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• Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris

  

  This bulbul forages through leaf litter in southern African forests. It is shy and may form small groups outside the breeding season.

• Black-backed Tanager Stilpnia peruviana

  The Black-backed Tanager is about 14 cm long and endemic to Atlantic Forest along southeastern Brazil. It mainly occupies coastal sandbank forest and lowland forest.

• Ashy-throated Bush Tanager Chlorospingus canigularis

  The species account describes olive-yellow upperparts and tail, a grey head and throat, and a yellow breast band. It notes that a white supercilium occurs only in subspecies signatus.

• Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata

  The Myrtle Warbler is a small woodland bird with noticeable yellow and white markings. It moves south in fall and also eats berries in winter.

• Painted Bush Quail Perdicula erythrorhyncha

  The Painted Bush Quail lives in grasslands of the Indian Peninsula. Males have a white eyebrow and throat, while the red bill and legs are conspicuous field marks. Small groups may forage in the morning and evening.

• Rosy-billed Pochard Netta peposaca

  The male has a conspicuous red bill, while the female is brown. Rosy-billed Pochards feed on plants and seeds in shallow water and may gather in flocks of thousands.

• Silver Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae

  The Silver Gull has a white head and red-orange bill and legs. It searches for food along coasts and around urban waters in Australia.

• Rufous-fronted Thornbird Phacellodomus rufifrons

  This thornbird is marked by a long tail and a rufous forehead. It occurs in open places with scattered trees.

• Slate-colored Solitaire Myadestes unicolor

  A gray-plumaged thrush of Central America. It keeps quietly to the understory of cloud forest and oak-pine woodland.

• Blyth's Rosefinch Carpodacus grandis

  Blyth's Rosefinch is a large rosefinch of high-elevation conifer forest and areas near the treeline. Males and females differ in plumage.

• Plain Inezia Inezia inornata

  A small South American tyrant flycatcher that uses young riverside vegetation and riparian scrub. In southeastern Peru it is a rare austral migrant, with most records from Madre de Dios.

• Puerto Rican Oriole Icterus portoricensis

  The Puerto Rican Oriole is an oriole endemic to the island of Puerto Rico.

• Sumatran Laughingthrush Garrulax bicolor

  The Sumatran Laughingthrush lives in montane old-growth forest on Sumatra. It has black-and-white plumage and an erectile crest, and field observations remain limited.

• Black-vented Shearwater Puffinus opisthomelas

  The Black-vented Shearwater is a seabird with brown-black upperparts and pale underparts. It breeds off Baja California and also ranges in coastal waters of Mexico and California.

• Hainan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hainanus

  The Hainan Blue Flycatcher occurs from southern China through mainland Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong, mature forest is its main recorded breeding habitat.

• Neumann's Starling Onychognathus neumanni

  This starling has a patchy range from West Africa into western Central Africa. It uses rocky cliffs, outcrops, and gorges and feeds mainly on fruit, with insects and snails also recorded.

• Benguela Long-billed Lark Certhilauda benguelensis

  This lark inhabits dry, stony grassland from Angola to northwestern Namibia. It searches the ground for small invertebrates and seeds.

• Daurian Jackdaw Coloeus dauuricus

  A jackdaw with contrasting pale and dark adult plumage and a darker immature stage.

• Black-faced Waxbill Estrilda erythronotos

  The black-faced waxbill has a black face and red rump and flanks. The southern African form lives in Acacia thornveld and eats grass seeds and insects.

• Christmas Island Swiftlet Collocalia natalis

  Endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, this small swiftlet catches insects while flying over forest and settlements.

• Blue-faced Honeyeater Entomyzon cyanotis

  Adult Blue-faced Honeyeaters have conspicuous deep-blue skin around the eyes and may forage in groups. In the Hunter Region, they use open woodland near water and often reuse old nest material or nests.

• Yellow-mantled Whydah Euplectes macroura

  The Yellow-mantled Widowbird lives near wet grassland and swamps in Africa. It searches for seeds on the ground. Breeding-plumaged males display on the ground or on low vegetation; their black bodies carry yellow shoulder patches whose extent varies among subspecies.

• Chuck-will's-widow Antrostomus carolinensis

  Chuck-will's-widow is a nocturnal bird whose mottled brown plumage blends into woodland. It catches flying insects at night, breeding in North America and moving south for winter.

• Grey-hooded Sunbird Aethopyga primigenia

  Males have a grey head and throat, metallic bronze-green forehead and ear-coverts, yellow rump, white breast, and yellow flanks. On Mindanao it uses forest and edges and visits banana flowers.