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• Ash-throated Casiornis Casiornis fuscus

  

  A rufous flycatcher of Brazil. Its breeding habitat differs from the open woodland and savannas used by migrants outside the breeding period.

• White-tailed Rubythroat Luscinia pectoralis

  Bangladesh’s bird Red List records this bird as a winter visitor to the country. In its photograph, the male has a greyish body, a black face and throat, and a bright red throat patch.

• Golden Parrotbill Suthora verreauxi

  The Golden Parrotbill is a small bird, about 11 cm long, with a distinctive head and neck. It uses bamboo patches in pairs or small groups and eats insect larvae, small beetles and seeds.

• Costa Rican Swift Chaetura fumosa

  The Costa Rican Swift is sooty black with a pale gray rump band and lighter throat. On Costa Rica’s southern Pacific side, pairs are seen over forest and open country.

• Rwenzori Batis Batis diops

  This small bird inhabits montane forest in the Albertine Rift. It has contrasting black-blue and white plumage and searches the lower forest for insects.

• Russet-throated Puffbird Hypnelus ruficollis

  Nominate adults have pale cheeks and a russet throat and chest. They wait quietly on open branches and dart out after prey.

• Cincloramphus macrurus Megalurus macrurus

  A large grassbird of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. It has a long tail and searches dense grass for small invertebrates.

• Pale-mandibled Aracari Pteroglossus erythropygius

  This aracari is recorded from southwest Ecuador and northwest Peru. PeruAves describes it as rare in deciduous forest in extreme northwest Peru, where records extend to 800 m along the Andean foothills.

• Collared Babbler Gampsorhynchus torquatus

  An older bird account treated the Collared Babbler as the subspecies Gampsorhynchus rufulus torquatus. It describes rufous-brown upperparts and records the form from bamboo and evergreen forest.

• Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris

  It breeds in reedbeds and grassland; males give complex songs that include imitations of many other birds.

• Principe Weaver Ploceus princeps

  This weaver is endemic to Príncipe Island. A breeding male has a bright orange head and golden underparts; females have a yellow head and breast with a paler belly. It also uses farms, gardens, and forest edges.

• Anjouan Sunbird Cinnyris comorensis

  This sunbird is endemic to Anjouan in the Comoros. Males have glossy blue-green upperparts, and the species uses forest and thickets and eats insects and spiders.

• 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.

• Philippine Duck Anas luzonica

  The Philippine Duck is endemic to the Philippines and has a cinnamon-brown head with a black crown and eye stripe. It feeds at shallow wetlands.

• Sandhill Grasswren Amytornis oweni

  The Sandhill Grasswren is an Australian grasswren. Clements treated it as a species distinct from the related Pilbara Grasswren in 2024 and recognizes subspecies aenigma on the western Eyre Peninsula.

• Mindanao Blue Fantail Rhipidura superciliaris

  This blue fantail lives in lowland forest on Basilan and Mindanao. It has a blue head and long tail and feeds mostly on insects.

• Crossley's Vanga Mystacornis crossleyi

  Crossley’s Vanga has different male and female plumage and searches for small prey on the forest floor.

• White-winged Cotinga Xipholena atropurpurea

  The White-winged Cotinga is a fruit-eating bird of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. The male stands out with a black body and white wings.

• Tumbes Swallow Tachycineta stolzmanni

  The Tumbes Swallow has glossy blue upperparts, a white rump and belly, and a squared tail. It is uncommon within its restricted range in north-western Peru and also occurs in Ecuador, foraging close to the ground.

• Saffron-cowled Blackbird Xanthopsar flavus

  Males are conspicuously yellow and black, while females have dark brown where males are black. Some breeding records report extra males feeding nestlings.

• Hartlaub's Bustard Lissotis hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Bustard is a ground-dwelling bird active by day in open eastern African grassland. It eats both plant and animal foods.

• Namaqua Warbler Phragmacia substriata

  The Namaqua Warbler skulks in reedbeds near watercourses. It has a rufous-brown back and flanks contrasting with a white breast marked by faint streaks. The Namibian guide records it along the Orange River and at Fish River Canyon.

• Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina

  A thrush that breeds in forests of eastern North America and winters in lowland forests of Central America.

• Great-winged Petrel Pterodroma macroptera

  The Great-winged Petrel is a large seabird with long wings and all-dark plumage. It breeds on Southern Hemisphere islands and disperses widely over the oceans outside the breeding season.