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• Pale-headed Rosella Platycercus adscitus

  

  The Pale-headed Rosella is a medium-sized parrot with a pale head, blue-and-white cheeks, a blue belly, and red under the tail. Females are slightly duller, and plumage varies by region.

• Madagascar Turtle Dove Nesoenas picturatus

  The Madagascar Turtle Dove varies among Indian Ocean islands. In Seychelles, a smaller native form with a purple head occurs alongside a larger, grey-headed form introduced from Madagascar.

• Collared Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza cirrocephala

  A small hawk of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea that uses trees or tall shrubs as cover before striking at small birds.

• Javan Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus montanus

  A yellow, downcurved bill, white eyebrow and chestnut back identify this babbler. It forages in the lower growth of forests on Java and Bali.

• Ethiopian White-eye Zosterops poliogastrus

  This small white-eye lives in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Its white eye-ring and yellow face stand out as it searches forests and shrubland for fruit, nectar, and invertebrates.

• Handsome Sunbird Aethopyga bella

  The Handsome Sunbird is a Philippine sunbird. Males have iridescent green on the head, while females have a yellow rump. A field study on Cebu recorded it taking nectar from forest mistletoe flowers.

• Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti

  The Grey-headed Bushshrike lives in sub-Saharan Africa. In a southern African atlas it was recorded as a large, brightly coloured bird that often hides in foliage and gives far-carrying calls.

• Alpine Pipit Anthus gutturalis

  A pipit of New Guinea's high alpine grasslands. It favors short grass and places with nearby bushes.

• Buru Monarch Symposiachrus loricatus

  A monarch flycatcher of Buru Island, Indonesia; detailed ecological information is limited.

• Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus

  The Two-barred Warbler is a small leaf warbler with two wing-bars and a noticeable supercilium. It forages actively in mid-levels of trees and moves between breeding and wintering areas.

• Great Swallow-tailed Swift Panyptila sanctihieronymi

  This swift has long, narrow wings and a deeply forked tail. It catches insects on the wing over highlands and builds a long, hanging tubular nest.

• Mauritius Kestrel Falco punctatus

  A small falcon found only in the forests of Mauritius.

• Opal-crowned Manakin Lepidothrix iris

  The Opal-crowned Manakin is a manakin of humid forests in Brazil. It is olive green above and yellow green below; males have a whitish-blue crown.

• Indochinese Fulvetta Fulvetta danisi

  The Indochinese Fulvetta is a small bird of mountain forest in Laos and Vietnam. It searches for small invertebrates in the lower forest and bamboo. The account used here gives no breeding information.

• Mindanao Hornbill Penelopides affinis

  This hornbill has strongly different male and female plumage and lives in forests on Mindanao and nearby islands in the Philippines.

• Black-cheeked Mountain Tanager Anisognathus melanogenys

  This tanager is restricted to Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Its blue and yellow plumage contrasts with a black face.

• Black-crested Tit-Tyrant Anairetes nigrocristatus

  This roughly 13 cm tyrant flycatcher lives at high elevations on the western Andean slope. Peru Aves associates it with Polylepis woodland and adjacent scrub at 2,100–4,000 m in Peru and also records it in Ecuador.

• Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla

  The Little Bunting is a small bunting that visits Britain from Russia. In Britain, most records are in autumn, and some birds are found in winter flocks of buntings.

• Western Gerygone Gerygone fusca

  The Western Gerygone is a small bird about 10 cm long, and the sexes look alike. In Western Australia it gleans small insects from foliage in forests and woodlands.

• Guianan Cock-of-the-rock Rupicola rupicola

  This bird lives in humid forests of northern South America. Males stand out with bright orange plumage and a crest; they eat mainly fruit and gather to display during courtship.

• Cinnamon Ibon Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus

  This sparrow-family bird lives in the cloud-forest canopy of Mindanao. Its skull has a feature also found in seed-eating sparrows.

• Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula

  The Plain Chachalaca is a large brown bird with white-tipped tail feathers. It searches for berries and buds in small family groups.

• Andaman Cuckoo-shrike Coracina dobsoni

  The Andaman Cuckooshrike is endemic to India's Andaman Islands and uses moist lowland and mangrove forest canopies. Males and females differ in their underpart pattern.

• Pied Heron Egretta picata

  The Pied Heron is a wetland heron of northern Australia and nearby islands. It has black-and-white plumage and feeds mainly on insects, as well as fish and frogs.