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• San Cristobal Mockingbird Mimus melanotis

  

  The San Cristobal Mockingbird occurs only on San Cristóbal in the Galápagos. It uses habitats from the coast to higher ground, including dry woodland and farmland, and eats insects and fruit.

• Gray-capped Cuckoo Coccyzus lansbergi

  This cuckoo has a grey cap and rufous back. Some details of its range and seasonal movements remain poorly known.

• Sombre Tit Poecile lugubris

  The Sombre Tit is a small bird with a dark brown-black head and white cheeks. It occurs from southeastern Europe into southwestern Asia, including open woodland and orchards.

• Western Tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaea

  The Western Tinkerbird is a small African barbet recorded in several separated mountain regions. Its black back is marked by a broad yellow stripe running from crown to rump.

• Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus

  This nightjar is active after dark. Its grey and brown mottled plumage blends into open grassland and savanna.

• Little Grassbird Megalurus gramineus

  It occurs in wetlands, swamps, mangroves, and marshes in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. It often stays hidden in dense vegetation while searching for insects and other invertebrates.

• Black-collared Swallow Pygochelidon melanoleuca

  This swallow has a black chest band against a white belly. A study along a river in southeastern Brazil recorded it nesting in rock cavities.

• Aztec Thrush Ridgwayia pinicola

  The Aztec Thrush has dark brown-black upperparts and a white underside. It lives in moist montane forest in Mexico and includes fruit in its diet.

• Lemon-bellied Flyrobin Microeca flavigaster

  This small bird occurs in northern Australia. Its belly is pale lemon except in the Kimberley subspecies, and it often calls from high perches.

• Black-throated Prinia Prinia atrogularis

  This long-tailed prinia lives in scrub on hills and mountains. Breeding adults show a gray head, white moustachial stripe, and black throat and chest.

• Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki

  The Red-throated Bee-eater nests in earthen banks near rivers and catches flying insects in social groups.

• Little tern Sternula albifrons

  A small tern that visits Japan in warmer months to breed on beaches and river bars.

• New Zealand Falcon Falco novaeseelandiae

  The New Zealand Falcon is endemic to New Zealand. Its regional forms differ in size and color, from a small dark forest form to a larger, paler form in dry open country.

• Blood-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum sanguinolentum

  At Gunung Merapi National Park on Java, a male was recorded visiting a nest and feeding two chicks. This was an observation of one nest and does not establish the species' general breeding behaviour.

• Falcated Duck Mareca falcata

  The male stands out with a green and copper sheen on its head and long, curved ornamental feathers.

• Buff-browed Chachalaca Ortalis superciliaris

  This chachalaca occurs in lowland northeastern Brazil south of the Amazon. A pale eyebrow and chestnut outer tail feathers help distinguish it.

• St Vincent Amazon Amazona guildingii

  A large parrot of St. Vincent's tropical rainforest. Its plumage combines blue, green, orange, and other bright colors, and it eats nuts and fruit.

• Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris

  Males combine dark grey and rufous plumage, while females are grey-brown and streaked; the birds often search for insects high in trees.

• Cyprus Warbler Curruca melanothorax

  The Cyprus Warbler is endemic to Cyprus. The male has dark plumage and pale facial markings, and part of the population migrates away from the island in autumn.

• Apapane Himatione sanguinea

  The Apapane is a Hawaiian honeycreeper that uses nectar as a major food source and also takes insects. It visits ʻōhiʻa blossoms and moves through the canopy as it feeds.

• White-fronted Whitestart Myioborus albifrons

  This active little bird has yellow underparts and white around the eyes. It joins mixed-species flocks in high-elevation cloud forest and searches for insects.

• Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus

  The Chestnut-winged Starling has dark plumage with purple, green, and blue iridescence and chestnut patches on its wings.

• Red-eared Firetail Stagonopleura oculata

  This finch lives in forests in southwestern Australia. It has a red bill and ear patch and black-and-white spots on the belly.

• North Moluccan Pitta Erythropitta rufiventris

  This pitta occurs on islands of the North Moluccas. In the nominate form rufiventris, a blue breast band and red underparts are prominent.