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• Long-tailed Finch Poephila acuticauda

  

  This small finch has a gray head, black throat, and long black tail. Bill color differs by region: red in the Northern Territory and pale yellow in Western Australia. It inhabits grasslands and grassy woodlands of northwestern Australia.

• Gray-headed Chickadee Poecile cinctus

  The Gray-headed Chickadee, called the Siberian Tit in Eurasia, lives year-round in northern forests across northern Eurasia and Alaska.

• Great-billed Parrot Tanygnathus megalorynchos

  The Great-billed Parrot is green with a large bill. Flocks feed on fruit and seeds in forests on islands of eastern Indonesia.

• Grey-fronted Green Pigeon Treron affinis

  This green pigeon lives in the Western Ghats of southwestern India. The male has a chestnut back, while the female's back is green.

• Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga

  The Great Black Hawk is a large raptor with a dark adult body and distinctive white markings on the tail. In Peru, it is recorded along lowland Amazonian rivers and in forests in the northwest.

• Pemba White-eye Zosterops vaughani

  This white-eye occurs on Pemba Island and nearby offshore islets in Tanzania. A regional taxonomic review records it throughout Pemba.

• Usambara Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris usambaricus

  This sunbird lives in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains. A study around Mazumbai Forest Reserve found it mainly in areas with limited crown cover; most recorded food came from non-native plants.

• Ochre-breasted Pipit Anthus nattereri

  This small bird is recorded in scattered grasslands of southeastern South America. Its ochre chest is streaked, and it searches for insects on the ground.

• Moluccan Flycatcher Myiagra galeata

  The Moluccan Flycatcher is a small bird of wooded habitats and coastal scrub in the Moluccas. Males are grey and white; females have a pale rufous wash on the throat and breast.

• Timor Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus presbytes

  The Timor Leaf Warbler is a small warbler recorded on Timor and Flores. It uses forest edges and montane woodland on Flores, and lowland scrub on Timor.

• Philippine Spine-tailed Swift Mearnsia picina

  This Philippine spinetail has long wings and a short tail. It catches insects while flying above forest.

• Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni

  Von der Decken’s Hornbill lives in dry scrub and savanna in East Africa. Males have red and cream bills, while females have black bills.

• Ringed Warbling Finch Microspingus torquatus

  This small bird lives in dry Andean scrub and open woodland. Females are duller overall and have a narrower, paler breast band.

• Southern Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus eximius

  The Southern Bristle Tyrant is a small forest flycatcher. A regional account from Misiones, northeastern Argentina, records an adult feeding recently fledged young.

• Three-wattled Bellbird Procnias tricarunculatus

  This bird uses the high canopy of humid Central American forests and mainly eats fruit. Males have three long wattles around the bill.

• Ryukyu Minivet Pericrocotus tegimae

  This minivet ranges from Japan's Ryukyu Islands through Kyushu to western Honshu. Males have a narrow white forehead band that is nearly absent in females.

• Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides

  The Squacco Heron is a small heron whose head and back feathers lengthen in breeding plumage. It waits for prey in shallow water.

• Chestnut Thrush Turdus rubrocanus

  The Chestnut Thrush moves quietly through forests around the Himalaya and descends to lower elevations in winter.

• Bicolored Wren Campylorhynchus griseus

  This large wren has a striking white eyebrow and rufous-brown back. It uses dry scrub and cactus habitat, and family groups call to one another.

• King Eider Somateria spectabilis

  Adult males have a black-and-white body, a blue-green head, and an orange-red bill; adult females are brown with black patterning. The species breeds near water in the Arctic.

• Spotted Antbird Hylophylax naevioides

  This antbird lives in lowland evergreen forests in Central America, including Panama. Adult males have a black head and white throat; females differ, with a paler throat.

• Killdeer Charadrius vociferus

  A North American plover of open ground. It runs, pauses, and searches the ground for insects.

• Angola Lark Amirafra angolensis

  This lark occurs mainly in Angola. Its rufous crown and pale tail are useful identification marks, while the pattern on its back changes seasonally.

• Ayeyarwady Bulbul Pycnonotus blanfordi

  The Ayeyarwady Bulbul is 17–20 cm long. It uses shrubland and other semi-open places, and is classified as an omnivore.