Asian Openbills are a distinctive stork specifically adapted to foraging around inland wetlands mainly in the Indian subcontinent and SE Asia. (Tanmoy Das)Bateleurs are a relatively common resident of the open savanna and woodland habitats of Sub-Saharan Africa with a small population in SW Arabia. (Rene van der Schyff)Black-and-Orange flycatchers are endemic to the higher elevations of central and S Western Ghats, the Nilgiris and Palni hill ranges in S India. (Tanuku Manohar)Black-headed orioles breed across much of sub-Saharan Africa from South Sudan and Ethiopia all the way to South Africa. (Nithya Purushothaman)Black-naped monarchs breed in thick forests and other well-wooded habitats across tropical S Asia from India and Sri Lanka E to Indonesia and the Philippines. (Rahul Deshpande)Black-winged kites are found in the open country and semi-deserts of sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Asia with a small population in Europe (Spain and Portugal). (Shishir Saksena)Crested serpent eagles have a very wide distributional range across the Indian Subcontinent, SE Asia and E Asia. (Abhijeet Ramesh Jagtap)Crab plovers breed around the Arabian Sea of Pakistan, Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and Somalia. (Tanmoy Das)Coral-billed ground cuckoos are a large terrestrial cuckoo found in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. (Markus Lilje / www.rockjumper.co.za)The range of the common myna is increasing at such a rapid rate that in 2000 the IUCN Species Survival Commission declared it one of the world’s most invasive species and one of only three birds in the top 100 species that pose an impact to biodiversity, agriculture and human interests. (Sathi Ravi Kanth Reddy)Chinstrap penguins are found in the South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica, Deception Island, the South Orkneys, South Shetland, South Georgia, Bouvet Island and Balleny. (Steve Hillary)Blue waxbills are found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. (Trevor Kleyn)Golden pipits are indigenous to Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, S Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, and are often vagrant in Oman, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Photographed here in Kenya. (Krzysztof Olejniczak)Grey-and-buff woodpeckers prefer the subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and montane forests of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. (Suhaimisabli Suhaimi)Northern double-collared sunbirds are found in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Uganda. (Sammy Mugo)Patagonian sierra finches prefer the temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and temperate grassland of Argentina and Chile. (Steve Hillary)Pied oystercatchers are an Endangered species found along the coastline of Australia. (Deborah Pearse)Kashmir flycatchers breed in NW Himalayas in the Kashmir region of the Indian Subcontinent, migrating to the hills of central Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats of India in winter. (Pranesh Kodancha)Snowy sheathbills are found in Antarctica, the Scotia Arc, the South Orkneys, and South Georgia, but migrate N in winter. (Steve Hillary)Scarlet-thighed dacnis are found in Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Panama. (Elvin Rodriguez)Sandhill cranes are a large crane species found in North America and the extreme NE Siberia (Russia). (Leslie Reagan)Greater sage-grouses range across the sagebrush country in the W United States and S Alberta and Saskatchewan (Canada). (Robert Martinez)Purple sunbirds are distributed widely from West Asia through the Indian subcontinent and into SE Asia. (Gurukrish Na Ghate)Yellow-browed bulbuls are found mainly below the forest canopy of the hill forests and plantations in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka. (Prasanna Bhat)White-rumped shamas are found in densely-vegetated habitats across the Indian subcontinent and SE Asia. (Rahul Deshpande)
