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• Golden pheasant Chrysolophus pictus

  

  A pheasant whose colourful male displays its feathers to court females.

• Hooded Parrot Psephotellus dissimilis

  The Hooded Parrot lives in dry open woodland and grassland in northern Australia. It feeds on seeds on the ground and nests inside termite mounds.

• Black-crested Warbler Myiothlypis nigrocristata

  A warbler of humid montane forest in the northern Andes. It has an olive-yellow back, yellow underparts, and black across the forehead and crown.

• Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis

  The Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush lives among mountain rocks. In breeding plumage, the male stands out in blue and orange.

• American Coot Fulica americana

  A dark waterbird with a white bill. It swims like a duck but has broad lobes on its toes and feeds on aquatic plants.

• Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi

  A small sunbird of the Afrotropical region, found in dense secondary growth, forest clearings, and edges. Skin notes report that the throat and upper breast are often yellowish but can also be olive.

• Broad-billed Prion Pachyptila vittata

  The Broad-billed Prion is a seabird with a broad bill. Comb-like edges in the bill help it filter small organisms from the sea.

• Sharpe's Apalis Apalis sharpii

  This warbler inhabits lowland forest in West Africa. It has slate-colored upperparts and a dark brown-black head and neck, and gleans insects from leaves and branches.

• Tenggara Swiftlet Collocalia sumbawae

  A swiftlet of the western Lesser Sunda Islands. It occurs in forest and dense habitats and feeds on invertebrates.

• Ruff Calidris pugnax

  A shorebird that breeds in wetlands from arctic to temperate regions and also uses mudflats and grasslands during migration and winter. Breeding males display elaborate head and neck feathers.

• White-fronted Honeyeater Purnella albifrons

  This honeyeater lives in arid and semi-arid scrub and woodland. It feeds mainly on nectar, but also takes insects and honeydew.

• Yemen Linnet Linaria yemenensis

  A small finch of the highlands of southwestern Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It may gather in flocks at higher elevations.

• White-winged Magpie Urocissa whiteheadi

  Adult White-winged Magpies have dark head and upperparts, a gray underside, pale wing markings, a long tail, and a heavy red bill.

• Gould's Jewelfront Heliodoxa aurescens

  This 11–12 cm hummingbird lives in lowland forests of western Amazonia. It drinks nectar and catches insects in flight.

• Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera

  The Common Bronzewing is a large pigeon widespread in Australia. It often searches for food on the ground and has bronze-colored iridescence on its wings.

• 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.

• Shear-tailed Grey Tyrant Muscipipra vetula

  This gray tyrant has a long, deeply forked tail and occurs in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern South America.

• Cream-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus pseudosimplex

  A 2019 study treated the cream-eyed population on Borneo as a species distinct from the very similar Cream-vented Bulbul. Their plumage is alike, but the cream-eyed birds were recorded in mature forest interior and edge.

• Yellow-billed Tern Sternula superciliaris

  The Yellow-billed Tern is a small tern with a yellow bill and legs, a black cap, and a white forehead. It breeds on large South American rivers and searches over the water for prey.

• Kilombero Weaver Ploceus burnieri

  The Kilombero Weaver lives in Tanzania's Kilombero River floodplain. Breeding males are bright yellow with a black face pattern, and the birds nest on reeds.

• Long-tailed Finch Poephila acuticauda

  This small finch has a gray head, black throat, and long black tail. Bill color differs by region: red in the Northern Territory and pale yellow in Western Australia. It inhabits grasslands and grassy woodlands of northwestern Australia.

• Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus

  A forest thrush marked by spots on its breast. It breeds in North America and migrates to Central and South America for winter.

• Red-backed Sierra Finch Idiopsar dorsalis

  This finch inhabits high elevations from northern Chile through southwestern Bolivia to northwestern Argentina. It feeds on seeds on the ground in rocky areas and high-Andean grassland.

• Ash-colored Cuckoo Coccycua cinerea

  This cuckoo has a red eye ring and bluish-gray head. It uses the middle levels of trees, and breeding birds studied in native woodland in east-central Argentina nested in trees.