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• Blue-and-white Kingfisher Todiramphus diops

  

  The Blue-and-white Kingfisher occurs in the northern Moluccas. Males have blue wings and back with a white head and underparts; the account lists habitats from forests and streams to farmland and coasts.

• White-necked Myna Streptocitta albicollis

  The White-necked Myna is a Sulawesi forest starling marked by a white collar and a long tail.

• Kidepo Lark Corypha kidepoensis

  The Kidepo Lark lives in dry grassland around north-eastern Uganda. It searches for insects on the ground, and a rufous panel shows on the wing in flight.

• Lesser Prairie Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

  This ground-dwelling bird has barred brown-and-white plumage and lives in grasslands of the southern United States. In spring, males gather at display grounds to court females.

• Zimmer's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus minimus

  Zimmer's Tody-Tyrant is recorded in lowland forest of northeastern Peru and adjacent Amazonian areas. Its yellow-olive plumage and yellow-edged wing feathers are useful field marks.

• Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata

  The Surf Scoter is a sea duck that nests in northern North America and spends the rest of its annual cycle mostly near ocean coasts.

• Buff-banded Rail Hypotaenidia philippensis

  The Buff-banded Rail is marked by a chestnut-buff breast band and black-and-white barring. In Australia it keeps to cover around wetlands and crops while probing for food in mud.

• Sula Fruit Dove Ptilinopus mangoliensis

  This pigeon occurs on Indonesia’s Sula Islands. Its 1898 description records grey underpart feathers edged broadly in greenish yellow and narrow yellow lines on the crown feathers.

• Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl Ketupa nipalensis

  This large eagle-owl has a spotted belly. It is nocturnal and hunts in humid riverside and mountain forests.

• Banggai Crow Corvus unicolor

  This black crow stands out for its pale eye and short tail. It lives in groups in the canopy of montane forest on Peleng Island, Indonesia.

• Scott's Oriole Icterus parisorum

  Scott's Oriole lives in arid areas of the southwestern United States and eats insects, nectar, and fruit. The male is bright yellow and black.

• 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.

• Stripe-throated Yuhina Yuhina gularis

  The historical account places the nominate subspecies Y. gularis gularis from Nepal to eastern Assam. It describes a brown crest and a throat marked with black streaks.

• Little Green Woodpecker Campethera maculosa

  The pool's Little Green Woodpecker is treated in current eBird taxonomy as the Little Green group within Green-backed Woodpecker. Western birds have green backs, red on the head, and barred underparts.

• Stripe-throated Jery Neomixis striatigula

  The Stripe-throated Jery is endemic to Madagascar, from eastern forest to dry southwestern scrub. It gleans insects from vegetation and is often seen singing from a high perch.

• Sumatran Cochoa Cochoa beccarii

  The Sumatran Cochoa is a difficult-to-see bird of the mountain forests of Sumatra.

• Pale Rosefinch Carpodacus stoliczkae

  The Pale Rosefinch ranges from northern and central Afghanistan into western and central China. A report also documents a bird at Turtuk, India, but its subspecies was not determined.

• White-starred Robin Pogonocichla stellata

  The White-starred Robin lives in the lower growth of evergreen forests in southern Africa. White star markings on its head show when it is alarmed or excited.

• Black-spectacled Brush Finch Atlapetes melanopsis

  This brush-finch inhabits montane scrub and forest edges around Peru's upper Mantaro Valley. Adults have gray bodies, a rufous head, and black markings around the eyes.

• Mariana Swiftlet Aerodramus bartschi

  The head and upperparts are dark gray-brown, the throat and upper breast are gray-white, and the lower parts are darker. It nests in caves on its native islands.

• Cuban Black Hawk Buteogallus gundlachii

  This hawk lives near the coasts of Cuba. It often eats crabs and may scavenge dead fish. An older study used a subspecies combination; this entry follows the current species name.

• White-streaked Honeyeater Trichodere cockerelli

  This honeyeater lives in northeastern Australia. Field reports describe feeding at flowering eucalyptus and banksia in two Queensland locations.

• Yungas Warbler Basileuterus punctipectus

  A warbler of humid Andean forests, ranging from southeastern Peru to central Bolivia.

• Inambari Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes fatimalimae

  The Inambari Woodcreeper occurs in western Amazonia south of the Amazon River. Long pale streaks run from its throat to its vent, while the upperparts are nearly unmarked. It uses lowland and foothill forest, often high in the trees with mixed flocks.