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• Eastern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris mediocris

  

  This sunbird lives in the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania. The entry follows current Cinnyris mediocris after the related Forest Sunbird and Usambara Double-collared Sunbird were separated.

• Collared Laughingthrush Trochalopteron yersini

  This laughingthrush is listed in a Langbiang Biosphere Reserve guide for evergreen broadleaf forest. Its black hood, silvery-gray cheeks, and rusty chest and wings stand out.

• Plumed Whistling Duck Dendrocygna eytoni

  The Plumed Whistling Duck is an Australian duck with a long neck and extended flank feathers that reach over its back. It feeds on grasses in wetlands and grasslands.

• Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris

  This small bird lives in humid lowland forests in western and central Africa, including Ghana. It is resident and searches foliage for small invertebrates.

• Moluccan Island Thrush Turdus deningeri

  The Moluccan Island Thrush occurs on separate Moluccan islands. The 2024 Clements treatment includes the Seram population and tentatively includes the Taliabu form. Seram birds are black-bodied with an indistinct white hood.

• Thick-billed Euphonia Euphonia laniirostris

  The Thick-billed Euphonia is a small bird about 11 cm long. Males have a glossy blue back and yellow-orange underparts; females have an olive back and yellow-orange underparts. It feeds on fruit.

• Sooty Grassquit Asemospiza fuliginosa

  This small grassquit occurs in humid woodland and forest edges. It is recorded from several South American countries; in Bolivia, only one vagrant specimen from Amazonian forest in northern Santa Cruz is reported.

• Rufous-throated Honeyeater Conopophila rufogularis

  The Rufous-throated Honeyeater is recorded in waterside woodland and semi-arid riverine forest in northern Australia. Its diet is mainly invertebrates but broader than that.

• Green-cheeked Parakeet Pyrrhura molinae

  The Green-cheeked Parakeet is a South American forest parrot that gathers in flocks in the canopy and feeds on fruit and seeds.

• Goliath Imperial Pigeon Ducula goliath

  The Goliath Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon of New Caledonia's humid forests. It eats fruit; seeds were found intact in digestive samples from birds studied there.

• Crested Finchbill Spizixos canifrons

  The Crested Finchbill ranges across Bangladesh, mainland China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its thick pale bill and upright black nape crest are distinctive.

• Verreaux's Coua Coua verreauxi

  Verreaux's Coua lives in southwestern Madagascar. Its grey crest and blue bare skin around the eyes are distinctive, and it often spends time in trees.

• Savanna Hawk Buteogallus meridionalis

  The Savanna Hawk is a raptor with rufous plumage and long legs. It searches for prey by walking through lowland savanna or by hunting from a perch or in flight.

• Berylline Hummingbird Saucerottia beryllina

  This hummingbird is common in Mexico's uplands. It strays north into Arizona in summer and feeds on nectar while hovering at flowers.

• Ornate Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla ornata

  The Ornate Stipplethroat occurs in the lower and middle forest layers of the Amazon region. It has been reported moving through hanging dead leaves while foraging.

• Plain-brown Woodcreeper Dendrocincla fuliginosa

  The Plain-brown Woodcreeper uses the lower levels of humid forest in Peru. It forages alone or in mixed flocks and may follow army-ant swarms to catch prey flushed from cover.

• Swinhoe's Pheasant Lophura swinhoii

  Swinhoe's Pheasant lives in Taiwan's forests. The male stands out with a white crest and back and two long white tail feathers.

• Orange-fronted Hanging Parrot Loriculus aurantiifrons

  A small green parrot with red on the lower throat and rump. It lives in wooded lowlands and foothills on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Alpine Chough Pyrrhocorax graculus

  Glossy black plumage, a yellow bill, and red legs distinguish this mountain corvid. In Triglav National Park it lives above the treeline and descends to valley settlements in winter.

• White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis

  This migratory sparrow has both white-striped and tan-striped head patterns.

• Crimson-winged Woodpecker Picus puniceus

  This greenish woodpecker has red wings and a red crown, plus a yellow crest. It forages on trunks and large branches in forests and plantations from lowlands into lower mountain areas.

• Desert Eagle Owl Bubo ascalaphus

  This large owl lives among rocks in dry country and searches for prey at night.

• Todd's Sirystes Sirystes subcanescens

  This medium-sized flycatcher lives in tall rainforest in northern Amazonia and the Guianas. It is usually found in pairs or small groups in the canopy or on exposed branches.

• Grey Tit-Flycatcher Myioparus plumbeus

  This flycatcher is widespread across sub-Saharan Africa. It has gray upperparts, a white eye-ring and white outer tail feathers, and feeds on insects in riverine forest, mature woodland and savanna.