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• Christmas White-eye Zosterops natalis

  

  The Christmas White-eye is a small bird with olive and grey plumage and a white ring around the eye. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects, and nests in the wet season.

• Cinnamon Woodpecker Celeus loricatus

  The Cinnamon Woodpecker has cinnamon-colored upperparts and wavy black barring. Plumage and barring vary among subspecies and individuals; males have a red throat, while females have a uniformly rufous head.

• Luzon Hornbill Penelopides manillae

  The Luzon Hornbill is a small hornbill of the northern Philippines. The male has a cream-colored head and underside with dark cheeks and throat; the female is mostly dark brown to black. It lives in tropical moist lowland forest and eats figs and other fruit.

• Rufous Cisticola Cisticola rufus

  This cisticola was recorded as a resident species in a bird study in northern Ghana. It has dull rust-brown upperparts, and at Mole National Park it was reported in dry woodland and in unburnt grass patches during the dry season.

• Sri Lanka Thrush Zoothera imbricata

  The Sri Lanka Thrush is endemic to Sri Lanka. Black scale-like markings pattern its pale plumage, and a black band shows across the white underwing in flight. A Sri Lankan study treated it as a ground-layer species and found higher density in forest than in buffer habitat.

• Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni

  This seed-eating bird lives in montane forests, including parts of East Africa. It has a conspicuously heavy bill and pale wingbars. The guide notes geographic variation in the pale forehead area and streaking.

• New Caledonian Cuckooshrike Coracina analis

  The New Caledonian Cuckooshrike lives in forests on New Caledonia. A local island guide records it eating insects and small fruits in forest.

• Himalayan Bush-robin Tarsiger rufilatus

  This flycatcher breeds in the high Himalaya and moves to lower elevations in winter. eBird and other references also call it the Himalayan Bluetail.

• White-bellied Yuhina Erpornis zantholeuca

  A small forest bird that often joins mixed-species flocks. eBird currently displays it as White-bellied Erpornis, while the pool name is retained here.

• Bangs's Brush Finch Arremon basilicus

  Bangs's Brush Finch occurs in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. It uses the understory of humid forest and dense secondary growth.

• Sao Tome Spinetail Zoonavena thomensis

  This small swift is endemic to Sao Tome and Principe. It feeds on the wing and is marked by a pale rump band and a streaked underside.

• Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus lanceolatus

  The Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle is a large raptor of Indonesian forest, centered on Sulawesi. Adults have a rufous, streaked breast and a densely barred belly.

• Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Acanthagenys rufogularis

  The Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater is widespread on mainland Australia. Adults have distinctive cheek feathers, and a study in inland New South Wales recorded movements associated with flowers and fruit.

• Black-throated Shrikebill Clytorhynchus nigrogularis

  A forest bird of Fiji's islands, inhabiting closed-canopy forest; the sexes differ in head pattern.

• Eurasian Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris

  The Eurasian Crag Martin catches flying insects as it moves near cliffs and gorges.

• Southern Yellowthroat Geothlypis velata

  The Southern Yellowthroat occurs in marshes, moist grassland, and edges of swampy forest. Southern breeding populations move north in winter, while birds in some parts of the range occur year-round.

• Streaked Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii

  This furnariid inhabits humid Andean forests. White neck tufts and a rufous tail stand out, and it forages from the midstory to the canopy with mixed-species flocks.

• Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus

  The adult Kelp Gull is a large gull with a blackish back and dull greenish-yellow legs. It is native mainly to Southern Hemisphere coasts and also occurs around lakes, rivers and saltwater wetlands.

• Cinereous Antshrike Thamnomanes caesius

  The Cinereous Antshrike is a small antbird about 14.5 cm long. It forages in the middle levels of Amazonian forest and is usually found with a mixed-species feeding flock.

• Madagascar Snipe Gallinago macrodactyla

  The Madagascar Snipe is a snipe of wetlands and rice fields on Madagascar.

• Brown-breasted Bulbul Pycnonotus xanthorrhous

  This bulbul occurs in China. It has a black slightly crested crown, brown upperparts, and a yellow vent. The strength of the breast band varies by subspecies. It frequents scrub and tangles, sometimes in noisy flocks.

• Hooded Munia Lonchura spectabilis

  The Hooded Munia is a small finch found in New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. It has a dark hood and orange rump and feeds mainly on seeds in grasslands.

• Black-winged Petrel Pterodroma nigripennis

  The Black-winged Petrel breeds on islands in the southwest Pacific and moves north and east across the Pacific outside the breeding period.

• Common Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx varius

  The Common Hawk-Cuckoo uses forest and farmland edges. It feeds on invertebrates in trees and moves seasonally.