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• Greater Streaked Honeyeater Myza sarasinorum

  

  The Greater Streaked Honeyeater lives in Sulawesi's montane rainforest. Fine streaks on its dark plumage and a large ear patch are useful field marks.

• Kirtland's Warbler Setophaga kirtlandii

  This small bird has gray-and-yellow plumage. It breeds in young jack-pine forests and winters in scrubby parts of the Bahamas.

• White-breasted Cuckooshrike Coracina pectoralis

  This cuckooshrike lives in woodland and forest across sub-Saharan Africa. The pool name Coracina pectoralis is listed as Ceblepyris pectoralis in the current species account.

• Oriental Hobby Falco severus

  An Asian falcon that perches on exposed dead trees and launches quickly after prey.

• Stripe-headed Rhabdornis Rhabdornis mystacalis

  This bird lives in Philippine forest and woodland. The male has white streaks on the head and back, a white throat and central underparts, and black-striped flanks.

• Black-headed Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius rufiventer

  The Black-headed Shrike-Babbler lives in Himalayan forests. Males have a black head and chestnut breast, while females are mainly olive green.

• Tawny Antpitta Grallaria quitensis

  This antpitta occurs in the Andes from Colombia through Ecuador to northern Peru. Under the current treatment, Boyacá Antpitta and Atuen Antpitta, formerly included here, are separate species.

• Blue-throated Barbet Psilopogon asiaticus

  The Blue-throated Barbet has a green body and blue throat and ranges through forests from South Asia to northern mainland Southeast Asia.

• 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.