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• Sri Lanka Thrush Zoothera imbricata

  

  The Sri Lanka Thrush is endemic to Sri Lanka. Black scale-like markings pattern its pale plumage, and a black band shows across the white underwing in flight. A Sri Lankan study treated it as a ground-layer species and found higher density in forest than in buffer habitat.

• Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucura

  The male is black with a white rump and tail, while the female is browner.

• Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis

  Recorded throughout the year in Britain and Ireland. It is most widespread in the north and west and in uplands during breeding, and across much of the area in winter except the highest ground.

• Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus

  The Dead Sea Sparrow is a small bird with a gray head and brown body. It is found around waterside vegetation, and at some breeding sites it nests in loose colonies.

• Spectacled Prickletail Siptornis striaticollis

  The Spectacled Prickletail occurs on the eastern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It searches for food in the middle and lower canopy of humid montane forest.

• Caica Parrot Pyrilia caica

  Adults have a dark head and a broad yellowish collar. Juveniles do not yet have the adult’s black facial mask.

• Perija Tapaculo Scytalopus perijanus

  A small bird of the Serranía de Perijá on the Colombia–Venezuela border. It occurs in humid montane and elfin forest and páramo; one nest was found in low growth at a forest edge.

• Costa Rican Brush Finch Arremon costaricensis

  This brush finch lives in forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its 1907 description noted the olive back and yellow wing bend as differences from a close relative.

• White-faced Plover Charadrius dealbatus

  It is a plover with extensive white on the face that breeds in East Asia and winters along Southeast Asian coasts.

• Eungella Honeyeater Bolemoreus hindwoodi

  The Eungella Honeyeater is restricted to a small area of rainforest around the Clarke Range. A five-site study in 2019-2020 recorded it feeding on many kinds of flowers and fruits.

• Klages's Antbird Drymophila klagesi

  Klages's Antbird lives in montane forest from northern Venezuela to eastern Colombia. Pairs forage in bamboo and dense lower growth for insects and other small prey.

• Black Metaltail Metallura phoebe

  A hummingbird of Peru's western Andes. Males have an iridescent blue-green throat patch that females lack.

• Western Tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaea

  The Western Tinkerbird is a small African barbet recorded in several separated mountain regions. Its black back is marked by a broad yellow stripe running from crown to rump.

• Palau Fantail Rhipidura lepida

  This fantail occurs in the understory of the Palau Islands. In the 1951 account, it foraged through brush alone or in pairs.

• Yellow-crowned Gonolek Laniarius barbarus

  The Yellow-crowned Gonolek is about 23 cm long. It uses acacia thornbush savanna and woodland, searching branches and foliage for invertebrates.

• Retz's Helmetshrike Prionops retzii

  Retz's Helmetshrike lives in woodland south of the Sahara and forages in cohesive groups of several to more than a dozen birds.

• Many-banded Aracari Pteroglossus pluricinctus

  This toucan has a long bill and a banded chest. In northwestern South America it feeds mainly on fruit and nuts, sometimes taking insects, and roosts communally in tree cavities.

• Spectacled Parrotbill Suthora conspicillata

  A small bird of the mountains of central China, it has white rings around the eyes that look like spectacles. Small groups search among shrubs and forest edges.

• Black Manakin Xenopipo atronitens

  This manakin uses low forest on nutrient-poor soils. Males are glossy black and females dark olive; the account reports it in Peru and also in Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia.

• Purple-throated Cotinga Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema

  This cotinga has a purple throat. Adult males are black and white, while females are brown and barred, so the sexes look very different.

• 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.

• African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis

  The African Paradise-Flycatcher is an insect-eating bird of forests and woodland edges south of the Sahara. Males have elongated tail feathers, and plumage varies widely.

• Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla

  The Little Bunting is a small bunting that visits Britain from Russia. In Britain, most records are in autumn, and some birds are found in winter flocks of buntings.

• Little Swift Apus affinis

  The Little Swift catches food in the air. In southern Africa it also nests in colonies on bridges and buildings.