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- Eastern Wattled-Honeyeater Foulehaio carunculatus
Photo: M Rutherford · (c) M Rutherford, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 A 2017 American Samoa manual calls this bird the Polynesian Wattled-Honeyeater and prints Foulehaio carunculata. It places the species on the islands of eastern Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa. In American Samoa, birds in breeding condition were captured throughout the year.
- Arabian Serin Crithagra rothschildi
The Arabian Serin has an olive rump and a thick, down-curved bill. It feeds by day on seeds and shrub buds.
- White-bellied Treepie Dendrocitta leucogastra
A corvid with a long tail and white belly, it lives in the humid hill forests of the Western Ghats.
- Lazuline Sabrewing Campylopterus falcatus
Campylopterus falcatus is a hummingbird recorded in Colombia's mountains. Males are green with blue-violet throat and lower chest; females are green above and on the sides with grey-white underparts. Foraging at flowering Inga was reported.
- Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
The Common Ground Dove is a small dove of the southern United States. It forages for seeds on the ground, where its gray-brown plumage blends with soil and grass.
- Palawan Scops Owl Otus fuliginosus
The Palawan Scops Owl is a small owl of lowland forest on Palawan. It has a dark brown back and warmer, paler underparts marked with black, and it is nocturnal.
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
The Boat-billed Flycatcher is a large flycatcher ranging from Mexico into South America. It hunts from mid to upper levels of tropical forest, taking insects and small animals.
- Ashy-fronted Bulbul Pycnonotus cinereifrons
The Ashy-fronted Bulbul occurs on Palawan and nearby islands in the western Philippines. It is treated here as the separate species Pycnonotus cinereifrons, rather than under older treatments that included it as a subspecies of the Olive-winged Bulbul. It eats fruit in forest edges and coastal scrub.
- Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans
The Caspian Gull is a gull with a white head, long pale bill and long wings. In Britain, some arrive in late summer or autumn and spend the winter.
- Pictorella Munia Heteromunia pectoralis
The Pictorella Munia lives in grasslands and scrub across northern Australia. Adult males have a black face, while females are brown-faced, and the birds feed for seeds on the ground.
- Everett's Thrush Zoothera everetti
A Bornean mountain thrush of mossy forest and track edges, with olive-brown upperparts, a reddish tail and pale orange, scaly-looking underparts.
- Rufous-bellied Mountain Tanager Pseudosaltator rufiventris
This Andean bird stands out for its gray upperparts and extensive rufous underparts. It searches in tree crowns and shrubs, alone or in pairs.
- Blue Coua Coua caerulea
This large cuckoo-family bird lives in Madagascar. It is about 50 cm long and searches tree branches for invertebrates.
- Spotted Kingfisher Actenoides lindsayi
The Spotted Kingfisher lives in the moist lowland forests of the Philippines. It waits on low perches and catches insects and small animals.
- Laced Woodpecker Picus vittatus
The Laced Woodpecker has a green back and yellowish underparts. The male has a red crown and nape, while those areas are black in the female.
- White-lined Antbird Myrmoborus lophotes
This antbird lives in lowland forest of southeastern Peru, chiefly in Guadua bamboo stands. Males are dark gray and females rufous, and both have a prominent crest.
- Collared Myna Acridotheres albocinctus
The Collared Myna has a conspicuous white collar. Adults of both sexes have glossy blue-black plumage, while young birds are brown.
- Hartlaub's Duck Pteronetta hartlaubii
Hartlaub's Duck has a cinnamon-red body with pale blue on the wings. The male has a white spot at the tip of the bill, and the species uses rivers, lakes, and streams in western and central equatorial Africa.
- Sumatran Laughingthrush Garrulax bicolor
The Sumatran Laughingthrush lives in montane old-growth forest on Sumatra. It has black-and-white plumage and an erectile crest, and field observations remain limited.
- Yellow Oriole Icterus nigrogularis
This oriole ranges across northern South America. Males are yellow with black wings and face markings; females are duller. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects.
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
A large raptor that flies low over wetlands with broad wings held in a shallow V. Many birds in Britain arrive in spring to breed and head to Africa in autumn, while some now remain there through winter.
- Des Murs's Wiretail Sylviorthorhynchus desmurii
It is a small bird with a slender tail: about 22 cm long overall, with a tail of about 14 cm. It lives in humid forest and dense undergrowth in southern South America.
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
This sparrow has a russet-and-grey back and bold streaks on its white chest. It occurs across much of North America, though plumage varies by region.
- Red-spectacled Amazon Amazona pretrei
The Red-spectacled Amazon is a South American parrot with red feathers on a mostly green body. It is centered in southern Brazil, and its grouping and food sources vary between breeding and nonbreeding periods.