from Mount Fansipan in northern Vietnam.

• Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus

  Bobolinks breed in North American grasslands and migrate to South America for winter. In breeding plumage, males are marked by a white back and a yellow rear crown.

• Madagascar Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vociferoides

  The Madagascar Fish Eagle is a large raptor associated with Madagascar’s coasts and freshwater. Its wingspan is about 1.65–1.80 m, and it hunts around water by day.

• Dark-winged Miner Geositta saxicolina

  A ground-foraging bird restricted to a part of central Peru at 4,000–4,900 m. In flight, a dark band shows across its pale tail.