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• Collared Treepie Dendrocitta frontalis

  

  The Collared Treepie stands out for its black face, long tail, chestnut body, and silvery-grey chest and neck. It searches for food in humid hill forests with bamboo.

• Beautiful Hummingbird Calothorax pulcher

  A small hummingbird of dry interior scrub and brushy woodland in southwestern Mexico; cactus flowers are a frequent food source.

• Torresian Imperial Pigeon Ducula spilorrhoa

  A large pigeon with a white body and black wing tips. It feeds on fruit while moving among islands and coastal forests.

• Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli

  Pel's Fishing Owl lives near rivers and lakes south of the Sahara in Africa and catches fish. It uses waterside trees for roosting and nesting.

• Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus

  A flycatcher of lowland forests in Central and South America that eats fruit and insects.

• Sumatran Bulbul Ixos sumatranus

  Sumatran Bulbul occurs in the mountains of western Sumatra. Its species account records olive-brown upperparts and a white throat and breast.

• Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina

  The Western Bluebill is a small finch with black-and-red males and brown-and-red females. It feeds on seeds and fruits in forests and at woodland edges from West to Central Africa.

• Papuan Island Thrush Turdus papuensis

  This island thrush occurs in the mountains of New Guinea and on Goodenough Island. The New Guinea population is described as brownish black and as common in subalpine woods and alpine shrubland.

• Parrot-billed Seedeater Sporophila peruviana

  This small seed-eater occurs along the Pacific lowlands of western Ecuador and Peru. Its unusually large, thick bill is a clear feature.

• Himalayan Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus

  The Himalayan Cuckoo breeds in eastern Asia and moves from Southeast Asia to northern Australia for the winter. Males are gray, with white spots on the underparts.

• Nuttall's Woodpecker Dryobates nuttallii

  Nuttall's Woodpecker is a small woodpecker found in California's woodlands. It searches trunks and small branches for insects beneath the bark.

• Ocellated Antbird Phaenostictus mcleannani

  The Ocellated Antbird is an antbird of humid tropical-forest understory. Its blue bare facial skin is conspicuous; at a Panama study site it followed army-ant swarms to feed.

• Smew Mergellus albellus

  A small diving duck. Males are black and white, while females have red-brown heads; some birds visit Britain in autumn and winter.

• White-rumped Babbler Turdoides leucopygia

  An eastern African babbler of rocky hill woodland, scrub, riparian cover, and reedbeds. Its scaled breast and white rump and lower belly are useful field marks.

• Savanna Hawk Buteogallus meridionalis

  The Savanna Hawk is a raptor with rufous plumage and long legs. It searches for prey by walking through lowland savanna or by hunting from a perch or in flight.

• Wren-like Rushbird Phleocryptes melanops

  This small brown bird occurs in reedbeds across Argentina. It stays hidden among reeds and attaches a globular nest to them near the water.

• Sooty Fox Sparrow Passerella unalaschcensis

  This entry concerns the Pacific Sooty group within the broader Fox Sparrow account. It has dark upperparts and uses different habitats during breeding and winter.

• Diademed Amazon Amazona diadema

  Amazona diadema is a parrot of the Brazilian Amazon basin between the Rio Negro and the Rio Solimões.

• Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus

  In introduced North American populations, males have a red face and white neck ring, while females are brown. They search the ground for seeds and insects.

• Great-billed Parrot Tanygnathus megalorynchos

  The Great-billed Parrot is green with a large bill. Flocks feed on fruit and seeds in forests on islands of eastern Indonesia.

• Bornean Whistling Thrush Myophonus borneensis

  The Bornean Whistling Thrush lives along streams in northern Borneo. Adult males have glossy dark blue on the head through the breast.

• Lina's Sunbird Aethopyga linaraborae

  The male Lina’s Sunbird has a narrow throat patch, a red breast patch, a long graduated tail, and metallic blue-green markings. In July 2015, birds visited roadside trees and males displayed at one high-altitude forest site in eastern Mindanao.

• Brown Prinia Prinia polychroa

  The Brown Prinia uses dry grassland and scrubby growth at forest edges. It searches for insects and larvae close to the ground.

• New Zealand Bellbird Anthornis melanura

  The New Zealand Bellbird is endemic to New Zealand and has a bell-like song. It feeds on nectar, fruit, and insects; males are olive green with a purplish head.