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• Green-billed Coucal Centropus chlororhynchos

  

  This coucal lives in lowland wet forest in southwestern Sri Lanka. Its black plumage has a blue-purple sheen, and its wings are chestnut.

• Spectacled Barwing Actinodura ramsayi

  This barwing lives in mountain regions from Southeast Asia to southern China. It has a bold white eye-ring and barred wings and tail; the crown and mantle colors differ among described subspecies.

• Mediterranean Gull Ichthyaetus melanocephalus

  The Mediterranean Gull is also recorded around the UK’s coasts and waters. Adults in breeding plumage stand out by their black heads and red bills.

• Black-capped Screech Owl Megascops atricapilla

  A screech-owl with dark, grey, and rufous colour morphs; every morph has a dark crown. It inhabits forests in south-eastern Brazil and nearby regions.

• Black-chinned Yuhina Yuhina nigrimenta

  A small bird of forests from the Himalayas into mainland Southeast Asia. Its black crest and red bill base are distinctive.

• Stark's Lark Spizocorys starki

  This small lark inhabits dry country and is nomadic, moving after rain. Outside the breeding season it may gather in large flocks.

• Maroon-bellied Sunbird Leptocoma brasiliana

  The Maroon-bellied Sunbird is a small flower-visiting bird found from South Asia through Southeast Asia. Males and females have markedly different colors.

• Henderson Crake Zapornia atra

  The Henderson Crake is a small rail of Henderson Island's forest floor. A 1992 study recorded it searching for small land animals by moving leaf litter.

• Masatierra Petrel Pterodroma defilippiana

  The Masatierra Petrel is a seabird of the open Pacific off South America. It has a grey crown and back, a black eye patch, and a thick bill.

• Atlantic Canary Serinus canaria

  This is the wild canary of the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands. The profile covers the island species, not domestic canary breeds.

• Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea

  The Wattled Starling lives in dry grasslands and other open habitats in Africa and may move in flocks to find food. Breeding males have black wattles on the head.

• Black-cheeked Warbler Basileuterus melanogenys

  A small greyish warbler with a black face, bold white eyebrow, and rufous crown.

• 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.

• Whistling Fruit Dove Ptilinopus layardi

  The Whistling Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon found on Kadavu and nearby Ono Island in southern Fiji. Few breeding records have been published.

• Lavender Waxbill Estrilda caerulescens

  The Lavender Waxbill is a small finch native to West Africa. It has also been introduced to the Hawaiian Islands. Cornell's current page uses the genus Glaucestrilda; this entry retains the pool's name.

• Hartlaub's Duck Pteronetta hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Duck has a cinnamon-red body with pale blue on the wings. The male has a white spot at the tip of the bill, and the species uses rivers, lakes, and streams in western and central equatorial Africa.

• Casqued Cacique Cacicus oseryi

  This cacique uses the canopy of Amazonian forests. Its regional species page describes it as rare to uncommon in várzea and terra firme forest and reports small foraging flocks of the same species.

• Tibetan Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon harmani

  A pheasant found in southeastern Tibet and one locality in northeastern India. Its blue-gray plumage, white throat band and long, drooping tail are distinctive.

• Little Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos elachus

  This small Sahelian woodpecker lives in dry, sparsely wooded country and searches trees for insect larvae.

• Crimson Shining Parrot Prosopeia splendens

  The Crimson Shining Parrot lives in forests and farmland on Fiji's islands. It has a red head and belly, with a broad blue band around the neck.

• Rusty-margined Flycatcher Myiozetetes cayanensis

  This flycatcher ranges through Central and South America. It often uses moist lowland forest and catches insects by darting from a perch.

• Paradise Tanager Tangara chilensis

  The Paradise Tanager forages in the upper canopy of Amazonian forest in pairs or family groups, often joining mixed-species flocks. Its plumage combines green, black, blue, and a red or yellow-red rump.

• Falkenstein's Greenbul Chlorocichla falkensteini

  Falkenstein's Greenbul is a bulbul ranging from southern Cameroon to western Angola. In Angola, the cited guide reports it along northern and central escarpments. That guide uses the English name Yellow-necked Greenbul.

• Brown Jay Cyanocorax morio

  A large, long-tailed jay with dark brown plumage and a pale belly. It often forages in groups; cooperative breeding is reported in Texas.