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• Frill-necked Monarch Arses lorealis

  

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in rainforest, vine forest, and gallery forest on eastern Cape York. Its white neck frill and blue skin around the eye are striking, and males and females differ in the face and back.

• Red-billed Pigeon Patagioenas flavirostris

  This large pigeon is shaded in purple, pink, and blue-gray. It ranges through tropical deciduous forests and feeds on fruit and berries high in trees.

• Indigo-banded Kingfisher Ceyx cyanopectus

  This small kingfisher lives beside waterways in the northern Philippines. Adult males of the nominate form have two blue bands across the orange chest and dive from low perches to catch prey.

• White-throated Gerygone Gerygone olivacea

  The White-throated Gerygone is a small bird with gray-brown upperparts and bright yellow underparts.

• Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus

  This greenbul is marked by pale whitish eyes. It searches forest canopies and thickets, eating fruit as well as other foods.

• Niceforo's Wren Thryophilus nicefori

  This highly threatened wren occurs on the western slope of Colombia's northern Eastern Andes. It uses dry-forest understory and has also been recorded in shaded coffee and cacao plantations.

• Long-legged Pipit Anthus pallidiventris

  The Long-legged Pipit walks on open ground in dry grassland and farmland, searching for small invertebrates.

• Barred Warbler Curruca nisoria

  A large gray warbler that breeds in open country from eastern Europe into Asia, it is a rare visitor to Britain, mainly in autumn.

• Coppery-tailed Coucal Centropus cupreicaudus

  The Coppery-tailed Coucal is a large cuckoo relative of wetlands and dense cover in central and southern Africa. It searches for small animals on the ground.

• Sooty Gull Ichthyaetus hemprichii

  The Sooty Gull lives along coasts around the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Breeding adults have dark, sooty gray-brown plumage and search the shore for fish and other food.

• Angola Waxbill Coccopygia bocagei

  The Angola Waxbill is a small finch occurring in Angola. A field guide describes a grey head, green back, red rump, and black tail; the male has a black face. It forages on the ground for seeds in shrubland and semi-open country.

• Slaty-breasted Wood Rail Aramides saracura

  The Slaty-breasted Wood Rail has blue-gray plumage on its head, neck, and belly. It lives in forest wetlands and eats plants, insects, larvae, and frog eggs.

• Guianan Trogon Trogon violaceus

  Its violet-blue head and breast, green back, and yellow belly make this trogon easy to recognize. It perches high in the tropical forests of northern South America.

• Chestnut-crowned Warbler Seicercus castaniceps

  A bird of the subspecies sinensis was recorded foraging in broad-leaved deciduous forest in southwest Hebei, China, in 2012. That individual had a chestnut crown and yellow wing-bars.

• Anchieta's Barbet Stactolaema anchietae

  This small barbet is recorded in miombo woodland on Angola's interior plateau. It has a brown body, a pale yellow face, and similar-looking sexes.

• Black-headed Grosbeak Pheucticus melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Grosbeak is a songbird of western North America. Adult males are black, white, and cinnamon, and both parents care for the young.

• Russet-winged Schiffornis Schiffornis stenorhyncha

  The Russet-winged Schiffornis occurs in eastern Panama, northern Colombia, and northern Venezuela. The account notes that it was formerly included in Thrush-like Schiffornis, but treats it as a separate species.

• Chinese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza soloensis

  The Chinese Sparrowhawk is a migratory raptor with narrow, pointed wings. Adult males and females differ in the color of their upperparts and underparts as it moves between East and Southeast Asia.

• Fire-capped Tit Cephalopyrus flammiceps

  The Fire-capped Tit is a small bird whose breeding male has a conspicuous red forehead and throat. Females and the different subspecies are less uniform in color.

• Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor

  A slender heron with blue-gray, lavender, and white plumage and a white stripe down the neck. It searches for small fish in coastal wetlands, moving with quick turns.

• 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.

• Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii

  Temminck's Stint is a small wader seen in the UK mainly on passage; breeding records in northern Scotland are exceptional.

• Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea

  The Red-capped Lark is a small lark of African grasslands. Its reddish crown stands out, and plumage varies among subspecies.

• Ethiopian Bee-eater Merops lafresnayii

  Its back is green and its underparts are pale cinnamon, with a yellow throat bordered behind by blackish blue. A 2015 field report lists at least five birds of the lafresnayii form at Lake Langano, Ethiopia.