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• Edward's Pheasant Lophura edwardsi

  

  Edward's Pheasant is a pheasant of the forests of central Vietnam. Males have a white crest on the head.

• Spotted Whistling Duck Dendrocygna guttata

  The Spotted Whistling Duck has a reddish-brown breast with fine dark markings and reddish-brown scaling on its white flanks. It lives in wetlands and feeds on grass seeds and snails at twilight and night.

• Apurimac Spinetail Synallaxis courseni

  This spinetail is largely restricted to Peru’s Apurimac Valley, where it forages in dense humid montane undergrowth and second growth; juveniles lack the adult’s rufous crown.

• Papuan Island Thrush Turdus papuensis

  This island thrush occurs in the mountains of New Guinea and on Goodenough Island. The New Guinea population is described as brownish black and as common in subalpine woods and alpine shrubland.

• Scottish Crossbill Loxia scotica

  The Scottish Crossbill extracts seeds from conifer cones. It has a large head and thick bill, but can be difficult to distinguish from similar crossbills.

• Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet Ornithion semiflavum

  This small tyrannulet uses moist lowland forest and its edges in Central America. Accounts also record it in plantations and gardens, where it feeds mainly on insects.

• Red-billed leiothrix Leiothrix lutea

  A small woodland bird with a red bill and an orange-yellow throat.

• White-throated Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias albigularis

  It has an olive-brown head, pale eyebrow, white throat, broad brown breast band, and white belly. It occurs in the shaded understory of lowland and montane forest.

• Carrion crow Corvus corone

  A crow that forages in open farmland and grassland. In Japan, the smooth profile from bill to forehead is a useful identifying feature.

• Sooty Munia Lonchura melaena

  This is a small mannikin described here from its New Britain population. It has a black head and breast and eats grass seeds and sugarcane seed heads.

• Spangled Honeyeater Melipotes ater

  The Spangled Honeyeater lives in montane forest and tall secondary growth on Papua New Guinea’s Huon Peninsula. Its plumage is almost entirely black, with white spots below.

• Purple-naped Sunbird Hypogramma hypogrammicum

  The Purple-naped Sunbird lives in forests across Southeast Asia. The male is green overall with bright green streaking below. It feeds low in the vegetation on insects and spiders, as well as nectar, fruit, and seeds.

• Yellow-fronted Parrot Poicephalus flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Parrot is recognizable by its green body and yellow face and crown. Its wild diet is poorly known, though leaves, seeds, and fruit are thought to be part of it.

• Horned Parakeet Eunymphicus cornutus

  The Horned Parakeet is endemic to New Caledonia, where pairs and small groups move through forest canopy.

• European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur

  A small dove seen in Britain in spring and summer. Its chestnut-and-black mottled back and ground-feeding habits make it distinctive.

• Cyprus Scops Owl Otus cyprius

  A small owl native only to Cyprus. It may sit still on a branch by day and hunts invertebrates at night.

• Bolivian Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus sticturus

  The Bolivian Slaty Antshrike occurs from eastern Bolivia into southwestern Brazil, in tropical dry forest. It has white wing spots and spots on the outer webs of many tail feathers that show from above when the tail is open.

• Eastern Chanting Goshawk Melierax poliopterus

  This grey raptor has a banded tail. In East African grasslands and open woodland, it searches for prey from a perch.

• Yellow-faced Flameback Chrysocolaptes xanthocephalus

  A woodpecker of the Philippines. BirdLife's amended 2017 account describes adults with a yellow head, neck and belly, red back and wings, a red crown in males, and an entirely yellow head in females.

• Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii

  Levaillant's Cuckoo is marked by a crest and streaks on the throat and flanks. It lays its eggs in the nests of babblers and other birds.

• Black-lored Cisticola Cisticola nigriloris

  The Black-lored Cisticola is a highland cisticola with a reddish-brown head and brown back. It searches for small invertebrates by day in grassland and scrub near forest.

• Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri

  The Band-tailed Barbthroat has green upperparts and a banded tail. It visits flowers for nectar in humid forest and ranges from Central America to northwestern South America.

• Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus

  In NParks' Singapore account, the yellow-orange head and rich voice stand out. The bird seeks fruit and insects in riverside woods and forest edges.

• Orange-eared Tanager Chlorochrysa calliparaea

  This tanager occurs in Andean forests from Colombia to Bolivia. Males are green with orange patches around the ears and on the rump; females are duller. It forages with mixed flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.