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• Rufous-bellied Triller Lalage aurea

  

  This triller is endemic to the North Moluccas. It feeds on insects in lowland and mangrove forest.

• Short-crested Monarch Hypothymis helenae

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in the Philippines. A study on Luzon found a nest in secondary forest.

• Baikal Bush-warbler Locustella davidi

  The 2014 paper summarizes breeding from north-central China to Siberia and wintering in northern Southeast Asia. It also documents three records in Assam, India, in 2012–2013.

• Godlewski's Bunting Emberiza godlewskii

  Godlewski’s Bunting is a bunting found on rocky slopes and forest edges. Males show a gray hood, chestnut crown stripe, and white wing bars.

• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata

  A sandpiper with rich cinnamon and chestnut markings in breeding plumage. After adults migrate south, juveniles travel via Alaska toward Australasia.

• Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis

  An Arctic-breeding sea duck that spends winter along coasts and on large lakes, where it dives for aquatic animals.

• Brown-winged Parrotbill Suthora brunnea

  This parrotbill occurs in the mountains of southwestern China and northern Myanmar. Its chestnut head and vinous streaking across the throat and upper breast are distinctive.

• Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri

  This entry follows the 2005 treatment of Batis erlangeri as a separate species. Males have a dark crown and back; females have a maroon breast-band.

• Rüppell's Korhaan Heterotetrax rueppelii

  Rüppell's Korhaan is a bustard of stony semi-desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola. Males have a gray-blue head with black bands, while females are less strongly marked and duller overall.

• White-headed Vanga Artamella viridis

  The White-headed Vanga is endemic to Madagascar. The male has a white head and underside with green-glossed black upperparts, and searches for food on forest branches.

• Spike-heeled Lark Chersomanes albofasciata

  This lark has a long, slender, downcurved bill and a short tail with a white tip. It forages mostly on the ground in southern African grassland and scrub.

• Spotted Owlet Athene brama

  A small owl with gray-brown plumage marked by white spots. It is active at night and hunts insects and small vertebrates.

• Black-hooded Coucal Centropus steerii

  The Black-hooded Coucal is a cuckoo relative recorded on Mindoro in the Philippines. Records describe it moving through dense lowland-forest thickets along branches.

• Green Barbet Stactolaema olivacea

  BirdLife South Africa's 2025 account describes a population restricted in South Africa to oNgoye Forest. It uses Cryptolybia olivacea and says the wider group's taxonomy remains unsettled. Local birds have bronzy-green upperparts and use the forest canopy.

• Black-backed Cisticola Cisticola eximius

  The Black-backed Cisticola occurs in African grasslands. It uses dry open grassland and savanna, and forages mainly for invertebrates on the ground.

• Lorentz's Whistler Pachycephala lorentzi

  Lorentz's Whistler is a small whistler of the central New Guinea highlands. Its grey breast band and mottled white throat are distinctive, and it searches for insects in damp highland scrub.

• Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus

  Adults in breeding plumage have a dark reddish-brown head and chest with white wings that flash as they take flight. In Hong Kong it occurs in wetlands year-round, with both migrants and resident birds.

• Long-tailed Sibia Heterophasia picaoides

  The Long-tailed Sibia has a very long white-tipped tail and a white wing patch. It lives in forests from the Himalayas to Southeast Asia and feeds on insects, fruits, and other foods in the canopy.

• White-necked Thrush Turdus albicollis

  This thrush is described from Trinidad and Tobago. It searches among leaf litter for small prey and also eats fruit.

• Black-throated Finch Poephila cincta

  Adults have a black throat, white cheeks, a gray head, and a yellow bill. They search for seeds on the ground in northeastern Australian grasslands and open woodland.

• Rufous-throated Hill Partridge Arborophila rufogularis

  This partridge is marked by its red throat and eye-ring and lives in evergreen forests from the Himalayas to Indochina.

• Brown Oriole Oriolus szalayi

  This grey-brown bird has a dark facial patch and fine streaking on its head and underparts. The Raja Ampat account describes it in forest canopies and regrowth, alone or in pairs, feeding on fruit and insects.

• White-headed Starling Sturnia erythropygia

  This starling is endemic to India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It uses forest edges and open places, where it feeds on fruit and other foods.

• Speckled Mourner Laniocera rufescens

  This forest bird is reddish brown with fine markings. It perches within humid forest or second growth and may be seen alone.