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• Hodgson's Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni

  

  Hodgson's Redstart moves between breeding and wintering areas. It uses high-elevation scrub and forest edges, and searches for food in the upper parts of trees.

• Woodhouse's Scrub Jay Aphelocoma woodhouseii

  This jay occurs from Nevada south into Mexico in dry shrublands and pinyon-juniper woodland. Its muted blue plumage is set off by gray-brown and white.

• Southern Citril Crithagra hyposticta

  The Southern Citril is recorded in Tanzania, Malawi and north-western Mozambique. A survey in Niassa found small groups in mountain habitats, including one larger evening gathering.

• Chapin's Apalis Apalis chapini

  This apalis was surveyed in Mdando Forest in Tanzania's Southern Highlands. A recent field survey recorded birds moving through the canopy in pairs or small parties.

• 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.

• Long-billed Cuckoo Chalcites megarhynchus

  The Long-billed Cuckoo lives in lowland forest and has a long bill with a drooping tip. Adult males have a black head, while females show fine reddish-brown barring.

• Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus

  A large shorebird of North American grasslands, the Long-billed Curlew is notable for its very long, strongly down-curved bill.

• Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild

  A small African finch with a red bill and red around the eyes. It also occurs in grassy places near people.

• Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot Loriculus galgulus

  The Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot is a small parrot of Southeast Asian forests. The sexes differ in their blue and red head markings, and the bird may rest hanging upside down from a branch.

• Inca Dove Columbina inca

  The Inca Dove is a small dove that walks on the ground to find seeds in dry, open places. Its feathers have a scaly-looking pattern.

• Shikra Tachyspiza badia

  A small, long-tailed hawk whose adult males and females differ in eye and upperpart color.

• Wangi-wangi White-eye Zosterops paruhbesar

  This white-eye was described from Wangi-Wangi Island. A later field survey also recorded it on Simpora, about 450 m to the south.

• Maroon-bellied Sunbird Leptocoma brasiliana

  The Maroon-bellied Sunbird is a small flower-visiting bird found from South Asia through Southeast Asia. Males and females have markedly different colors.

• Shining Flycatcher Myiagra alecto

  This monarch flycatcher ranges from the Moluccas through New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago to northern and eastern Australia. Males are glossy blue-black; females have chestnut upperparts and white underparts.

• Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis

  The Arctic Warbler is a small bird with a pale eyebrow. It searches among leaves for insects, and the population breeding in Alaska migrates to Southeast Asia in autumn.

• Plume-toed Swiftlet Collocalia affinis

  A small swiftlet of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Thai–Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sundas, it flies over forests and nearby wooded areas in Singapore.

• Yellow-bellied Seedeater Sporophila nigricollis

  The Yellow-bellied Seedeater is a small bird identified by the male's pale yellow belly and black head. It feeds on grass seeds in grassy and agricultural areas.

• Black-capped Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis atricapillus

  The adult male Black-capped Pygmy Tyrant has a black crown and white spectacles. The species uses humid lowland forest canopy, edges, clearings, and some second growth.

• Black-bibbed Cicadabird Coracina mindanensis

  The Black-bibbed Cicadabird occurs in the Philippines and uses the canopy and middle storey of moist lowland secondary forest and montane forest. The male plumage description here is limited to the Mindanao subspecies mindanense.

• Tickell's Thrush Turdus unicolor

  Tickell’s Thrush searches forest floors for food and makes partial seasonal movements in elevation and range.

• Whiskered Wren Pheugopedius mystacalis

  The Whiskered Wren is recorded in foothills and subtropical areas from Venezuela to western Ecuador. It has rufous upperparts, a striped black-and-white face, and pale gray underparts, and it keeps to thickets at forest edges.

• Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus

  This entry focuses on the Eurasian Bewick’s Swan, the form that migrates to Japan. It is white, with a prominent yellow patch at the base of the bill.

• Grey Antwren Myrmotherula menetriesii

  A small bird that forages in the mid-story of Amazonian forest, it has different male and female plumages. Both sexes wag the tail from side to side. The species is recorded up to 1,100 m on the eastern Andean slope.

• Snowy Plover Charadrius nivosus

  The Snowy Plover is a pale, sand-colored shorebird that blends into beaches and salt flats. It searches for small invertebrates as it moves across the shore.