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• Necklaced Barbet Psilopogon auricularis

  

  This barbet is recorded in the forests of Langbiang World Biosphere Reserve in Lam Dong, Vietnam. It eats mainly fruit and flowers, as well as insects.

• Bush Stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius

  

  The Bush Stone-curlew lives in forests and open woodlands on mainland Australia. It walks on long legs and is active at night while searching for food.

• White-fronted Manakin Lepidothrix serena

  

  This small manakin inhabits humid forest north of the Amazon and in the Guianas; it also occurs at forest edges.

• Sarus Crane Antigone antigone

  

  Adults are large cranes with grey bodies and wings and red heads and necks. They are usually seen in pairs or family groups.

• Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri

  

  A small sandpiper whose breeding adults show rufous and golden markings.

• White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis

  

  A small bird of forests and scrub in eastern Australia. Its white eyebrow is a useful field mark, and it searches among leaf litter for small prey.

• Black-faced Woodswallow Artamus cinereus

  The Black-faced Woodswallow occurs in Australian grasslands and open woodland. Its black face and grey body stand out, and it catches insects while flying.

• Greater Green Leafbird Chloropsis sonnerati

  The male is green, with a black throat patch and blue moustachial stripe that can blend into the leaves. In the canopy it eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Mountain Buzzard Buteo oreophilus

  A raptor of East African highlands, it searches for prey while gliding above wooded slopes.

• Wattled Brush-turkey Aepypodius arfakianus

  The Wattled Brush-turkey is a large megapode of New Guinea’s mountain forests. Its reddish-brown body bears a red comb and wattle, and it incubates eggs using heat from a mound of leaves and twigs.

• Himalayan Woodpecker Dendrocopos himalayensis

  A white shoulder patch stands out against this woodpecker's black back. Males have a red crown, and it searches tree trunks for food.

• Curl-crested Aracari Pteroglossus beauharnaesii

  This toucan is described from the canopy of Amazonian forest. Narrow black feathers on the crown and nape curl into a distinctive crest, and a red band crosses the middle of the belly. The account gives a range in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia.

• Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus

  A slender bird with a long tail. It searches North American woodlands for caterpillars and other prey, then migrates to South America for winter.

• White-necked Heron Ardea pacifica

  The White-necked Heron is a large heron with a white head and long neck marked by black spots. It walks in shallow water to find fish and other prey.

• Pale-bellied White-eye Zosterops consobrinorum

  This white-eye occurs in southeastern Sulawesi. It uses habitats from lowland forest to farms and gardens, foraging in the understorey and canopy in pairs or small groups.

• Grauer's Broadbill Pseudocalyptomena graueri

  This forest bird is bright green and has a broad bill. It occurs in montane forest in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda.

• Versicolored Barbet Eubucco versicolor

  A barbet of montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its facial and chest colors vary between sexes and among subspecies.

• Stripe-headed Antpitta Grallaria andicolus

  A terrestrial antpitta of the high Andes in Peru and Bolivia. It uses Polylepis woodland and nearby scrub, watching for insects from raised perches.

• Variable Oystercatcher Haematopus unicolor

  The Variable Oystercatcher is a coastal bird endemic to New Zealand. Its plumage ranges from all black to pied, but these forms are variation within one species.

• Shelley's Rufous-sparrow Passer shelleyi

  This sparrow was documented in Ruma National Park, south-west Kenya, in 2017. Males show a white cheek and a black line behind the eye; the report also describes a nest in an acacia tree.

• Blue-throated Motmot Aspatha gularis

  The Blue-throated Motmot has a vivid blue throat and a short tail. It lives in mountain forest from southern Mexico into northern Central America.

• Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea

  This brood-parasitic finch occurs in southeastern Africa. Males are known to mimic the song of their host, the African Firefinch.

• Blue Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone cyanescens

  The male has blue plumage and a dark face. This paradise flycatcher occurs on Palawan and the Calamian Islands in the southwestern Philippines, where it catches flying insects in primary and secondary forest.

• Javan Blue-banded Kingfisher Alcedo euryzona

  The Javan Blue-banded Kingfisher is a kingfisher recorded on the Indonesian island of Java. A report describes observations along rocky rivers in Central Java.