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• Yellow-plumed Honeyeater Ptilotula ornata

  

  This honeyeater lives across southern mainland Australia. Its upswept yellow neck plume is distinctive, and it searches the outer foliage of trees and shrubs for insects and nectar.

• Cabanis's Bunting Emberiza cabanisi

  Cabanis's Bunting occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Males have a dark crown, white eyebrow, and yellow underparts.

• Javan Cochoa Cochoa azurea

  A thrush relative of Java's mountain forests. Males are conspicuously blue, and the bird keeps to the middle and upper forest canopy.

• Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae

  Johanna's Sunbird is a sunbird whose males and females have different plumage. The male's head and throat shine green, and a 2022 survey recorded the species at a forest edge in Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Kashmir Nuthatch Sitta cashmirensis

  The Kashmir Nuthatch has blue-gray upperparts and reddish-buff underparts. It feeds on insects and spiders, adding seeds and nuts in winter.

• Variable Pitohui Pitohui kirhocephalus

  The Variable Pitohui lives in forests of New Guinea and nearby islands. The color of its head and throat varies among subspecies, and it eats fruit and insects.

• 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.

• Variegated Fairywren Malurus lamberti

  This small bird is widespread across mainland Australia. Breeding males have blue heads and chestnut shoulders, while non-breeding males, females, and young birds are generally brownish gray.

• Northern Fantail Rhipidura rufiventris

  The Northern Fantail searches for insects in forests and along forest edges in northern Australia. A regional field guide describes a gray bird with a fine pale eyebrow and white throat, and notes that its tail is less fanned than that of other fantails.

• Plain-crested Elaenia Elaenia cristata

  This tyrant flycatcher uses open savanna and semi-open areas with scattered trees and shrubs. It has a tall crest; in Peru it is known from localized sites in Cusco and Madre de Dios.

• Chinese Barbet Psilopogon faber

  This barbet is endemic to southern China. It lives in evergreen broadleaf and mixed conifer-broadleaf forests in middle and lower mountains, and also occurs at forest edges and in more open woodland.

• Chaco Chachalaca Ortalis canicollis

  The Chaco Chachalaca is a large guan recorded in northern Argentina's woods and forests. Argentina's SIB species page describes pairs or small flocks moving quickly through tree branches.

• Vanikoro Flycatcher Myiagra vanikorensis

  The male Vanikoro Flycatcher is a small flycatcher with a bluish-black head and orange underparts. It uses forests as well as gardens and cultivated places with scattered trees, where it takes insects and other small food.

• Spot-billed Toucanet Selenidera maculirostris

  This toucanet is endemic to Atlantic Forest in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. It usually lives alone or in pairs in humid forest and eats fruit, along with invertebrates and small vertebrates.

• Jackson's Widowbird Euplectes jacksoni

  Jackson's Widowbird inhabits grasslands in Kenya and northeastern Tanzania. In the breeding season, the male displays its black plumage and long tail.

• Spot-breasted Lapwing Vanellus melanocephalus

  The Spot-breasted Lapwing lives in damp grassland and marshes in the Ethiopian highlands. Black spots on the breast and yellow wattles are notable features.

• Rufous Babbler Argya subrufa

  This babbler has rich brown upperparts and rufous underparts. In forests and thickets of the Western Ghats, groups forage on the ground.

• Puna Snipe Gallinago andina

  This snipe lives in high Andean wetlands. When startled, it takes off suddenly and flies in a zigzag. It nests on the ground near water.

• Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker Dicaeum cruentatum

  Males have red on the head and back, while females are gray-brown apart from a red rump and upper tail. It is a common resident in Singapore.

• White-chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis

  This large petrel ranges widely over the Southern Ocean and breeds in burrows on vegetated island slopes.

• White-collared Jay Cyanolyca viridicyanus

  This jay has a blue-green body, a black facial pattern, and a white collar. It moves in small groups and forages at different forest levels in the humid Andes.

• White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus

  The White-headed Barbet is an African bird whose black-and-white plumage varies geographically. It is often found near fig trees.

• Eastern Hooded Pitta Pitta novaeguineae

  The Eastern Hooded Pitta occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It is a current species split from the broader Hooded Pitta group and has a black head and red belly.

• New Britain Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx sacerdotis

  A very small kingfisher of New Britain and Umboi in Papua New Guinea. It is usually seen alone near streams and rivers.