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• 'Alala Corvus hawaiiensis

  

  The ‘Alalā, or Hawaiian Crow, is a medium-sized dark crow that formerly occurred naturally in dry and semi-dry forests on Hawai‘i Island.

• Edwards's Fig Parrot Psittaculirostris edwardsii

  The adult male has red cheeks and throat and a blue-black breast band. Pairs and flocks visit fruiting trees in New Guinea.

• Cream-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus simplex

  The Cream-vented Bulbul is olive-brown with a white eye-ring. It occurs from the Thai-Malay Peninsula through Indonesia and uses forest and secondary growth.

• Flaming Sunbird Aethopyga flagrans

  This sunbird lives in Philippine forest and feeds mainly on nectar. A 2006 preliminary taxonomic review recorded geographic differences in plumage among populations.

• Rufous-throated Antbird Gymnopithys rufigula

  An antbird of northeastern South American lowland forest, including the Guianas and northeastern Brazil. It follows army-ant swarms to catch insects fleeing from the ants.

• Scaly-headed Parrot Pionus maximiliani

  This parrot occurs in central South America. Gray, finely edged feathers mark its head, and it uses forests and dry woodland while feeding on fruits and seeds.

• White-bellied Piculet Picumnus spilogaster

  The nominate form, spilogaster, occurs in the northern Guianas and Roraima in northern Brazil. BirdForum Opus describes habitats ranging from forest to thickets.

• Blue-capped Puffleg Eriocnemis glaucopoides

  This resident hummingbird is recorded in Argentina and Bolivia, at elevations of 1,500–3,400 m.

• Buru Green Pigeon Treron aromaticus

  The Buru Green Pigeon is a forest pigeon with green plumage. Males have a chestnut back, females a green back, and the species is endemic to Buru Island.

• Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis

  This large waterbird lives around wetlands and eats mainly plant matter.

• Elegant Scops Owl Otus elegans

  The Elegant Scops Owl is a small owl resident on the Ryukyu Islands. On Amami-Oshima it uses forests from near sea level to mountain tops and nests in tree hollows.

• Bay Coucal Centropus celebensis

  The Bay Coucal has a mostly rufous body, with a gray crown and reddish wings. It moves through forest undergrowth on Sulawesi and nearby islands while searching for insects.

• Grey-breasted Prinia Prinia hodgsonii

  The Grey-breasted Prinia is a small, quick-moving bird of scrub and woodland edges. Its plumage changes with the season and is duller outside the breeding period.

• Speckled Nightingale-Thrush Catharus maculatus

  An Andean nightingale-thrush of South America. A 2017 study supported treating C. maculatus as a species separate from Central American C. dryas.

• 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.

• Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys sanguineus

  This finch occurs in mountain regions from Türkiye through the Caucasus, Iran and northern Afghanistan to north-western India. It lives on rocky slopes and eats seeds.

• Red Goshawk Erythrotriorchis radiatus

  A large reddish-brown raptor, it usually hunts birds alone in northern Australian forest, savanna, and waterside habitats.

• Sooty Myzomela Myzomela tristrami

  The Sooty Myzomela is a small honeyeater about 11–12 cm long. It is active in forest by day and feeds mainly on nectar, also taking small insects and fruit.

• Tufted Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura platensis

  It is a small bird of southeastern South America’s shrubland and open woodland. Its crest and long tail stand out, and it searches for food on the ground and low vegetation.

• Green-capped Tanager Stilpnia meyerdeschauenseei

  This small tanager has a thick bill, a small black mask, and blue-green wings and tail.

• Variable Wheatear Oenanthe picata

  Male Variable Wheatears occur in several black-and-white plumage forms, and females also vary in color. In southern Kazakhstan, the species breeds in dry mountains and along river cliffs.

• Sclater's Tyrannulet Phyllomyias sclateri

  This roughly 12 cm tyrannulet lives in montane forests on the eastern side of the southern Andes. It forages in the middle and upper forest strata and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Orange-fronted Hanging Parrot Loriculus aurantiifrons

  A small green parrot with red on the lower throat and rump. It lives in wooded lowlands and foothills on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Cape Bulbul Pycnonotus capensis

  The Cape Bulbul is endemic to South Africa and is recognizable by its white eye-rings and bright yellow feathers under the tail.