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• Green Junglefowl Gallus varius

  

  This junglefowl is endemic to Indonesia. The male's glossy dark green plumage contrasts with the female's brown plumage.

• Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris

  This bulbul forages through leaf litter in southern African forests. It is shy and may form small groups outside the breeding season.

• Rose-fronted Parakeet Pyrrhura roseifrons

  This parakeet occurs in the western Amazon. Adults have a reddish head and a dark breast marked with white. A survey in Peru’s Tapiche–Blanco region also recorded occasional daytime feeding in the forest canopy.

• Plain-breasted Piculet Picumnus castelnau

  This small woodpecker inhabits floodplain forest along the Amazon and Ucayali rivers. Its range is closely tied to Cecropia-rich riverside forest, river islands, and nearby secondary forest.

• Purple Quail-Dove Geotrygon purpurata

  This dove occurs only in western Colombia through northwestern Ecuador, in the wet rainforests of the Chocó. Adults show purple, blue, and iridescent colors, with a dark blue stripe across a white face. Females and juveniles are duller than males.

• 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.

• Yellow Honeyeater Stomiopera flava

  The Yellow Honeyeater has yellow-olive upperparts and dull-yellow underparts. A regional field guide lists nectar, insects, manna, and fruit as foods, and a Queensland government list includes it in the Wet Tropics.

• Sao Paulo Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus paulista

  This small flycatcher has a slender tail. In humid lowland forest in São Paulo state, it moves through the lower and middle levels and forages in mixed-species flocks.

• Fulvous-chested Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias olivaceus

  This flycatcher inhabits lowland forest in Southeast Asia. Rhinomyias olivaceus, the candidate-pool name, is an older generic combination; current accounts use Cyornis olivaceus. It catches insects from mid-level perches.

• Desert Eagle Owl Bubo ascalaphus

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

• Black-collared Jay Cyanolyca armillata

  The Black-collared Jay is a jay of Andean mountain forests.

• Tboli Sunbird Aethopyga tibolii

  This sunbird occurs in southern Mindanao. A 2021–2023 study in the montane forest of Mt. Melibengoy recorded visits to flowers of nine plant species and described plumage differences between males and females.

• Gray-browed Brushfinch Arremon assimilis

  This roughly 20 cm bird lives in humid Andean montane forest. Yellow-olive upperparts, a striped gray-and-black head, and a white throat are distinctive.

• Spectacled Prickletail Siptornis striaticollis

  The Spectacled Prickletail occurs on the eastern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It searches for food in the middle and lower canopy of humid montane forest.

• Coppery-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis cupreoventris

  This small hummingbird has green plumage, a copper-colored belly, and white leg puffs. It lives in montane areas of Colombia's Eastern Cordillera and northwestern Venezuela.

• Bare-eyed Thrush Turdus tephronotus

  This thrush lives in dry East African scrub and other open habitats. Gray, rufous, and white plumage is set off by an orange bill and bare skin around the eye.

• Checker-throated Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla fulviventris

  The Checker-throated Stipplethroat ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It is treated here as Epinecrophylla fulviventris; older sources may use Myrmotherula fulviventris for the same species. It feeds on insects and spiders in the lower storey of wet foothill forest.

• Campbell Islands Teal Anas nesiotis

  A small duck of islands south of New Zealand, Campbell Island Teal is wary and mainly active at night.

• Yellow-streaked Lory Chalcopsitta scintillata

  The Yellow-streaked Lory is a lowland parrot from the New Guinea region. Yellow streaks mark its darker plumage, while the color of the forehead and other details vary among subspecies.

• Raffles's Malkoha Rhinortha chlorophaea

  Males are rufous while females are gray and rufous, giving the species a strong difference in appearance by sex. It searches dense vegetation for food.

• Brown-cheeked Laughingthrush Trochalopteron henrici

  It is gray-brown with dark chestnut cheeks, a broad white moustachial stripe, and a chestnut area near the tail. The account places its main range in southern and eastern Tibet; Arunachal Pradesh is represented by one record.

• Madagascar Buzzard Buteo brachypterus

  The Madagascar Buzzard is a medium-sized raptor endemic to Madagascar. It searches for prey on the ground in places such as forest edges and savannah.

• Rusty Flowerpiercer Diglossa sittoides

  This Andean bird feeds on nectar. Its hooked bill is used to pierce flowers and reach the nectar, as described in the regional guide.

• Pale-crowned Cisticola Cisticola cinnamomeus

  This cisticola occurs in eastern and southern Africa, in moist grassland and near wetlands. During the breeding season, the male has a brown crown while the female keeps streaks on hers.