Blue-eared kingfishers prefer dense shaded forests with small streams across the Indian subcontinent and SE Asia. (PakCik Malek)Asian openbills are found in inland wetlands across much of the Indian subcontinent and SE Asia in . (Abhisek Patnaik)Oriental white-eyes are abundant resident breeders in open woodlands across tropical Asia from the Indian subcontinent to SE Asia, extending all the way to Indonesia and Malaysia. (Abhisek Patnaik)White stork breed in Europe up to Finland, NW Africa, SW Asia and S Africa, migrating long distances to winter in Africa from tropical Sub-Saharan Africa all the way to the bottom of South Africa and the Indian subcontinent. (Antonis Tsaknakis)White-throated kingfishers are widely distributed across Eurasia from Bulgaria, Turkey, W Asia all the way E to the Indian subcontinent and the Philippines. (Bidyut Kumar)Black-winged stilts have a wide distribution across W Europe and the Mediterranean all the way to central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, South and SE Asia. (Sarabjit Lehal)European nightjars breed across Europe in the N to a latitude of 64°N and in Asia to the N up to about 60°N, as well as E all the way to Lake Baikal and E Mongolia, wintering in Africa S of the Sahara and to a limited extent in Pakistan, Morocco and Israel. (Fabio Usvardi)Blue-throated barbets are a colorful barbet species found across the Indian subcontinent and SE Asia. (Firoz Al Sabah)Golden-fronted leafbirds are an abundant resident breeder in India, Sri Lanka, and some parts of SE Asia. (Dhritiman Hore)Greater roadrunners prefer desert and shrubby country in SW United States and N Mexico. (Laurie Ross)Green-breasted mangos breed in E and S Mexico all the way S through to Central America as far as some near-shore islands and Costa Rica. (Owen Deutsch / www.owendeutsch.com)Jungle owlets prefer scrub forest and deciduous forests on the Indian subcontinent. (Suresh AC)Zitting cisticolas have a large breeding range in S Europe, Africa and S Asia all the way to N Australia. (Kallol Mukherjee)Plain prinias prefer wet lowland grassland, open woodland, scrub and sometimes gardens in Pakistan and India all the way to S China and SE Asia. (Karunakanth Bathula)Black-faced laughingthrushes are found along the E Himalayas from E Nepal to Arunachal Pradesh in India all the way across to Myanmar and Bhutan, as well as SE Tibet. (Meghna Banerjee)Pied avocets breed in temperate Europe and W and central Asia, wintering in Africa or S Asia. (Meghna Banerjee)Mountain bulbuls range across the Indian subcontinent and SE Asia. (Shaiful Azhar Abu Bakar)Rufous-collared kingfishers prefer the subtropical and tropical moist lowland and montane forests of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. (Shaiful Azhar Abu Bakar)Siberian rubythroats are a migratory insectivore that breed in the mixed coniferous forests of Siberia and winter in India and Indonesia. (Shantanu Bhattacharya)Kelp gulls breeds on coastlines and islands across most of the S hemisphere. (Sjoerd van Berge Henegouwen)Firethroats breed in temperate forests in Sichuan Province (China), wintering in the Indian subcontinent across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Tibet and Myanmar. (Surajit Sarkar)Demoiselle cranes are a strongly migratory species from W Eurasia that winter in Africa and the Indian subcontinent. (Tanmoy Das)Lesser sand plovers are a migratory species, wintering on sandy beaches in E Africa, S Asia and Australasia. (Tanmoy Das)Blue-capped rock thrushes are summer visitors to parts of Afghanistan and along the Himalayas, migrating to pine forests and hill slopes during summer. (Tanuku Manohar)Red-tailed black cockatoos are a large black cockatoo native to Australia that is usually found in eucalyptus woodlands and riverine forest habitat. (Trevor Andersen)
