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• Red-bellied Fruit Dove Ptilinopus greyi

  

  This fruit-eating dove feeds on forest fruits. Males are green with purple markings on the forehead and belly; a survey on Pentecost also recorded it in secondary and native forest.

• White-streaked Honeyeater Trichodere cockerelli

  This honeyeater lives in northeastern Australia. Field reports describe feeding at flowering eucalyptus and banksia in two Queensland locations.

• Pink-footed Shearwater Ardenna creatopus

  The Pink-footed Shearwater breeds on islands off central Chile and moves from waters off Peru toward the west coast of North America outside the breeding period. It catches fish and squid at the surface or in shallow dives.

• Bullock's Oriole Icterus bullockii

  Bullock’s Oriole occurs in open and riparian woodland in the western United States. It forages in the canopy and weaves hanging nests from branches.

• Taita White-eye Zosterops silvanus

  This small bird lives in forests of the Taita Hills and Mount Kasigau in southeastern Kenya. Its white eyering and yellow brow stand out; it uses forest edges and gleans insects and small fruit.

• Great Egret Ardea alba

  A large white heron with a long neck and legs, often moving slowly in deeper water.

• Writhed Hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus leucocephalus

  The Writhed Hornbill is a Philippine hornbill whose males and females differ in head and neck color. It feeds on fruit high in the canopy of lowland forest.

• White-fronted Black Chat Pentholaea albifrons

  The pool's older generic combination Pentholaea albifrons is updated here to Oenanthe albifrons. The appearance account is for the nominate race, while Senegal is within the range of a different form, frontalis.

• Blyth's Pipit Anthus godlewskii

  Blyth's Pipit migrates and uses rocky hills, grassland, and open marshy ground. It searches the ground for small invertebrates.

• Shovel-billed Kingfisher Clytoceyx rex

  A large kingfisher recorded in montane forest of New Guinea. It digs for invertebrates on the forest floor with its stout bill.

• Crestless Curassow Mitu tomentosum

  A large curassow of the northern Amazon. Its mostly black plumage has a blue gloss, and two nests were recorded in white-sand forest in northern Brazil.

• Collared Babbler Gampsorhynchus torquatus

  An older bird account treated the Collared Babbler as the subspecies Gampsorhynchus rufulus torquatus. It describes rufous-brown upperparts and records the form from bamboo and evergreen forest.

• White-bellied Tit Melaniparus albiventris

  The White-bellied Tit has a white belly set against a dark head and breast. Its range is centered in eastern Africa, with a separate area farther west.

• Redthroat Pyrrholaemus brunneus

  Redthroat is a bird of inland shrublands in Australia. The NSW profile places the state’s records in its far west and describes quiet foraging among low shrubs and on the ground.

• Long-tailed Reed Finch Donacospiza albifrons

  This finch is patchily distributed across south-central South America in open habitats. Its plumage varies with age, feather wear, and geography, so the regional color pattern is described as a tendency rather than a rule.

• Rose-collared Piha Lipaugus streptophorus

  This cotinga occurs locally on the tepuis of southeastern Venezuela and adjacent northern Brazil and Guyana. It feeds mainly on fruit and also takes insects.

• Saunders's Tern Sternula saundersi

  Saunders’s Tern is a small seabird that breeds on African and Asian coasts and islands bordering the northern Indian Ocean. At the Farasan Islands, parents spent more time at the nest when temperatures moved away from the range suitable for the eggs.

• Cerulean Cuckooshrike Coracina temminckii

  This cuckooshrike is endemic to Sulawesi, where it inhabits mature hill and mountain forest. Adults are bluish, but juveniles and regional forms differ in color.

• Golden Babbler Cyanoderma chrysaeum

  The Golden Babbler is a small babbler with a yellow crown and underparts and olive-green upperparts. It ranges from the Himalayas into parts of Southeast Asia.

• Sumatran Ground Cuckoo Carpococcyx viridis

  The Sumatran ground-cuckoo is a large forest cuckoo with a long tail and sturdy green legs and bill. It lives on the ground and is thought to feed on prey found on the forest floor.

• Gyrfalcon Falco rusticolus

  Its plumage ranges from nearly white to dark gray-brown; gray birds are most common in North America. It breeds on tundra in Alaska and northern Canada.

• Black-necked Woodpecker Colaptes atricollis

  The Black-necked Woodpecker occurs on the western side of the Peruvian Andes. It has a black throat and upper breast, a barred body, and feeds mainly on ants and other insects.

• Fatu Hiva Monarch Pomarea whitneyi

  This monarch is endemic to Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas. Adults are glossy purplish-black and forage for insects and spiders in stream-centred valley forest.

• Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris

  A small bird of open country in North America that searches the ground for seeds and insects. Short feathers on the male’s head can rise like tiny horns.