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• Canivet's Emerald Cynanthus canivetii

  

  Canivet's Emerald ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to northwestern Costa Rica. It visits flowers in woodland edges and scrub to feed on nectar.

• Togian Golden Bulbul Hypsipetes aureus

  The Togian Golden Bulbul is restricted to Indonesia’s Togian Islands off central Sulawesi. A study comparing museum plumage, measurements, and vocal samples separated it from the related Golden Bulbul complex.

• Saffron-crowned Tanager Tangara xanthocephala

  This tanager is marked by an orange-yellow crown and a black facial pattern. In humid forests on the eastern Andes, it searches moss and the undersides of small branches for arthropods.

• Chestnut-capped Brush Finch Arremon brunneinucha

  This finch occurs in humid montane forest in the eastern Peruvian Andes. The Peru account places its local subspecies in the understory at 1,300–2,200 m.

• Caucasian Snowcock Tetraogallus caucasicus

  A pheasant-family bird of high rocky slopes in the Caucasus, it may move lower during severe winter weather.

• White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi

  The White-winged Scoter is a large sea duck with bold white patches in its wings. It searches for shellfish near coasts in winter and breeds around northern lakes.

• Chestnut-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes albidiventris

  This ovenbird relative forages on foot in open grassland and sparse scrub at high elevations. The Peru species account gives a range extending into Colombia and Ecuador.

• Plumbeous-backed Thrush Turdus reevei

  The Plumbeous-backed Thrush has a blue-gray back and tail. It occurs in Ecuador and extreme northwestern Peru; in Peru, it is recorded in semideciduous forest up to 1,500 meters.

• Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus

  The Purple Finch is a finch of North American forests. It cracks seeds with its large bill and often sings from high in the trees.

• Venezuelan Flycatcher Myiarchus venezuelensis

  A Myiarchus flycatcher found in Colombia and Venezuela. It has a gray-brown back and pale yellow underparts and is recorded in forests and at woodland edges.

• 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.

• Indian Jungle Crow Corvus culminatus

  This crow is recorded from southern peninsular India and Sri Lanka. ITIS, citing the IOC checklist, lists it as a species, while Clements 2024 keeps it among the subspecies of the Large-billed Crow. This entry describes the southern form in an older regional account.

• Dusky Myzomela Myzomela obscura

  This small bird is dark brown above and paler below, with a darker patch around the eye. At James Cook University's Cairns campus, it is shown feeding on umbrella-tree flowers and fruit.

• grey sunbird Cyanomitra veroxii

  The Grey Sunbird is about12–14cm long and lives in coastal and riverside forest. It is active by day.

• Golden-capped Parakeet Aratinga auricapillus

  The Golden-capped Conure lives in forests and along forest edges in eastern Brazil, where it eats fruit and seeds.

• Echo Parakeet Psittacula eques

  This green parrot lives on Mauritius. It eats flowers, leaves, and fruit, and nests in cavities in large trees.

• Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti

  The Ruddy Ground Dove is a small dove widespread in Central and South America. Males are reddish brown, females are browner, and the birds forage for seeds on the ground.

• Barred Owl Strix varia

  A forest owl of North America, with brown-and-white barred plumage. Its calls may reveal it at night.

• White-cheeked Antbird Gymnopithys leucaspis

  The White-cheeked Antbird has a chestnut back and a white throat and center of the underside edged in black. It forages in the understory of Amazonian terra firme forest and is often found with army ants.

• Gray-faced buzzard Butastur indicus

  A slender-winged migratory hawk seen around woodland and farmland in Japan.

• Hoffmann's Woodpecker Melanerpes hoffmannii

  Hoffmann's Woodpecker inhabits dry forest and also uses trees near human settlements along the Pacific slope. Males have a red crown and yellow nape; females have a white forehead and crown.

• Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus

  The Indian Cuckoo occurs in Asia. A breeding study on a university campus in Bangladesh recorded it laying an egg in a Black Drongo nest.

• Wailing Cisticola Cisticola lais

  The Wailing Cisticola is a grassland bird with a long tail and streaked back, ranging through eastern and southern Africa.

• Green-tailed Trainbearer Lesbia nuna

  The Green-tailed Trainbearer is a high-Andean hummingbird. The male's long tail is distinctive, and the bird visits flowers in shrubland.