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• Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens

  

  The male has a blue-black back and black throat, while the female is olive-brown. It breeds in eastern North America and winters in the Caribbean.

• Variegated Fairywren Malurus lamberti

  This small bird is widespread across mainland Australia. Breeding males have blue heads and chestnut shoulders, while non-breeding males, females, and young birds are generally brownish gray.

• Eurasian tree sparrow Passer montanus

  A small bird that nests in gaps in roofs and walls. In Japan it is closely associated with settlements and can be recognized by black cheek patches.

• Magnificent Bird-of-paradise Diphyllodes magnificus

  The male displays yellow plumes and an iridescent green breast shield in a ground court. The female is brown and looks very different.

• Trindade Petrel Pterodroma arminjoniana

  The Trindade Petrel glides over the sea and feeds on fish and squid, returning to oceanic islands to breed.

• Little Cormorant Microcarbo niger

  Its breeding plumage is glossy black, and it inhabits wetlands from the Indian subcontinent east to Java. It dives to catch fish.

• Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis

  This nightjar is marked by a reddish collar and a whistled call at night. It ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa and catches insects from dusk into the night.

• Streak-breasted Woodpecker Picus viridanus

  It is a green woodpecker with a streaked breast, found in moist lowland forests and mangroves.

• Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis

  The Red-headed Malimbe occurs in Africa from Guinea to Kenya and uses lowland forest and secondary growth. Its identification note describes red on the crown, nape, and mantle against black underparts.

• African Blue Tit Cyanistes teneriffae

  A small tit with blue upperparts and a yellow underside. It inhabits woodland and scrub in the Canary Islands and North Africa, with some regional variation in wing markings.

• White-bellied Hummingbird Elliotomyia chionogaster

  Subspecies hypoleucus ranges from southeastern Peru through Bolivia, eastern and central Brazil, Paraguay, and northwestern Argentina. A 2022 paper documented the first photographic records in Misiones, Argentina.

• Red-capped Manakin Ceratopipra mentalis

  The Red-capped Manakin is a small bird of the understory in humid forests from Central America to northwestern South America. Males have red heads, females are green, and both may be found around fruiting trees.

• Gray-barred Wren Campylorhynchus megalopterus

  This wren lives in mountain forest in Mexico's central highlands. It is gray with narrow dark bars and moves through the forest in small groups.

• Antillean Palm Swift Tachornis phoenicobia

  The Antillean Palm-Swift is a small bird that flies over lowlands with palms. Small colonies nest in mats of dead palm fronds.

• Long-billed White-eye Rukia longirostra

  This white-eye is distinctive for its long, slender bill that curves downward. It is restricted to Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia.

• Hartlaub's Gull Chroicocephalus hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Gull is a small coastal gull of southern Africa. Its head and bill colors change as it matures.

• Luzon Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba luzonica

  The Luzon Bleeding-heart is a ground-dwelling dove of forests on Luzon and Polillo. It has a red breast patch against pale plumage, and the sexes look alike.

• Sikkim Wedge-billed Babbler Stachyris humei

  This babbler occurs in the eastern Himalayas, inhabiting evergreen broadleaf forest and bamboo. It forms small groups in the undergrowth.

• Rufous-crowned Bee-eater Merops americanus

  This bee-eater occurs in the Philippines. Adults have a rufous crown and upper back and an almost entirely green underside. The species profile identifies it as a diurnal, sedentary invertivore of woodland and semi-open habitats.

• Mauritius Cuckooshrike Coracina typica

  This cuckooshrike lives in native forests in southwestern Mauritius. Males and females have markedly different plumage.

• Japanese paradise flycatcher Terpsiphone atrocaudata

  A visitor to shaded forest with a blue bill and blue eye-rings.

• Spotted Grasshopper-warbler Locustella thoracica

  This warbler has dark brown upperparts, a white throat, and spotted breast markings. It breeds in high areas from the eastern and central Himalayas to central China; one winter record is reported from northern Thailand.

• Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps

  The Red-headed Bunting breeds in Central Asia and winters in India. In Hong Kong it is a rare winter visitor; females and young can be difficult to identify because they resemble Black-headed Buntings.

• Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata

  The Giant Snipe is a large wader with a disjunct South American range. It is 40–43.5 cm long, with a very long straight bill and broad, rounded wings.