**Black-hooded orioles are resident breeders in tropical S Asia from India and Sri Lanka E to Indonesia, preferring open woodland and cultivated lands.
I haven’t seen this one in SL :(**
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**Blue-tailed bee-eaters breed in SE Asia and are strongly migratory with seasonal sightings along much of peninsular India.
Gorgeous…now this one I have seen!**
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Blue-tailed bee-eaters eat flying insects, especially bees, wasps and hornets. Research, however, demonstrates that this species probably takes bees and dragonflies in roughly equal numbers.
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Capercaillies are also known as wood grouse and heather cock. They are the largest member of the grouse family and are found across Europe and Asia. They are renowned for their mating displays. Photographed in Kuusamo (Finland).
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Coppersmith barbets are resident breeders in the Indian Subcontinent and parts of SE Asia. They are primary excavators that chisel out holes in tree trunks to create suitable nest cavities. Photographed in Pune (India).
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Cuban amazons are found in woodlands and dry forests of Cuba, the Bahamas and Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.
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**Dark-eyed juncos are common across much of temperate North America and in summer ranges far into the Arctic. Photographed with nesting material in New York.
awwwwwwwwww…so cute…looks like an old grumpy grandpa 
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**Flamebacks are resident breeders in tropical S Asia. These woodpeckers derive their English names from their golden or crimson backs.
Who remembers woody woodpecker cartoon :D**
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**Green jays are distributed from S Texas south into Mexico and Central America with a break after which the species reappears in the Andean highlands of South America in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
WOW…so pretty!!!**
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**Lesser birds-of-paradise are distributed throughout forests of N New Guinea, and the nearby islands of Misool and Yapen. They are widespread and common throughout its large range, the Lesser Bird-of-paradise is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
WOW again!**
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Little spotted kiwis were released on Kapiti Island and then also moved to Red Mercury Island, Hen Island, Tiritiri Matangi Island, and Long Island in the Queen Charlotte Sound. In 2000, about 20 Little Spotted Kiwis were released in to Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. This was the first time since about 1900 that Little Spotted Kiwis could be found on the mainland of New Zealand.
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**Oriental magpie robins are resident breeders in tropical S Asia from Bangladesh, interior India, Sri Lanka and eastern Pakistan east to Indonesia, Thailand, south China, Malaysia, and Singapore. They have been introduced to Australia.
OMG…yesss…love them..so cute…you see them quite frequently in SL**
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Painted storks are widely distributed over the open plains and waterways of Asia, and are found S of the Himalayan ranges and are restricted to the W by the Indus river system where they are rare and extend only E into SE Asia.
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Red-billed blue magpies ranges from the W Himalayas E to Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, preferring evergreen forest and scrub in predominantly hilly or mountainous country.
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Sharp-tailed grouses were historically in eight Canadian provinces and 21 U.S. states pre-European settlement after which they were extirpated from California, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico. Photographed in Canada Grasslands National Park.
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Southern ground hornbills have a loud, booming voice and large body that have made them into focal points in many traditional African cultures. Historically, there were strong taboos against killing ground hornbills, but these have been weakened with the modernisation of Africa.
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**White-crested helmetshrikes are found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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Wire-crested thorntails are one of the smallest birds on earth with a mature adult weight of around 2.5 g. 
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Wire-tailed manakins are found upriver in the W Amazon Basin and the neighboring countries of N Peru, E Ecuador and Colombia, and S and W portions of Venezuela.
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