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• Sunda Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus bornensis

  

  The Sunda Scimitar-Babbler occurs on Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay Peninsula. It is treated as a species separate from the Javan Scimitar-Babbler and has a long downcurved bill.

• Yellow-faced Honeyeater Caligavis chrysops

  It is widespread in eastern Australian forest and woodland. It probes flowers for nectar and searches leaves and branches for insects.

• Marquesan Monarch Pomarea mendozae

  This island endemic survives on Moho Tani in the Marquesas. It hunts insects, spiders, and small lizards in forest habitat.

• Nepal House Martin Delichon nipalense

  Adults have glossy blue-black upperparts, a white rump and underparts, and a black throat and undertail. The species uses Himalayan valleys, cliffs, and settlements.

• Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea

  The Prothonotary Warbler stands out as a bright yellow bird in dim wet forests. It forages low near water and nests in holes in standing dead trees.

• Manchurian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus tangorum

  The Manchurian Reed Warbler breeds in northeastern China and the Russian Far East and migrates to Southeast Asia. A wintering study in Thailand found it mainly in mature reed beds.

• Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius

  The Sociable Weaver has pale brown plumage with dark feather edging and a black chin. Around the Kalahari, groups build and use large communal nests.

• Puna Thistletail Asthenes helleri

  This ovenbird occurs in humid scrub and forest edges near treeline in southeastern Peru and is also recorded in Bolivia.

• New Guinea Thornbill Acanthiza murina

  This small bird is about 10 cm long and weighs around 8 g. It lives in New Guinea moss forest in mountains above 2,150 m and searches for small invertebrates in trees.

• Audouin's Gull Ichthyaetus audouinii

  A gull associated with the Mediterranean, Audouin's Gull has a pale gray body and red bill as an adult and feeds mainly on fish.

• Star-throated Antwren Rhopias gularis

  This small antwren lives in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. Both sexes have grey underparts, rufescent-brown upperparts and a black throat spotted with white. It forages low in dense vegetation.

• Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia

  A sandpiper that migrates from northern breeding grounds to Australia. In its Australian non-breeding range it forages in coastal and inland wetlands.

• 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.

• Purple Grenadier Uraeginthus ianthinogaster

  The Purple Grenadier occurs in East Africa. The species account consulted uses the name Granatina ianthinogaster, while the candidate pool lists Uraeginthus ianthinogaster. Adult males and females differ in their underpart colors.

• Cape Verde Shearwater Calonectris edwardsii

  An ocean-going shearwater that nests in burrows on islands. It is treated separately from Cory's Shearwater.

• Streaked Wren-Babbler Gypsophila brevicaudata

  A small bird of evergreen forests from mainland Southeast Asia to southern China and nearby regions. It stays near the forest floor and has fine streaks on its brown body.

• Thick-billed Cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti

  The Thick-billed Cuckoo has a heavy bill and pale underparts. It is patchily distributed across sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar and feeds mainly on caterpillars.

• Striated Laughingthrush Grammatoptila striata

  The Striated Laughingthrush is a brown, flocking bird with fine white streaks, found in forests of the Himalayan foothills.

• Band-tailed Fruiteater Pipreola intermedia

  A bird of humid Andean mountain forest, it is identified by the white tip of its tail and scaled markings below.

• Spotted Nightjar Eurostopodus argus

  The Spotted Nightjar is an Australian nightjar that rests on the ground by day and becomes active at dusk and night.

• Cape Longclaw Macronyx capensis

  The adult has an orange throat and a black band across the upper breast. In Southern African grasslands it searches on the ground and among low vegetation for food.

• Fox Kestrel Falco alopex

  The Fox Kestrel is a small falcon with an almost wholly russet adult plumage, a long tail, and narrow wings. It occurs around the Sahel, south of the Sahara Desert.

• Finn's Weaver Ploceus megarhynchus

  Finn's Weaver is a localized weaver of grasslands in northern India and the extreme southwest of Nepal.

• Red-throated Parakeet Psittacara rubritorquis

  This parakeet ranges through hilly and mountainous parts of Central America. During the breeding season it is associated with semiarid to semideciduous forest, including pine forest.