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• Black-hooded Laughingthrush Garrulax milleti

  

  The Black-hooded Laughingthrush is a large laughingthrush of the Vietnamese and Lao highlands. Dark plumage extends from the head to the breast.

• Velvet Scoter Melanitta fusca

  The male is black with a white marking, while the female has pale patches on the head. It breeds in northern Europe and uses coastal waters in winter.

• Fairy Martin Petrochelidon ariel

  This swallow occurs across Australia, often in open country near water. It catches insects in flight and breeds in colonies of bottle-shaped mud nests.

• Yellow-rumped Marshbird Pseudoleistes guirahuro

  The Yellow-rumped Marshbird is an icterid of open grassland and wet habitats in southeastern South America. A nest study in northeastern Argentina and Paraguay recorded birds other than the parents helping raise chicks.

• Karoo Prinia Prinia maculosa

  The Karoo Prinia is a small bird of scrub and tall dense growth in southern Africa. The atlas associates it with Karoo and fynbos scrub in the west and with grassland mixed with scrub in the Lesotho highlands.

• Maranon Thrush Turdus maranonicus

  The Maranon Thrush has brown, scale-like markings on its pale belly. It walks on the ground to forage in semi-open places and at forest edges in the Maranon drainage.

• Pink-footed Shearwater Ardenna creatopus

  The Pink-footed Shearwater breeds on islands off central Chile and moves from waters off Peru toward the west coast of North America outside the breeding period. It catches fish and squid at the surface or in shallow dives.

• Pearl-bellied White-eye Zosterops grayi

  This small bird has yellowish plumage, a white belly, and a broad white eye-ring. It is found only on Kai Besar Island in Indonesia.

• Tibetan Rosefinch Carpodacus roborowskii

  A rosefinch of high elevations on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and nearby regions. It searches for food on the ground in rocky steppe and alpine meadows.

• Brown-chested Lapwing Vanellus superciliosus

  This large, long-legged upland shorebird occurs in open places such as short grassland, burned areas, and lakeshores. It can be nomadic or migratory and is often seen in small flocks.

• Green-headed Tanager Tangara seledon

  This tanager is restricted to the Atlantic Forest. It uses forest and regrowth, as well as farms with scattered trees and gardens, and feeds on wild or cultivated fruit and insects.

• Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis

  This nightjar is marked by a reddish collar and a whistled call at night. It ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa and catches insects from dusk into the night.

• Brown-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus brevirostris

  This small honeyeater lives in open eucalypt forest and woodland in Australia. Small flocks glean mainly insects from bark, branches, leaves, and flowers, and also take nectar.

• White-rimmed Warbler Myiothlypis leucoblephara

  This warbler has a white eyebrow and white markings around the eye. In a diet study in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, ants and beetles made up more than 70% of the recorded food items.

• Varied Triller Lalage leucomela

  It occurs in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago. It feeds on insects and fruit along edges between open and closed forest and in riparian woodland.

• Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor

  A starling native to the Iberian Peninsula and western Mediterranean. Adults have glossy dark plumage, and bill color and pale feather tips change with season.

• White-crowned Parrot Pionus senilis

  The White-crowned Parrot is a Central American parrot with a white head and blue-green cheeks. It flies in pairs or small flocks and eats fruits and seeds.

• Rarotonga Monarch Pomarea dimidiata

  The Rarotonga Monarch’s native range is Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. Its plumage changes with age; it uses wet forested valleys near stream headwaters and feeds on small insects.

• Bar-shouldered Dove Geopelia humeralis

  The Bar-shouldered Dove ranges across northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It searches for seeds in short grass and is marked by a bronze patch on the hindneck.

• Guam Kingfisher Todiramphus cinnamominus

  The Guam Kingfisher formerly lived on Guam. It has not lived in the wild since 1986; males have cinnamon head and underparts, while those of females are paler or white.

• Hook-billed Bulbul Setornis criniger

  This bulbul is active by day in humid lowland forest and swamp forest, and is notable for its hooked bill.

• Spot-breasted Wren Pheugopedius maculipectus

  This wren is recorded in the northern lowlands of Costa Rica south of Lake Nicaragua. Adults have many black spots on the breast and belly.

• Jamaican Lizard Cuckoo Coccyzus vetula

  A forest cuckoo found only in Jamaica. Red bare skin around the eye and a long tail with white spots are distinctive. It walks along branches while searching for lizards and insects.

• Relict Gull Ichthyaetus relictus

  The Relict Gull breeds in Central and East Asia and moves to the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea region for winter. Wintering first-year birds have been recorded on the mudflats of Deep Bay, Hong Kong.