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• Seychelles White-eye Zosterops modestus

  

  The Seychelles White-eye is a small bird on Mahé. A survey report covering November 2022 to February 2023 describes a dull olive-brown body with a white eye-ring.

• Pale-billed Antpitta Grallaria carrikeri

  This antpitta occurs on the eastern Andean slope of northern Peru. It uses the understory of high-elevation cloud forest, especially places with abundant bamboo.

• Yellow-spotted Bush-sparrow Gymnoris pyrgita

  A small sparrow of dry savannas and open woodland. Its white throat and hard-to-see yellow spot can help identify it.

• White-eared Monarch Carterornis leucotis

  The White-eared Monarch occurs in eastern Australia. Adults have black upperparts, pale-gray underparts and white marks on the ear region, wings and tail. The NSW profile records it singly or in pairs in forest, at edges and in the canopy or subcanopy.

• Ultramarine Kingfisher Todiramphus leucopygius

  The Ultramarine Kingfisher is a forest kingfisher of the Solomon Islands region. Males and females differ in back color, so the sexes are not uniformly blue.

• Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida

  The Yellow-breasted Apalis is a small bird with yellow on the sides of its neck and breast. At the Namibian sites described by the source, it occurs in pairs or small family groups and feeds on insects.

• Festive Coquette Lophornis chalybeus

  This small hummingbird inhabits forests and cerrado in southeastern Brazil. The male has green cheek tufts with white spots; the female lacks these tufts.

• Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus

  This brownish African bird also visits orchards and gardens. It eats many kinds of fruit, and pairs or small groups call noisily.

• Carbon Finch Porphyrospiza carbonaria

  This finch lives in shrub-rich grassland and open country in Argentina. The current IOC combination is Rhopospina carbonaria.

• Choco Brush Finch Atlapetes crassus

  This brushfinch lives in humid montane forest on the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Yellow underparts, a black-sided face, and a tawny crown stripe are useful clues.

• Masked Yellowthroat Geothlypis aequinoctialis

  This small bird has yellow underparts and yellowish-green upperparts. Males have a black facial mask, which females lack; their facial markings also differ.

• Dark-capped Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis

  The Dark-capped Yellow Warbler occurs in the Afrotropical region and uses scrub and open habitats near freshwater. It is listed at about 13 cm and 10–11 g, and gleans small invertebrates among foliage by day.

• Germain's Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron germaini

  Germain's Peacock-Pheasant is a pheasant of forests in southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. Males have blue-green ocelli on their plumage and forage on the forest floor.

• Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola

  The male’s bright yellow head and two white wing bars make this wagtail distinctive. A breeding study in Poland found that meadow management and nearby reedbeds were associated with nest-site choice.

• Common Scoter Melanitta nigra

  The Common Scoter is a sea duck whose males and females differ in color. It breeds in northern European wetlands and moves to coastal waters for winter.

• Gray-hooded Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus

  Adults of the South American nominate subspecies show a pale grey hood in breeding plumage.

• Olive-backed Foliage-gleaner Automolus infuscatus

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in the Amazon Basin and adjoining foothills. The individual pictured in the species account is of unknown sex and shows an olive-brown back and rufous tail.

• Luzon Island Thrush Turdus thomassoni

  The Luzon Island Thrush inhabits mountains on Luzon. It is black with a browner, hood-like head. Current taxonomy includes the northern form and the southern subspecies mayonensis.

• Clicking Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius intermedius

  The Clicking Shrike-Babbler occurs in southern China and mainland Southeast Asia. The bird account treats Pteruthius intermedius separately; it was formerly included in Chestnut-fronted Shrike-Babbler.

• Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus

  A small falcon whose males and females have different plumage. It breeds in eastern Europe and Central Asia, then migrates to southern Africa, where it may roost in flocks.

• Knobbed Hornbill Rhyticeros cassidix

  The Knobbed Hornbill lives in forests on Sulawesi and nearby islands. A large casque rises above its bill.

• Kauai Amakihi Chlorodrepanis stejnegeri

  This Hawaiian honeycreeper lives in high-elevation native forest on Kauai. It uses its curved bill to search trunks and branches for insects and also feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler Napothera epilepidota

  The Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler is a 10–11 cm bird that searches for food in the undergrowth and near the ground in evergreen forest.

• Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus

  The Great Crested Flycatcher hunts insects high in trees and is marked by reddish-brown accents and a yellow belly.