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• Green Barbet Stactolaema olivacea

  

  BirdLife South Africa's 2025 account describes a population restricted in South Africa to oNgoye Forest. It uses Cryptolybia olivacea and says the wider group's taxonomy remains unsettled. Local birds have bronzy-green upperparts and use the forest canopy.

• Vermilion Cardinal Cardinalis phoeniceus

  The male has a red body, crest, and black throat; the female is gray-brown with a red crest and tail. Pairs use dry scrub and dry lowland forest.

• Cryptic Becard Pachyramphus salvini

  Once included in the Black-and-white Becard, it was separated after genetic, morphological, and vocal comparisons. Its main range spans western Colombia, western Ecuador, north-western Peru, and the Marañón drainage.

• Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina

  The lesser spotted eagle searches from the air on long wings and catches small mammals and amphibians.

• Varied tit Sittiparus varius

  A small bird of lowland and low-mountain woods in Japan. Its bluish-grey wings and chestnut belly stand out.

• Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius cochlearius

  Its broad, flattened bill is distinctive. In mangroves and river-edge woodland of Central and South America, it ambushes fish and other prey at dim hours.

• Rock Bunting Emberiza cia

  The male Rock Bunting has a grey head with dark stripes and a warm-toned underside. It searches the ground for seeds and insects and lives around field edges and woodland margins.

• Hudsonian Whimbrel Numenius hudsonicus

  This shorebird breeds in Arctic North America and migrates as far south as South America. It searches mud and sand for crabs with its long curved bill.

• 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.

• Blue-moustached Bee-eater Merops mentalis

  This bee-eater lives in forests of West and Central Africa. It uses forest interiors, edges, and treefall gaps.

• Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae

  Costa's Hummingbird breeds in dry shrublands of the southwestern United States and nearby Mexico. Adult males show violet on the head and throat, while females are more subdued green-gray.

• Legge's Flowerpecker Dicaeum vincens

  This small flowerpecker is endemic to Sri Lanka. It is common in wet lowland forest, moves through the treetops and descends to feed on nectar, fruit, berries, and seeds.

• Salvadori's Antwren Myrmotherula minor

  This small antwren lives in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Males have a black throat patch extending onto the chest, and the species joins mixed-species flocks in lowland forest.

• White-bellied Spinetail Mazaria propinqua

  This ovenbird occurs in tall grass along large Amazonian rivers. Adults have a black throat, while juveniles have a whitish throat.

• Black-crowned Pitta Erythropitta ussheri

  This pitta is endemic to Borneo. It has a black crown and richly coloured body plumage, and searches for invertebrates on the forest floor.

• Swamp Boubou Laniarius bicolor

  This bushshrike has a black upper body and white underparts. Pairs live in thickets beside rivers and wetlands and feed mainly on invertebrates.

• Chin Hills Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis oatesi

  This wren-babbler has a very restricted range in Mizoram, eastern India, and the Chin Hills of northern Myanmar. It forages near the ground in dense montane undergrowth.

• Arfak Robin Heteromyias albispecularis

  The Arfak Robin lives in mountain forests of northwestern New Guinea. Its ash-grey head and white cheeks and throat stand out, and it mainly eats insects.

• Taiwan Hill Partridge Arborophila crudigularis

  This pheasant-family bird is endemic to Taiwan's mountain forests. Its black-and-white face and red legs stand out as it forages on the forest floor.

• Black-winged Lovebird Agapornis taranta

  Males have red feathers on the head. In East African mountain forests, these lovebirds live in small groups and carry nest material tucked between their feathers.

• Pinyon Jay Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus

  A blue jay that travels in large flocks, it gathers and caches pinyon pine seeds.

• White-headed Brush Finch Atlapetes albiceps

  This brush-finch occurs on the western Andean slope in Peru, using semi-humid scrub, forest edges, and undergrowth in deciduous woodland.

• Espanola Mockingbird Mimus macdonaldi

  This mockingbird lives only on Española in the Galápagos. It has a long tail and curved bill and eats insects, fruit, and other small prey.

• Yellow-faced Flameback Chrysocolaptes xanthocephalus

  A woodpecker of the Philippines. BirdLife's amended 2017 account describes adults with a yellow head, neck and belly, red back and wings, a red crown in males, and an entirely yellow head in females.