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• Gray-hooded Parakeet Psilopsiagon aymara

  

  The Gray-hooded Parakeet lives in Andean scrub and farmland. It has a brownish-gray head and yellow-green flanks.

• Chuuk Monarch Metabolus rugensis

  The Chuuk Monarch is endemic to the Chuuk Islands. Baker’s 1951 account describes a mostly white male with a black face and throat and a mostly sooty-black female. The species uses large patches of primary forest and mangroves.

• Oberholser's Fruit Dove Ptilinopus gularis

  Oberholser's Fruit Dove is a dove of Sulawesi. A survey in Gorontalo found it associated with forest compared with coconut farms.

• Crested Drongo Dicrurus forficatus

  This black drongo has a crest and forked tail and occurs on Madagascar and Anjouan.

• African Dwarf Kingfisher Ispidina lecontei

  The African Dwarf Kingfisher is described as the world's smallest kingfisher, with an orange forehead, rufous crown, and blue-violet back.

• Slender-billed Thornbill Acanthiza iredalei

  On the northern shore of South Australia's Gulf St Vincent lives the Gulf St Vincent subspecies, A. i. rosinae, of the Slender-billed Thornbill.

• Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris

  The Slender-billed Greenbul needs to be described with its source limits in view. A Liberian subspecies record from 1899 notes a narrow, flattened bill, while a 2026 survey in the DRC caught it in primary forest sites.

• Bay Wren Cantorchilus nigricapillus

  A small bird of forest and second-growth edges, ranging from Costa Rica to western Ecuador. Regional forms in Panama differ in breast color and the barring beneath.

• Mekong Wagtail Motacilla samveasnae

  The Mekong Wagtail breeds along low-flow river channels with rocky or sandy bars and shrubs. Its 2001 description recorded a breeding range from Cambodia into southern Laos.

• Indian Golden Oriole Oriolus kundoo

  An oriole of the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia that forages in the canopy.

• Western Orphean Warbler Curruca hortensis

  The Western Orphean Warbler is a migratory warbler that breeds around the Mediterranean. The male has a gray head and back, a white throat, and pale pinkish underparts.

• Green Malkoha Ceuthmochares australis

  This cuckoo ranges from Ethiopia into southeastern Africa. It has green back, wings, and tail, with a heavy yellow bill.

• Black-bellied Tern Sterna acuticauda

  Breeding adults have a black head and belly, an orange bill and a deeply forked tail.

• Great-billed Munia Lonchura grandis

  A small bird of New Guinea's grasslands and wetlands, with a black head and underside set off by a yellow-orange rump.

• Giant Coot Fulica gigantea

  The giant coot has a red bill and legs and a yellow frontal shield. It lives on high Andean lakes and builds a large nest platform from aquatic plants.

• Citreoline Trogon Trogon citreolus

  The Citreoline Trogon has a yellow belly and pale eyes. It searches for food from branches in forests of western Mexico.

• Grey-hooded Warbler Phylloscopus xanthoschistos

  This leaf warbler is recorded in montane forest in southern Tibet. Its grey head, yellow-toned body, and facial markings help distinguish it.

• Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui

  The Yellow-spotted Barbet is a small forest barbet in Africa. It has yellow spots on a black body and eats small fruits.

• Flame-colored Tanager Piranga bidentata

  This tanager lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Panama. Adult males are orange-red and females are yellow, and the birds search for food in the canopy.

• Pink-throated Becard Pachyramphus minor

  It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of Amazonian forest. Males are blackish with a pink band on the lower throat; females are cinnamon with an extended gray cap.

• Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii

  A rounded-looking tail and a nearly black crown help identify this hawk. Virginia's atlas found breeding distribution in farmland and near towns as well as forested areas.

• Buffy-crowned Wood Partridge Dendrortyx leucophrys

  This ground-dwelling partridge has a long tail and short crest. It walks through undergrowth in moist mountain forest and secondary growth in Costa Rica.

• Yellow-browed Tit Sylviparus modestus

  The Yellow-browed Tit is a small mountain bird; the Himalayan nominate form has olive and yellow plumage.

• Striated Heron Butorides striata

  A small waterside heron found in Brazil around lakes, rivers, estuaries, and mangroves.