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• Brown Tit-Babbler Macronus striaticeps

  

  This babbler is endemic to the Philippines. The nominate subspecies has black-and-white crown stripes and pale streaks above; the Mindanao survey found it in several kinds of forest.

• Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris

  The current eBird name for this taxon is Yellow-chinned Sunbird. It ranges from Sierra Leone to Ghana in West Africa; the related gray-chinned taxon is now listed separately.

• Silvery-fronted Tapaculo Scytalopus argentifrons

  The Silvery-fronted Tapaculo occurs from Costa Rica into western Panama, in dense understory of wet montane forest and bamboo.

• Striolated Manakin Machaeropterus striolatus

  This small manakin occurs in the western Amazon. Males have a bright red crown and broken red breast band; females have a washed-out version of the male's streaking.

• Barred Dove Geopelia maugeus

  The Barred Dove is a small dove marked by a yellow bare eye-ring and strong bars from throat to breast. It eats seeds on islands of southeastern Indonesia.

• Musician Wren Cyphorhinus arada

  This small wren is recorded in Bolivian Amazonian forests. It forages mainly in leaf litter and keeps to dense lower growth or the ground, alone or in pairs.

• Red-legged Cormorant Poikilocarbo gaimardi

  The Red-legged Cormorant is a coastal South American cormorant. A white neck patch, red legs, and yellow bill stand out. It occurs on the Pacific coast from Peru to Chile and along southernmost Argentina on the Atlantic.

• Spotted Fantail Rhipidura perlata

  The Spotted Fantail is marked by fine spots on its breast and an active, tail-fanning way of pursuing insects. It forages inside forest rather than in more open areas.

• Santa Marta Antbird Drymophila hellmayri

  The Santa Marta Antbird is restricted to Colombia's Santa Marta Mountains. Its eBird species account places it in bamboo and says it is often detected first by voice.

• Black-cowled Saltator Saltator nigriceps

  This saltator ranges from southern Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It occurs in humid montane forest, forest edges, and scrub.

• Black-breasted Myzomela Myzomela vulnerata

  This small honeyeater is about 10 cm long. It lives in forests, edges, and shrubland on Timor and feeds on nectar.

• Buff-bellied Puffbird Notharchus swainsoni

  The Buff-bellied Puffbird lives in Atlantic Forest from southeastern Brazil through eastern Paraguay to northeastern Argentina, including forest and Cerrado edges.

• Ground Cuckooshrike Coracina maxima

  This large cuckooshrike lives in inland Australia. Two birds followed in the western Kimberley in 2025 repeatedly used the same roost and foraged on the ground in a recently burnt area.

• Green Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius xanthochlorus

  This small bird occurs in mountain regions from the Himalayas to southern China. Males have a gray head and olive upperparts, while females have a paler gray crown. The account records it in mixed mountain forest and oak-rhododendron woodland; some populations move in elevation.

• Black-browed Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla fusciceps

  The Black-browed Mountain Greenbul lives in montane forest in southeastern Africa. Its species account describes dense highland forest and fruit in its diet; a Tanzania photo page records birds in Poroto Ridge forest.

• Tapajos Scythebill Campylorhamphus probatus

  A scythebill occurring in the lowland Amazon of Brazil. The appearance and foraging details here apply only to subspecies cardosoi under the current treatment.

• Taiwan Barbet Psilopogon nuchalis

  The Taiwan Barbet lives in Taiwan’s broadleaf forest, parks, and gardens and mainly eats fruit. A historical account quoted by the museum says it can be hard to see among leaves, while its clear call can reveal it.

• Noble Snipe Gallinago nobilis

  The Noble Snipe is a secretive wader of wetlands near the Andean treeline. Its back has pale stripes, and the center of its belly is unmarked white.

• Black Harrier Circus maurus

  The Black Harrier is a southern African harrier that hunts small mammals and birds while flying low over the ground.

• Japanese robin Erithacus akahige

  A bird of dense mountain undergrowth that hops over the ground searching for small animals.

• Blue-tufted Starthroat Heliomaster furcifer

  The Blue-tufted Starthroat has a long, slightly curved black bill. Males have a violet-glittering throat and blue feathers on the sides of the neck and breast. It feeds mainly on nectar and also catches small insects in flight.

• Cinnamon Flycatcher Pyrrhomyias cinnamomeus

  In northwestern Argentina, the nominate subspecies is listed from Jujuy, Salta, and Tucumán. It has a dark chestnut head, with cinnamon-colored upper tail coverts and underparts.

• Dusky Lory Pseudeos fuscata

  The Dusky Lory has brown to olive plumage with yellow or red-orange areas. It follows flowering trees and shares communal roosts.

• Striped Wren-Babbler Kenopia striata

  The Striped Wren-Babbler is a small bird with white streaks on its dark head and chestnut back. It searches for small insects close to the ground in moist lowland forest, especially swampy areas.