Jamaican tody nest in burrows that are excavates in muddy banks or rotten wood. (Owen Deutsch / Owen Deutsch Photography)

Ashy prinias are resident breeders in the Indian Subcontinent and can be found in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and western Myanmar. (Nitin Lokur)

Asian koels are found in S Asia, China, and SE Asia. The bird is a widely used symbol in Indian poetry. (Jineesh Mallishery)

Banded kingfishers are found in the lowland tropical forests of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Brunei. They are extinct in Singapore. (Markus Lilje / www.rockjumperbirding.com)

Barred buttonquails are resident from India across tropical Asia to S China, Indonesia and the Philippines. Photographed here in Bangalore (India). (Anantha Murthy)

Blue-tailed bee-eaters breed in SE Asia and are strongly migratory, preferring much of peninsular India during winter. Photographed here in Mysore (India). (Sathish Poojari)

Cape eagle-owls are found from Eritrea and Ethiopia S to Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. They are part of local folklore throughout their range. (Jay van Rensburg)

Cape Parrots are highly social parrots that can only be found in areas with Afromontane forest patches. There are less than 1,000 remaining in the wild, all of which face the ravages of beak and feather disease. (Rodnick Clifton Biljon / Cape Parrot Project)

Common flamebacks are found in Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. They prefer subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. (Subramanian Chockalingam)

Common terns breed in temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and N America. They are strongly migratory and winter in coastal tropical and subtropical regions. (Antero Topp)

Galahs are also known as rose-breasted cockatoo, galah cockatoo, roseate cockatoo and “pink and grey”. They are one of the most common and widespread cockatoos in the open country of mainland Australia. Photographed here in Melbourne. (Radhakrishnan Sadasivam)

Himalayan bulbuls are the national bird of Bahrain, and are found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Tajikistan. (Balaji Pg)

Indian eagle-owls are seen near rocky places within the mainland of the Indian Subcontinent S of the Himalayas and below 5000 feet elevation. (Mohamed Mothi)

Indian rollers are found throughout tropical Asia from Iraq E across the Indian Subcontinent to Indochina. They are best known for the aerobatic displays of the males during the breeding season. (Jineesh Mallishery)

Jerdon’s leafbirds are found in forest and woodland in India and Sri Lanka. Like other leafbirds, the call of Jerdon’s Leafbird consists of a rich mixture of imitations of the calls of various other species of birds. (Anantha Murthy)

Oriental dwarf kingfishers are found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. They prefer small streams in densely shaded forests. (Kedar Potnis)

Long-eared owls breed in Europe, Asia, and N America, occurring with the similar-looking short-eared owl over much of their range. (Alexandra Ion)

Loten’s sunbird is endemic to peninsular India and Sri Lanka, preferring the W Ghats and S peninsula. Photographed here in Bangalore. (Shishir Saksena)

Purple finches breed in the coniferous and mixed forest in Canada and the NE United States. Photographed here in Ontario (Canada). (Nina Stavlund)

Oriental pratincoles are found in the warmer parts of S and E Asia, breeding from N Pakistan and Kashmir region across to SW China. (King Rax)

Rainbow starfrontlets are found in Ecuador and Peru, preferring subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest. (Adam Riley / www.rockjumperbirding.com)

Rufous-tailed plantcutters are found nesting in the scrubby forest edge and in dense river valleys in Chile and W Argentina. (Owen Deutsch / Owen Deutsch Photography)

Scaly-breasted munias occur from India and Sri Lanka E to Indonesia and the Philippines. They have been introduced to many other parts of the world with feral populations in Puerto Rico. (Prasanna Bhat)

Sooty-headed bulbuls are found in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam. Photographed her in Jakarta. (Arun Samak)

Southern carmine bee-eaters occur across sub-equatorial Africa, ranging from KwaZulu-Natal and Namibia to Gabon, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya. They are strongly migratory spending the breeding season between August and November in Zimbabwe, before moving to South Africa for the summer months, and then migrating to equatorial Africa from March to August. (Rainer Summers / www.rockjumperbirding.com)