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• White-winged Lark Alauda leucoptera

  

  The White-winged Lark is a lark whose white wing patches stand out in flight. It uses dry steppe and fields, and may gather in flocks outside the breeding season.

• Philippine Jungle Crow Corvus philippinus

  This crow occurs in the Philippines. It is all black, with a long curved bill, and sometimes uses food scraps around people.

• Blue-capped Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus cyanocephalus

  This small waxbill lives in dry thorn savanna and scrub. It has a slim body, long tail, and is often seen in small flocks.

• Tenggara Swiftlet Collocalia sumbawae

  A swiftlet of the western Lesser Sunda Islands. It occurs in forest and dense habitats and feeds on invertebrates.

• Scarlet-bibbed Myzomela Myzomela sclateri

  The Scarlet-bibbed Myzomela (called Sclater's Myzomela by BirdLife) has a red-throated male and a drabber female with little or indistinct red on the throat. It feeds on nectar, insects, fruit, and flower parts in forests on islands of Papua New Guinea.

• Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris

  Breeding males are black, with red shoulders and a long tail. Outside the breeding season, males and females are browner, and the birds feed on grass seeds and other foods.

• Lyre-tailed Nightjar Uropsalis lyra

  The Lyre-tailed Nightjar lives along humid forest edges and woodland near water in the Andes. It is about 25–28 cm long and catches insects and other invertebrates in flight at night.

• Black Sunbird Leptocoma sericea

  This small sunbird ranges from Indonesian islands through New Guinea. It uses forest edges and mangroves, feeding on nectar, fruit and small arthropods.

• Caatinga Parakeet Eupsittula cactorum

  This small parakeet lives in dry parts of northeastern Brazil. In the wild it moves in flocks and eats fruit, seeds, flowers, and nectar.

• Purple-bellied Lory Lorius hypoinochrous

  This large parrot has a red body and green wings. Its head is black with a purple gloss, and its thighs and lower abdomen are blue-purple. It feeds on flowers and fruit in the mid-canopy.

• Pinon's Imperial Pigeon Ducula pinon

  Pinon's Imperial Pigeon is a large bird with a grey-lavender body, darker wings, a maroon belly and a vivid red eye region. In forests across New Guinea and nearby islands, it feeds mainly on fruit in the canopy.

• Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus

  A long white eyebrow, cinnamon plumage and often upturned tail distinguish the Carolina Wren. It lives in woods and dense vegetation; pairs stay in the same territory year-round.

• Galapagos Martin Progne modesta

  This martin is about 15 cm long. Males are almost entirely black with a blue sheen, while females are duller brown. It catches flying insects in the Galapagos and nests near cliffs and mangroves.

• Flammulated Owl Psiloscops flammeolus

  The Flammulated Owl is a small owl that breeds in mountain conifer forests of western North America and winters in Mexico and Central America.

• Water Rail Rallus aquaticus

  A secretive rail that breeds in wetlands in Britain and Ireland. Birds arriving from continental Europe add to the winter population.

• Harlequin Antbird Rhegmatorhina berlepschi

  This antbird occurs in forested parts of southern Amazonia. In places where it meets the related Rhegmatorhina hoffmannsi, studies report geographic variation in throat and chest color.

• Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla

  The Semipalmated Sandpiper is a small shorebird with a short bill. It breeds on Arctic tundra and winters along coasts farther south in the Americas.

• White-eyed Buzzard Butastur teesa

  The White-eyed Buzzard is a raptor with conspicuously pale eyes and throat. It is recorded in the Kaiga survey area in India and eats insects as well as small vertebrates.

• Cream-backed Woodpecker Campephilus leucopogon

  The Cream-backed Woodpecker inhabits open woodland and savanna in South America. It is marked by a black body, red head and pale triangular patch on the back.

• Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus dicruroides

  The Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo is about 25 cm long and resembles a drongo. It occurs on the Indian Subcontinent, including Sri Lanka.

• Black-chinned Yuhina Yuhina nigrimenta

  A small bird of forests from the Himalayas into mainland Southeast Asia. Its black crest and red bill base are distinctive.

• Glittering Kingfisher Caridonax fulgidus

  The Glittering Kingfisher, also called the white-rumped kingfisher, has a red bill and white belly and rump. It lives in forest and wooded cultivated areas in the Lesser Sundas and eats insects.

• Cinnamon-breasted Warbler Euryptila subcinnamomea

  A small warbler of rocky, arid country. It searches rocks and shrubs for insects and is usually solitary.

• Marvelous Spatuletail Loddigesia mirabilis

  The Marvelous Spatuletail is a hummingbird whose male has racket-shaped ornaments at the ends of its tail feathers. It visits flowers for nectar, and males use the tail in courtship.