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• Armenian Gull Larus armenicus

  

  The Armenian Gull is a relatively small gull with a short bill and a rounded head. It breeds on upland lakes and winters along coasts and inland wetlands.

• Brown Falcon Falco berigora

  This Australian falcon varies widely in the darkness of its plumage. It scans from a perch in grassland or farmland, then dives on prey when it spots an opportunity.

• Senegal Batis Batis senegalensis

  This small batis lives in open savannah woodland in West Africa. Males and females have different head and breast markings.

• Striped Flowerpecker Dicaeum aeruginosum

  A small flowerpecker recorded from Philippine islands. The aeruginosum form is olive green above, with a whitish breast and belly heavily streaked brown. A 1992 account reported no recent records on Cebu and considered the island birds restricted to mature forest.

• 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.

• Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens

  The Crested Guan is a large bird with a prominent crest. A Belize Zoo guide describes it in Belizean forests and as an arboreal species.

• Scaly-naped Amazon Amazona mercenarius

  The Scaly-naped Amazon lives in Andean forests. This account separates the appearance and range of subspecies A. m. mercenarius from behavior reported for the species as a whole.

• Bare-throated Whistler Pachycephala nudigula

  The Bare-throated Whistler lives in forests and mountains on Sumbawa and Flores in Indonesia. Males have a bare red patch low on the throat.

• Arabian Warbler Curruca leucomelaena

  The Arabian Warbler is marked by its black hood and long black tail. It moves slowly through acacia canopies in dry scrub and along wadis.

• Pale Rosefinch Carpodacus stoliczkae

  The Pale Rosefinch ranges from northern and central Afghanistan into western and central China. A report also documents a bird at Turtuk, India, but its subspecies was not determined.

• Plumbeous Warbler Setophaga plumbea

  This warbler occurs on Guadeloupe and Dominica. Adults are gray overall with a white eyebrow and wing bars; immatures are greener above and yellow below.

• Coleto Sarcops calvus

  The Coleto is a starling endemic to the Philippines. A 2022 study at Subic Watershed Forest Reserve on Luzon recorded an Asian Koel laying in one Coleto nest.

• Black-headed Munia Lonchura malacca

  The Black-headed Munia is a small Asian finch with a dark head and chest and a chestnut back. It gathers in wet grasslands and rice fields to search for seeds.

• Sulawesi Pitta Erythropitta celebensis

  The Sulawesi Pitta inhabits forest and scrub on Sulawesi. Adults show vivid blue, green and red plumage, and search the forest floor for insects and earthworms.

• Grey-headed Babbler Stachyris poliocephala

  The Grey-headed Babbler lives in forests from southern Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. It has a dark grey head with white lines and a chestnut body.

• Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi

  A small sunbird of the Afrotropical region, found in dense secondary growth, forest clearings, and edges. Skin notes report that the throat and upper breast are often yellowish but can also be olive.

• White-cheeked Nuthatch Sitta leucopsis

  This nuthatch has a black crown and nape that contrast with its white face. It is resident in the conifer forests of Gilgit-Baltistan.

• Dusky Tapaculo Scytalopus fuscus

  This Chilean endemic stays concealed near the ground in dense vegetation. It is slate-gray with a darker forehead and feeds on insects and spiders.

• Blue-capped Manakin Lepidothrix coronata

  The Blue-capped Manakin occurs widely east of the Andes in forest. Males have regional color forms, while females are green.

• Barusan Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia modiglianii

  This cuckoo-dove occurs on the western Indonesian islands of Nias, Mentawai and Simeulue. A 2016 bioacoustic study lists forms from those three island groups separately.

• Socorro Wren Troglodytes sissonii

  The Socorro Wren is a wren of Socorro Island, Mexico. Species accounts record it in dry forest and dry shrubland.

• Bank Cormorant Phalacrocorax neglectus

  The Bank Cormorant is a dark coastal cormorant of Namibia and western South Africa. It dives for food in nearshore marine waters.

• Palau Fantail Rhipidura lepida

  This fantail occurs in the understory of the Palau Islands. In the 1951 account, it foraged through brush alone or in pairs.

• Acre Antshrike Thamnophilus divisorius

  This antshrike is known from Serra do Divisor in Acre, Brazil. Males are dusky grey; females are grey above and tawny-rufous below.