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• Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis

  

  A large gull found around the Mediterranean and northwestern Africa. Adults have a gray back and yellowish legs.

• Red Avadavat Amandava amandava

  A small, social songbird whose breeding male has conspicuous red-and-white plumage.

• Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata

  The Red-legged Crake is a rail of wet forests and wetlands. In Singapore it has been recorded in a limited part of the country.

• Alstrom's Warbler Seicercus soror

  Alstrom’s Warbler, Phylloscopus soror, breeds in China and winters from southwestern China into Indochina. In Hong Kong it is a passage migrant in autumn and early winter.

• Northern cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis

  A bird of North American woodland edges and thickets. Males are bright red and females mainly brown with red accents; both have crests.

• Grey-lined Hawk Buteo nitidus

  The Grey-lined Hawk is a raptor recorded in Bolivia's riverside forests and woodlands. It searches for prey from a perch.

• Elegant Tit Pardaliparus elegans

  The Elegant Tit lives in Philippine forests and edges, searching among trees for small invertebrates.

• Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

  A large heron with a typical blue-gray plumage and long legs. It waits for prey near water and strikes quickly with its neck.

• Great Snipe Gallinago media

  The Great Snipe is a medium-sized wader that breeds from northern Europe east into Russia and winters in tropical Africa.

• Mediterranean Short-toed Lark Alaudala rufescens

  A small, pale lark that runs along the ground while feeding in dry, open country. It can be hard to distinguish from similar short-toed larks where their ranges meet.

• Violet-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena violifer

  The Violet-throated Starfrontlet has a green head and chest, with an iridescent violet throat patch in males. It belongs to a hummingbird family that uses nectar and small insects.

• Bertoni's Antbird Drymophila rubricollis

  The male has a black crown, a long white supercilium and a broad black band through the eye. The species ranges from southeastern Brazil through eastern Paraguay to Misiones, Argentina, and searches for arthropods in bamboo thickets.

• Bamboo Foliage-gleaner Anabazenops dorsalis

  The Bamboo Foliage-gleaner is associated with bamboo and cane thickets. Its account highlights bamboo stands in southeastern Peru.

• Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei

  The Harlequin Quail lives in grasslands, and males and females have different plumage.

• Blue-naped Parrot Tanygnathus lucionensis

  The Blue-naped Parrot is a green parrot native to Philippine islands and Indonesia's Talaud Islands. The pattern of blue on the head and back varies by subspecies.

• Eurasian magpie Pica pica

  A member of the crow family with a black-and-white body and a long tail. In Britain, its dark feathers show blue or green gloss at close range.

• White-throated Towhee Melozone albicollis

  This towhee lives in the highlands of southern Mexico. Accounts place it in moist montane areas and high-elevation scrub, with Oaxaca highlighted as an observation region.

• Spot-throated Flameback Dinopium everetti

  Spot-throated Flameback is a woodpecker of the Palawan island group. Males have a red forehead and crest, while females have white spots on a black crown.

• Red-billed Curassow Crax blumenbachii

  The Red-billed Curassow is an Atlantic Forest bird in Brazil. Both sexes have a crest, but their plumage and bill colors differ.

• Chocolate Boobook Ninox randi

  The Chocolate Boobook is an owl of the main Philippine islands. It is recorded in lowland and foothill forest and along forest edges.

• Rufous Mourner Rhytipterna holerythra

  The Rufous Mourner uses the canopy and edges of humid forest in Costa Rica. Adults are brown to rufous, and may be seen alone, in pairs, or in family groups.

• Brown-chested Alethe Pseudalethe poliocephala

  This forest flycatcher searches for invertebrates near the forest floor. The current Oiseaux.net account uses Chamaetylas poliocephala; the pool had the older genus Pseudalethe.

• White-throated Swift Aeronautes saxatalis

  The White-throated Swift is a slender, aerial bird associated with cliffs and canyons in western North America.

• Bornean Black-capped Babbler Pellorneum capistratoides

  The Bornean Black-capped Babbler is endemic to Borneo. eBird describes it moving quickly on the forest floor and rummaging through leaf litter in lowland and foothill forest.