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• Plum-crowned Parrot Pionus tumultuosus

  

  Adults of the nominate subspecies are green with a dark red crown and nape and red-purple markings from the face to the breast. The species occurs in moist mountain forests of Peru and Bolivia.

• Southern Shrikebill Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides

  The Southern Shrikebill occurs in New Caledonia and Vanuatu, using moist tropical forest, including heavily altered forest. It searches vegetation and bushes for invertebrates.

• Banded Fruit Dove Ptilinopus cinctus

  The Banded Fruit Dove has a white head and neck, a black back, and grey underparts. Its sharply contrasting plumage makes it distinctive.

• Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus

  The Malachite Kingfisher has a blue crest and a rufous belly. It perches near water and dives to catch fish and other prey.

• Pale-billed Scrubwren Aethomyias spilodera

  The Pale-billed Scrubwren moves actively through lower and middle forest layers on New Guinea while searching for insects. Brown upperparts, paler underparts, and a pale bill are useful clues, though plumage varies among subspecies.

• Pale-faced Bulbul Pycnonotus leucops

  This bulbul occurs in northern Borneo. It has a yellowish-olive body and a pale gray head; the 2023 eBird taxonomy update treats it as a species split from Flavescent Bulbul.

• Cobb's Wren Troglodytes cobbi

  This wren is now confined to small offshore islands in the Falklands. It searches for small animals in grassland near the tide line and on rocky shores.

• Alaska Wagtail Motacilla tschutschensis

  Breeding males show bright yellow underparts and patterned heads. The wagtail searches for insects close to the ground in wet, open habitats.

• Andaman Coucal Centropus andamanensis

  Its head and underside are gray-brown, while the back, wings, and tail show reddish-violet to bronze tones. It uses forest edges and farmland, and the species account notes it searching for food while walking through mangrove mud.

• California Gull Larus californicus

  A medium-sized gull of western North America. It breeds at inland lakes and rivers and moves toward the Pacific coast with the seasons.

• Red-throated Parrot-Finch Erythrura psittacea

  The Red-throated Parrotfinch is a small bird found only in New Caledonia. Its red face and tail contrast with its green body.

• Grey-throated Rail Canirallus oculeus

  This rail lives in lowland rainforest in western and central Africa. It uses ravines and stream edges, feeding on insects, crabs, snails, and small lizards.

• Blue-tailed Trogon Trogon comptus

  The Blue-tailed Trogon occurs in humid forest from western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. Males are green, females gray, and much of its breeding behavior remains undocumented.

• Blyth's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus reguloides

  A small leaf warbler that searches forests for insects. It uses higher-elevation forest in the breeding season and is known to move to lower ground in winter.

• Red-fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata

  This 16–17 cm barbet uses upland bushland and acacia woodland and eats fruit. Sound recordings include Lake Langano in Ethiopia.

• Rose-breasted Chat Granatellus pelzelni

  The Rose-breasted Chat differs strongly by sex and inhabits forest canopy and edges.

• Foothill Schiffornis Schiffornis aenea

  The Foothill Schiffornis is recorded in montane forest in northeastern Peru along the Andean foothills. Its regional account describes a narrow core area and notes more recent records farther south in Amazonas.

• White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis

  The White-headed Vulture has a white head and bare red face. It uses treed savanna and feeds mainly on carrion.

• White-bellied Tit Melaniparus albiventris

  The White-bellied Tit has a white belly set against a dark head and breast. Its range is centered in eastern Africa, with a separate area farther west.

• Rufescent Tiger Heron Tigrisoma lineatum

  The Rufescent Tiger-Heron has a long rufous neck and a streaked throat, and waits for prey by the water. Adult and juvenile plumages differ greatly.

• Pallas' Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi

  Pallas' Reed Bunting is a small bunting that breeds in northern Asia. In Hong Kong it is rarely recorded as an autumn passage migrant.

• Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus

  A sandpiper with dark upperparts and a white rump, seen mainly on passage and in winter in lowland wetlands in Hong Kong.

• Bimaculated Lark Melanocorypha bimaculata

  The Bimaculated Lark walks across dry, open grasslands. Dark patches on both sides of its chest stand out, and breeding males sing long songs in flight.

• Calliope Hummingbird Selasphorus calliope

  Males have magenta streaks on the throat, while females and immature birds show peachy tones below. They breed in mountain meadows and streamside thickets and feed on nectar and small insects.