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• 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.

• St. Lucia Warbler Setophaga delicata

  The St. Lucia Warbler has a yellow face and underparts, blue-gray upperparts, and white wing bars. It searches leaves and branches for insects on Saint Lucia.

• Elegant Sunbird Aethopyga duyvenbodei

  The male has maroon and iridescent blue-green plumage, while the female is olive above. The species lives on Sangihe Island.

• Neddicky Cisticola fulvicapilla

  The Neddicky is a small bird about 11 cm long. By day it uses light woodland, savanna, and grassland, searching the ground for invertebrates.

• Atiu Swiftlet Aerodramus sawtelli

  The Atiu Swiftlet is a small swiftlet endemic to Atiu. It flies over forest, agricultural land and village gardens on the island.

• Stripe-headed Rhabdornis Rhabdornis mystacalis

  This bird lives in Philippine forest and woodland. The male has white streaks on the head and back, a white throat and central underparts, and black-striped flanks.

• White-breasted Hawk Accipiter chionogaster

  The White-breasted Hawk occurs in forests from southern Mexico into northern Central America. This entry follows sources that treat A. chionogaster as a species, while the 2010 life-history paper says its taxonomic status was unresolved.

• Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush Ianthocincla konkakinhensis

  Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush is a laughingthrush recorded in montane forest in central Vietnam. Reports from Laos remain uncertain.

• Puna Teal Spatula puna

  This small duck has a black cap extending below the eyes and a pale blue bill. It eats aquatic plant seeds and insects in high-Andean lakes and wetlands.

• Green-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia viridigaster

  This hummingbird occurs in the mountains of Colombia and Venezuela. A 2000 study documents geographic variation in Andean tail color and discusses separating the related S. cupreicauda.

• Fawn-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus cervinigularis

  It occurs along the Caribbean slope from southern Mexico to north-western Panama. A study in Costa Rica found six nests in earth banks beside forest trails; each nest was at the end of a tunnel with a stick platform inside.

• Moorland Francolin Scleroptila psilolaema

  This francolin occurs on mountaintops in the Ethiopian highlands, in Afroalpine and sub-Afroalpine environments.

• 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.

• Gray-browed Brushfinch Arremon assimilis

  This roughly 20 cm bird lives in humid Andean montane forest. Yellow-olive upperparts, a striped gray-and-black head, and a white throat are distinctive.

• Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus

  The Tropical Kingbird has a long, forked tail. It perches in open woodland or near water and catches insects.

• Greater Vasa Parrot Coracopsis vasa

  This parrot feeds on fruit and seeds in Madagascar and the Comoros. Males of the nominate subspecies are grey to blackish; breeding females may lose head feathers.

• Torresian Imperial Pigeon Ducula spilorrhoa

  A large pigeon with a white body and black wing tips. It feeds on fruit while moving among islands and coastal forests.

• Rote Myzomela Myzomela irianawidodoae

  The Rote Myzomela was described in 2017 from Rote Island, Indonesia. Plumage and vocal differences distinguish it from its close relative on Sumba, and records come from several parts of Rote.

• Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius

  The Orchard Oriole is black and russet in the adult male, while the female is yellow-green. It searches foliage for insects, eats fruit, and migrates seasonally.

• Mountain Blackeye Chlorocharis emiliae

  This white-eye lives in scattered mountain populations on Borneo. Its black eye-ring distinguishes it from other white-eyes.

• Siberian blue robin Luscinia cyane

  A bird of shaded forest undergrowth whose male has a blue back.

• Forest Kingfisher Todiramphus macleayii

  The Forest Kingfisher is an Australian kingfisher with a blue back and white underside. Males have a white collar, and both sexes hunt from perches.

• Turquoise Tanager Tangara mexicana

  This small bird lives in humid tropical forest in northeastern South America and Trinidad. It moves in small flocks in the canopy and eats fruit and insects.

• South American Tern Sterna hirundinacea

  This tern lives along the coasts of South America. Adults have pale gray bodies, a black cap, and red bills and legs.