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• Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht

  

  The Baglafecht Weaver is seen in pairs, small groups, or alone in the Kenyan highlands described by the Mpala field guide. It hangs a foliage-hidden nest from a branch or frond.

• Dwarf Koel Microdynamis parva

  The Dwarf Koel occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. About 20–22 cm long, it searches for fruit in the forest canopy and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Collared Laughingthrush Trochalopteron yersini

  This laughingthrush is listed in a Langbiang Biosphere Reserve guide for evergreen broadleaf forest. Its black hood, silvery-gray cheeks, and rusty chest and wings stand out.

• Armenian Gull Larus armenicus

  The Armenian Gull is a relatively small gull with a short bill and a rounded head. It breeds on upland lakes and winters along coasts and inland wetlands.

• Moustached Barbet Psilopogon incognitus

  Adults are green with blue cheeks and a blue throat. The extent of red and blue markings on the head and throat differs among the three subspecies described by Oiseaux.net.

• Black-throated Babbler Stachyris nigricollis

  The Black-throated Babbler lives in lowland evergreen and swamp forest. It searches dense vegetation for small invertebrates.

• Collared Scops Owl Otus lettia

  This nocturnal owl has mottled brown plumage and ear tufts. It uses tree holes and other cavities for nesting and catches insects and small animals.

• Pearl-bellied White-eye Zosterops grayi

  This small bird has yellowish plumage, a white belly, and a broad white eye-ring. It is found only on Kai Besar Island in Indonesia.

• Short-tailed Lark Spizocorys fremantlii

  The Short-tailed Lark is a small lark, about 14–15 cm long. It walks on rocky ground and short-grass plains to eat seeds, and may also occur near human habitation.

• Eastern Striolated Puffbird Nystalus striolatus

  The Eastern Striolated-Puffbird may sit motionless for long periods in the canopy or at the edge of humid forest. Its pale eyes and white chin are distinctive.

• Maroon-naped Sunbird Aethopyga guimarasensis

  This small sunbird occurs on Negros, Panay, and Guimaras in the western Visayas of the Philippines. It is recorded in forest and along forest edges; a species-level ecological dataset classifies nectar as its main food niche.

• Black-tailed Crake Zapornia bicolor

  The Black-tailed Crake lives around wetlands and water from the eastern Himalayas to southwestern China and Indochina. It has a gray head, reddish-brown back, and black tail.

• Grey-faced Petrel Pterodroma gouldi

  This large dark petrel breeds on islands and mainland headlands in northern New Zealand. It has long, narrow wings and raises its chick in a burrow.

• American Goldfinch Spinus tristis

  A small finch of North America. Breeding males are bright yellow in spring, while females and winter birds are duller. It feeds mainly on plant seeds.

• Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Hylacola pyrrhopygia

  This small bird occurs in South Australia’s Mount Lofty Ranges. The appearance and habits described here are for the form recorded in that region.

• Amur Falcon Falco amurensis

  This small falcon breeds in East Asia and migrates to southern Africa. Plumage differs among adult males, females, and juveniles.

• Bull-headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus

  A shrike whose adult male has a black face mask and orange head, while females and young birds are browner.

• Vogelkop Whistler Pachycephala meyeri

  This whistler is recorded from the Vogelkop mountains of western New Guinea. It occurs in lower montane forest.

• Bristle-crowned Starling Onychognathus salvadorii

  A starling of Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya in eastern Africa. It has bristle-like black feathers on the forehead, a blue sheen, and uses rocky mountain habitat.

• Owston's Tit Sittiparus owstoni

  This tit inhabits forests on the southern Izu Islands. It eats insects as well as seeds and nuts.

• Lompobattang Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus sarasinorum

  This leaf warbler occurs on the Lompobattang massif in southwestern Sulawesi. A pale crown stripe and a wingbar help describe it. The paper treats birds elsewhere on Sulawesi as the separate species P. nesophilus.

• Crescent-faced Antpitta Grallaricula lineifrons

  The Crescent-faced Antpitta lives in humid montane forest in Colombia and Ecuador. Few localities are known, and it quietly forages near the forest floor.

• Ultramarine Grosbeak Cyanocompsa brissonii

  The Ultramarine Grosbeak occurs in South America. In Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, a paper reports it in native grassland, areas with trees and shrubs, and along agricultural edges. Females are pale sandy brown above and paler below.

• Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus

  The Black-headed Oriole occurs in Africa. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a black head and bright yellow plumage; the species account describes the bird as diurnal and omnivorous in open woodland and forest.