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• Long-billed Sunbird Cinnyris lotenius

  

  The Long-billed Sunbird is a small sunbird with a long, downcurved bill. It occurs in farmland, moist forest, and scrub in India and Sri Lanka.

• Littoral Rock-Thrush Monticola imerina

  The Littoral Rock-Thrush lives in dry woodland and scrub in southwestern and southern Madagascar. It hops on the ground and perches higher when disturbed.

• Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis

  A flycatcher with bright yellow underparts, a pale eye-stripe, and a black face, commonly seen in open countryside in Latin America.

• Spiny Babbler Turdoides nipalensis

  The Spiny Babbler is endemic to Nepal, with a gray-brown body and white on parts of the face and chin. It hides in scrub along field edges and streams and moves alone or in small parties.

• Black-headed Jay Garrulus lanceolatus

  A jay with blue wings and a gray head, it searches for a varied diet in trees and on the ground.

• Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia

  The Chocolate-backed Kingfisher has a chestnut head, dark brown back, and bright blue rump. It lives in pairs and launches from high perches to catch insects and other prey.

• Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis

  The Red-browed Finch lives in eastern Australia, in grassy areas and along creeks. Small flocks search for grass seeds and insects, and the bright red eyebrow, rump, and bill are distinctive.

• Long-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus kingii

  This hummingbird lives in Andean mountain forest. Males flash a very long blue-green tail and look markedly different from females.

• Rainbow lorikeet Trichoglossus moluccanus

  A colourful Australian parrot with a blue head, green wings and an orange-to-yellow breast.

• Black-cheeked Mountain Tanager Anisognathus melanogenys

  This tanager is restricted to Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Its blue and yellow plumage contrasts with a black face.

• Madagascar Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda madagascariensis

  This medium-sized raptor lives in Madagascar's forests. It waits concealed among leaves, then glides from a perch to catch insects and small reptiles.

• Altamira Oriole Icterus gularis

  The Altamira Oriole has a bright orange body and a contrasting black face. It weaves a long, hanging bag-shaped nest from a tree branch.

• Saunders's Gull Chroicocephalus saundersi

  It breeds in Yellow Sea coastal saltmarshes, mainly in eastern China and occasionally on the southwestern coast of South Korea. Outside the breeding season it moves to coasts of eastern China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.

• Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis

  The Northern White-faced Owl is a nocturnal owl of dry savanna and open woodland in sub-Saharan Africa. It occurs in both light and dark plumage morphs.

• Philippine Tailorbird Orthotomus castaneiceps

  This tailorbird occurs in the Visayan Islands. A 1971 Philippine bird account treated castaneiceps as a subspecies and recorded a gray upper back and white underparts.

• Javan Myna Acridotheres javanicus

  The Javan Myna is native to Java and Bali. In Singapore, an introduced urban population is established.

• Black Grouse Lyrurus tetrix

  In spring, male Black Grouse gather at traditional display grounds to court. Females are smaller and brownish.

• Plumbeous Rail Pardirallus sanguinolentus

  The head and underparts are gray, the back is olive-brown, and the legs are red. It uses a variety of waterside habitats, from Peruvian coastal lowlands to Andean wetlands.

• West Indian Woodpecker Melanerpes superciliaris

  This woodpecker lives on Caribbean islands and searches for food on tree trunks and branches. A black mark above and behind the eye occurs in most, but not all, subspecies.

• Tawny-capped Euphonia Euphonia anneae

  This euphonia occurs from Central America to northwestern Colombia. Males have a tawny crown and yellow underparts; the species feeds on small fruits in humid forest and at forest edges.

• Coscoroba Swan Coscoroba coscoroba

  The Coscoroba Swan is a large white waterbird of South American wetlands and lakes.

• White-breasted Ground Dove Pampusana jobiensis

  A dove from the islands around New Guinea. The New Guinea form has a dark purple back and a white breast patch.

• Black-faced Antbird Myrmoborus myotherinus

  The Black-faced Antbird lives in humid Amazonian forests. Males are bluish grey and black, while females are brown with a black mask, so the sexes have different plumage. It forages in the middle and upper canopy for insects and other arthropods.

• Halmahera Golden Bulbul Hypsipetes chloris

  This bulbul occurs on Morotai, Halmahera, and Bacan in the North Moluccas. A 2013 paper uses the former genus combination Thapsinillas chloris, while the IUCN account uses Hypsipetes chloris. It is frequently recorded in forest and woodland, with some mangrove records.