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• Purple Heron Ardea purpurea

  

  A heron with a buff head and neck, black cap, gray back, and deep chestnut shoulder patch. It favors dense plants beside shallow water.

• Tarictic Hornbill Penelopides panini

  On Panay and Negros, this small hornbill stands out by the blue bare skin around the eye and its pale tail with a black tip.

• Chinese Blue-flycatcher Cyornis glaucicomans

  A small flycatcher that breeds in western China and winters farther south in Southeast Asia. It is a rare passage migrant and winter visitor in Hong Kong.

• Rosy Pipit Anthus roseatus

  A small pipit that breeds in high mountain grasslands. It descends after breeding, and northern populations migrate. Adults in breeding plumage show a faint rosy wash from the throat to the belly.

• Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris

  The Brown-hooded Kingfisher has a blue back and red bill and hunts insects from low branches.

• Dusky-legged Guan Penelope obscura

  This entry covers records of the nominate subspecies P. o. obscura in southern Paraguay. The paper reports reddish irises in an observed male and brown irises in an observed female.

• 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.

• Chestnut-bellied Tit Sittiparus castaneoventris

  This tit is found in Taiwanese forests. It has a white face and deep rufous underparts, and takes seeds, nuts and caterpillars in mixed and bamboo forests on slopes and in valleys.

• Tropical Scrubwren Sericornis beccarii

  The Tropical Scrubwren inhabits dense rainforest and forages in the lower canopy and on the ground. The page records female birds of subspecies minimus in north-eastern Queensland.

• Black-and-rufous Warbling Finch Poospiza nigrorufa

  This warbling finch ranges from southern Brazil to southern Argentina and the Paraná basin of Paraguay. Its plumage and habitat differ from those of a close relative, P. whitii.

• Cinnamon-vented Piha Lipaugus lanioides

  A cotinga endemic to southeastern Brazil, inhabiting humid montane Atlantic Forest, mainly at about 500–1,000 m.

• Antarctic Tern Sterna vittata

  The Antarctic Tern occurs on southern subantarctic islands and exposed rocky areas of Antarctica. New Zealand birds belong to subspecies bethunei.

• Scarlet Minivet Pericrocotus speciosus

  This long-tailed, flocking minivet is a common year-round resident in Hong Kong woodland and forest margins. It may also use green spaces along the urban edge.

• Bare-headed Laughingthrush Melanocichla calva

  This laughingthrush occurs in the hills of northeastern Borneo. Its dark body, bare head, pale blue areas around the eyes, and red bill are distinctive.

• Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster

  The Black-throated Coucal is a large coucal with a black head and breast and a white belly. It hides in lowland forest edge and wetland thickets in western and central Africa.

• African Hobby Falco cuvierii

  The African Hobby is a small falcon found in sub-Saharan Africa. It has rufous underparts, and regional field material notes that much of its ecology remains poorly known.

• Rufous-breasted Piculet Picumnus rufiventris

  This small piculet occurs in western Amazonia. A 2013 field account recorded foraging among bamboo and vines and an apparent recently fledged juvenile.

• Slaty Monarch Mayrornis lessoni

  This small monarch flycatcher occurs in Fiji. It uses moist forest and may also live in well-wooded parks and gardens.

• White-tailed Lark Mirafra albicauda

  A small, compact lark with a dark, scaly-looking back and white outer tail feathers. It is recorded in cropped grassland.

• Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni

  Ploceus pelzelni breeds in wetlands and also feeds in nearby trees and bushes. A breeding male has a black mask extending from the face to the throat, while the female lacks that mask.

• Brown Wood Owl Strix leptogrammica

  The Brown Wood Owl described here is a large owl of Hong Kong's forests. It is mainly active at night and forages among the canopy.

• Rufous-bellied Thrush Turdus rufiventris

  The Rufous-bellied Thrush has a brown back and reddish belly. It occurs at forest edges and in tree-covered towns in Brazil, feeding on fruit and small invertebrates.

• Tawny-crowned Greenlet Hylophilus ochraceiceps

  Its tawny forehead and crown distinguish it. It forages in the Amazonian forest understory and often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Chestnut-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus palliatus

  The Chestnut-backed Antshrike is recorded from southeastern Peru through Bolivia and Brazil. It occurs at forest edges and in secondary growth.