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• Blue-crowned Laughingthrush Pterorhinus courtoisi

  

  A 2022 study treats Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (then named Garrulax courtoisi in the paper) as breeding in low-elevation Wuyuan, the only confirmed population discussed there.

• Black-backed Oriole Icterus abeillei

  The Black-backed Oriole is a striking orange-yellow and black bird of woodlands and towns in central Mexico.

• Black Eagle Ictinaetus malaiensis

  The Black Eagle is a large, dark eagle with broad wings that uses forested hills and mountains. A historical observation in Sri Lanka described it gliding slowly over wooded slopes and into ravines while searching for prey.

• Streaked Xenops Xenops rutilus

  This ovenbird searches for food as it moves along trunks and branches in the forest canopy. The Peru account records it in eastern Andean forests and southeastern lowlands.

• Mangrove Vireo Vireo pallens

  This vireo occurs in coastal parts of Mexico and Central America and on Providencia Island, Colombia. It searches leaves and branches for small invertebrates in mangroves and scrub.

• Pale-browed Tinamou Crypturellus transfasciatus

  This ground-dwelling bird occurs along the Pacific side from southwestern Ecuador to northwestern Peru. Its pale brow and barred back help identify it.

• Sclater's Lark Spizocorys sclateri

  A lark of dry, open landscapes in western southern Africa. In its core range it is mostly sedentary or moves only locally.

• Rhinoceros auklet Cerorhinca monocerata

  A seabird that develops a horn-like projection on its bill during breeding.

• Cockatiel Nymphicus hollandicus

  A bird of open Australian country, recognized by its crest, long pointed tail and orange cheek patches.

• Black-headed Trogon Trogon melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Trogon is a forest bird marked by the male's dark head and chest, the female's gray head, and the yellow belly shared by both sexes.

• Sulawesi Heleia Lophozosterops squamiceps

  The Sulawesi Heleia is an island-endemic white-eye from Sulawesi. Its head has many fine white streaks, and it feeds on fruit in montane forest and secondary growth.

• Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus

  Prairie Falcons glide over grasslands and shrubby deserts, searching for small mammals and birds. Their pale plumage is marked by a dark triangle at the base of each wing.

• Blue-winged Pitta Pitta moluccensis

  A pitta with blue plumage and a black bill. It breeds in southern China and Southeast Asia and appears in Singapore during migration and winter.

• Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus

  The Spotted Towhee searches leaf litter for seeds and small invertebrates in western North American thickets and forest edges.

• Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus

  A green-and-gray parakeet native to South America. It builds communal stick nests in trees and on poles, where groups live together.

• Fernwren Oreoscopus gutturalis

  The Fernwren is a small bird of wet upland forest in northeastern Australia. It probes leaf litter with its fine bill while searching for small animals.

• Olive Manakin Xenopipo uniformis

  It occurs in Venezuela’s tepui highlands and nearby uplands at the Brazil–Guyana border. Its plumage is uniformly olive, with slightly paler, greyer underparts.

• McGregor's Cuckooshrike Coracina mcgregori

  It lives in montane forest above 1,000 m on Mindanao and appears in small or mixed-species groups in the canopy. It has a black throat and white wing patch.

• Thick-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum agile

  The Thick-billed Flowerpecker ranges from the Indian subcontinent into Southeast Asia. This small bird takes fruit and nectar with its thick bill and forages in tree canopies and village groves.

• Black-browed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps

  A small bird with a white eyebrow and a dark line above it, breeding in reed and silver-grass meadows.

• Short-tailed Paradigalla Paradigalla brevicauda

  The Short-tailed Paradigalla is a bird-of-paradise from New Guinea's mountain forests. It has a stocky black body and bright yellow bare skin on the forehead and face.

• White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita

  The White-bibbed Swallow has glossy blue-violet plumage and a white throat patch. It catches insects while flying low over rivers.

• 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.

• Green pheasant Phasianus versicolor

  A long-tailed bird of open woods, grassland and farmland in Japan. Males and females differ markedly in colour.