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• Red-and-black Thrush Geokichla mendeni

  

  A thrush recorded on islands of eastern Indonesia. A survey on Peleng found birds in hill forest and also documented fledglings.

• Barred Dove Geopelia maugeus

  The Barred Dove is a small dove marked by a yellow bare eye-ring and strong bars from throat to breast. It eats seeds on islands of southeastern Indonesia.

• Malagasy Harrier Circus macrosceles

  This harrier searches for food over wetlands and other open places. Males show more white and grey, while females are browner. It occurs in Madagascar and the Comoros.

• Great Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis lividus

  This large tyrant occurs in dry hills of central Chile. Breeding records describe slopes with thorny shrubs, cacti, and Puya bromeliads.

• Pacific Kingfisher Todiramphus sacer

  This kingfisher ranges across South Pacific islands. Records extend from coastal scrub to inland forest and villages, and its island subspecies differ in plumage.

• Dupont's Lark Chersophilus duponti

  Dupont's Lark has a pale eyebrow and a short, white-edged tail. It feeds on seeds and insects on the ground in dry grassland.

• Sooty Munia Lonchura melaena

  This is a small mannikin described here from its New Britain population. It has a black head and breast and eats grass seeds and sugarcane seed heads.

• Golden Myna Mino anais

  The Golden Myna has a black head and back with a broad orange-yellow collar along the sides of the neck. It forages for fruit in the canopy of New Guinea's lowland forests.

• Moluccan Cuckooshrike Coracina atriceps

  Glossy black head and breast stand out against the grey back and white belly. This cuckooshrike uses the upper forest canopy on the northern Moluccas and Seram.

• Rufous-capped Brush Finch Atlapetes pileatus

  This brushfinch is endemic to Mexico. It lives in the understory of pine-oak forest and searches the ground for insects and seeds.

• Spotted Tanager Ixothraupis punctata

  This tanager is described in a Suriname guide as a bird of the middle forest layers, seen in pairs or small groups. Its green plumage has dark edges.

• Soft-plumaged Petrel Pterodroma mollis

  This ocean-going petrel has dark gray and white plumage and breeds on subantarctic islands. New Zealand's only known breeding population is on the Antipodes Islands.

• Fujian Niltava Niltava davidi

  The Fujian Niltava is a flycatcher that searches for insects in woodland. Males and females have different plumage.

• Dwarf Cuckoo Coccycua pumila

  This small cuckoo has a gray crown, brown back, reddish throat and chest, and cream belly. It feeds mainly on caterpillars.

• Ridgetop Swiftlet Collocalia isonota

  A swiftlet of the Philippine mountains, it has a mostly dark rump and occurs in northern Luzon, Mindanao and other southern islands.

• Malayan Black Magpie Platysmurus leucopterus

  A corvid with an all-black body, a white wing band, and a long broad tail; it forages in the forest canopy and mid-story.

• Whiskered Screech Owl Megascops trichopsis

  The Whiskered Screech-Owl is a small owl of Mexican canyon and foothill woodlands. It has fine gray, black, and white markings and feeds mainly on insects.

• Brown-cheeked Rail Rallus indicus

  The Brown-cheeked Rail has long legs and a slightly curved bill. In Hong Kong it is recorded as a scarce winter visitor.

• Hispaniolan Mango Anthracothorax dominicus

  The Hispaniolan Mango is a large hummingbird found on Hispaniola. Males show an iridescent green throat, while females differ in tail and underpart pattern.

• East Andean Antbird Drymophila caudata

  The East Andean Antbird is a small antbird of Colombia’s eastern Andean slopes. Males are dark, while females are browner or more rufous.

• Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus

  A sandpiper with dark upperparts and a white rump, seen mainly on passage and in winter in lowland wetlands in Hong Kong.

• 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.

• Black-banded Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes picumnus

  A large woodcreeper that climbs tree trunks while foraging. The subspecies casaresi is recorded in forests of northwestern Argentina.

• White-naped Honeyeater Melithreptus lunatus

  A honeyeater of eastern and southeastern Australia. Its olive back, black crown and white nape band are distinctive.