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• White-eyed Foliage-gleaner Automolus leucophthalmus

  

  A pale area before the eye and a rufous tail help identify it. It searches in forest thickets and among ground litter, and has records at sites in southeastern Brazil.

• Blue Mountain Vireo Vireo osburni

  This vireo lives in humid montane forests of north-western Jamaica and feeds within dense leaf cover.

• Grey Tinamou Tinamus tao

  A large tinamou ranging from the eastern Andes to Brazil’s savanna woodland. It feeds mainly on fruit on the forest floor.

• Hume's Short-toed Lark Calandrella acutirostris

  Hume's Short-toed Lark breeds on dry, gravelly high ground and winters mainly in the northern and central Indian subcontinent. One bird recorded at Eilat in 1986 was described as rounder-headed and shorter-tailed than the related Short-toed Lark.

• 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.

• Black-capped White-eye Zosterops atricapilla

  This white-eye lives in montane forest. In 2025, a pair was observed taking nectar from flowers near a nest at Kinabalu Park, Malaysia.

• Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonorae

  A falcon that breeds on Mediterranean islands and coasts. Its young develop late in the breeding season, when migrating small birds are passing.

• Biak Hooded Pitta Pitta rosenbergii

  The Biak Hooded Pitta occurs on Biak Island. A local field guide notes the rosenbergii form’s deep blue flanks and lack of a glossy throat band. A record also documents it in secondary forest on Biak.

• Oaxaca Sparrow Aimophila notosticta

  A sparrow of interior Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Its black bill and black facial markings around a broken white eyering are distinctive.

• Rose-fronted Parakeet Pyrrhura roseifrons

  This parakeet occurs in the western Amazon. Adults have a reddish head and a dark breast marked with white. A survey in Peru’s Tapiche–Blanco region also recorded occasional daytime feeding in the forest canopy.

• Vogelkop Scrubwren Aethomyias rufescens

  This small bird has olive-brown upperparts and pale underparts. It inhabits mountain forest and secondary growth in northwestern New Guinea.

• Araripe Manakin Chiroxiphia bokermanni

  The male Araripe Manakin stands out with red, white, and black plumage and a forward-sweeping red crest. It is restricted to spring-fed forest and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Ryukyu Minivet Pericrocotus tegimae

  This minivet ranges from Japan's Ryukyu Islands through Kyushu to western Honshu. Males have a narrow white forehead band that is nearly absent in females.

• Palawan Flowerpecker Prionochilus plateni

  This small bird occurs on islands in the western Philippines. Males and females differ in color, and throat and breast colors also vary between island subspecies.

• Greater Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus rufescens

  This large reed warbler lives in reedbeds. In northeastern Namibia it climbs papyrus stems while searching for insects and small frogs.

• King of Saxony Bird-of-paradise Pteridophora alberti

  This bird-of-paradise lives in the forests of New Guinea’s central mountains. The male raises its long head plumes and displays them during courtship.

• European Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis rufula

  Its breeding range extends from the Iberian Peninsula across North Africa and the Middle East to northwestern South Asia. Northern populations migrate, while those in the south are mainly resident.

• Black-headed Parrotbill Paradoxornis margaritae

  The Black-headed Parrotbill is recorded in southern Annam, in southern Vietnam and adjacent Cambodia. It has a black cap and pale cheek area, and small flocks move through scrub along forest edges from lower vegetation to the canopy.

• Schlegel's Francolin Campocolinus schlegelii

  A small gamebird of Central African savanna woodland. Males show a rusty orange head and dark facial markings; the species eats leaves, seeds, grain, and caterpillars.

• Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius

  The Red-headed Lovebird is a small parrot with a red face and head and a green body. It moves in flocks, eats seeds and fruit, and nests in arboreal termite mounds.

• Virginia's Warbler Leiothlypis virginiae

  This small gray warbler has yellow on the chest and undertail. It searches among trees and shrubs in open pinyon-pine and oak woodland in the Southwest.

• Iago Sparrow Passer iagoensis

  The Iago Sparrow lives in towns and dry savannas of the Cape Verde archipelago. It is accustomed to people and may visit café terraces.

• Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla

  The white crown and black face make this robin-chat easy to recognize. It lives in forests, thickets, and gardens across northern and central Africa, and searches for food near the undergrowth.

• Isabelline Bush-hen Amaurornis isabellina

  This large, long-legged rail has chestnut underparts and greenish legs. It occurs in dense grassland and scrub in the lowlands and lower hills of Sulawesi.