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• Yellow-winged Blackbird Agelasticus thilius

  

  This blackbird occurs around lakes and lagoons in Argentina. Males are black and may show brown flecking in spring; females are streaked brown. A yellow shoulder stands out in flight.

• White-lored Antpitta Myrmothera fulviventris

  The White-lored Antpitta is a lowland Amazonian bird with conspicuous white marks before and behind the eye. Records cover southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and northern Peru.

• Shelley's Sunbird Cinnyris shelleyi

  This African sunbird visits flowering trees in damp highland forest. A historical account records metallic green breeding plumage and a vivid red breast band in the adult male.

• Mountain Chiffchaff Phylloscopus sindianus

  The Mountain Chiffchaff is a small leaf warbler of mountain woodland and alpine scrub. Its pale brown body is marked by a white eyebrow.

• Teardrop White-eye Rukia ruki

  The Teardrop White-eye is recorded on four islands in the Faichuk group of Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia. It has been observed in old native forest and secondary forest, where it gleans insects from foliage.

• Iberian Green Woodpecker Picus sharpei

  This woodpecker has a green back and red head and searches for ants on open ground beside woodland. Its range is centred on the Iberian Peninsula.

• Northern Rufous Hornbill Buceros hydrocorax

  The Northern Rufous Hornbill is a large hornbill with a red bill and casque. It searches the forest canopy for fruit and seeds.

• Cisticola cherina

  This small cisticola occurs in Madagascar. It uses grassland, savanna, farms, wetlands, and scrub, and searches near the ground for small invertebrates.

• Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis

  The male Eastern Bluebird has a blue back and rusty chest and searches for insects in open grassland.

• Beautiful Rosefinch Carpodacus pulcherrimus

  The Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch is a seed-eating bird of Himalayan shrubland. Some populations move seasonally.

• Madagascar Cuckooshrike Coracina cinerea

  An endemic cuckooshrike of Madagascar. It uses dry forest, humid evergreen forest and gallery forest, and may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy.

• Rufous-throated Flycatcher Ficedula rufigula

  This small flycatcher is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It searches the lower forest growth for small invertebrates.

• Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons

  A North American vireo marked by a bright yellow throat and yellow around the eyes.

• White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis

  This migratory sparrow has both white-striped and tan-striped head patterns.

• Andean Swift Aeronautes andecolus

  In Peru, the Andean Swift flies over dry Andean slopes and valleys. It has gray-brown upperparts and white neck and rump bands; underpart coloration differs on the eastern slope.

• Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis

  This slender raptor has a long tail and white spots on its chest and belly. It glides over open woodland and grassland while searching for prey.

• Regent Honeyeater Anthochaera phrygia

  The Regent Honeyeater has a black head and chest set against pale yellow plumage and yellow wing markings. It moves through southeastern Australia in search of flowering eucalypt woodland.

• Celestial Monarch Hypothymis coelestis

  The male's blue plumage and drooping crest stand out on this Philippine monarch flycatcher. BirdLife's 2001 account describes it in forest canopy and midstory, at forest edges, and in second growth.

• South African Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon spilodera

  The South African Cliff Swallow has a glossy blue-black back and a squared tail. The reddish-brown rump and chest vary with plumage condition. It migrates between southern African breeding areas and wintering grounds in the Congo Basin.

• Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina

  The Hooded Warbler is a small bird of low vegetation in eastern North American forests. Breeding males have a black hood.

• Rufous-tailed Xenops Microxenops milleri

  This xenops lives in Amazonian forest canopy. It has buff streaks from the head to the underparts and creeps along trunks and branches while searching for food.

• Great Black-headed Gull Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus

  Great Black-headed Gulls breed from the Black Sea region east to Mongolia and move south for winter. In Hong Kong, they have been recorded on an estuary mudflat during winter and passage periods.

• Rufous-faced Antbird Myrmelastes rufifacies

  The Rufous-faced Antbird occurs in Brazil south of the Amazon. Males and females have different plumage, and the species searches for invertebrates on the ground in moist forest.

• Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus

  A sandpiper with dark upperparts and a white rump, seen mainly on passage and in winter in lowland wetlands in Hong Kong.