“Flying tassles” Asian paradise flycatchers are resident breeders in the thick forests and well-wooded habitats of Turkestan to Manchuria, all over the Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka, as well as the Malay Archipelago on the islands of Sumba and Alor. (Vishwas C GM)

 

“Little master” Black jacobins are common residents in or near the Atlantic Forests of E Brazil, Uruguay, E Paraguay, and the far NE of Argentina. (Trevor Kleyn)

 

“Dreamscape” Greater flamingoes have a wide global distribution and are photographed here on Lake Uchali in Pakistan. (Tahir’s Photography)

 

“Forest punked” Himalayan black-lored tits are active insectivores and cavity-nesters that are resident breeder in the Himalayas. (Swethadri Doraiswamy)

 

“Lone stalker” Ruddy-breasted crakes are a little-known wetland bird that frequents swamps and wetlands across S Asia from the Indian Subcontinent E all the way to S China, Japan and Indonesia. (Prashant Srivastava)

 

“Sign of disturbance” Black kites are widely distributed through the temperate and tropical parts of Eurasia and parts of Australasia and Oceania, dominating disturbed habitat where birdlife has been depleted by human impacts. (Sree Vardhan)

 

“Can i have my bill?” Stork-billed kingfishers are widely distributed across the tropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and SE Asia from India and Sri Lanka to Indonesia. They are not a common sighting and often require specialist assistance. (Abu Bakar)

 

“heli-king-fisher” Pied kingfishers have the unique ability to hover over feeding sites before plunging into the water to catch fish, tadpoles and insects, and have spread across Africa and Asia with this advantageous ability. (Stephen Mostert)

“Snow ghost” Snowy owls are the official bird of Quebec (Canada), breeding in the Arctic tundra of N Alaska, Canada and Eurasia. (Peter Chromik)

 

“Global citizen” Grey herons have one of the widest distributions of any wading bird and can be found throughout temperate Europe and Asia, as well as large parts of Africa. (Sreeji Nair)

 

“Abundance of life” Snow geese or “blue geese” breed N of the “timberline” in Greenland, Canada, Alaska and the NE tip of Siberia, wintering in the warmer parts of North America from SW British Columbia through parts of the United States to Mexico. Photographed here after arriving in Victoriaville, Quebec (Canada). (Simon Bolyn)

 

“Elegance” Eastern pale or Somali chanting goshawks are found in semi-desert, dry woodlands and savana grasslands in S Ethiopia, Djibouti, W Somalia, E Kenya, NE Tanzania and adjacent Uganda. (Nina Stavlund)

 

“Sun god” White-throated kingfishers feed predominantly in trees and have a wide distributed across Eurasia from Bulgaria, Turkey, W Asia all the way E through the Indian Subcontinent to the Philippines. (Nikunj patel)

 

“Intercontinental flight” Steppe eagles breed from Romania E through S Russia and the central Asian steppes to Mongolia, wintering in Africa and India. (Ritesh Nagare)

 

“Two is company, three is a crowd” Lesser flamingos are the smallest species of flamingo and occur in sub-Saharan Africa and India. (Raj Dhage Wai)

 

“Lake specialist” Spot-billed pelicans are “Near-Threatened” and breed in S Asia from S Pakistan across India E to Indonesia, preferring large inland and coastal waters like large lakes. (Poorna Kedar)

 

“Feed me!” Black skimmers breed in loose groups on sandbanks and sandy beaches in N and S America with 3-7 heavily dark-blotched buff or bluish eggs incubated by both parents and the resultant chicks leaving the nest as soon as they hatch. (Kelly Hunt)

 

“Bust creeping!” The unstudied tawny-winged woodcreeper is found in Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. (Owen Deutsch)

 

“Busy woodpecking…” Golden-fronted woodpeckers are distributed from Texas and Oklahoma in the United States through Mexico to Honduras and northern Nicaragua. (Owen Deutsch)

 

“Still waters” Ruddy shelducks are mostly migratory and winter in the Indian Subcontinent with small resident populations in NW Africa and Ethiopia. (Hrishikesh Jadhav)

 

“Last of the catchers” African (black) oystercatchers have a global population of less than 5,000 adult birds and is endemic to the coasts of South Africa and Namibia. (Edward Peach)

 

“Silent incubator” African paradise flycatchers are common resident breeder in open forests and savannah habitats across sub-Saharan Africa. (Chris Krog)

 

“Day sleeper” Great-eared nightjars are found in the subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests of Indonesia, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. (Abhilash Arjunan)