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• Orange-crowned Fairywren Clytomyias insignis

  

  This small bird has an orange crown. It moves in small groups through mountain-forest thickets on New Guinea and gleans invertebrates from leaf undersides.

• Subantarctic Shearwater Puffinus elegans

  

  The Subantarctic Shearwater is a small seabird that breeds on remote islands in the Southern Ocean. It nests in soil burrows, but New Zealand Birds Online says much of its biology remains poorly known.

• Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksii

  

  The Red-tailed Black Cockatoo is a black parrot with a conspicuous red tail. The sexes differ in plumage, and the species includes several subspecies and disjunct populations.

• Corsican Nuthatch Sitta whiteheadi

  

  The Corsican Nuthatch is endemic to Corsica and feeds on insects or pine seeds at different times of year.

• Rufous-breasted Bush Robin Tarsiger hyperythrus

  

  The male Rufous-breasted Bush Robin has a blue back and chestnut underparts. It breeds in the Himalayas, uses mixed conifer forest, and searches the ground for insects.

• Ascension Frigatebird Fregata aquila

  

  The Ascension Frigatebird is a seabird with long wings and a deeply forked tail.

• Kadavu Fantail Rhipidura personata

  The Kadavu Fantail lives only on Kadavu Island in Fiji. A black crescent and inverted V across the chest, plus narrow white edges on the black outer tail feathers, help identify it. It moves actively along forest streams while catching insects.

• Madeira Firecrest Regulus madeirensis

  A small bird of Madeira's forests and uplands. Its crown is a key mark, and it searches among leaves for tiny insects.

• Blue Bunting Cyanocompsa parellina

  The Blue Bunting lives in thickets and woodland edges in Mexico and northern Central America. Males are blue, while females are warm brown overall.

• Madagascar Cuckooshrike Coracina cinerea

  An endemic cuckooshrike of Madagascar. It uses dry forest, humid evergreen forest and gallery forest, and may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy.

• Yellow-faced Myna Mino dumontii

  The Yellow-faced Myna is a starling of New Guinea's forest canopy. Its yellow face and white rump are easy to notice.

• Asian Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus

  The Asian Woolly-necked Stork is a large wetland bird with a neck covered in fluffy white feathers. The current name Ciconia episcopus refers to the Asian species, distinct from the African C. microscelis.

• Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus

  A tiny bird of eucalyptus canopies, the Spotted Pardalote has a distinctive pattern of white spots. Adult males also show a red rump and yellow throat. It searches foliage for insects and sugary exudates.

• Sage Thrasher Oreoscoptes montanus

  The Sage Thrasher is a small bird of western North America, where sagebrush steppe is widespread. In spring, males sing from high perches.

• Angola Lark Amirafra angolensis

  This lark occurs mainly in Angola. Its rufous crown and pale tail are useful identification marks, while the pattern on its back changes seasonally.

• Maroon-backed Whistler Coracornis raveni

  Males are sooty grey with a maroon back. Females and juveniles are rusty brown above and olive below. It is shy and stays low in Sulawesi's montane forest, usually alone or in pairs.

• Long-tailed Bush-Warbler Locustella caudata

  This bush-warbler occurs on Luzon and Mindanao in the Philippines. Adults are rufescent brown above, with a greyish-white chin and throat.

• Trilling Tapaculo Scytalopus parvirostris

  This tapaculo forages in the understory of humid Andean forest and bamboo patches. Adult males are dark gray; females have rufous-brown and black bars on the lower back, rump, and vent.

• Foothill Schiffornis Schiffornis aenea

  The Foothill Schiffornis is recorded in montane forest in northeastern Peru along the Andean foothills. Its regional account describes a narrow core area and notes more recent records farther south in Amazonas.

• White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis

  The White-necked Raven is a large corvid of African highlands. Its broad diet includes animal matter and carrion.

• Spectacled Longbill Oedistoma iliolophus

  This small honeyeater is about 11 cm long. It is grayish olive, with a short tail and yellowish eye ring, in New Guinea forest and forest margins.

• Indian Silverbill Euodice malabarica

  The Indian Silverbill is a small finch with a pale rump and a black bill. It feeds on seeds and stays in flocks in both dry open country and places near people.

• Blyth’s Swift Apus leuconyx

  This swift breeds in the outer Himalayas and Assam Hills and is recorded in India in winter. In the Nilgiri region of southern India, a study confirmed breeding from observations of birds carrying food.

• Common Loon Gavia immer

  A large waterbird that chases fish underwater and changes its plumage noticeably between summer and winter.