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• Asian Houbara Chlamydotis macqueenii

  

  A large bustard of arid regions across Asia. Birds breeding in northeast Asia migrate south, while some southern populations are resident.

• Serendib Scops Owl Otus thilohoffmanni

  This small owl occurs in lowland forest in Sri Lanka. It is active at night and difficult to see while roosting by day.

• Sulawesi Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx fallax

  A small kingfisher with a reddish-brown back and blue rump. It hunts insects and small animals on Sulawesi and nearby Lembeh.

• Blue-moustached Bee-eater Merops mentalis

  This bee-eater lives in forests of West and Central Africa. It uses forest interiors, edges, and treefall gaps.

• Tanager Finch Oreothraupis arremonops

  This sparrow-like bird occurs in the western Andes of Colombia and north-western Ecuador. In wet cloud-forest undergrowth, pairs or family groups search slowly among leaf litter and mossy logs.

• Timor Stubtail Urosphena subulata

  The Timor Stubtail was recorded in forest on Timor, where its short tail was barely visible. A 1991 field report described chestnut upperparts and a pale eyebrow and noted that the bird was difficult to see in the undergrowth.

• Rodrigues Fody Foudia flavicans

  A small bird endemic to Rodrigues. Both sexes are usually brown on the back, wings and tail, and search branches and leaf undersides for insects.

• White-bellied Go-away-bird Crinifer leucogaster

  A large grey bird about 50 cm long, with a white belly and wing patch and a white band across the tail. It lives in East African woodland and savanna, often in small groups, and eats fruit and acacia buds and seeds.

• Western Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio

  In European wetlands, this large waterbird stands out for its purplish-blue body and red frontal shield. It handles reeds with its bill and feet.

• Spotted Laughingthrush Ianthocincla ocellata

  The Spotted Laughingthrush has a black crown, nape, and throat, with pale wing and tail patches. It occurs in mountain regions from the Himalayas to central and southwestern China.

• Yellow-faced Honeyeater Caligavis chrysops

  It is widespread in eastern Australian forest and woodland. It probes flowers for nectar and searches leaves and branches for insects.

• Major Mitchell's Cockatoo Cacatua leadbeateri

  Major Mitchell's Cockatoo is a white and pink cockatoo with a large crest. When raised, the crest shows red-pink and orange bands. The bird lives in Australia's dry interior.

• Galapagos Petrel Pterodroma phaeopygia

  The Galapagos Petrel breeds in the humid highlands of the Galapagos Islands and ranges widely over the sea to find food.

• Indian Nuthatch Sitta castanea

  The Indian Nuthatch has a gray back and chestnut underparts and lives in forests and woodland across parts of India. It is sometimes seen in pairs or family groups.

• Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos

  Adults are slim, long-tailed gray birds. In North American towns and grasslands, they forage for insects and eat more fruit in fall and winter.

• Kurdistan Wheatear Oenanthe xanthoprymna

  Kurdistan Wheatear breeds in parts of southeastern Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq, and southwestern Iran, then winters farther south toward the Red Sea and southern Arabia.

• Black-sided Flowerpecker Dicaeum monticolum

  The Black-sided Flowerpecker is a small bird of Borneo's montane forests. Males have a red throat and dark blue-black back; females have a greener back.

• Clark's Nutcracker Nucifraga columbiana

  Clark's Nutcracker is a corvid of western North American mountains. It carries conifer seeds and caches them in the ground.

• Fawn-breasted Whistler Pachycephala orpheus

  This whistler is recorded on Timor and Rote. On Timor it prefers lower elevations, although it was observed beside Pachycephala calliope on Mount Mutis up to 1,850 m. The Rote population was reported to be larger than the Timor population.

• Arabian Serin Crithagra rothschildi

  The Arabian Serin has an olive rump and a thick, down-curved bill. It feeds by day on seeds and shrub buds.

• Black-crowned Fulvetta Schoeniparus klossi

  This fulvetta occurs on the Dalat Plateau in the southern Annamite Mountains of Vietnam and is reported only at higher elevations in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park.

• Gosling's Apalis Apalis goslingi

  An apalis recorded in Central African forests. Oiseaux.net associates it with montane forest and freshwater habitats and classifies it as an arboreal invertebrate gleaner.

• Choco Warbler Myiothlypis chlorophrys

  The Choco Warbler inhabits forest and scrub in western Colombia and western Ecuador. This population responds differently to songs from the eastern Peru population and is treated as a separate species.

• Rufous-faced Antpitta Grallaria erythrotis

  This antpitta occurs in humid mountain forest in Bolivia. It has a dark crown, orange face and white throat, and searches for small prey close to the ground.