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• White-breasted Robin Eopsaltria georgiana

  

  The White-breasted Robin is endemic to south-western Australia. It often perches sideways on a trunk, then darts to catch prey from the ground or air.

• Horned Puffin Fratercula corniculata

  The Horned Puffin is a black-and-white seabird with an orange-and-yellow bill in breeding adults. It nests on rocky cliffs and spends winter far offshore in the Pacific.

• Bernier's Vanga Oriolia bernieri

  This vanga lives in humid evergreen forest in eastern Madagascar. It searches leaf bases and dead wood for insects.

• Sahul Cicadabird Coracina tenuirostris

  The Sahul Cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre) is the current Clements taxon split from the broad Cicadabird. An adult male was recorded along a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in May 2010.

• Three-toed Parrotbill Paradoxornis paradoxus

  A central Chinese parrotbill of high-elevation forest. It uses bamboo thickets and eats beetles and other insects; flocks may shift elevation locally when bamboo dries out.

• Basra Reed Warbler Acrocephalus griseldis

  The Basra Reed Warbler breeds in Iraqi wetlands and winters in eastern Africa. Its breeding sites include extensive reed beds in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys.

• Scaly-crowned Babbler Malacopteron cinereum

  This babbler has rufous-brown plumage and a finely scaled crown. It moves through the forest understorey, searching for insects among leaf litter and bark.

• Rufous Fieldwren Calamanthus campestris

  This rusty-brown ground bird inhabits arid southern Australia. A 2009 NSW Government determination treated it as a full species separate from the Striated Fieldwren and restricted its NSW range to the far-west arid zone.

• Black-collared Bulbul Neolestes torquatus

  The Black-collared Bulbul has a dark band that forms a collar and lives in pairs in tall grassland with scattered trees.

• Purple-bearded Bee-eater Meropogon forsteni

  The Purple-bearded Bee-eater occurs only on Sulawesi. Adult males have long purple throat feathers that hang like a beard.

• Bahia Tapaculo Eleoscytalopus psychopompus

  The Bahia Tapaculo occurs in lowland Atlantic Forest along the coast of Bahia, Brazil. In the coastal birds examined in the study, the flanks are rufous and the thighs bluish.

• Andaman Drongo Dicrurus andamanensis

  The Andaman Drongo is a forest bird of the Andaman Islands. Its glossy black body has a deeply notched tail with curled outer feathers. It moves in groups and catches insects in flight.

• American Kestrel Falco sparverius

  A small falcon found in North America. It hunts insects and other small prey in open country, perching on posts or hovering into the wind.

• Fiery-throated Fruiteater Pipreola chlorolepidota

  The Fiery-throated Fruiteater has a green body and a red throat in males and feeds on fruit in wet forests on the eastern Andes.

• White-capped Parrot Pionus seniloides

  It has a white forehead and a gray-scaled crown. A field survey recorded it in montane cloud forest in southern Ecuador.

• Nubian Bustard Neotis nuba

  The Nubian Bustard is a large bustard of dry country along the southern Sahara. It is active by day and eats both animal and plant foods.

• Large-billed Fox Sparrow Passerella megarhyncha

  This is the thick-billed group of Fox Sparrows from western North American mountains. Cornell describes it as the Thick-billed group within Fox Sparrow, a broader taxonomic treatment than the pool’s Passerella megarhyncha.

• Dideric Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius

  An African cuckoo whose adult male is metallic green and which is widespread across the Afrotropics.

• Himalayan Black-lored Tit Machlolophus xanthogenys

  This tit is marked by a black-and-yellow face, a strong dark eye-stripe, and white spots on the wings. Small groups search the middle and upper parts of forests.

• Curve-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus procurvoides

  It has a long, strongly curved red bill.

• Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii

  A desert quail whose male has a black belly patch and whose males and females have a dark head plume.

• Yucatan Wren Campylorhynchus yucatanicus

  The Yucatan Wren is restricted to coastal lowlands in the northern Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. It lives in pairs or small family groups among scattered shrubs and cacti.

• Christmas White-eye Zosterops natalis

  The Christmas White-eye is a small bird with olive and grey plumage and a white ring around the eye. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects, and nests in the wet season.

• Chilean Mockingbird Mimus thenca

  This large mockingbird occurs in open woodland and scrub in Chile. Its long tail, white eyebrow, and dark facial stripe are conspicuous, and it eats insects and fruit. A breeding study in central Chile recorded cup nests built from thorny sticks.