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• Rufous-capped Babbler Cyanoderma ruficeps

  

  The Rufous-capped Babbler is a small bird marked by a bright rufous crown. It works through forest undergrowth and often travels with mixed flocks of small birds.

• Small Minivet Pericrocotus cinnamomeus

  A small bird that moves through woodland in flocks; males show orange and females yellow.

• Tinian Monarch Monarcha takatsukasae

  This forest bird is endemic to Tinian. Juveniles have a yellow bill base and buff tips on the wing bars and rump, which distinguish them from adults.

• Brown Songlark Megalurus cruralis

  This bird occurs widely across mainland Australia in open country such as pastures, short crops, and grassy scrub. Males are larger than females and sing during display flights. The Australian Museum page uses the scientific name Cincloramphus cruralis.

• Brown-rumped Bunting Emberiza affinis

  The Brown-rumped Bunting has a black-and-white face pattern, a brown back, and yellow underparts. It occurs in broadleaf woodland, moist savanna, and cultivated areas.

• Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius

  A shorebird of North America. Breeding adults show dark spots on the belly, and the bird teeters as it walks by water.

• Tundra Bean Goose Anser serrirostris

  The Tundra Bean Goose breeds in northern Siberia and winters in Europe. The race recorded in the UK in winter is rossicus.

• Crossley's Vanga Mystacornis crossleyi

  Crossley’s Vanga has different male and female plumage and searches for small prey on the forest floor.

• Dune Lark Calendulauda erythrochlamys

  The Dune Lark is treated as endemic to Namibia's Namib Desert and lives on sparsely vegetated dunes. Some taxonomies include a closely related lark within this species.

• Pemba Scops Owl Otus pembaensis

  The Pemba Scops Owl is found only on Pemba Island off northern Tanzania. It is nocturnal, and its plumage ranges from light brown to russet.

• Red-capped Coua Coua ruficeps

  A ground-walking cuckoo of northwestern Madagascar, it is recognizable by its red crown and searches the forest floor for insects and fruit.

• Black-backed Barbet Lybius minor

  It has a red forehead, whitish underparts washed pink, and black thighs. It is recorded in riverine woodland, forest edges, and near cultivation.

• Neddicky Cisticola fulvicapilla

  The Neddicky is a small bird about 11 cm long. By day it uses light woodland, savanna, and grassland, searching the ground for invertebrates.

• Sangihe Shrike-thrush Coracornis sanghirensis

  This bird occurs only on Indonesia’s Sangihe Island. It has dark olive-brown upperparts and pale underparts, and is found in the canopy of mature hill forest.

• White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis

  The White-bellied Heron is a large waterbird with a long neck and legs. In Bhutan, it occurs in temperate and mixed broadleaf forests in three major river basins.

• White-eared Sibia Heterophasia auricularis

  This bird is endemic to Taiwan. A white band runs from the base of the bill to behind the ear, and groups move through the middle and upper levels of forests.

• Christmas Island Thrush Turdus erythropleurus

  Turdus erythropleurus occurs on Christmas Island. The Parks Australia account treats it as a subspecies of Turdus poliocephalus under an older classification.

• Cinderella Waxbill Estrilda thomensis

  In northwestern Namibia, Cinderella Waxbill records come from the Kunene and Ondoto river areas.

• Great Argus Argusianus argus

  The Great Argus is a large pheasant of Indo-Malayan lowland forests. Males have exceptionally long tail feathers.

• White-shouldered Starling Sturnia sinensis

  The White-shouldered Starling is marked by white shoulders and gathers in open areas with scattered trees.

• Black-crowned Pitta Erythropitta ussheri

  This pitta is endemic to Borneo. It has a black crown and richly coloured body plumage, and searches for invertebrates on the forest floor.

• Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga

  The Grey-rumped Swallow is an African swallow with a greyish rump. It catches insects while flying over open country.

• White-tailed Cotinga Xipholena lamellipennis

  This cotinga occurs in lower Amazonian Brazil south of the Amazon River. The male is purplish black, with white on most of the tail and wings. The species is poorly known and is reported as apparently nowhere common.

• Lemon-spectacled Tanager Chlorothraupis olivacea

  The Lemon-spectacled Tanager is a tanager of humid tropical forest. Its yellow lores and eye ring are reported as useful distinctions from close relatives.