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• Eastern spot-billed duck Anas zonorhyncha

  

  A duck seen on rivers and ponds across Japan. Its black bill has a yellow tip, and males and females have similar body colours.

• Philby's Partridge Alectoris philbyi

  Philby's Partridge has a red bill and legs and black-and-white bars on its flanks.

• Black-winged Cuckooshrike Coracina melaschistos

  In Hong Kong this species is mainly a winter visitor and passage migrant in wooded habitats. Males are slate-grey; females are paler and can show weak barring below.

• Yellow-faced Myna Mino dumontii

  The Yellow-faced Myna is a starling of New Guinea's forest canopy. Its yellow face and white rump are easy to notice.

• Common Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis

  The Common Pauraque hides on the ground in leaf-colored plumage by day and catches flying insects at night.

• Zamboanga Bulbul Hypsipetes rufigularis

  It is recorded on Basilan and the Zamboanga Peninsula in western Mindanao, Philippines.

• Speckle-chested Piculet Picumnus steindachneri

  White spots mark this small woodpecker’s black breast, and black bars cross its white belly. It lives in the mountain forests of northwestern Peru and searches for food among shrubs and vines.

• Adelaide's Warbler Setophaga adelaidae

  This small warbler is endemic to Puerto Rico. A 2016 paper also reports observations on St. Thomas and St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

• Mauritius Olive White-eye Zosterops chloronothos

  A small white-eye found only on Mauritius, where nectar is its main food.

• White-headed Munia Lonchura maja

  The White-headed Munia is a small bird with a white head and pale brown body that gathers seeds from the ground and grass stems.

• Buff-breasted Sandpiper Calidris subruficollis

  The Buff-breasted Sandpiper is a shorebird with buff plumage and a short bill. It walks through dry grass to find insects, and males display with raised wings on the breeding grounds.

• Bare-cheeked Babbler Turdoides gymnogenys

  This babbler lives in dry savanna and woodland in southwestern Angola and north-central Namibia. It is always in a group.

• Red-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus trochilirostris

  The Red-billed Scythebill is a forest bird with a very long, down-curved bill and fine streaks on the face and breast.

• Blue-fronted Robin Cinclidium frontale

  Males are indigo with brighter blue on the forehead and shoulders; females are olive brown. The species inhabits forests from the eastern Himalayas to southwestern China and beyond.

• Malherbe's Parakeet Cyanoramphus malherbi

  This small green parakeet has blue on the wings, a yellow crown, and an orange band above the eyes. Its native range is restricted to beech-forest valleys on New Zealand’s South Island.

• Brown Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus umbrovirens

  The Brown Woodland Warbler has a brown-olive back, pale underside, and searches for insects in trees.

• Sillem's Mountain Finch Leucosticte sillemi

  The pool and the 2014 field paper use Leucosticte sillemi; BirdForum Opus gives Carpodacus sillemi. This entry is limited to records from Yeniugou Valley, Qinghai, in 2012 and 2013, including a brief feeding observation in May 2013.

• Bald Parrot Pyrilia aurantiocephala

  This parrot occurs in Brazil. Its 2002 original description used the genus name Pionopsitta aurantiocephala; the current candidate name in this dataset is Pyrilia aurantiocephala.

• Blue-chinned Sapphire Chlorestes notata

  This hummingbird lives in Colombia’s humid lowlands and river-edge forest. Males show a blue-violet throat against glossy green plumage, and it feeds mainly at flowers.

• Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus

  A bird that runs through dry scrub and uses its long tail to steer while chasing lizards.

• Yellow-throated Honeyeater Nesoptilotis flavicollis

  This honeyeater occurs on Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands. It uses forest, scrub, and towns. In a study of one nest, both adults fed the young.

• Mentawai Scops Owl Otus mentawi

  This island owl lives in lowland forest on the Mentawai Islands. It has reddish-chestnut and dark brown plumage morphs, with pale eyebrows and ear-tufts.

• Black-bellied Tern Sterna acuticauda

  Breeding adults have a black head and belly, an orange bill and a deeply forked tail.

• Green-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga nipalensis

  This sunbird has a long, curved bill and a long tail and lives in montane forest. Its diet is reported to include nectar and small arthropods.