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• Sargasso Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri

  

  At about 28–30 cm, this is a small shearwater with dusky brown upperparts, a white belly, and a longer tail than a similar shearwater. It searches warm seas for fish and squid and nests on islands.

• Striped Laughingthrush Trochalopteron virgatum

  This slim laughingthrush occurs in northeastern India and adjacent western Myanmar. It also uses scrub and grass patches near broadleaf forest.

• Melanesian Flycatcher Myiagra caledonica

  This flycatcher occurs in New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. Adult males are glossy black; females combine grey and rufous-orange plumage.

• Uganda Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus budongoensis

  The Uganda Woodland Warbler is recorded in Uganda's Budongo Forest and Kenya's Kakamega Forest. It is olive green above and pale below and searches dense undergrowth for invertebrates.

• Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo Carpococcyx renauldi

  A ground-dwelling cuckoo with a red bill and long tail, living in the forest undergrowth of Southeast Asia.

• Donaldson-Smith's Nightjar Caprimulgus donaldsoni

  Chestnut tones on the sides of its head and wings, plus a pale shoulder bar, identify this nocturnal nightjar.

• Black-capped Swallow Atticora pileata

  This small swallow is mostly dark, with a large white belly patch. The cap is only slightly darker than the rest of the head. It occurs in the mountains of Central America.

• Varied Thrush Ixoreus naevius

  Male Varied Thrushes have striking blue-gray and orange markings, while females and young birds are browner. The species breeds in Pacific Coast forests and changes its diet with the seasons.

• Banded Prinia Prinia bairdii

  The Banded Prinia skulks in undergrowth at forest edges and clearings, usually in pairs. It has barred underparts; eastern mountain birds may have a dark throat while other birds have a barred throat.

• Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla

  A gull that searches for fish at sea and gathers to breed on UK cliffs in spring and summer.

• Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator

  A diving duck with a long, thin bill and shaggy crest. It catches and eats fish.

• Gray-cheeked Parakeet Brotogeris pyrrhoptera

  This small parakeet occurs in southeastern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It uses dry woodland and is also recorded on farmland where large trees remain.

• Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni

  This seed-eating bird lives in montane forests, including parts of East Africa. It has a conspicuously heavy bill and pale wingbars. The guide notes geographic variation in the pale forehead area and streaking.

• Belding's Yellowthroat Geothlypis beldingi

  This warbler has a fragmented range on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. BirdLife describes freshwater marshes with reeds and cattails as its main habitat.

• Meves's Starling Lamprotornis mevesii

  With blue-green and purple gloss and a long tail, this starling uses open places with trees, often in groups, and also feeds on the ground.

• Yellow-winged Pytilia Pytilia hypogrammica

  The Yellow-winged Pytilia is a small bird whose male has a red face and throat with a grey crown and back. It mainly eats grass seeds and also takes insects.

• Black Sunbird Leptocoma sericea

  This small sunbird ranges from Indonesian islands through New Guinea. It uses forest edges and mangroves, feeding on nectar, fruit and small arthropods.

• Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus

  A large pigeon with a gray body and conspicuous white patches on its neck and wings.

• Sedge Wren Cistothorus platensis

  The Sedge Wren is a small bird of wetlands with dense grasses and sedges. The North American breeding population moves south for winter, while the taxonomic account also notes that South American populations may warrant separate treatment.

• Streak-capped Antwren Terenura maculata

  A small antbird of the Atlantic Forest. It searches leafy middle and upper forest layers in pairs or family groups.

• Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza

  This honeycreeper ranges from southern Mexico to Brazil and Trinidad. It takes nectar and fruit and forages in forest canopies and edges.

• Tawny-breasted Honeyeater Xanthotis flaviventer

  The Tawny-breasted Honeyeater occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands and in northeastern Australia. It uses forest, mangroves and edges, locally to about 1,500 m.

• 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.

• Flame-throated Bulbul Rubigula gularis

  This bulbul is endemic to the foothills of India’s Western Ghats. Its account favors semi-evergreen and moist deciduous woodland, with use of secondary growth and sacred groves.