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• Black-headed Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius rufiventer

  

  The Black-headed Shrike-Babbler lives in Himalayan forests. Males have a black head and chestnut breast, while females are mainly olive green.

• Black Falcon Falco subniger

  

  The Black Falcon is a large falcon spread across much of mainland Australia. It uses open habitats in arid and semi-arid areas, including wooded watercourses.

• Eastern Yellow-bellied Hornbill Tockus flavirostris

  

  The Eastern Yellow-bellied Hornbill lives in eastern African savannas and open woodlands. Its large yellow bill is topped by a casque.

• Sikkim Treecreeper Certhia discolor

  

  The Sikkim Treecreeper is marked by pale spots on its brown back and an orange-brown rump. In China, it occurs in southern Tibet and breeds in subtropical forests.

• Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni

  

  This seed-eating bird lives in montane forests, including parts of East Africa. It has a conspicuously heavy bill and pale wingbars. The guide notes geographic variation in the pale forehead area and streaking.

• White-chested Babbler Pellorneum rostratum

  

  A babbler of the peninsula and islands’ wet forests. It searches the forest floor for small invertebrates.

• Rock Bunting Emberiza cia

  The male Rock Bunting has a grey head with dark stripes and a warm-toned underside. It searches the ground for seeds and insects and lives around field edges and woodland margins.

• Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus

  The male Vermilion Flycatcher has a bright red head and underparts. It perches low in open areas near water and catches flying insects.

• Barred Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles bennettii

  The Barred Owlet-nightjar inhabits moist forests on New Guinea and nearby islands. It has fine pale lines on its dark back and broad bars on its pale underside.

• Red-crested Turaco Tauraco erythrolophus

  The Red-crested Turaco is an Angolan endemic with a striking red crest and green body. It eats fruit and lives in pairs or groups in gallery and riverine forests.

• Great Bustard Otis tarda

  The Great Bustard is a large bird of open grassland and farmland. Males and females differ in plumage and display.

• Russet-backed Oropendola Psarocolius angustifrons

  This large bird forages in loose flocks in forests and agricultural land. Plumage and bill color differ between Peruvian lowland and Andean forms.

• Pavonine Quetzal Pharomachrus pavoninus

  The Pavonine Quetzal lives in the upper canopy of Amazonian forest. Adult males have a bill with an orange-red base and yellow tip, while much of the species' ecology remains poorly known.

• Dark Batis Batis crypta

  The Dark Batis occurs in evergreen upland forest from the mountains of eastern Tanzania to northwestern Malawi. Males have a black facial pattern and broad chest band, plus a white wing stripe.

• Capuchinbird Perissocephalus tricolor

  This large cotinga searches for fruit in the canopy. A 1970 study in southern Guyana recorded males displaying at forest leks and feeding on fruit and insects.

• Golden Masked Owl Tyto aurantia

  This owl lives in New Britain's tropical forests. Its plumage ranges from pale gold to rufous, and its facial disc has a finely speckled rim.

• Quail-plover Ortyxelos meiffrenii

  This small bird walks through dry grassland. Males have rufous and black-and-white markings, and only males incubate the eggs.

• Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura

  Adults have a bare red head and soar with raised wings in a teetering flight. They use their sense of smell to find carrion.

• Bronze-winged Jacana Metopidius indicus

  This wetland bird has a black head and breast, bronze-green back and wings, and a short reddish tail.

• Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani

  It lives in East African savannas and dry forests and eats both plant matter and small invertebrates.

• Rusty-fronted Barwing Actinodura egertoni

  Actinodura egertoni lives in montane forest along the Himalayas. It has an orangish wash on the front of the face and a white belly, and forages in pairs or small flocks.

• River Lapwing Vanellus duvaucelii

  The River Lapwing is seen along rivers in India. Its black, grey, and brown plumage and raised black crest are distinctive.

• Philippine Bush Warbler Horornis seebohmi

  This warbler occurs in the mountains of Luzon in the Philippines. Its species account lists dense brush and undergrowth above 800 m.

• Green-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus zambesiae

  It is widespread across southern Africa, with isolated populations in Ethiopia and Kenya. Its back and wings are olive green, and it mainly eats insects found on twigs.