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• Cream-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus pseudosimplex

  

  A 2019 study treated the cream-eyed population on Borneo as a species distinct from the very similar Cream-vented Bulbul. Their plumage is alike, but the cream-eyed birds were recorded in mature forest interior and edge.

• Canary-winged Parakeet Brotogeris versicolurus

  The Canary-winged Parakeet has a pale green body and a white wing band that is conspicuous in flight. It is native to South America and has become feral in parts of North America.

• Flores Monarch Symposiachrus sacerdotum

  Flores Monarch is a small bird restricted to Flores Island. It has slate-gray upperparts, clean white underparts, and a black mask across the face. It is found alone or in pairs in the understory of forested hills and often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Puff-throated Babbler Pellorneum ruficeps

  The Puff-throated Babbler forages on the ground. In the Indian nominate form, its rufous head, white throat, and dark breast streaks stand out.

• Lantz's Brush-warbler Nesillas lantzii

  This brush-warbler occurs in southwestern Madagascar from sea level to about 500 m. It has a long graduated tail and searches for insects by day, alone or in pairs.

• American Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides dorsalis

  The American Three-toed Woodpecker has three toes. It chips sideways at bark on dead or dying trees to find beetle larvae beneath it.

• Red-naped Fruit Dove Ptilinopus dohertyi

  The Red-naped Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon marked by a red patch on the back of its neck. It forages in the canopy and middle storey of Sumba's forests and prefers primary forest at higher elevations.

• Reichard's Seedeater Crithagra reichardi

  Reichard's Seedeater is a small bird about 12–14 cm long. It is active by day, lives in woodland and semi-open places, and eats seeds.

• Gibber Chat Ashbyia lovensis

  This small bird occurs in the arid interior of Australia. It has yellow cheeks, throat, and underparts, with a sandy-brown crown and upperparts.

• Green Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius pulchellus

  The Green Shrike-Vireo ranges from southeastern Mexico to eastern Panama. It occurs in humid forest canopies and second-growth woodland in lowlands and foothills.

• Taiwan Yuhina Yuhina brunneiceps

  The Taiwan Yuhina is endemic to Taiwan. It lives in mountain areas at 1,000–3,000 m and often uses the middle and upper levels of broadleaf and mixed forest.

• Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster

  This tyrant flycatcher has a bushy crest and yellowish lower belly. It catches insects by flying out from a perch and also eats fruit.

• Madagascar Mannikin Lemuresthes nana

  Lepidopygia nana is a small finch found widely across Madagascar. It eats grass seeds and often forages in flocks of its own species.

• Blue-capped Redstart Phoenicurus coeruleocephala

  The Blue-capped Redstart is about 15 cm long, and the sexes differ in plumage. It takes small invertebrates in rocky mountain habitat and open pine forest by day. Recordings in northern India and Central Asia show only part of its range.

• Santa Marta Antpitta Grallaria bangsi

  The Santa Marta Antpitta occurs only in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northern Colombia. It is a ground-dwelling bird recorded in humid montane forest and forest edges.

• Makira Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx gentianus

  This small kingfisher occurs on Makira in the Solomon Islands. The account treats Ceyx gentianus separately from the grouping in which it was formerly included, Variable Dwarf Kingfisher.

• Grey Nightjar Caprimulgus jotaka

  A nocturnal bird with intricate silver-grey and brown plumage.

• Capuchinbird Perissocephalus tricolor

  This large cotinga searches for fruit in the canopy. A 1970 study in southern Guyana recorded males displaying at forest leks and feeding on fruit and insects.

• Western Screech-Owl Megascops kennicottii

  This small owl lives in western North America. Its plumage varies by region, and at night it waits on a perch to catch prey.

• White-breasted Cuckooshrike Coracina pectoralis

  This cuckooshrike lives in woodland and forest across sub-Saharan Africa. The pool name Coracina pectoralis is listed as Ceblepyris pectoralis in the current species account.

• Xinjiang Ground-Jay Podoces biddulphi

  The Xinjiang Ground-Jay is a ground-dwelling corvid of arid Xinjiang. It has a pale body and long tail and searches for food on foot.

• Striped Crake Aenigmatolimnas marginalis

  The Striped Crake is a rail with white streaks on its back and reddish underparts. It searches among seasonally flooded grassland and marsh edges, including shallow water and mud.

• White-crowned Starling Lamprotornis albicapillus

  The White-crowned Starling lives in open scrub and acacia woodland in East Africa. It has a white crown and is described feeding on the ground.

• Fire-fronted Bishop Euplectes diadematus

  The Fire-fronted Bishop moves in response to rainfall in eastern Africa. A breeding male is black and yellow with a red forehead patch, and the species feeds mainly on grass seeds.