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• Corsican Nuthatch Sitta whiteheadi

  

  The Corsican Nuthatch is endemic to Corsica and feeds on insects or pine seeds at different times of year.

• Red-billed Blue Magpie Urocissa erythroryncha

  The Red-billed Blue Magpie has a blue body, black head, red bill, and long tail. It is a familiar resident bird in Hong Kong.

• Olive-spotted Hummingbird Talaphorus chlorocercus

  The Olive-spotted Hummingbird is recorded in scrub and secondary vegetation on islands along Amazonian rivers. It has green upperparts, gray underparts, and olive spots on the throat and chest.

• Keel-billed toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus

  A toucan of Central America and nearby regions, with a black body, yellow throat and cheeks, and a large multicoloured bill.

• Olive Tanager Chlorothraupis frenata

  Here, Olive Tanager refers to the separate species *Chlorothraupis frenata* of the eastern Andean foothills. Its nest study examined Peruvian birds formerly called *C. carmioli frenata*.

• Gray-cheeked Green Pigeon Treron griseicauda

  This green pigeon has grey cheeks, and males also show a dark burgundy back. It searches for fruit in trees and may gather at fruiting trees.

• Somali Fiscal Lanius somalicus

  This shrike has a grey back and white underparts and searches for prey in dry grassland.

• Large Wren-Babbler Turdinus macrodactylus

  This large babbler forages close to the forest floor in Southeast Asia. It has a streaked brown back and a white throat and upper breast bordered by a dark band, absent in the Javan subspecies.

• Crossley's Vanga Mystacornis crossleyi

  Crossley’s Vanga has different male and female plumage and searches for small prey on the forest floor.

• Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus

  The Rock Wren is a wren of dry rocky places in western North America. It probes rock crevices and searches for insects on the ground and among rocks.

• Alstrom's Warbler Seicercus soror

  Alstrom’s Warbler, Phylloscopus soror, breeds in China and winters from southwestern China into Indochina. In Hong Kong it is a passage migrant in autumn and early winter.

• Brown-breasted Barbet Lybius melanopterus

  This East African barbet occurs in coastal and riverine woodland and savanna. It has a red cap and throat, a brown upper breast, and white lower parts.

• Celestial Monarch Hypothymis coelestis

  The male's blue plumage and drooping crest stand out on this Philippine monarch flycatcher. BirdLife's 2001 account describes it in forest canopy and midstory, at forest edges, and in second growth.

• Eastern Black-headed Batis Batis minor

  The Eastern Black-headed Batis is a small, dark bird with a sharply defined white eyebrow. It searches for insects in the dry forests and savannas of East Africa.

• Chocolate Boobook Ninox randi

  The Chocolate Boobook is an owl of the main Philippine islands. It is recorded in lowland and foothill forest and along forest edges.

• American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica

  The American Golden-Plover breeds on Arctic and subarctic tundra and winters from eastern Brazil to Argentina.

• Red-banded Fruiteater Pipreola whitelyi

  This cotinga occurs in montane areas of southern Venezuela, Guyana, and northern Brazil. Its diet is thought to consist mainly, perhaps entirely, of fruit; it sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Black-chinned Whistler Pachycephala mentalis

  The Black-chinned Whistler is a whistler of the North Maluku islands. This account is limited to the subspecies Pachycephala mentalis obiensis, described from Obi and Bisa islands in Indonesia.

• Flavescent Flycatcher Myiophobus flavicans

  This small flycatcher lives in Andean forests. It perches in the lower or middle levels and makes short flights to catch insects, often near forest edges.

• Mountain Chickadee Poecile gambeli

  This small bird lives in mountains from southwestern Canada into the western United States. Its white eyebrow and black head stand out, and it moves to lower elevations in fall and winter.

• Tawny-faced Quail Rhynchortyx cinctus

  Adult plumage differs between the sexes. This elusive quail lives on the floor of humid forest, usually in pairs or small groups.

• Green-headed Oriole Oriolus chlorocephalus

  The Green-headed Oriole has green across its head, throat, upper breast, and lower mantle. A forest survey in Tanzania often recorded pairs feeding on fruit high in the trees.

• Abyssinian Longclaw Macronyx flavicollis

  The Abyssinian Longclaw often stays on the ground in Ethiopia's highland grasslands. Its orange throat and black breast necklace stand out.

• Rufous-vented Chachalaca Ortalis ruficauda

  The Rufous-vented Chachalaca has brown to olive plumage and a bare, reddish-brown throat. It moves in small flocks, active in the morning and evening, and eats fruit and leaves.