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• Red-mantled Rosefinch Carpodacus rhodochlamys

  

  In Gilgit-Baltistan, this rosefinch uses high scrub in summer and lower brush in winter.

• Maghreb Magpie Pica mauritanica

  The Maghreb Magpie is a magpie distinguished by blue bare skin around the eye. It searches the ground for insects and small animals, and also eats fruit and seeds.

• Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and western Venezuela. The male is golden green with coppery tones, while the female has gray underparts; it feeds in scrub and forest edges.

• Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura

  A slim-bodied dove with a pointed tail and a habit of feeding on seeds on the ground.

• Japanese Scops Owl Otus semitorques

  The Japanese Scops Owl blends into woodland with bark-like mottled plumage and is active at night.

• Mountain Elaenia Elaenia frantzii

  A highland flycatcher found from Mexico through Central America to Colombia and Venezuela. It has subdued plumage and forages at forest edges and fruiting bushes.

• Northern Brownbul Phyllastrephus strepitans

  This bulbul occurs in eastern Africa. It is mostly brown and uses semi-arid scrub, dry-forest edges, and other wooded habitats; it eats insects and fruit.

• Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus

  The Glaucous Gull is a large gull with pale wing tips. Young birds have different plumage from adults.

• Northern Masked Weaver Ploceus taeniopterus

  The Northern Masked Weaver lives in semi-arid savanna in northeast Africa. Breeding males have a black facial mask on a yellow body, and colonies can form near water.

• Grey-headed Munia Lonchura caniceps

  This small bird lives in grassland and cultivated areas in Papua New Guinea. Males have a gray head and throat, dark brown back, and orange rump.

• White-necked Thrush Turdus albicollis

  This thrush is described from Trinidad and Tobago. It searches among leaf litter for small prey and also eats fruit.

• Streaked Saltator Saltator striatipectus

  The Streaked Saltator is a resident of parts of Central America and northern and western South America. A reserve species account describes it feeding on both plant and animal foods around woodland edges, gardens, and regenerating farmland.

• Moluccan Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis aeruginosus

  The Moluccan Brush Cuckoo has a dark gray head and throat, with chestnut underparts extending onto the breast. It is recorded in hill forest on the Maluku Islands.

• Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata

  The Half-collared Kingfisher is small, with a blue back, pale orange underparts and a white throat.

• Bar-breasted Piculet Picumnus aurifrons

  The Bar-breasted Piculet is a small woodpecker of the Amazon forest canopy. Males have an orange forehead, which females lack.

• White-breasted Antbird Rhegmatorhina hoffmannsi

  This antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory. Willis described the male with a white face, throat, and breast, a black crest, grey underparts, and greenish-brown upperparts; the female differs in crown and body pattern.

• Madagascar Starling Hartlaubius auratus

  Adult males have a dark-brown head and throat, a white chest and belly, and white-edged wings. A historical account describes groups feeding on the ground in open areas near streams in Madagascar.

• Meller's Duck Anas melleri

  Meller’s Duck is a duck found only on Madagascar. The sexes look alike, and its grey bill helps distinguish it from a female Mallard.

• Orange-billed Babbler Argya rufescens

  The Orange-billed Babbler lives in flocks in Sri Lanka's wet-zone forests. Its reddish-brown body contrasts with a bright orange bill and legs.

• Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius

  The Orchard Oriole is black and russet in the adult male, while the female is yellow-green. It searches foliage for insects, eats fruit, and migrates seasonally.

• Black Baza Aviceda leuphotes

  The Black Baza is a forest raptor with black-and-white plumage, chestnut breast bands and a long crest. It catches insects in the canopy; some northern populations migrate south.

• Straight-billed Earthcreeper Ochetorhynchus ruficaudus

  This earthcreeper inhabits dry highlands of southwestern Bolivia. Accounts describe its long, nearly straight bill and ground-foraging on sparsely vegetated, rocky slopes.

• Grey-throated Ibon Lophozosterops javanicus

  This white-eye relative inhabits the mountains of Java and Bali, with records up to about 1,500 m.

• Tumbes Sparrow Rhynchospiza stolzmanni

  This sparrow has a finely streaked brown back, a striped head, and a gray underside. It forages on the ground in scrub. Most records cited here are from north-western Peru, with the species also occurring in Ecuador.