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• Rufous-faced Crake Rufirallus xenopterus

  

  The Rufous-faced Crake is an elusive rail recorded in shallowly flooded grassland in South America. Its head and back are rufous, and its wings have bold black-and-white bars.

• Gould's Jewelfront Heliodoxa aurescens

  This 11–12 cm hummingbird lives in lowland forests of western Amazonia. It drinks nectar and catches insects in flight.

• Planalto Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus pelzelni

  The Planalto Slaty Antshrike is an antbird of the lower forest layers in Brazil. A 2015 record from Sergipe described a nest at a forest edge where both sexes incubated and fed the chick.

• Black Bee-eater Merops gularis

  This African bee-eater lives in forests and at forest edges. It can look black from a distance, but red and blue stand out in good light.

• Chatham Islands Snipe Coenocorypha pusilla

  The Chatham Island Snipe is a small shorebird with finely patterned upperparts. It now lives on a small group of Chatham Islands and probes soil for food.

• Moluccan Hanging Parrot Loriculus amabilis

  This small parrot lives in the North Moluccas. It feeds on fruit in the forest canopy and is seen alone, in pairs, or in small groups.

• 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.

• Slaty Spinetail Synallaxis brachyura

  This spinetail is recorded in the humid forests of Tumbes in northwestern Peru. Adults are gray with a rufous crown, and they forage in low growth at forest edges and in secondary forest.

• 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.

• Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus

  The Dusky Warbler is a plain brown, inconspicuous bird that moves through brush and low vegetation.

• Jerdon's Nightjar Caprimulgus atripennis

  Jerdon's Nightjar is a nocturnal bird of southern India and Sri Lanka that catches insects in flight.

• Bahaman Parrot Amazona leucocephala

  The Bahaman Parrot has a green body, a white forehead, and reddish facial feathers. It occurs on Caribbean islands and is seen in pairs or flocks outside the breeding season.

• Black-fronted White-eye Zosterops minor

  The Black-fronted White-eye lives in hill forests and other wooded areas on New Guinea, where it searches the canopy for insects and fruit. Several regional subspecies are described, with differences in plumage.

• 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.

• Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea

  A gull closely tied to Arctic sea ice. Adults are white, while young birds keep dark mottling.

• Bicolored Antpitta Grallaria rufocinerea

  This ground-dwelling antpitta inhabits montane cloud forest in the Colombian Andes and northeastern Ecuador. It searches for insects on the forest floor.

• White-cheeked Pintail Anas bahamensis

  The White-cheeked Pintail is a duck with conspicuous white cheeks and orange at the base of its bill. It uses coastal lagoons and mangroves.

• Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta

  This grassland bird is known for a black V on its yellow breast and a flutelike song. It searches the ground for seeds and insects.

• Grey-throated Martin Riparia chinensis

  This small swallow ranges from Central to Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong, records are from above open country.

• Socorro Wren Troglodytes sissonii

  The Socorro Wren is a wren of Socorro Island, Mexico. Species accounts record it in dry forest and dry shrubland.

• Dark-necked Tailorbird Orthotomus atrogularis

  This small bird occurs widely in South and Southeast Asia. It has olive upperparts and a rufous crown; males have a dark throat patch.

• Ludwig's Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris ludovicensis

  This sunbird occurs in the western highlands of Angola. An Angola bird guide describes males with a blue rump and orange-red breast band, while females are duller and grayish.

• Chaplin's Barbet Lybius chaplini

  This Zambian barbet has a mostly white body, yellow-edged wings, and red skin around the eyes.

• Black Fantail Rhipidura atra

  The Black Fantail lives in New Guinea's mountain forests. One pair was observed nesting and raising young in the Arfak Mountains.