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• Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla

  

  This bird has brown plumage with bold streaking and stays near moving water. The Cornell Lab account describes it as one of the first signs of spring in eastern North America.

• Banded Green Sunbird Anthreptes rubritorques

  This sunbird lives in Tanzania's mountain forests. Males have a red breast band, and birds search for nectar and small insects high in trees.

• Karoo Prinia Prinia maculosa

  The Karoo Prinia is a small bird of scrub and tall dense growth in southern Africa. The atlas associates it with Karoo and fynbos scrub in the west and with grassland mixed with scrub in the Lesotho highlands.

• Long-tailed Honey Buzzard Henicopernis longicauda

  A long-tailed raptor of New Guinea. It can be seen circling slowly with wings spread above the forest canopy.

• White-throated Laughingthrush Pterorhinus albogularis

  Adults are described with olive-brown upperparts, a rufous crown, and a white throat. Oiseaux.net distinguishes a western whistleri population from eastern populations.

• Greater Scaup Aythya marila

  The male has a glossy dark head and gray back; the female is marked by a white patch at the base of the bill.

• Hispaniolan Mango Anthracothorax dominicus

  The Hispaniolan Mango is a large hummingbird found on Hispaniola. Males show an iridescent green throat, while females differ in tail and underpart pattern.

• Ruddy Woodcreeper Dendrocincla homochroa

  This woodcreeper ranges from Mexico to northern Colombia and far northern Venezuela. It is mostly rufous and lives in humid forest, semi-open woodland, and clearings. It eats spiders and insects and may follow army-ant columns.

• Gray-breasted Partridge Arborophila orientalis

  The Grey-breasted Partridge is a small partridge with a striking black-and-white face. It lives in mountain forests of eastern Java and forages on the ground.

• Black-lored Waxbill Estrilda nigriloris

  This waxbill is recorded in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A flock of eight was rediscovered by Lake Kabwe in Upemba National Park in 2023. Genetic work has not settled whether it is separate from the Common Waxbill.

• Sierra Madre Sparrow Xenospiza baileyi

  This grassland bird is endemic to Mexico. At La Cima, a field study recorded it in subalpine bunchgrass meadows within pine woodland.

• Spectacled Tyrannulet Zimmerius improbus

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. It uses mid-elevation forest and edges and searches for food in the middle to upper canopy.

• Emerald-collared Parakeet Psittacula calthrapae

  Layard's Parakeet is endemic to Sri Lanka and uses moist forest, tea plantations, gardens, and forest edges.

• White-faced Cuckoo-Dove Turacoena manadensis

  A pigeon with a white face and dark body. It eats fruit in trees and uses several kinds of woodland on Sulawesi.

• White-fronted Chat Epthianura albifrons

  The White-fronted Chat occurs across southern Australia, including Tasmania, from Shark Bay to the Queensland–New South Wales border. It uses damp, open places with low vegetation.

• Miombo Rock Thrush Monticola angolensis

  An Old World flycatcher of miombo woodland with large trees. It feeds actively on the ground and sings conspicuously while defending its territory in spring.

• Blue-capped Tanager Sporathraupis cyanocephala

  This tanager inhabits Andean forest and humid scrub. Its blue head and gray throat and belly help distinguish it from similar species.

• Red-billed Malkoha Zanclostomus javanicus

  The Red-billed Malkoha is a slender gray cuckoo with a red bill. It moves along branches near the canopy of lowland and foothill forests.

• Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus moluccensis

  A small woodpecker whose male has a red streak on the hindcrown. It usually searches tree trunks and branches alone or in pairs.

• Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus

  The Spotted Eagle-Owl is a nocturnal owl widespread in southern Africa. It can also live in towns with parks and gardens.

• Aztec Thrush Ridgwayia pinicola

  The Aztec Thrush has dark brown-black upperparts and a white underside. It lives in moist montane forest in Mexico and includes fruit in its diet.

• Banded Antbird Dichrozona cincta

  The Banded Antbird occurs in lowland Amazonian forest in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. It forages on the forest floor and is recorded to about 900 m in the Andean foothills.

• Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul Atimastillas flavicollis

  The yellow throat helps identify this bulbul. It eats fruit and insects in woodlands and thickets of western and central Africa.

• Salvadori's Seedeater Crithagra xantholaema

  This seedeater occurs in Ethiopia. Its grey-brown body has a yellow area from the lower throat to the upper breast.