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• Philippine Spine-tailed Swift Mearnsia picina

  

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

• Tropeiro Seedeater Sporophila beltoni

  The adult male is bluish grey with a thick, bright yellow bill. This seedeater breeds in upland grasslands of southern Brazil and moves north to the Cerrado for winter.

• White-browed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca leucophrys

  This chat-tyrant lives in open woodland and scrub in the high Andes. It perches upright and makes short flights to catch arthropods.

• Red-ruffed Fruitcrow Pyroderus scutatus

  This large cotinga inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peruvian account describes it moving alone in the canopy.

• 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.

• Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor

  A slender heron with blue-gray, lavender, and white plumage and a white stripe down the neck. It searches for small fish in coastal wetlands, moving with quick turns.

• Chestnut Thrush Turdus rubrocanus

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

• White-breasted Wood Wren Henicorhina leucosticta

  A small wren that forages in the understory of humid forests.

• Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis

  The Blue-billed Duck is a compact diving duck adapted to life on water. Males stand out with bright blue bills and chestnut plumage.

• Dusky-tailed Antbird Drymophila malura

  This long-tailed antbird is associated with dense understory in humid forest, as well as woodland and forest edges.

• Wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis

  A small plover endemic to New Zealand, with a bill that bends to the right and breeding grounds on South Island braided rivers.

• Maghreb Lark Galerida macrorhyncha

  This lark was treated as a distinct Maghreb form in a field study. Moroccan observations described a larger, longer bill than in Crested Larks and records from breeding sites with less vegetation cover.

• Yellow-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus goiavier

  The Yellow-vented Bulbul has olive-brown upperparts and a yellow vent. In Singapore it occurs from coastal scrub to parks and urban areas.

• Grosbeak Starling Scissirostrum dubium

  This starling is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It lives mostly in tropical lowlands and lightly wooded forest and excavates nest cavities in rotting or dying trunks.

• Pied Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius flaviscapis

  The Pied Shrike-Babbler occurs on Java. Males and females differ in plumage, and the species searches for food in forest foliage.

• Cobalt-winged Parakeet Brotogeris cyanoptera

  This small parakeet has a yellow-green body and blue-violet wings. Outside the breeding season it moves through the canopy in flocks and gathers with other parrots at clay licks.

• White-tailed Sabrewing Campylopterus ensipennis

  This hummingbird occurs on Tobago and nearby areas. Males have a blue throat, while females are grayer, and both have conspicuous long white tail feathers. It hovers at flowers to take nectar and small insects.

• Guadeloupe Woodpecker Melanerpes herminieri

  This woodpecker occurs on Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe. It uses several island habitats, including humid forest, semi-deciduous forest, and mangroves.

• Casqued Cacique Cacicus oseryi

  This cacique uses the canopy of Amazonian forests. Its regional species page describes it as rare to uncommon in várzea and terra firme forest and reports small foraging flocks of the same species.

• Philippine Nightjar Caprimulgus manillensis

  This nocturnal bird occurs in the Philippine Islands except Palawan. It is found in forest and open areas and has finely patterned brown plumage.

• Greater Scythebill Drymotoxeres pucheranii

  An Andean treehunter of humid mountain forest, with a very long downcurved pale bill and a rufous body marked by pale streaks.

• Pale Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne obsoleta

  This small swallow flies near cliffs and gorges, catching insects in the air. It ranges from northern Africa through Arabia to southern Pakistan.

• Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa

  A round bird with a black band around its white throat and dark markings on its flanks. It feeds on seeds and other small foods in farmland and open scrub.

• Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia

  This small North American gull breeds in northern forests in summer and winters farther south along coasts, lakes, and rivers.