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• Indian Eagle-Owl Bubo bengalensis

  

  The Indian Eagle-Owl is a large owl of hills and rocky country in the Indian subcontinent. Its raised feather tufts are a clear feature.

• Chestnut-throated Partridge Tetraophasis obscurus

  The Chestnut-throated Partridge is a pheasant-family bird with a long crest and a white band at the end of its tail. Detailed behaviour records come from observations in Lianhuashan Nature Reserve, Gansu, China.

• White-browed Piculet Sasia ochracea

  The White-browed Piculet is a small woodpecker with green upperparts, a rufous rump, and a white stripe behind the eye. It searches for ants and other small prey in low, dense vegetation near bamboo or water.

• Palila Loxioides bailleui

  The Palila is closely tied to dry forest with māmane trees on Mauna Kea, Hawaiʻi Island. Immature māmane seeds make up most of its diet.

• Gray Duck Anas superciliosa

  This dabbling duck has cream and black facial stripes and a green patch on the wing.

• White-throated Ground Dove Pampusana xanthonura

  The male is white over the upper body, while the female is earthy brown. It forages mainly on the ground on Yap, but in trees and bushes in the Mariana Islands.

• Ferruginous Antbird Drymophila ferruginea

  This antbird lives in humid forest and bamboo thickets in southeastern Brazil. Its black head has a white eyebrow and cheeks; its black tail has broad white bars, and its underparts are rusty.

• Kawall's Amazon Amazona kawalli

  Pale skin at the base of the bill, a grey eye ring, and yellow-green wing edges are identifying features. Observations in Vaupés, Colombia, recorded flocks feeding on palm fruit.

• Chestnut-backed Thornbird Phacellodomus dorsalis

  This ovenbird occurs in the Marañón drainage of northern Peru. It has a chestnut back and tail with a white throat, and pairs forage in scrub and sparse dry woodland.

• Sentinel Rock Thrush Monticola explorator

  Males have blue-gray and orange plumage, while females are gray-brown with pale mottling. It lives in grassland and rocky slopes and forages on the ground.

• White-ringed Flycatcher Conopias albovittatus

  This flycatcher occurs in lowland forests from Central America to the northern western slope of the Andes. Its white eyebrow lines meet behind the head, and its throat is white.

• Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila

  The Cinnamon Hummingbird has a green head and back, a rufous tail, and cinnamon-colored underparts. It feeds at flowers and has also been observed in a protected area in northwestern Costa Rica.

• Merida Flowerpiercer Diglossa gloriosa

  The head, throat, and much of the upperparts are black; the belly is chestnut and the wings have blue-gray coverts. It lives in highland scrub and forest edges in western Venezuela, feeding on nectar and insects.

• Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens

  A grey-brown eagle with a large head, marked in flight by a white band across its short tail.

• African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis

  A small gray-brown owl that blends into tree trunks, it is active at night. It uses wooded areas and dry savannas where trees provide cavities.

• Elliot's Pheasant Syrmaticus ellioti

  Elliot's Pheasant is a pheasant endemic to southeastern China. The male has a long tail marked with silvery bars.

• Crimson-breasted Woodpecker Dryobates cathpharius

  The Crimson-breasted Woodpecker inhabits Himalayan mountain forests. Adult males have red feathers on the crown and nape, while the female's head is black.

• American Goldfinch Spinus tristis

  A small finch of North America. Breeding males are bright yellow in spring, while females and winter birds are duller. It feeds mainly on plant seeds.

• Tuxtla Quail-Dove Zentrygon carrikeri

  A forest dove restricted to a small area of southern Mexico. Bluish-purple tones cover its head and breast, and small numbers occur in moist broadleaf forest from lowlands to mountains.

• Spot-backed Antwren Herpsilochmus dorsimaculatus

  This antwren lives in lowland evergreen forest in the northwestern Amazon. Males have a black head, a white eyebrow, and black-and-white spots on the back. It is found in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Brown-breasted Parakeet Pyrrhura calliptera

  The Brown-breasted Parakeet is a green parakeet that lives in small flocks in the humid montane forests of Colombia’s Eastern Andes, eating fruit, flowers, and seeds.

• Canebrake Groundcreeper Clibanornis dendrocolaptoides

  The Canebrake Groundcreeper lives in the southern Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and Misiones in Argentina. A 2025 Argentine review reports that it tunnels into vertical banks near springs or streams and that most recent Argentine records cluster in central-eastern Misiones.

• Large Blue-flycatcher Cyornis magnirostris

  The Large Blue-flycatcher breeds in eastern Himalayan foothill forests and winters in lowlands of the Thai-Malay Peninsula. The sexes have different plumage.

• Northern Tropical Peewee Contopus bogotensis

  The Northern Tropical Peewee is a small flycatcher with a disjunct range in Central America and northern South America. It was separated from Southern Tropical Pewee and other former groups in the 2022 taxonomy.