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• Slender-billed White-eye Zosterops tenuirostris

  

  This small bird lives only on Norfolk Island. It probes bark crevices with its long, slender bill to find insects and also feeds on nectar.

• Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata

  The Greenish Elaenia has a concealed yellow crown patch. In Bolivia it occurs in woodland and wooded savanna, with lowland records varying by season.

• Chestnut-breasted Munia Lonchura castaneothorax

  This small bird is marked by its chestnut breast. In its native range, it moves in flocks and eats grass seeds and winged termites.

• White-browed Shama Copsychus luzoniensis

  The White-browed Shama is a Philippine forest bird. A male of the nominate subspecies was observed on Mount Makiling, Luzon; the account describes the species in low thickets and vines near the ground.

• African Pitta Pitta angolensis

  Both sexes have vivid green, blue, yellow, and red plumage, yet hide among thickets and leaf litter. Birds that migrate to southern Africa to breed forage for invertebrates in riverine woodland.

• Chestnut Antpitta Grallaria blakei

  This antpitta occurs in the Peruvian Andes. Its chestnut plumage stands out, and it uses forest near the ground, often in dense bamboo.

• East Coast Boubou Laniarius sublacteus

  A bushshrike with glossy blue-black upperparts and a white underside. It uses dense forest cover along eastern Africa's coast and rivers.

• Swallow-wing Puffbird Chelidoptera tenebrosa

  This puffbird occurs in Amazonian lowlands and forest edges. It is dark slate with a rufous lower belly and white vent and back; its broad wings and short tail show clearly in flight. It hawks passing prey from a perch.

• Society Kingfisher Todiramphus veneratus

  It occurs on Tahiti and Moorea in the Society Islands. The eBird account describes different male plumage forms on the two islands.

• White-winged Nightjar Eleothreptus candicans

  This nightjar lives in open grasslands from central Brazil to Paraguay. In breeding season males make short display flights with wing sounds; Bolivia has only a few September records from seasonally flooded savanna.

• Screaming Piha Lipaugus vociferans

  The Screaming Piha inhabits humid Amazonian forest and searches the canopy for fruit and small prey. In eastern Ecuador it is recorded in lowlands and locally into the foothills.

• Snowy owl Bubo scandiacus

  A white owl of Arctic and surrounding tundra. Some move south in winter.

• Reunion Cuckooshrike Coracina newtoni

  The Reunion Cuckooshrike is endemic to Réunion. Males and females differ in plumage, and the national park account places it in the La Roche Écrite area.

• Purplish Jay Cyanocorax cyanomelas

  This jay is recognizable by its bluish-purple body and black facial mask. Family groups search for food in forests and along their edges.

• Baillon's Crake Zapornia pusilla

  Baillon’s Crake is a small, secretive rail. The species ranges across Eurasia, southeastern Africa, Madagascar, New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand; the BTO account identifies eastern Europe as its main range.

• Buff-banded Bushbird Buettikoferella bivittata

  This ground-dwelling bird occurs on Timor Island. Its appearance is documented in an 1862 Timor account, while its habitat is listed in a 2008 regional checklist.

• Grand Rhabdornis Rhabdornis grandis

  This rhabdornis lives in middle- and higher-elevation forests on Luzon. It has a gray crown, a dark facial mask, and reddish streaks on its pale underparts.

• Javan Oriole Oriolus cruentus

  The Javan Oriole is a resident forest bird of Java that feeds on fruit.

• Cassin's Malimbe Malimbus cassini

  This weaver occurs in forests from the Gulf of Guinea toward the Congo Basin. In north-eastern Gabon, small groups were seen in the canopy of wet and flooded forest, sometimes feeding with other bird species.

• Arabian Green Bee-eater Merops cyanophrys

  This bee-eater occurs in the Middle East, including the Arabian Peninsula. It uses open areas with scattered trees or scrub and catches flying insects in short sallies from a perch.

• Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea

  A small shorebird with a spoon-shaped bill. It migrates between breeding grounds in Russia and wintering wetlands in South Asia.

• Boat-tailed Grackle Quiscalus major

  The Boat-tailed Grackle is a coastal bird with striking differences between the sexes. Males are blue-black with extremely long tails, while females are much smaller and dark brown.

• Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala

  The Black-headed Heron is a large heron with a black head and gray-and-white body. The sexes look alike, though some birds have little or no white on the front of the neck.

• South Georgia Pipit Anthus antarcticus

  This small bird is endemic to South Georgia and has thick plumage suited to the cold. It nests among tussock grass and feeds on insects along the shore.