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• White-winged Tanager Piranga leucoptera

  

  Males are red with a black face and wings marked by two white bars. Females are yellow-green and forage in trees, in pairs or mixed-species flocks.

• White-winged Cuckooshrike Coracina ostenta

  

  It lives in forests of the Western Visayas in the Philippines and forms small groups in the canopy or at forest edges. A large white wing patch is its field mark.

• Indian Pied Myna Gracupica contra

  

  A starling with black-and-white plumage and a yellowish bill with an orange base. It forages in loose flocks near people.

• Wood Stork Mycteria americana

  

  The Wood Stork is a large wetland bird with a white body and black flight feathers. It snaps up fish when they touch its bill underwater.

• Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis

  

  A gray bird with a black cap and rusty feathers beneath the tail. It lives in dense thickets and weaves other birds' sounds into long songs.

• Mongolian Short-toed Lark Calandrella dukhunensis

  

  The Mongolian Short-toed Lark is a small lark that breeds in dry sandy steppe in eastern Mongolia. It has brown upperparts and warm rufous-buff on the sides of the breast.

• Rusty Pitohui Pseudorectes ferrugineus

  The Rusty Pitohui feeds on insects and fruit in forests around New Guinea. Its white eye and rufous tail help identify it.

• Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella ochotensis

  Cornell eBird currently uses Helopsaltes ochotensis for Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler. Locustella ochotensis, used in the pool and the BirdForum account, is an earlier genus combination.

• Crested Gallito Rhinocrypta lanceolata

  The Crested Gallito has a reddish crest and flanks with a black tail, and it runs frequently on the ground.

• Varzea Schiffornis Schiffornis major

  This Schiffornis occurs in lowland Amazonia. Its plumage is cinnamon-rufous; a 2024 study reported that head-color variation was not geographically structured. In 2015, one bird was trapped in várzea forest in Bolivia.

• Forest Raven Corvus tasmanicus

  The Forest Raven is a large corvid with black plumage and a white eye-ring. In Tasmania it is found from forests to coasts.

• Brown Twinspot Clytospiza monteiri

  The male has a red throat stripe and a chestnut breast dotted with white. This small bird stays near grass and shrubs and hops along the ground searching for seeds and small insects.

• Chapman's Swift Chaetura chapmani

  This small, sooty-colored swift catches insects while flying above forests and forest edges.

• White-fronted Honeyeater Purnella albifrons

  This honeyeater lives in arid and semi-arid scrub and woodland. It feeds mainly on nectar, but also takes insects and honeydew.

• White-chinned Jacamar Galbula tombacea

  This jacamar uses riverine forest and the edges of seasonally flooded forest in the Amazon Basin. Its metallic green plumage and white chin patch are distinctive; it catches flying insects in the air.

• Long-billed Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus

  This small bird uses humid tropical forest and its edges, especially vine tangles in the mid to upper levels.

• Least Auklet Aethia pusilla

  The Least Auklet is a very small seabird that breeds on islands in the Bering Sea and Alaska. It nests in rock crevices and eats small animals from the sea.

• Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus

  In good light, adults show maroon, green, and bronze colors. They forage in flocks in shallow wetlands, probing the mud with their bills.

• Philippine Oriole Oriolus steerii

  The Philippine Oriole occurs in the Philippines and is found in forest from lowlands to foothills, including forest edges.

• Grey-hooded Fulvetta Fulvetta cinereiceps

  The Grey-hooded Fulvetta searches for insects in the undergrowth of Chinese mountain forests and bamboo thickets, usually in small flocks. Under the current species treatment, it occurs in China.

• Japanese Cormorant Phalacrocorax capillatus

  A coastal cormorant that dives for fish; white patches appear on its face and thighs during breeding season.

• Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens

  The Crested Guan is a large bird with a prominent crest. A Belize Zoo guide describes it in Belizean forests and as an arboreal species.

• Wallacean Drongo Dicrurus densus

  This drongo occurs in the Lesser Sundas and southeastern Moluccas of Indonesia and in Timor-Leste. It has glossy blue-black plumage and a long, deeply forked tail.

• Dark-fronted Babbler Dumetia atriceps

  The Dark-fronted Babbler often stays hidden near the ground, and its dark head pattern varies among subspecies.