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• Orange-breasted Myzomela Myzomela jugularis

  

  The Orange-breasted Myzomela is a small, common nectar-feeding bird in Fiji. It also eats spiders and insects and is usually alone or in small groups. Larger gatherings form at flowering trees. On Lakeba in the Lau Group, a field study recorded relatively high nectarivore abundance in coastal coconut plantations.

• Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus

  The Senegal Parrot lives along savanna edges in western and central Africa. Its gray head and green and yellow body colors stand out.

• Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides

  The Australian Shelduck is a large duck with a dark head, white neck ring, and chestnut breast. It occurs in freshwater areas of southwestern and southeastern Australia.

• Tinkling Cisticola Cisticola rufilatus

  The Tinkling Cisticola lives in scrub and open woodland in south-central Africa. Its orange-rufous tail and call help distinguish it from the Rattling Cisticola.

• Rufous-winged Sunbird Cinnyris rufipennis

  The Rufous-winged Sunbird is a small sunbird known only from Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. It feeds at flowering plants from the understory to the canopy, and breeding is thought to occur during the November–February rainy season.

• Rufous Woodpecker Micropternus brachyurus

  A rufous-brown woodpecker whose male has red on the face; it forages at ant nests in forest.

• Arctic Redpoll Acanthis hornemanni

  This small finch breeds at high northern latitudes. In winter records from British Columbia, adult males appear especially pale.

• Streak-breasted Bulbul Hypsipetes siquijorensis

  This bulbul is divided among four Central Philippine islands: Tablas, Romblon, Siquijor, and Cebu. It uses forest edges and secondary growth, but in degraded places it occurs only where forest remains nearby.

• Blood Pheasant Ithaginis cruentus

  The Blood Pheasant is a plump, short-tailed pheasant whose plumage ranges from grey-olive to bright crimson. It searches for food in groups during the day.

• La Selle Thrush Turdus swalesi

  The La Selle Thrush lives in highland forest on Hispaniola. Its two subspecies occupy separate areas of the island; adults of the nominate subspecies have a black head and back and reddish-brown underparts.

• Silver-tipped Imperial Pigeon Ducula luctuosa

  The Silver-tipped Imperial Pigeon is a large, mostly white pigeon with silvery-gray flight feathers edged in dark markings. It occurs on Sulawesi and nearby islands, using forests and mangroves.

• Slender-billed Vulture Gyps tenuirostris

  The Slender-billed Vulture is a large scavenging vulture. A 2023–2025 survey recorded 20 nests at 12 sites in Upper Assam, India.

• Choco Sirystes Sirystes albogriseus

  This tyrant flycatcher inhabits lowland forest in the Chocó, from eastern Panama through western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador.

• Black-capped Hemispingus Kleinothraupis atropileus

  It occurs in northern Andean mountain forest, from south-western Venezuela through Colombia and Ecuador to far northern Peru. It is recorded at 2,300–3,200 m.

• Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae

  The Gambaga Flycatcher is a small flycatcher identified in part by faint breast streaks and a yellowish-orange lower mandible. It occurs in Africa and southwestern Arabia; breeding activity was observed in Yemen in May.

• Greater Ani Crotophaga major

  The Greater Ani has glossy black plumage with a green sheen and a large bill. It forms groups in wet lowland forests and forages from the trees down into the lower forest layers.

• Maghreb Magpie Pica mauritanica

  The Maghreb Magpie is a magpie distinguished by blue bare skin around the eye. It searches the ground for insects and small animals, and also eats fruit and seeds.

• East Brazilian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium minutissimum

  This small owl has a rounded head without ear tufts, brown plumage, and yellow eyes. It lives in forests in eastern Brazil.

• Little Hermit Phaethornis longuemareus

  A University of the West Indies guide describes this tiny hummingbird as about 10 cm long. The male's throat is slightly darker than the female's; it feeds on nectar and small invertebrates in humid lowland habitats.

• Rondonia Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis ochrogyna

  This antbird occurs in the Brazilian states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso and eastern Bolivia. Males have black-and-white streaks, while females have browner heads and backs.

• Orange-bellied Parakeet Neophema chrysogaster

  The Orange-bellied Parakeet has a green back, wings, and flanks, a yellow chest, blue wing and brow markings, and a vivid orange belly patch. It breeds in southwestern Tasmania in summer and moves to mainland coasts for the rest of the year.

• Stout-billed Cinclodes Cinclodes excelsior

  The Stout-billed Cinclodes is a ground-dwelling bird of the high Andes. Its thick, down-curved bill and scaled pattern across the throat and upper chest are distinctive.

• Ruby-throated Myzomela Myzomela eques

  The Ruby-throated Myzomela lives in forests on New Guinea and nearby islands. Males have an iridescent red throat patch, and the species mainly feeds on nectar.

• Blue-throated Macaw Ara glaucogularis

  The Blue-throated Macaw is a large parrot of Bolivia's Beni region, with a blue throat and golden-yellow underparts.