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• Slaty-backed gull Larus schistisagus

  

  A large gull that breeds mainly in Hokkaido within Japan.

• Pale-billed Hornbill Lophoceros pallidirostris

  The Pale-billed Hornbill has sex-specific bill and casque colors and searches for food among trees.

• Streak-chested Antpitta Hylopezus perspicillatus

  This antpitta lives in moist lowland forest from Central America to Colombia and Ecuador. Broad black streaks mark its white to buffy breast.

• Rajah Scops Owl Otus brookii

  The Rajah Scops Owl is an owl of mountain forests in central Sumatra and northern Borneo. Long ear tufts and dark markings on its brown plumage stand out.

• Tinkling Cisticola Cisticola rufilatus

  The Tinkling Cisticola lives in scrub and open woodland in south-central Africa. Its orange-rufous tail and call help distinguish it from the Rattling Cisticola.

• Stuhlmann's Starling Poeoptera stuhlmanni

  This starling lives in East African montane forest. Males have a blue-black sheen, while females are greyer. It eats fruit.

• Ahanta Francolin Pternistis ahantensis

  The Ahanta Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird of forest edges, regrowth, and streamside thickets in West Africa. Its chestnut plumage is patterned.

• Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata

  This waterbird lives in marshes and ponds across the Americas. It swims and walks on floating plants with its long toes.

• Yellow-crowned Woodpecker Leiopicus mahrattensis

  The Yellow-crowned Woodpecker is found in dry woodland and scrub in South Asia.

• Parrot Crossbill Loxia pytyopsittacus

  The Parrot Crossbill is a crossbill of northern Europe that searches for pine seeds. In Britain it is scarce, with small numbers sometimes arriving from the north in winter.

• Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis

  A long-legged waterbird with a pink bill that feeds on plants near shallow water and fields.

• White-crowned Pigeon Patagioenas leucocephala

  The White-crowned Pigeon is a large fruit-eating pigeon of forests in southern Florida and the Caribbean islands.

• Streak-crowned Antvireo Dysithamnus striaticeps

  This antvireo ranges from southeastern Honduras to Costa Rica. It is recorded mainly in evergreen forest on the Caribbean slope of Central America; the AOS checklist does not accept records from western Panama.

• Melanesian Cuckooshrike Coracina caledonica

  c. caledonica in forest and savanna. Its range and life-history details here refer to that local form.

• Seychelles Bulbul Hypsipetes crassirostris

  This bulbul is endemic to the Seychelles. It lives in forests and secondary growth, and young birds differ from adults in bill and leg color.

• 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-headed Berryeater Carpornis melanocephala

  The Black-headed Berryeater is a cotinga of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. A field report documented a male passing fruit to a female.

• Sun Parakeet Aratinga solstitialis

  This South American parakeet is strikingly yellow with red-orange markings. It lives in pairs or flocks in savanna and places where fruit is abundant.

• Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia

  This sparrow has a russet-and-grey back and bold streaks on its white chest. It occurs across much of North America, though plumage varies by region.

• Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx pectoralis

  The Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo is a Philippine endemic with a rufous breast and white belly. It eats insects, especially caterpillars, and is a brood parasite.

• Coal tit Periparus ater

  In Japan it inhabits mountain woodland and favors conifer canopies. It is also seen in lowlands in autumn and winter.

• White-browed Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia amaurotis

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. It has a white eyebrow and throat, rufous-brown upperparts, a bright rufous tail, and pale streaking on the upper breast. It forages low to the ground.

• Munchique Wood Wren Henicorhina negreti

  This small wood-wren was described from the Munchique massif in the Western Andes of Colombia. The paper reports it from a narrow band of very wet cloud forest where fog is nearly continuous.

• Chestnut-crested Yuhina Yuhina everetti

  This bird lives in Borneo's forests. The Wildlife of Borneo account uses the name Staphida everetti, while the pool name is Yuhina everetti. It has a chestnut crest and streaked underparts.