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• Lina's Sunbird Aethopyga linaraborae

  

  The male Lina’s Sunbird has a narrow throat patch, a red breast patch, a long graduated tail, and metallic blue-green markings. In July 2015, birds visited roadside trees and males displayed at one high-altitude forest site in eastern Mindanao.

• Pohnpei Fantail Rhipidura kubaryi

  This fantail lives on Pohnpei and nearby larger lagoon islands in Micronesia. It moves through forest while fanning or wagging its white-tipped tail.

• Masked Trogon Trogon personatus

  Several subspecies occur in Central and South American mountains. Plumage varies by sex and region; the adult male is used as an example.

• Black-crowned Antshrike Thamnophilus atrinucha

  The Black-crowned Antshrike forages in the understory of humid and semi-deciduous forests. Adult males are gray and black, while females are olive-brown; the species is also recorded in Tumbes, northwestern Peru.

• Choco Brush Finch Atlapetes crassus

  This brushfinch lives in humid montane forest on the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Yellow underparts, a black-sided face, and a tawny crown stripe are useful clues.

• Basra Reed Warbler Acrocephalus griseldis

  The Basra Reed Warbler breeds in Iraqi wetlands and winters in eastern Africa. Its breeding sites include extensive reed beds in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys.

• Malaysian Plover Charadrius peronii

  The Malaysian Plover ranges from coastal parts of the Malay Peninsula through parts of the Philippines, the Sunda Islands and Sulawesi. It is found on sandy and coral beaches.

• Festive Amazon Amazona festiva

  The Festive Amazon is a parrot of the Amazon River basin and riverside regions of Colombia and Venezuela. Adults are green, with red on the back and rump.

• White-bellied Yuhina Erpornis zantholeuca

  A small forest bird that often joins mixed-species flocks. eBird currently displays it as White-bellied Erpornis, while the pool name is retained here.

• Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens

  The Black-throated Green Warbler has a yellow face and green back. In breeding-plumage males, black across the throat and chest is prominent; females and young birds have less black on the front.

• Plain-backed Sparrow Passer flaveolus

  The male has a black throat, chestnut back, and yellowish face, while the female is much plainer. It feeds on seeds on the ground in open woodland and farmland.

• Hutton's Shearwater Puffinus huttoni

  A seabird that breeds in the Kaikōura mountains of New Zealand's South Island. It feeds at sea and moves to Australia in winter.

• Bank Cormorant Phalacrocorax neglectus

  The Bank Cormorant is a dark coastal cormorant of Namibia and western South Africa. It dives for food in nearshore marine waters.

• Least Pauraque Siphonorhis brewsteri

  This nightjar lives in wooded dry scrub on Hispaniola and Gonâve Island and is active around dusk and at night.

• African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae

  The African Grey Woodpecker lives in wooded habitats across parts of western, eastern, and central Africa and feeds mainly on insects such as termites.

• Streaked Weaver Ploceus manyar

  A weaver of the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, the Streaked Weaver may gather in flocks in grassy habitats.

• 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.

• Streak-throated Hermit Phaethornis rupurumii

  The Streak-throated Hermit occurs in the Amazon region of northern South America. It has pale green-gold upperparts, a black-streaked throat, and long central tail feathers with white tips.

• Snow-capped Manakin Lepidothrix nattereri

  The Snow-capped Manakin lives in lowland humid forest in Brazil and Bolivia. Males are marked by white on the crown, nape, and rump.

• Superciliated Wren Cantorchilus superciliaris

  The Superciliated Wren is about 15 cm long. It has a rufous back and tail with black bars on the tail and flight feathers. A white eyebrow, head sides, throat, and breast contrast with the rufous lower underparts. It forages in semideciduous-forest understory and midstory and dry scrub in northwestern Peru, up to about 1,000 m.

• Chapman's Swift Chaetura chapmani

  This small, sooty-colored swift catches insects while flying above forests and forest edges.

• Zosterops capensis

  This southern African white-eye has a grey belly and flanks and lives in fynbos shrubland.

• Saunders's Tern Sternula saundersi

  Saunders’s Tern is a small seabird that breeds on African and Asian coasts and islands bordering the northern Indian Ocean. At the Farasan Islands, parents spent more time at the nest when temperatures moved away from the range suitable for the eggs.

• Pied Imperial Pigeon Ducula bicolor

  The Pied Imperial Pigeon is a large, mostly white pigeon with black wing and tail tips. It gathers in island flocks and feeds mainly on fruit.