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• Vinaceous-breasted Amazon Amazona vinacea

  

  Adults are green with wine-red feathers on the head and breast. They feed on fruit and seeds in South America’s Atlantic Forest.

• Marigold Lorikeet Trichoglossus capistratus

  The Marigold Lorikeet is about 26 cm long. It occurs on Timor and nearby islands of the Lesser Sundas and may move in search of flowering trees.

• Burmese Collared Dove Streptopelia xanthocycla

  This dove is recorded in central Myanmar. A yellow ring of bare skin around the eye is a useful field mark. ITIS lists the name as valid and cites the 2025 IOC World Bird List.

• Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis

  The Winter Wren is a tiny, rounded brown bird that often holds its tail upright. It hops among fallen logs and roots while searching for insects.

• Eurasian Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris

  The Eurasian Crag Martin catches flying insects as it moves near cliffs and gorges.

• Christmas Boobook Ninox natalis

  This owl lives in the forests of Christmas Island, with reddish-brown plumage and yellow eyes, and hunts at night.

• Barred Rail Hypotaenidia torquata

  The Barred Rail occurs in the Philippines and Indonesia and uses wet grassland and wetlands. Its short cocked tail and rufous chest band help identify it.

• Pearly Antshrike Megastictus margaritatus

  An antshrike of Amazonian lowland forest. The sexes have different plumage, and records also come from northeastern and east-central Peru.

• Uganda Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus budongoensis

  The Uganda Woodland Warbler is recorded in Uganda's Budongo Forest and Kenya's Kakamega Forest. It is olive green above and pale below and searches dense undergrowth for invertebrates.

• Sultan Tit Melanochlora sultanea

  A large, conspicuous tit that joins mixed-species flocks in lowland forest canopies.

• Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura

  The Pin-tailed Snipe is a wetland bird that moves between breeding and wintering grounds.

• Grey-lined Hawk Buteo nitidus

  The Grey-lined Hawk is a raptor recorded in Bolivia's riverside forests and woodlands. It searches for prey from a perch.

• Crimson-bellied Woodpecker Campephilus haematogaster

  This large woodpecker has black upperparts and a red crest, rump, and underside. It chisels into wood for beetle larvae.

• Sunda Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis sepulcralis

  The Sunda Brush Cuckoo ranges from the Malay Peninsula through the Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, and the Philippines. It uses forests and edges as well as mangroves, parks, and gardens.

• White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae

  The blue-grey body and white face are distinctive. It walks through mudflats, shallows and wet grass after rain, taking fish, crabs, insects and other prey.

• Pygmy Ibon Oculocincta squamifrons

  This Bornean endemic has a patchy range in north-central Borneo. A survey in the Menyapa Mountains frequently recorded it at about 300 m.

• Spotted Antpitta Hylopezus macularius

  A ground-dwelling antpitta of humid Amazonian forest. This account follows the populations assigned to Hylopezus macularius in the taxonomic revision.

• Kai Monarch Symposiachrus leucurus

  A black-and-white monarch restricted to Indonesia's Kai Islands. Adults are black, with a white lower chest, belly, and outer tail feathers.

• Chattering Kingfisher Todiramphus tutus

  The Chattering Kingfisher is a South Pacific kingfisher with a blue-green back and bold white eyebrows. It catches insects in the air or among branches.

• Rufous-eared Warbler Malcorus pectoralis

  Its face and ear coverts are bright chestnut, while the head and back are buff-gray with black streaks. It lives in arid and semi-arid shrubland and searches for small invertebrates low in bushes or on the ground. It may move locally in response to rain.

• White-tailed Starfrontlet Coeligena phalerata

  The White-tailed Starfrontlet is a hummingbird known for the male’s white tail and the sexes’ different underside colors. It lives in humid mountain forest.

• Yellow-bellied Bulbul Alophoixus phaeocephalus

  The Yellow-bellied Bulbul has olive-brown upperparts and a bright yellow belly. It forms small groups in the middle storey of forests and eats fruit and insects.

• Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus

  This small bird feeds on nectar and fruit. Breeding males shine blue-violet and have different plumage from females.

• White-throated Towhee Melozone albicollis

  This towhee lives in the highlands of southern Mexico. Accounts place it in moist montane areas and high-elevation scrub, with Oaxaca highlighted as an observation region.