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• Pemba White-eye Zosterops vaughani

  

  This white-eye occurs on Pemba Island and nearby offshore islets in Tanzania. A regional taxonomic review records it throughout Pemba.

• Ayacucho Antpitta Grallaria ayacuchensis

  

  This antpitta is known from the eastern Andean slope of Ayacucho, Peru. A 2020 taxonomic paper described dark reddish-brown upperparts, a paler lower belly, and a male collected in a Chusquea thicket in secondary forest.

• Pale Rockfinch Carpospiza brachydactyla

  

  A pale sand-colored sparrow-like bird of sparsely vegetated hills and rocky valleys; it also eats insects during breeding.

• Pale-blue Monarch Hypothymis puella

  

  The Pale-blue Monarch lives in forest on Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. Males are pale blue with darker wings, while females are duller and grey-brown. It eats insects and also uses forest edges and second growth.

• Sulawesi Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx fallax

  

  A small kingfisher with a reddish-brown back and blue rump. It hunts insects and small animals on Sulawesi and nearby Lembeh.

• Long-tailed Cisticola Cisticola angusticauda

  

  This cisticola inhabits light woodland, savanna, and grassland. A 2023 survey in Kenya's Ruma National Park recorded two birds in non-breeding plumage.

• Gould's Jewelfront Heliodoxa aurescens

  This 11–12 cm hummingbird lives in lowland forests of western Amazonia. It drinks nectar and catches insects in flight.

• Hook-billed Bulbul Setornis criniger

  This bulbul is active by day in humid lowland forest and swamp forest, and is notable for its hooked bill.

• Yellow-breasted Boubou Laniarius atroflavus

  A montane forest bird of western Cameroon and southeastern Nigeria whose pairs duet.

• Black-and-gold Tanager Bangsia melanochlamys

  The Black-and-gold Tanager is endemic to Colombia. It inhabits cloud forest in the western Andes and at the northern end of the Central Andes, and its plumage combines black, orange, yellow, and blue.

• Cabanis's Ground Sparrow Melozone cabanisi

  Cabanis's Ground-Sparrow is endemic to Costa Rica, from the Central Valley east toward Turrialba. Adults have black-and-white facial markings and a large black chest patch; juveniles are browner and more faintly marked. It uses thickets, young secondary growth, fragmented groves, and coffee plots.

• Altamira Yellowthroat Geothlypis flavovelata

  The Altamira Yellowthroat is a warbler of wetlands in northeastern Mexico. A field study in northern Veracruz recorded it in places with cattails and other wetland plants.

• Olive-capped Flowerpecker Dicaeum nigrilore

  This flowerpecker is recorded in the mountains of Mindanao in the Philippines. The Mt. Kitanglad survey also records the colors of the eyes, bill, and legs in males.

• Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor

  The Lesser Grey Shrike hunts large beetles and other insects in open farmland and grassland. It migrates from European breeding areas to southern Africa.

• Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina

  The Icterine Warbler is a migrant that searches leafy branches for insects. Its greenish-brown back and yellow underside are useful field marks.

• Fulvous-chinned Nunlet Nonnula sclateri

  This bird occurs in lowland Amazonia in Peru, with many records from Ucayali and Madre de Dios. It is brown to gray-brown, has red orbital skin, and may sit motionless on a branch for long periods.

• 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.

• Azure-breasted Pitta Pitta steerii

  This pitta is conspicuous for its bright blue breast and red lower belly. It lives in lowland forest on a limited group of Philippine islands.

• Australian Pipit Anthus australis

  The Australian Pipit forages on the ground in open country across Australia.

• American Scoter Melanitta americana

  The American Scoter is a sea duck that breeds in boreal North America and moves to coastal waters in winter.

• Band-tailed Gull Larus belcheri

  The Band-tailed Gull is a large gull of the Pacific coast of South America, marked by a black tail band and a red-and-black bill tip.

• Curve-billed Reedhaunter Limnornis curvirostris

  This bird occurs in wetlands of Argentina and Uruguay. An 1888 natural-history account describes it in dense reeds rising from water, where it remains concealed.

• Sooty Robin Turdus nigrescens

  A thrush of the mountains of Costa Rica and far western Panama. Males are dark brown, with yellow bill and eye-ring, and search among leaf litter for prey.

• Tepui Vireo Hylophilus sclateri

  The Tepui Vireo lives in humid forest in the Pantepui region. It searches branches and leaves for small invertebrates. In a photograph of museum skins, the center of the chest and belly looks pale, with olive-green feathers visible on the throat and flanks.