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• Ocellated Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus ocellatus

  

  This woodcreeper is recorded from Amazonian lowlands to the eastern Andean slope. Pale, dark-edged spots mark its head, back and underparts, and it searches for food in lower and middle forest layers.

• Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus

  This forest grouse has a fan-shaped tail and red or gray color forms. In breeding season, males drum their wings to court females.

• Mentawai Scops Owl Otus mentawi

  This island owl lives in lowland forest on the Mentawai Islands. It has reddish-chestnut and dark brown plumage morphs, with pale eyebrows and ear-tufts.

• Le Conte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii

  This small sparrow breeds in damp northern meadows and shallow marsh edges, then winters in the southeastern United States. It often stays hidden in dense low growth.

• Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush Pterorhinus pectoralis

  The Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush has brown upperparts, pale underparts, and a dark necklace-like band. In its native range it lives in damp forests in small flocks.

• 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.

• White-throated Rock Thrush Monticola gularis

  The White-throated Rock Thrush is marked by a blue crown and a white line down the throat. It ranges across eastern and southeastern Asia and eats insects.

• Bornean Green Magpie Cissa jefferyi

  This magpie lives in Borneo's montane forests. Its light-green plumage, black eye-band, and reddish-chestnut wings stand out as it searches dense undergrowth for snails and insects.

• Protea Canary Crithagra leucoptera

  The Protea Canary is a brown canary with a black face, white throat, and white wing bars. It lives in South African mountain fynbos and feeds on seeds, including those of proteas.

• Yellow-breasted Tailorbird Orthotomus samarensis

  The Yellow-breasted Tailorbird is a small bird with a black head and yellow underparts. It searches for small invertebrates in dense undergrowth in the Philippines' moist lowland forests.

• Violet Cuckoo Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus

  The Violet Cuckoo is notable for the male’s violet gloss and barred underside. It uses the canopy and lays its eggs in other birds’ nests.

• Eastern Ground Parrot Pezoporus wallicus

  This bright green parrot has black markings and moves by walking or running on the ground. It occurs in scattered coastal grasslands and wetlands of eastern Australia.

• Shy Ground Dove Pampusana stairi

  The Shy Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling dove of Polynesian islands. It searches for seeds, fruit, and insects on the ground and in the forest understory.

• Philippine Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus philippensis

  The Philippine Hawk-Eagle is a forest eagle found only on Luzon. Adults have a long black crest and rufous underparts marked with dark streaks.

• Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi

  A small sunbird of the Afrotropical region, found in dense secondary growth, forest clearings, and edges. Skin notes report that the throat and upper breast are often yellowish but can also be olive.

• Rusty-collared Seedeater Sporophila collaris

  The Rusty-collared Seedeater lives in wet grasslands and marshes of southern South America. Males have a rusty collar.

• Acre Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus cohnhafti

  It was described near Assis Brasil in Acre, Brazil. The 2013 original description said the type locality was the only known site then; a later account also shows records from Rio Branco.

• 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.

• Pink-eared Duck Malacorhynchus membranaceus

  The Pink-eared Duck is a small duck with white and dark brown bars, a large brown patch around the eye, and a small pink patch behind it.

• Spot-winged Antshrike Pygiptila stellaris

  The Spot-winged Antshrike forages in Amazonian forest. Males and females have different plumage, and the bird may move through the midstory and canopy with mixed-species flocks.

• Yellow-bellied Bulbul Alophoixus phaeocephalus

  The Yellow-bellied Bulbul has olive-brown upperparts and a bright yellow belly. It forms small groups in the middle storey of forests and eats fruit and insects.

• Lilac-tailed Parrotlet Touit batavicus

  This small parrot occurs in northern South America and Trinidad. Its yellow forehead and short lilac tail are distinctive, and it feeds on plant foods in forest canopies.

• Stripe-tailed Hummingbird Eupherusa eximia

  The Stripe-tailed Hummingbird lives in Central American mountains and feeds by darting among flowers. White stripes show when it spreads its tail.

• Yellow-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Woodpecker is a woodpecker with striking yellow and red on the head. It probes bark crevices and eats mainly plant foods, as well as insects.