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• Flammulated Owl Psiloscops flammeolus

  

  The Flammulated Owl is a small owl that breeds in mountain conifer forests of western North America and winters in Mexico and Central America.

• Swinhoe's Minivet Pericrocotus cantonensis

  In Hong Kong, Swinhoe's Minivet is recorded as a rare spring and autumn passage migrant. The regional bird account reports it singly or in small groups at wooded sites, and describes different plumage in males and females. It gives no local diet records.

• Cuban Crow Corvus nasicus

  The Cuban Crow is a large crow found mainly in Cuba. It uses forests as well as farmland and eats a varied diet.

• Black-backed Swamphen Porphyrio indicus

  This wetland bird has a black head and back and a red bill. It occurs from Sumatra to Sulawesi and uses reedbeds, swamps, lake edges, and damp pastures, feeding on vegetation and small animals.

• Sunda Grasshopper-warbler Locustella montis

  This small bird lives on Java, Indonesia. A 2015 taxonomic study retained Java's Locustella montis as a species and included the Timor population as a subspecies. This entry describes the Java specimens examined in that study.

• Long-tailed Myna Mino kreffti

  The Long-tailed Myna lives on islands of the Bismarck and Solomon archipelagos. Glossy black plumage is set off by a white rump and yellow belly; it feeds on fruit in the canopy.

• Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis

  The Red-headed Malimbe occurs in Africa from Guinea to Kenya and uses lowland forest and secondary growth. Its identification note describes red on the crown, nape, and mantle against black underparts.

• Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis

  A large shorebird that breeds in the Northern Hemisphere and passes through Japan during migration. It uses its long bill to search for food on tidal flats.

• Subtropical Cacique Cacicus uropygialis

  The Subtropical Cacique occurs in the Andes from northwestern Venezuela through Colombia and Ecuador to southern Peru. It is recorded in the western and central Colombian Andes and at scattered sites along the eastern slope.

• Fasciated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma fasciatum

  This tiger-heron waits quietly beside fast forest streams, with pale bars across its neck and body

• Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis

  Recorded throughout the year in Britain and Ireland. It is most widespread in the north and west and in uplands during breeding, and across much of the area in winter except the highest ground.

• White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita

  The White-bibbed Swallow has glossy blue-violet plumage and a white throat patch. It catches insects while flying low over rivers.

• Regal Sunbird Cinnyris regius

  This sunbird is found in and around mountain forest in the Albertine Rift. Males have green, yellow, and red plumage, while females are dull brown; the species also uses high-elevation scrub.

• Black-striped Sparrow Arremonops conirostris

  The Black-striped Sparrow has a gray head marked with black stripes and yellow edging on the shoulder. In Costa Rica it uses shrubs and forest edges in humid lowlands, forming pairs or family groups.

• Pearled Treerunner Margarornis squamiger

  This Andean bird has a yellowish-buff eyebrow, chestnut upperparts, and a cream throat. It uses upper subtropical and temperate forests and woodland and feeds mostly on arthropods.

• Red-winged Lark Corypha hypermetra

  A 2024 taxonomic study places the nominate form from southern Somalia through Kenya to north-eastern Tanzania, and subspecies gallarum in Ethiopia. It cautions that range boundaries remain uncertain and separates the Kidepo form as another species.

• Azure-crowned Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanocephala

  This hummingbird occurs in moist montane habitats, oak-pine woodland, and gardens in Central America. The male has a glittering blue crown and white underparts, and often feeds at flowering epiphytes.

• Green-crowned Warbler Seicercus burkii

  A migratory leaf warbler of the lower Himalayan belt. It searches evergreen forest and bamboo for small invertebrates and moves to lower elevations in winter.

• Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula

  A small shorebird that breeds on beaches. Britain has birds present year-round, winter visitors, and birds passing through on migration.

• Cocoa Thrush Turdus fumigatus

  The Cocoa Thrush is dark rufous-brown above and paler rufous-brown below. It forages on or near the ground and uses forests and plantations.

• Vogelkop Scrubwren Aethomyias rufescens

  This small bird has olive-brown upperparts and pale underparts. It inhabits mountain forest and secondary growth in northwestern New Guinea.

• Spix's Guan Penelope jacquacu

  This galliform lives in forest habitats. In Ecuador it occurs in Amazonian lowland and eastern montane forests, foraging mainly in the middle and upper tree layers.

• Lucy's Warbler Leiothlypis luciae

  Lucy's Warbler is found in mesquite woodland along streams in the arid Southwest. Adult males show cinnamon on the crown and rump, while females and young birds can be duller.

• White-bibbed Babbler Stachyris thoracica

  This babbler lives in the forest understory of Java. A white patch from throat to breast is distinctive, and it searches for insects in shaded thickets.