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• Grey-backed Thrush Turdus hortulorum

  

  The Grey-backed Thrush is a common winter visitor in Hong Kong, occurring in forests, wooded areas, and urban parks. Males show grey and orange, while females are brown and spotted.

• Plushcap Catamblyrhynchus diadema

  This small bird lives in the upper subtropical and temperate Andes. It is gray above, rufous below, and has a yellow forecrown. It often follows mixed-species flocks near bamboo.

• Long-billed Cuckoo Chalcites megarhynchus

  The Long-billed Cuckoo lives in lowland forest and has a long bill with a drooping tip. Adult males have a black head, while females show fine reddish-brown barring.

• Madagascar Kingfisher Corythornis vintsioides

  This small kingfisher has bright blue plumage and rufous underparts. It uses rivers, lakes, wetlands, and mangroves and feeds on aquatic animals such as fish.

• Little Green Woodpecker Campethera maculosa

  The pool's Little Green Woodpecker is treated in current eBird taxonomy as the Little Green group within Green-backed Woodpecker. Western birds have green backs, red on the head, and barred underparts.

• Rufous-backed Antvireo Dysithamnus xanthopterus

  This antvireo occurs in montane forest on Brazil's Atlantic slope. A Brazilian species account describes birds moving alone or in pairs through the middle and lower forest strata and searching live foliage for invertebrates.

• Stripe-breasted Creeper Rhabdornis inornatus

  The Stripe-breasted Creeper lives in Philippine forests. Its white throat and belly, brown back, and broadly white-streaked sides are useful field marks; it may perch on dead branches.

• Andean Duck Oxyura ferruginea

  This diving duck lives in the Peruvian Andes. Males have a reddish-brown body and blue bill, while females are dark brown.

• Spotted Crocias Laniellus albonotatus

  The Spotted Crocias is a forest bird of Java with a long tail and white throat. It moves in small groups through the upper parts of lower-montane forest.

• Saffron-cowled Blackbird Xanthopsar flavus

  Males are conspicuously yellow and black, while females have dark brown where males are black. Some breeding records report extra males feeding nestlings.

• Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii

  A large eagle with a striking white V on its black back. It lives among rocky landscapes in Africa and hunts hyraxes as its main prey.

• Rio Orinoco Spinetail Synallaxis beverlyae

  The Rio Orinoco Spinetail is recorded along the Orinoco River in Venezuela and adjacent Colombia. It uses scrub on river islands and banks that are seasonally inundated.

• Olive Sparrow Arremonops rufivirgatus

  The Olive Sparrow forages on the ground in dense thorn scrub, staying close to cover. In the United States it is limited to southern Texas, and it also occurs in Mexico and Central America.

• Little Blue Macaw Cyanopsitta spixii

  The Little Blue Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) is a medium-sized parrot with grayish-blue plumage. Its historical wild range was limited to riverine woodland in northeastern Brazil.

• Gray Junglefowl Gallus sonneratii

  The Gray Junglefowl is a pheasant relative of forests and scrub in peninsular India. The sexes differ in plumage and leg colour, and males also have a seasonal plumage change.

• Greater Vasa Parrot Coracopsis vasa

  This parrot feeds on fruit and seeds in Madagascar and the Comoros. Males of the nominate subspecies are grey to blackish; breeding females may lose head feathers.

• Russet-crowned Warbler Myiothlypis coronata

  In the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia, this warbler is reported at elevations of 1,500–3,000 metres.

• Great Shortwing Heinrichia calligyna

  This flycatcher relative lives in montane forest on Sulawesi and uses dense growth near the forest floor. By day, it searches leaf litter and undergrowth for small prey.

• Black Rail Laterallus jamaicensis

  The Black Rail is a very small, dark rail of North American wetlands. White speckles mark its plumage, and dense grasses make it difficult to see.

• Bornean Spiderhunter Arachnothera everetti

  The Bornean Spiderhunter inhabits lowland and submontane forest and forest edges in Borneo. It has an olive back and streaked grey underparts, and feeds mainly on understory nectar.

• Grey-backed Cisticola Cisticola subruficapilla

  This small cisticola occurs in southern Africa. It searches for insects among low grass and shrubs, from dry scrub to coastal vegetation.

• Yellow-throated Honeyeater Nesoptilotis flavicollis

  This honeyeater occurs on Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands. It uses forest, scrub, and towns. In a study of one nest, both adults fed the young.

• Asian Rosy Finch Leucosticte arctoa

  The Asian Rosy Finch is a finch that visits northern Japan in winter. Flocks appear in open places such as coastal cliffs and grassland.

• Yucatan Jay Cyanocorax yucatanicus

  A conspicuous jay of woodland and forest edges on the Yucatan Peninsula, usually seen in groups of about 5–25. Young birds pass through a brief pale plumage before acquiring adult colors.