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• African Green Bee-eater Merops viridissimus

  

  This African bee-eater lives in dry places with trees or shrubs. Its central tail feathers form long streamers.

• Pied Currawong Strepera graculina

  

  The Pied Currawong is a mostly black bird with a bright yellow eye and white markings on parts of its tail and wings. It lives from forests to suburbs in eastern Australia and can form large flocks outside the breeding season.

• Adélie penguin Pygoscelis adeliae

  

  A penguin that breeds along the Antarctic coast, recognised by a white ring around each eye.

• Large-tailed Antshrike Mackenziaena leachii

  

  Both sexes are dotted with white; males are mainly black and females brownish yellow. A paper reports a female carrying a frog in forest in southeastern Brazil.

• Lemon-throated Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus cebuensis

  

  This small leaf warbler occurs on several Philippine islands. Its olive upperparts and yellow eyebrow, face, and throat stand out, though published accounts report island-level variation in the yellow areas. It searches leaves for insects.

• New Zealand Storm Petrel Fregetta maoriana

  

  This seabird is recorded in northern New Zealand waters, with the outer Hauraki Gulf identified as a core area of activity during the New Zealand summer.

• White-cheeked Bushtit Aegithalos leucogenys

  The White-cheeked Tit is a small bird, about 11 cm long. Its white cheek patch and black bib stand out; it lives in dry scrub and open woodland in northeastern Afghanistan and Pakistan.

• African Blue Tit Cyanistes teneriffae

  A small tit with blue upperparts and a yellow underside. It inhabits woodland and scrub in the Canary Islands and North Africa, with some regional variation in wing markings.

• Blue-throated Barbet Psilopogon asiaticus

  The Blue-throated Barbet has a green body and blue throat and ranges through forests from South Asia to northern mainland Southeast Asia.

• Indian Stone-curlew Burhinus indicus

  The Indian Stone-curlew is a ground-dwelling bird breeding from India into Southeast Asia and is mostly nocturnal.

• Tiny Tyrant-Manakin Tyranneutes virescens

  This small manakin lives in moist lowland forest on the Guianan Shield. It has dull grey-green upperparts, yellowish underparts, and fine grey streaks on the throat and upper breast.

• Red-crowned crane Grus japonensis

  A crane of East Asian wetlands, recognized by a white body and a red patch on the head.

• Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis

  The Marsh Sandpiper is a slender wader with a needle-like bill and long yellowish legs. In Peninsular Malaysia it is recorded as a migrant and nonbreeding visitor.

• Dusky Gerygone Gerygone tenebrosa

  This small bird is found on the northwestern coast of Western Australia. In the Pilbara it is recorded only in mangroves, where it gleans insects from leaves and flowers.

• Little Woodswallow Artamus minor

  The Little Woodswallow is a small woodswallow of mainland Australia’s open inland. It glides in smooth circles while taking flying insects.

• Yellow-throated Leafbird Chloropsis palawanensis

  A forest bird of the Palawan islands with a green body, yellow throat, and blue wing markings.

• White-breasted Hawk Accipiter chionogaster

  The White-breasted Hawk occurs in forests from southern Mexico into northern Central America. This entry follows sources that treat A. chionogaster as a species, while the 2010 life-history paper says its taxonomic status was unresolved.

• Australian Brush-turkey Alectura lathami

  The Australian Brush-turkey is a large bird with dark plumage, a bare red head, and a yellow wattle. It rakes leaf litter for food, and males use mounds of vegetation to warm the eggs.

• Levaillant's Woodpecker Picus vaillantii

  Levaillant's Woodpecker is a woodpecker of mountain woodlands in northwestern Africa. It is active by day and searches wooded areas for invertebrates.

• Groove-billed Toucanet Aulacorhynchus sulcatus

  The Groove-billed Toucanet is mostly green, with a blue facial patch and a ridged, multicolored bill. It lives in mountains of northern South America.

• 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.

• Tawny-breasted Myiobius Myiobius villosus

  This flycatcher ranges from Nicaragua and Panama south through the Andes to Bolivia. It lives in montane forest near streams and attends ant swarms.

• White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis

  The White-bellied Heron is a large waterbird with a long neck and legs. In Bhutan, it occurs in temperate and mixed broadleaf forests in three major river basins.

• Golden Honeyeater Cleptornis marchei

  The Golden Honeyeater is a yellow bird endemic to the Mariana Islands. It breeds in a range of wooded and semi-open habitats.