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• Taiga Bean Goose Anser fabalis

  

  This entry covers the Taiga Bean Goose, Anser fabalis, as a species separate from the Tundra Bean Goose, A. serrirostris.

• Budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus

  A small Australian parrot. Wild birds have green bodies, yellow faces and dark markings on the head and wings.

• White-eared Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites meyerii

  The White-eared Bronze Cuckoo lives in mountain forests of New Guinea and searches for insects in the middle levels of trees. White ear patches and green barring help identify it.

• Red-faced Liocichla Liocichla phoenicea

  This babbler was rediscovered in Nepal's Chitwan region. A 2018 report confirmed by photograph a bird with crimson markings on its body; birds moved quickly through dark thickets and the canopy.

• Horus Swift Apus horus

  The Horus Swift has a patchy sub-Saharan African range and catches insects in flight. Its nesting sites include eastern and southern Africa and northern Senegal.

• Egyptian vulture Neophron percnopterus

  A vulture known for a white body, yellow face and occasional use of stones as tools.

• Fawn-breasted Tanager Pipraeidea melanonota

  The Fawn-breasted Tanager has a blue crown and dark facial markings. A São Paulo city account describes males with a blue crown, bluish-black back and wings, and fawn underparts; females and young birds are duller. It eats insects and fruit.

• Streaked shearwater Calonectris leucomelas

  A seabird that flies low over the water and visits Japanese islands to breed.

• Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops

  The Red-faced Cisticola lives by water and in marshes, searching for insects in low vegetation. At the Namibian sites described, it has pale olive-gray upperparts and a white throat.

• Russet-naped Wren Campylorhynchus humilis

  The Russet-naped Wren inhabits dry lowlands on Mexico's Pacific slope. It uses scrub and open woodland, where it feeds on invertebrates near the ground.

• Green-legged Partridge Tropicoperdix chloropus

  The Green-legged Partridge is a forest-dwelling Asian pheasant. A study in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, recorded ground nests with females incubating alone.

• Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla

  A coastal gull whose breeding adults have a black head, red bill, and narrow white eye crescents.

• Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus

  This brownish African bird also visits orchards and gardens. It eats many kinds of fruit, and pairs or small groups call noisily.

• Vulturine Parrot Pyrilia vulturina

  The Vulturine Parrot lives in humid lowland forest in northern Brazil. Adults have a mostly bare head and a yellow collar against a green body.

• Kauai Elepaio Chasiempis sclateri

  The Kauai Elepaio is a small songbird found only on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. In wet forest it searches trunks, branches, leaves, and the ground for small insects and spiders.

• Antillean Piculet Nesoctites micromegas

  This small piculet lives on Hispaniola. Its yellow crown and the streaked pale underside are distinctive.

• Orange-breasted Green Pigeon Treron bicinctus

  The Orange-breasted Green Pigeon ranges across South and Southeast Asian forests. It eats fruit from branches, and males and females differ in breast pattern.

• Palila Loxioides bailleui

  The Palila is closely tied to dry forest with māmane trees on Mauna Kea, Hawaiʻi Island. Immature māmane seeds make up most of its diet.

• Varied Honeyeater Gavicalis versicolor

  The Varied Honeyeater lives in scrub, wetlands, and gardens in New Guinea and northeastern Australia. It eats nectar, insects, and fruit, and has striking black and yellow lines beside the eye.

• Bonin White-eye Apalopteron familiare

  The Bonin White-eye is a small bird endemic to the Ogasawara Islands and now lives on Hahajima and nearby small islands. Historical records also describe a population with yellow, green, and black markings.

• Lesser Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis murinus

  The Lesser Shrike-Tyrant is a tyrant flycatcher that catches insects on the ground. A species page from the National University of the Litoral describes it alone or in pairs, making short runs to catch insects and also perching at the tops of shrubs.

• Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara

  The male is deep red and black, while the female is red and olive brown. It searches for small seeds on the ground and uses savanna, grassland, and cultivated areas.

• Red-flanked bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus

  A bird of shaded forest undergrowth that also visits lowlands in autumn and winter.

• Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus

  The Sacred Kingfisher lives in Australian forests and wooded edges. Many birds that breed in the south move north for winter.