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• New Caledonian Streaked Fantail Rhipidura verreauxi

  

  This small bird often fans its long tail. It has an observation record from Mont Koghi, New Caledonia, and lives in forest and forest edge.

• Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush Pterorhinus treacheri

  The Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush is endemic to Borneo, with a patchy distribution. The account describes three subspecies across the island's mountain regions.

• Puff-backed Bulbul Euptilotus eutilotus

  The Puff-backed Bulbul is a bulbul with a fluffy-looking back and a bold pale eye-ring.

• Little Wood Rail Aramides mangle

  The Little Wood Rail has a gray head and back, a reddish-brown breast and belly, and an orange-red base to the bill. It occurs in Brazilian coastal mangroves and nearby forests.

• White-ruffed Manakin Corapipo altera

  The White-ruffed Manakin lives in evergreen forests from eastern Honduras to northwestern Colombia. Adult males are glossy blue-black, with white feathers on the throat and under the tail.

• Papuan Pitta Erythropitta macklotii

  The Papuan Pitta inhabits forests on New Guinea and nearby islands. It has a red belly, rusty nape, black throat, and a blue breast band edged in black. In the 2024 eBird taxonomy, the former northern and southern pittas are treated as one species.

• Bali Myna Leucopsar rothschildi

  The Bali Myna is a white starling native to Bali, recognizable by its blue facial skin and white crest.

• White-capped Tanager Sericossypha albocristata

  This tanager lives in humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. Its white cap and red throat and chest stand out, and family groups forage in the upper forest.

• Large-footed Finch Pezopetes capitalis

  The Large-footed Finch inhabits mountain forest and páramo in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its large, powerful feet stand out, and it forages on or near the ground.

• Short-tailed albatross Phoebastria albatrus

  An albatross with long, narrow wings that searches for food at the sea surface.

• Baudin's Black Cockatoo Zanda baudinii

  Baudin’s black-cockatoo is a dark cockatoo from south-western Western Australia, with white cheek patches and white panels on its tail. It uses a long, slender bill to remove seeds from eucalypts.

• Blyth’s Swift Apus leuconyx

  This swift breeds in the outer Himalayas and Assam Hills and is recorded in India in winter. In the Nilgiri region of southern India, a study confirmed breeding from observations of birds carrying food.

• Arfak Honeyeater Melipotes gymnops

  Dark grey to sooty black covers the head and upper breast, with yellow bare skin around the eyes. It forages mainly in the canopy for small fruits and insects.

• Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina

  The Hooded Warbler is a small bird of low vegetation in eastern North American forests. Breeding males have a black hood.

• Scarlet-backed Woodpecker Veniliornis callonotus

  This small, colorful woodpecker is described from western Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It has a red back, white underparts, and sex-specific crown colors. BirdLife’s country records also include Colombia.

• Rufous-backed Wren Campylorhynchus capistratus

  A wren of Central American dry forest and scrub. Its white eyebrow and rufous back stand out, and it may build a globular nest in thorny trees.

• Redthroat Pyrrholaemus brunneus

  Redthroat is a bird of inland shrublands in Australia. The NSW profile places the state’s records in its far west and describes quiet foraging among low shrubs and on the ground.

• Islet White-eye Zosterops griseotinctus

  This white-eye occurs on Papua New Guinea's offshore islands. A 2015 study examined populations across the Louisiade and other archipelagos.

• Grey-collared Oriole Oriolus forsteni

  The Grey-collared Oriole is endemic to Seram in Indonesia’s southern Moluccan Islands. It uses primary forest from lowlands to mountains, foraging from the canopy to the middle storey.

• Sichuan Tit Poecile weigoldicus

  The Sichuan Tit inhabits high elevations in southwestern China, in coniferous forest and near the tree line at 2,200–4,310 m.

• Microeca flaviventris

  A small bird from New Caledonia with dark olive upperparts, grey-white throat, grey breast and yellow belly and flanks. A 2025 paper uses Cryptomicroeca flaviventris.

• Dickcissel Spiza americana

  The Dickcissel is a chunky grassland bird. Breeding males have a black V on the yellow chest; flocks can grow large during migration and winter.

• Seychelles Kestrel Falco araeus

  This small falcon lives on islands in the Seychelles. It hunts insects and small vertebrates, including skinks and geckos.

• Black-cowled Oriole Icterus prosthemelas

  This oriole ranges from Mexico through Central America. Males are black and yellow, while females and young birds are olive-toned. It eats fruit, insects, and nectar at woodland edges, orchards, and similar habitats.