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• Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher Cyornis poliogenys

  

  It is about 15–18 cm long. It uses evergreen forest, forest edges, secondary growth, and scrub and eats invertebrates. The page also lists sound records from Assam.

• Mekong Wagtail Motacilla samveasnae

  The Mekong Wagtail breeds along low-flow river channels with rocky or sandy bars and shrubs. Its 2001 description recorded a breeding range from Cambodia into southern Laos.

• Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus

  The Malachite Kingfisher has a blue crest and a rufous belly. It perches near water and dives to catch fish and other prey.

• Blue-throated Piping Guan Pipile cumanensis

  The Blue-throated Piping Guan is a large galliform bird of northern South American forests. It has a long crest and a blue-violet wattle on the throat.

• Swamp Grass Babbler Laticilla cinerascens

  The Swamp Grass Babbler lives in wet grasslands from northeastern India to northern Bangladesh and searches for insects in pairs or family parties. It has a long tail, a pale spot in front of the eye, and a narrow pale eye-ring.

• Owston's Tit Sittiparus owstoni

  This tit inhabits forests on the southern Izu Islands. It eats insects as well as seeds and nuts.

• Southern Whiteface Aphelocephala leucopsis

  A small bird of southern mainland Australia. It forms small foraging groups in open woodland and shrubland, searching the ground for insects, spiders, and seeds.

• Hooded Mountain Tanager Buthraupis montana

  This Andean tanager occurs in the humid upper Yungas forests of Bolivia. It has been recorded moving in small flocks.

• Banded Cotinga Cotinga maculata

  The Banded Cotinga has shimmering blue and purple plumage in males; females are much less conspicuous and brown. Records from Brazil's eastern coast place it high in forest canopies.

• Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan

  A gull that breeds in large groups in North American prairie wetlands and winters along the coasts of Peru and Chile. Breeding adults may have a pale pink wash on the chest.

• Black-and-white Triller Lalage melanoleuca

  A triller of the Philippines. The source's detailed color description is specifically for a male of the nominate subspecies.

• Bornean Banded Pitta Hydrornis schwaneri

  This pitta is endemic to Borneo. Adult males show a yellow eyebrow, blue rump and tail, and a blue belly patch. It is now treated separately from related forms once grouped with it.

• Mishmi Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis badeigularis

  This understory bird is recorded in the Mishmi Hills of Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Records include Lohit, Roing, and Hunli, with a 2016 report farther north near Anini.

• Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor

  The Mangrove Cuckoo is a secretive bird of coastal forests in the Caribbean and Central America. It searches among leaves for insects and small lizards.

• Collared Falconet Microhierax caerulescens

  The Collared Falconet is a small falcon of South and parts of Southeast Asia. It is active by day and catches insects and other small prey in flight, using open woodland, forest edges and farmland near water.

• Rufous Woodpecker Micropternus brachyurus

  A rufous-brown woodpecker whose male has red on the face; it forages at ant nests in forest.

• Ochre-collared Monarch Arses insularis

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in northern New Guinea and on Yapen Island, from lowlands into the mountains. Males contrast black and white with an ochre collar; females are more subdued and brown-toned.

• Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum

  The Bar-tailed Trogon lives in humid African mountain forest. By day it searches for caterpillars and other insects.

• Gillett's Lark Calendulauda gilletti

  This lark occurs in eastern Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya. It has brown streaking and a rufous crown and searches for prey on the ground in semi-arid savanna. The source's treatment includes the former Degodi Lark.

• Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus

  The Northern Red Bishop changes markedly in the male's breeding plumage. Flocks feed mainly on seeds in wet grasslands and marshes.

• Arabian Eagle-Owl Bubo milesi

  An eagle-owl of southwestern Arabia. It uses wadis and other wooded places.

• Planalto Tapaculo Scytalopus pachecoi

  A small ground-dwelling bird of humid forest in southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina, recorded in woodland with bamboo and scrub.

• Spectacled Thrush Turdus nudigenis

  The Spectacled Thrush occurs in the Lesser Antilles and parts of South America, including Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil. It uses open places with trees and shrubs to search for fruit and small prey.

• Grey-chested Greenlet Hylophilus semicinereus

  This small bird occurs in forests of northern South America and the Amazon region. It uses the canopy, forest borders, and secondary woodland, where it feeds on small insects.