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• Yellow-backed Tanager Hemithraupis flavicollis

  

  This tanager occurs from eastern Panama to southeastern Brazil. eBird describes pairs feeding in the canopy, often with mixed-species flocks.

• Semicollared Flycatcher Ficedula semitorquata

  A flycatcher whose wing markings differ between males and females.

• Sulawesi Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis virescens

  The Sulawesi Brush Cuckoo occurs in wooded habitats on Sulawesi and is often noticed by its calls. eBird's identification account notes buff underparts and a barred tail.

• Oriental Magpie Pica serica

  The Oriental Magpie is a corvid with striking black-and-white plumage and a long tail. Hong Kong records describe a varied diet that includes fruit and small animals, and sightings in both wooded and settled areas.

• Moluccan Scops Owl Otus magicus

  The Moluccan Scops Owl is active at night and has black-spotted plumage that occurs in several color forms.

• Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni

  This wetland bird resembles a large purple-and-green moorhen. It is patchily distributed across sub-Saharan Africa and feeds mainly on plants, with invertebrates and fish also recorded.

• Neblina Metaltail Metallura odomae

  This small hummingbird occurs in the highlands of northern Peru and southern Ecuador.

• Salvadori's Antwren Myrmotherula minor

  This small antwren lives in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Males have a black throat patch extending onto the chest, and the species joins mixed-species flocks in lowland forest.

• Black-cheeked Lovebird Agapornis nigrigenis

  The Black-cheeked Lovebird is a small green parrot. In the wild it lives in flocks that visit water and feeds mainly on grass seeds.

• Spix's Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus spixii

  This woodcreeper occurs in Amazonia. Its scaly-looking breast pattern is noted as a feature that distinguishes it from close relatives.

• Dark-brown Honeyeater Lichmera incana

  This honeyeater is recorded in New Caledonia’s Grand Sud Ramsar area. It searches for nectar and insects in low scrub and open ground.

• Maroon-faced Parakeet Pyrrhura leucotis

  This parakeet lives in humid lowland forest in eastern Brazil. It has a white ear patch, chestnut face, and dark-red belly and tail underside, and forages from treetops to the ground.

• Bufflehead Bucephala albeola

  The Bufflehead is a small duck that nests in tree cavities and dives for food. Males and females have different plumage.

• Black-faced Rufous Warbler Bathmocercus rufus

  The Black-faced Rufous Warbler moves through dense undergrowth in damp forests of central and eastern Africa. The male has a black face and throat, chestnut upperparts, and grayish underparts, and searches for insects. The identification account centers on males, so it does not represent full female plumage.

• Metallic-winged Sunbird Aethopyga pulcherrima

  This sunbird occurs on several Philippine islands. Clements now includes the Luzon and Bohol birds, formerly treated as separate species, within A. pulcherrima. Males on Mindanao are described with metallic blue-green markings and a broad throat patch.

• White-striped Warbler Myiothlypis leucophrys

  A Brazilian endemic warbler, recorded mainly in the Cerrado and also in transitional areas and parts of the Atlantic Forest.

• Streak-throated Woodpecker Picus xanthopygaeus

  The Streak-throated Woodpecker lives in forests of South and Southeast Asia. It also uses open woodland and bamboo and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera

  The Two-barred Crossbill uses its crossed bill to open conifer cones and take their seeds.

• Black-headed Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla nigriceps

  The Black-headed Mountain Greenbul lives in mountain forests from southern Kenya to northern Tanzania. In the October 2024 Clements treatment, separated from the Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul, it has a blacker head and mainly gray underparts.

• Chinese Francolin Francolinus pintadeanus

  The Chinese Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird often found in cover. It searches for berries, insects and other food in the morning and evening.

• Red-billed leiothrix Leiothrix lutea

  A small woodland bird with a red bill and an orange-yellow throat.

• Sunda Thrush Zoothera andromedae

  The Sunda Thrush is a thrush with a scaly-looking pattern on its back. It occurs mainly on Indonesian islands and also in the Philippines, searching for food on the forest floor and in undergrowth.

• Inca Dove Columbina inca

  The Inca Dove is a small dove that walks on the ground to find seeds in dry, open places. Its feathers have a scaly-looking pattern.

• Moluccan Goshawk Tachyspiza henicogramma

  The Moluccan Goshawk is a forest raptor of the Moluccas. Adults have dark gray upperparts and rufous underparts; juveniles have a different, browner pattern.