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• Ruby-cheeked Sunbird Chalcoparia singalensis

  

  The Ruby-cheeked Sunbird has different male and female plumage. It forages high in trees, taking nectar from flowers and sometimes insects from spider webs.

• Spotted Crake Porzana porzana

  The Spotted Crake is marked by dense white spots on its gray breast. It searches among plants in shallow freshwater wetlands for small aquatic animals and plants.

• Zino's Petrel Pterodroma madeira

  This seabird has a grey back and white underparts. It breeds in Madeira’s central mountains and feeds at sea on squid, small fish and other prey.

• Brambling Fringilla montifringilla

  A bird with orange shoulders and breast that arrives in flocks for autumn and winter.

• Scrubtit Acanthornis magna

  A small scrubbird from Tasmania and King Island. It is secretive but searches bark, litter, and foliage for small invertebrates near the forest floor.

• Banded Kestrel Falco zoniventris

  The Banded Kestrel is a diurnal falcon found only in Madagascar. It has horizontal barring from the throat to the belly and hunts small reptiles and insects.

• Fawn-breasted Whistler Pachycephala orpheus

  This whistler is recorded on Timor and Rote. On Timor it prefers lower elevations, although it was observed beside Pachycephala calliope on Mount Mutis up to 1,850 m. The Rote population was reported to be larger than the Timor population.

• White-crowned Starling Lamprotornis albicapillus

  The White-crowned Starling lives in open scrub and acacia woodland in East Africa. It has a white crown and is described feeding on the ground.

• Rufous-naped Tit Periparus rufonuchalis

  This tit lives in mountain regions from the western Himalayas into Central Asia. The male is marked by a black head and white cheeks.

• Grey-crowned Warbler Seicercus tephrocephalus

  The current name is Phylloscopus tephrocephalus. This small leaf warbler has gray and black crown stripes, breeds from northern Myanmar and southwestern China to northern Thailand, and winters in Indochina.

• Scaled Antpitta Grallaria guatimalensis

  This antpitta has dark rufous-brown plumage, a gray head, and a scaled pattern on its back. In Peru, it is recorded foraging on the forest floor.

• Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea

  The Blue Grosbeak is a bunting with a large, silvery bill. The breeding male is vivid blue, and the species uses scrubby habitats and old fields in the southern United States.

• Three-banded Warbler Basileuterus trifasciatus

  The Three-banded Warbler occurs on the western slope of the northern Andes in Peru and Ecuador. It uses the forest understory.

• Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis

  The Yellow-green Vireo normally breeds in Mexico and Central America and winters in lowland tropical forest in South America. Nesting in Texas is rare, and a few fall records on the California coast are thought to be birds that went the wrong way.

• Dimorphic Egret Egretta dimorpha

  The Dimorphic Egret has dark and white plumage forms and breeds in Madagascar and along parts of the East African coast.

• Spotted Grasshopper-warbler Locustella thoracica

  This warbler has dark brown upperparts, a white throat, and spotted breast markings. It breeds in high areas from the eastern and central Himalayas to central China; one winter record is reported from northern Thailand.

• Bar-bellied Pitta Hydrornis elliotii

  The Bar-bellied Pitta lives in lowland forest in Indochina and searches for food on the ground. It turns leaf litter while feeding on insects and earthworms.

• Little Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera hydrocharis

  This kingfisher has elongated central tail feathers. It lives in lowland forests on the Aru Islands and southern New Guinea, where it searches for insects on foliage and the ground.

• Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus rarotongensis

  The Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove is a forest pigeon endemic to the Cook Islands, where it occurs on Rarotonga and Atiu.

• Blue-capped Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus cyanocephalus

  This small waxbill lives in dry thorn savanna and scrub. It has a slim body, long tail, and is often seen in small flocks.

• Black Sicklebill Epimachus fastosus

  The Black Sicklebill is a large bird of New Guinea's mountain forests. Males have a long curved bill and tail plumes, and their dark feathers can gleam green, blue, and purple.

• Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri

  A small sandpiper whose breeding adults show rufous and golden markings.

• Radjah Shelduck Radjah radjah

  The Radjah Shelduck stands out for its white head and breast and chestnut breast band. It feeds in shallow wetlands, mainly at night.

• Band-tailed Cacique Cacicus latirostris

  The Peru account places this bird in the lowlands of Loreto and central Ucayali, where it forms small groups and mixed flocks in the forest canopy. Its yellow tail has a black terminal band. The account also uses Ocyalus latirostris; this entry retains the pool name Cacicus latirostris.