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• Crestless Fireback Lophura erythrophthalma

  

  The male is glossy purplish blue with fine white markings; the female is dark blue-black. Both have red faces and forage near the forest floor.

• Blue-headed Racket-tail Prioniturus platenae

  The Blue-headed Racket-tail is marked by a blue head and spatula-shaped tips on its central tail feathers. It is restricted to Palawan and nearby islands, and much of its wild ecology remains poorly known.

• Lafresnaye's Piculet Picumnus lafresnayi

  This small woodpecker occurs in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. It uses humid lowland forest as well as forest edges, secondary growth, and clearings.

• Mindoro Boobook Ninox mindorensis

  This owl occurs in forest and wooded areas on Mindoro. One source describes the island population under its former subspecies treatment.

• Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant Anairetes reguloides

  The Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant can raise its crown feathers and has black-and-white mottled plumage. A 2016–2017 urban-flora survey in Trujillo, northern Peru, recorded it searching algarrobo, acacia, and ponciana branches for food.

• Cinnamon-chested Flycatcher Ficedula buruensis

  This flycatcher is recorded in the mountains of Buru, Seram, and Kai Besar. In 2023, a male of the Kai Besar subspecies had brightly iridescent blue upperparts; another bird, possibly a female, looked less blue and more slate-grey.

• Radjah Shelduck Radjah radjah

  The Radjah Shelduck stands out for its white head and breast and chestnut breast band. It feeds in shallow wetlands, mainly at night.

• Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami

  This cisticola lives in African savanna. It has a rufous cap and bands near the tail tip, and gives a high, rising trill from a prominent perch.

• Yemen Thrush Turdus menachensis

  The Yemen Thrush is marked by an olive-toned back, a stout orange-yellow bill, and a bright orange patch under the wing in flight. It also lives in the highlands of Saudi Arabia.

• Golden-rumped Euphonia Euphonia cyanocephala

  The male has a blue head and back with a golden rump. The Peru species account associates the bird with semi-deciduous and humid montane forest, including places with mistletoes.

• Masked Tanager Stilpnia nigrocincta

  The Masked Tanager occurs in humid forest and at forest edges in northern South America. Males have a lavender-blue head, neck and throat with black lores. The account says it mainly eats fruit, with arthropods also taken.

• Gray-breasted Parakeet Pyrrhura griseipectus

  This parakeet has a green body, a white ear patch, and gray markings across the breast. It is described feeding in the canopy of northeastern Brazil's forests.

• Pink-necked Green Pigeon Treron vernans

  The Pink-necked Green Pigeon eats fruits and buds from mature trees. In Singapore it is found in both wooded and urban areas.

• Asian Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx maculatus

  A cuckoo whose males have glossy green plumage; it forages in the tree canopy for insects such as caterpillars and ants.

• 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.

• White-throated Wedgebill Schistes albogularis

  This hummingbird occurs on the western slope of the Andes from western Colombia south to southwestern Ecuador. A South American Classification Committee proposal describes its habitat as a humid, Choco-type Pacific-slope distribution.

• Ash-throated Antwren Herpsilochmus parkeri

  This antwren lives in humid montane forest in northeastern Peru. A protected-area guide records it in mixed flocks in the canopy and middle levels at Alto Mayo.

• Straight-billed Earthcreeper Ochetorhynchus ruficaudus

  This earthcreeper inhabits dry highlands of southwestern Bolivia. Accounts describe its long, nearly straight bill and ground-foraging on sparsely vegetated, rocky slopes.

• Himalayan Snowcock Tetraogallus himalayensis

  A large pheasant-family bird of high mountains from Central Asia to the Himalaya.

• Citrine Lorikeet Saudareos flavoviridis

  The Citrine Lorikeet has a green back and yellow, dark-scaled underparts. Small flocks gather at flowering trees along forest edges.

• Yellow-crowned Woodpecker Leiopicus mahrattensis

  The Yellow-crowned Woodpecker is found in dry woodland and scrub in South Asia.

• 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.

• Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius

  This small tyrant flycatcher ranges from Mexico through much of South America. It uses forest edges and open or cultivated places with tall trees, often staying high in the canopy.

• Collared Palm Thrush Cichladusa arquata

  This bird lives in palm-rich woodland and scrub in eastern and southern Africa. Its pale throat and breast contrast with a narrow black band at the front of the neck.