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• Mexican Violetear Colibri thalassinus

  

  A green hummingbird with shining violet-blue markings, it visits flowers along highland forest edges and clearings.

• Greater Black Coucal Centropus menbeki

  The Greater Black Coucal is recorded from forest, scrub, and freshwater swamps on New Guinea. Adults have glossy blue-green black plumage, while juveniles look different.

• White-eared Honeyeater Nesoptilotis leucotis

  This honeyeater occurs in eastern and southern mainland Australia. It is common in dry eucalypt forest and woodland, where it searches mainly for insects beneath bark and in crevices.

• White-throated Screech Owl Megascops albogularis

  This nocturnal owl is marked by a white throat and a streaked belly. It lives in high-elevation temperate forest and pairs may duet.

• Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea

  A gull closely tied to Arctic sea ice. Adults are white, while young birds keep dark mottling.

• Magnificent Sunbird Aethopyga magnifica

  This sunbird is restricted to the Philippine Visayas, with records from Cebu, Negros, Panay, Sibuyan and Tablas. It uses forest and semi-open habitats and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Altamira Oriole Icterus gularis

  The Altamira Oriole has a bright orange body and a contrasting black face. It weaves a long, hanging bag-shaped nest from a tree branch.

• Olive Finch Arremon castaneiceps

  This finch forages in the understory of humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. Its olive-green body and rufous crown stand out, while the sides of the head, throat, and breast are gray.

• New Guinea Flightless Rail Megacrex inepta

  The New Guinea Flightless Rail lives in wetlands and thickets on New Guinea. It has a gray forehead, a rusty-brown crown and nape, and a green bill.

• Scopoli's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea

  A seabird that glides low over the sea on long wings. It breeds on Mediterranean islands; around Malta, birds gather offshore in the evening during the breeding season and return to their colony after dark.

• Brown-headed Crow Corvus fuscicapillus

  The Brown-headed Crow has glossy black plumage, except for its dark-brown head and neck. It lives in moist forests and mangroves around northwestern New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Hook-billed Kingfisher Melidora macrorrhina

  A large kingfisher of New Guinea and nearby islands, it searches the forest floor for prey at night or around dusk and dawn.

• Mongolian Short-toed Lark Calandrella dukhunensis

  The Mongolian Short-toed Lark is a small lark that breeds in dry sandy steppe in eastern Mongolia. It has brown upperparts and warm rufous-buff on the sides of the breast.

• Barred Hawk Morphnarchus princeps

  This large hawk has a blackish-gray throat and chest, with fine black bars across its white belly. It is diurnal and lives in humid foothill and montane forest.

• Ethiopian Thrush Turdus simensis

  This thrush occurs on the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands. Adults have gray-brown upperparts and a short tail, and forage on the ground for insects and worms. It uses open or scrubby habitats rather than dense forest.

• Chestnut-bellied Seed Finch Sporophila angolensis

  This seed finch is recorded in Amazonia, including Bolivia. It forages in tall grass by rivers, overgrown fallow fields, and scrub, and males and females look quite different.

• Bannerman's Weaver Ploceus bannermani

  Bannerman's Weaver lives in mountains of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon, using forest edges and shrubby openings.

• Uniform Antshrike Thamnophilus unicolor

  This antshrike lives in the understory of humid montane forest along the eastern Andes from Colombia to Peru. It is recorded infrequently.

• Bar-winged Prinia Prinia familiaris

  The Bar-winged Prinia has an olive back marked by white wing bars. It searches for insects in gardens, parks, and secondary growth on Sumatra, Java, and Bali.

• Black-throated Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus granadensis

  This small bird lives in humid Andean forests and has a black throat patch. Peru Aves records it on the eastern Andean slope, including Peru.

• Sclater's Crowned Pigeon Goura sclaterii

  A large crowned-pigeon of southern New Guinea's lowland rainforests, with a crest that extends far back and a blue-gray body.

• Mountain Swiftlet Aerodramus hirundinaceus

  The Mountain Swiftlet occurs on New Guinea. It flies in flocks over highland forests, catches insects in the air and breeds colonially in caves.

• Radjah Shelduck Radjah radjah

  The Radjah Shelduck stands out for its white head and breast and chestnut breast band. It feeds in shallow wetlands, mainly at night.

• Cape Francolin Pternistis capensis

  This southern African spurfowl has pale cheeks and a dark cap, and searches for food on the ground.