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• 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.

• Brahminy Starling Sturnia pagodarum

  The Brahminy Starling has a brown body and a black cap. It searches for food on the ground and nests in tree cavities.

• Rusty-faced Parrot Hapalopsittaca amazonina

  A parrot of the northern Andes' montane forests. Its green plumage is accented by rusty tones on the face, whose extent and shade vary among subspecies.

• Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus

  A hummingbird of high mountain meadows. Males make metallic wing trills in flight, while females raise the young.

• Yellow-crowned Woodpecker Leiopicus mahrattensis

  The Yellow-crowned Woodpecker is found in dry woodland and scrub in South Asia.

• Streak-backed Oriole Icterus pustulatus

  It ranges from western Mexico into western Central America, and its head and back patterns vary among subspecies groups.

• Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia ruficaudata

  A foliage-gleaner that searches for small invertebrates in trees in humid lowland forest. Records extend to 1,300 m.

• White-throated Francolin Campocolinus albogularis

  This ground-dwelling bird walks through savanna with patches of grass. Males and females have different breast patterns.

• Lava Gull Leucophaeus fuliginosus

  Endemic to the Galápagos Islands, the adult has a dark head and pale edges on the wings. It nests under coastal vegetation.

• Cinnabar Boobook Ninox ios

  The Cinnabar Boobook is an owl found on Sulawesi. One bird observed in a North Sulawesi reserve caught insects in the upper forest canopy.

• Rusty Sparrow Aimophila rufescens

  This sparrow ranges from Mexico to northwestern Costa Rica. It is recorded in shrubby secondary woodland, forest edges, and pine or oak woodland.

• Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus

  The Spotted Rail occurs locally in marshes, wet savannas, and rice fields from Mexico and the Greater Antilles south to Argentina. In Jamaica, breeding evidence was reported after a long gap in records.

• Bugun Liocichla Liocichla bugunorum

  This liocichla was documented around Eaglenest in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Observations included sites from roadside scrub to primary forest.

• White-cheeked Honeyeater Phylidonyris niger

  The White-cheeked Honeyeater inhabits eastern Australian heath and woodland. Adults show a white cheek patch and yellow tail and wing panels, and feed mainly on nectar.

• Indigo Flycatcher Eumyias indigo

  This flycatcher occurs from Indochina to islands of Indonesia and is mainly found in montane forest.

• Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus

  The Fish Crow is an all-black crow found near estuaries, rivers, and lakes. It eats fish and crabs as well as eggs, fruit, and other foods.

• Maui Honeycreeper Pseudonestor xanthophrys

  This Hawaiian honeycreeper lives only in high-elevation forest on east Maui. It has a large curved bill, and pairs defend territories year-round.

• Long-tailed Cisticola Cisticola angusticauda

  This cisticola inhabits light woodland, savanna, and grassland. A 2023 survey in Kenya's Ruma National Park recorded two birds in non-breeding plumage.

• Spectacled Whitestart Myioborus melanocephalus

  The center of its crown is black, and it has yellow spectacles and underparts. It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes, from south and east of the Marañón in northern Peru to central Bolivia.

• Rufous Coucal Centropus unirufus

  The Rufous Coucal is a rufous-colored coucal of forests in the northern Philippines. It uses both the ground and trees.

• White-headed Munia Lonchura maja

  The White-headed Munia is a small bird with a white head and pale brown body that gathers seeds from the ground and grass stems.

• Double-eyed Fig Parrot Cyclopsitta diophthalma

  In the nominate subspecies, the adult male has a red forehead and cheeks, blue above and in front of the eye, and an orange-yellow band on the hindcrown. Ficus seeds are its main wild food.

• Dusky Turtle Dove Streptopelia lugens

  The Dusky Turtle Dove is a dark gray dove with a black patch on the side of its neck. It searches for seeds in forests, bamboo stands, farmland, and other highland places in its range.

• Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens

  A grey-brown eagle with a large head, marked in flight by a white band across its short tail.