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• White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus

  

  This social bird has black-and-white plumage, a gray crest, and a yellow eye. It searches for insects in the middle and lower levels of trees.

• Trindade Petrel Pterodroma arminjoniana

  The Trindade Petrel glides over the sea and feeds on fish and squid, returning to oceanic islands to breed.

• Isabella Oriole Oriolus isabellae

  The Isabela Oriole is an oriole recorded on Luzon in the Philippines.

• Olive Bushshrike Chlorophoneus olivaceus

  The Olive Bushshrike has more than one plumage form. In the common ruddy form, an olive back contrasts with a rufous chest. It searches dense vegetation for insects and small fruits.

• Large Grey Babbler Argya malcolmi

  The Large Grey Babbler is a big babbler with a long tail. It forages on the ground by day for small invertebrates.

• White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi

  The White-faced Ibis probes wet mud with its long bill for food. Its plumage can shine green and purple.

• Black-tailed Trogon Trogon melanurus

  This trogon is often found in Amazonian floodplain forest. Both sexes share a red belly and black underside of the tail; males are iridescent green and females are grey.

• White-naped Monarch Carterornis pileatus

  It occurs on Halmahera and Buru in moist lowland forest. Salvadori's description of a male from Halmahera records a black forehead, back, wings and tail against a white crown, pale eye-area patches, white cheeks, chest and belly. A field report recorded small groups in logged forest and forest edges.

• Blyth's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus reguloides

  A small leaf warbler that searches forests for insects. It uses higher-elevation forest in the breeding season and is known to move to lower ground in winter.

• Black-faced Bunting Emberiza spodocephala

  The summer male has a dark greenish-gray head and black lores and throat. It uses woodland and scrub in different seasons and moves between breeding and wintering areas, including within Japan.

• Patagonian Mockingbird Mimus patagonicus

  About 23 cm long, this bird has grey-brown upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and an ochre belly. It uses shrub steppe and searches the ground for insects and worms.

• Yellow-bellied Warbler Abroscopus superciliaris

  The Yellow-bellied Warbler is a small bird of Southeast Asian forest and bamboo. Its yellow belly and white eyebrow are distinctive.

• Guira Cuckoo Guira guira

  A cuckoo of open South American habitats that forages on the ground with others and may share a communal nest.

• Mountain Chickadee Poecile gambeli

  This small bird lives in mountains from southwestern Canada into the western United States. Its white eyebrow and black head stand out, and it moves to lower elevations in fall and winter.

• Grand Comoro Drongo Dicrurus fuscipennis

  The Grand Comoro Drongo is a black bird found only on Grand Comoro in the Comoros. It launches from high perches to catch large insects in the air.

• Red-fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata

  This 16–17 cm barbet uses upland bushland and acacia woodland and eats fruit. Sound recordings include Lake Langano in Ethiopia.

• Pygmy Nightjar Nyctipolus hirundinaceus

  The Pygmy Nightjar is endemic to eastern Brazil. A study reports that it uses stony or gravelly ground in the Caatinga and rocky outcrops in Atlantic Forest sites for roosting and nesting. Plumage varies among subspecies.

• Evergreen Forest Warbler Bradypterus lopezi

  The Evergreen Forest Warbler is a small bird recorded in moist forests and wet shrubland across scattered African highlands. It is about 15 cm long and weighs 15–21 g.

• Violet-green Swallow Tachycineta thalassina

  The Violet-green Swallow breeds in western North America. Its green and violet sheen and white facial markings make it distinctive.

• Puaiohi Myadestes palmeri

  This thrush is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi. It lives in remote forest ravines, and its main foods vary with the season.

• Pink Robin Petroica rodinogaster

  The Pink Robin differs in color between the sexes, and its habitat changes with the season. It breeds in deep gullies in damp forest and uses more open, drier places in winter.

• Black-chested Prinia Prinia flavicans

  A black chest band marks the breeding plumage of this small prinia. In Namibia it searches for insects among branches and leaves in dry acacia scrub and other shrublands.

• Scaled Quail Callipepla squamata

  The Scaled Quail walks in groups through the dry grasslands of the southwestern United States. Its pale-tipped crest and scaly-looking breast and belly stand out.

• Blue-tailed Bee-eater Merops philippinus

  A bee-eater described in a Malaysian regional profile, where it occurs around sandy coasts, riverbanks, and farmland. It catches flying insects in the air.