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• Short-billed Leaftosser Sclerurus rufigularis

  

  Short-billed Leaftosser is a small leaftosser about 15–16 cm long. It uses humid forest understory and secondary growth, and searches on the ground for invertebrates. Oiseaux.net lists sound records from Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and French Guiana.

• Arfak Honeyeater Melipotes gymnops

  Dark grey to sooty black covers the head and upper breast, with yellow bare skin around the eyes. It forages mainly in the canopy for small fruits and insects.

• Black-capped Parakeet Pyrrhura rupicola

  The Black-capped Parakeet lives in humid lowland forest in Peru, Bolivia, and western Brazil. Its head and breast markings vary between two subspecies, and it feeds in the canopy on fruit.

• New Zealand Scaup Aythya novaeseelandiae

  The New Zealand Scaup is a diving duck. Large flocks can gather along lakeshores, sometimes close to people.

• Olive-backed Tailorbird Orthotomus sepium

  Males have a dull gray body and rusty face; females have a less rusty head and whitish throat. It searches for small invertebrates in lowland scrub and mangroves.

• Maroon-naped Sunbird Aethopyga guimarasensis

  This small sunbird occurs on Negros, Panay, and Guimaras in the western Visayas of the Philippines. It is recorded in forest and along forest edges; a species-level ecological dataset classifies nectar as its main food niche.

• Crimson-bellied Woodpecker Campephilus haematogaster

  This large woodpecker has black upperparts and a red crest, rump, and underside. It chisels into wood for beetle larvae.

• Cassin's Finch Haemorhous cassinii

  Cassin's Finch is a small finch of the mountains of western North America. Males have a red crown, and the birds eat tree seeds and buds.

• Visayan Bulbul Hypsipetes guimarasensis

  A bulbul of the Visayan Islands in the central Philippines. It uses dense forest and eats fruit.

• Spruce Grouse Canachites canadensis

  The Spruce Grouse is a grouse of evergreen forests in northern and western North America. It feeds mainly on conifer needles, and males and females have very different plumage.

• Blue-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron squamatum

  The Blue-winged Laughingthrush uses forest undergrowth and bamboo in the Himalayas, from Nepal to southern China and nearby areas. Records are mainly from 900–2,440 m.

• Varzea Thrush Turdus sanchezorum

  This western Amazonian thrush was described as a distinct species in 2011. It is associated mainly with várzea forest along large tributaries of the upper Amazon and Solimões system.

• Negros Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba keayi

  A ground-dwelling pigeon of forests on Panay and Negros. It has a narrow red patch at the center of its white throat and breast, with green iridescence on the head and wings.

• Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus

  The Black Hawk-Eagle is a large eagle of lowland tropical forest in the Americas. Adults are mostly black, with bold white checkering under the wings.

• Black-capped Flycatcher Empidonax atriceps

  The Black-capped Flycatcher is a small flycatcher of Central American highlands. Its black cap and white eye-ring stand out, and it is found at open forest edges.

• Cassin's Sparrow Peucaea cassinii

  This grayish-brown sparrow has a faint eye-ring. It feeds on the ground in dry grasslands, and breeding males sing as they rise and float back down through the air.

• Ruddy-breasted Seedeater Sporophila minuta

  This small seed-eater occurs from Central into South America. Males and females differ in plumage, and male coloration also varies geographically.

• Turquoise Flycatcher Eumyias panayensis

  This flycatcher inhabits forests from the Philippines through Sulawesi to the Moluccas. It searches for small insects in the forest and sometimes catches them in flight.

• Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx pectoralis

  The Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo is a Philippine endemic with a rufous breast and white belly. It eats insects, especially caterpillars, and is a brood parasite.

• Bornean Black Magpie Platysmurus aterrimus

  This forest corvid is restricted to Borneo. The 2024 Clements treatment separates it from the Malay Black Magpie.

• 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.

• Sapphire-spangled Emerald Chionomesa lactea

  This hummingbird has a green body with a shimmering violet-blue throat and breast. In eastern Peru it visits flowers at forest edges and secondary growth, and also catches small insects in flight.

• Jet Antbird Cercomacra nigricans

  This antbird ranges from Panama through northern South America to western Ecuador. Males are black, while females are grayish.

• Comoro Parrot Coracopsis sibilans

  This parrot occurs on Grand Comoro and Anjouan in the Comoros. It is strongly associated with evergreen forest and also visits cacao plantations and agroforests on Grand Comoro; much of its wild ecology remains unknown.