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• Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor

  

  This shrike is marked in grey, black, and white. A small number visit Britain in winter, and birds on lowland heath are known to impale prey on thorn bushes and store it.

• Blunt-winged Warbler Acrocephalus concinens

  

  The Blunt-winged Warbler is a small reed warbler of wetlands and mountain grasslands. Some populations migrate seasonally.

• Guianan Puffbird Notharchus macrorhynchos

  

  The Guianan Puffbird is a forest bird with a white forehead and throat and a broad black breast band. It ranges through the Guianas, eastern Venezuela, and northeastern Brazil.

• Madagascar Sandgrouse Pterocles personatus

  

  The Madagascar Sandgrouse feeds on seeds on dry open ground. Groups may fly to water, and males carry water to chicks in their soaked belly feathers.

• Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa

  

  A round bird with a black band around its white throat and dark markings on its flanks. It feeds on seeds and other small foods in farmland and open scrub.

• Yellow Penduline Tit Anthoscopus parvulus

  

  This small bird is bright yellow with an olive back. It occupies a range of savanna settings, from moist savanna to dry thorn scrub.

• Eastern Hooded Pitta Pitta novaeguineae

  The Eastern Hooded Pitta occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It is a current species split from the broader Hooded Pitta group and has a black head and red belly.

• African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp

  Adults are black and white with large white wing patches. They run along the ground to catch insects and wag their tails.

• Brown Booby Sula leucogaster

  A large seabird of tropical oceans around the world. Adults have a brown back and white belly; they dive for fish and squid and breed in colonies on islands.

• Ceara Gnateater Conopophaga cearae

  The Ceara Gnateater is a small bird of northeastern Brazil. It was first described as a subspecies of Conopophaga lineata, then treated as a separate species following genetic research.

• Madagascar Pochard Aythya innotata

  The Madagascar Pochard is a small brown diving duck. It spends much of its time on the water and dives to find food below the surface.

• Bornean Frogmouth Batrachostomus mixtus

  The Bornean Frogmouth is a Borneo endemic usually associated with lower montane and montane forest. Lowland records have also been reported at Kubah National Park; one observed male had yellow eyes and long facial bristles.

• White-eyed Gull Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus

  An adult in breeding plumage has a black hood and white crescents around the eyes, but the irises are dark brown. This gull is endemic to the Red Sea.

• Great Rufous Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes major

  This woodcreeper has a large, strong bill. It climbs tree trunks while searching for insects in forests of central South America.

• Chilean Skua Stercorarius chilensis

  The Chilean Skua is a seabird of southern South American coasts and offshore waters. It sometimes takes food from other seabirds.

• Cuban Solitaire Myadestes elisabeth

  The Cuban Solitaire is a forest bird endemic to Cuba. Its brown upperparts, pale gray underparts, and white eyering are distinctive.

• Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis

  The Rufous-browed Peppershrike ranges from eastern Mexico to central Argentina. Its grey head has a reddish eyebrow and brown crown marks; its back is olive and its throat and belly yellow. It uses forest, scrub, and plantations and eats insects and fruit.

• Mauritius Kestrel Falco punctatus

  A small falcon found only in the forests of Mauritius.

• Oriental Pied Hornbill Anthracoceros albirostris

  The Oriental Pied Hornbill is marked by black-and-white plumage and a large pale yellow bill. During breeding, the female stays in a tree cavity while the male brings food from outside.

• Hume's Treecreeper Certhia manipurensis

  Hume’s Treecreeper has a brown back with pale streaks and spots and an orange-brown rump. In Yunnan, the shanensis form occurs in forest and searches bark for small prey.

• Reichard's Seedeater Crithagra reichardi

  Reichard's Seedeater is a small bird about 12–14 cm long. It is active by day, lives in woodland and semi-open places, and eats seeds.

• Rufous Limestone Babbler Gypsophila calcicola

  This bird occurs on limestone hills in central Thailand. A research paper identifies its rufous belly as a notable feature among related wren-babblers.

• Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans

  The Yellow-throated Bunting is an East Asian bunting. The male has a striking black-and-yellow head, and a tracking study recorded males migrating to China.

• Jelski's Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix jelskii

  Jelski’s Chat-Tyrant forages in the dense understory of humid montane forest. The Peru Aves page consulted here uses the older combination Ochthoeca jelskii; this entry follows the pool’s name, Silvicultrix jelskii, for the same species.