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• Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus

  

  A merganser marked by a long crest and scaled flanks. It breeds along mountain rivers and mainly winters on China's large rivers.

• Calayan Rail Aptenorallus calayanensis

  This rail is known only from Calayan Island in the northern Philippines. The 2004 description reported it as common in forest over coralline limestone in the island's north-central area.

• African Green Pigeon Treron calvus

  The African Green Pigeon is a green fruit-eating pigeon that feeds in trees. This entry uses the West African portion of the Oiseaux.net range because that account also discusses the former broad treatment with T. delalandii.

• Sombre Tit Poecile lugubris

  The Sombre Tit is a small bird with a dark brown-black head and white cheeks. It occurs from southeastern Europe into southwestern Asia, including open woodland and orchards.

• Whistling Heron Syrigma sibilatrix

  The Whistling Heron searches for food in open grasslands and shallow water. In Bolivia it is recorded from the lowlands to the southern Andean foothills.

• East Brazilian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium minutissimum

  This small owl has a rounded head without ear tufts, brown plumage, and yellow eyes. It lives in forests in eastern Brazil.

• House Crow Corvus splendens

  A crow of South Asian settlements and farmland that feeds on a wide range of animal and plant foods, including human food scraps.

• Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater

  The Brown-headed Cowbird feeds on the ground in open habitats. Females do not build their own nests; they lay eggs in the nests of other birds.

• Purple-rumped Sunbird Leptocoma zeylonica

  This sunbird has different plumage in males and females. It visits flowers for nectar and also occurs in well-wooded gardens and open forest in Sri Lanka.

• Sunda Warbler Seicercus grammiceps

  This leaf-warbler lives in montane forest on Java and Sumatra. It has a reddish-brown head and a pale eye-ring.

• Seychelles White-eye Zosterops modestus

  The Seychelles White-eye is a small bird on Mahé. A survey report covering November 2022 to February 2023 describes a dull olive-brown body with a white eye-ring.

• Magellanic Woodpecker Campephilus magellanicus

  The Magellanic Woodpecker searches for food on tree trunks in Patagonian forests. The male gives resonant blows on hollow trunks.

• Plain Prinia Prinia inornata

  This small prinia has a long tail and hides among grass and scrub. In Hong Kong, it nests on reed stems in spring.

• Naumann's Thrush Turdus naumanni

  Naumann's Thrush is seen from autumn to spring in Koshimizu, eastern Hokkaido. It forms flocks in woodland and open areas, feeding on insects, earthworms, and rowan berries on the ground.

• Akohekohe Palmeria dolei

  The Akohekohe is a forest bird now found on Maui in Hawaii. It has a white crest that curls forward over the bill and feeds on nectar and small arthropods.

• Yap Cicadabird Coracina nesiotis

  The Yap Cicadabird is recorded from Yap in Micronesia. A short 1976 survey saw a few birds in a forested valley and at a forest edge.

• Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus

  A small bird with a red tail. Redstarts breed in Britain in spring and summer; British-breeding birds migrate south of the Sahara for winter.

• Green Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius pulchellus

  The Green Shrike-Vireo ranges from southeastern Mexico to eastern Panama. It occurs in humid forest canopies and second-growth woodland in lowlands and foothills.

• White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys

  The White-crowned Sparrow is a North American sparrow recognized by the adult's black-and-white head. It occurs across much of the United States in winter.

• Tenggara Swiftlet Collocalia sumbawae

  A swiftlet of the western Lesser Sunda Islands. It occurs in forest and dense habitats and feeds on invertebrates.

• Brown Goshawk Tachyspiza fasciata

  A hawk that hunts in forests and woodlands, mainly in Australia. It uses its long tail and broad wings as it pursues birds and small animals.

• New Caledonian Friarbird Philemon diemenensis

  This large honeyeater is found only in New Caledonia. It eats flower nectar, fruit, and insects, and also uses open places where flowers grow.

• Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta

  The Restless Flycatcher catches insects over open woodland and farmland. When hawking prey, it can appear to hover with its head pointing down.

• Dusky Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne concolor

  The Dusky Crag Martin is a small swallow with a dark brown back and paler underside. It catches insects in flight around cliffs and buildings.