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• Emerald-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis aline

  

  This hummingbird ranges from Colombia through southwestern Ecuador to eastern Peru. It is usually solitary in the lower levels of humid cloud forest.

• Canebrake Groundcreeper Clibanornis dendrocolaptoides

  The Canebrake Groundcreeper lives in the southern Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and Misiones in Argentina. A 2025 Argentine review reports that it tunnels into vertical banks near springs or streams and that most recent Argentine records cluster in central-eastern Misiones.

• Mangrove Whistler Pachycephala cinerea

  This small bird occurs mainly in mangroves and nearby well-vegetated habitats. The eBird account notes song differences between Indian and Southeast Asian birds.

• Siamese Partridge Arborophila diversa

  The Thai diversa form has a pale-brown forehead and throat and a rich chestnut breast. It has been recorded in hill and montane evergreen forest at Khao Soi Dao.

• Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta

  The Long-toed Stint is a small shorebird with long toes. It breeds in northern Asia and migrates south for winter, using shallow wetlands and similar habitats.

• Chestnut Munia Lonchura atricapilla

  The Chestnut Munia has chestnut and glossy black plumage with a large pale bill. It feeds on seeds from grass heads in flocks and is native to grasslands, rice fields, and wetlands in southeastern Asia.

• 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.

• Tufted Tit-Tyrant Anairetes parulus

  Long black crown feathers form a crest, and the pale belly has dark streaks. In Chile it occurs widely in scrub and open places with scattered trees.

• Western Olivaceous Warbler Iduna opaca

  The Western Olivaceous Warbler is migratory. It breeds in North Africa and southern Iberia and winters in western sub-Saharan Africa. It also uses dry scrub, orchards, and thickets along rivers.

• Cinnamon Bracken Warbler Bradypterus cinnamomeus

  This bird occurs in damp scrub and thickets along forest edges in the East African highlands. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a pale eyebrow and a cinnamon-colored breast band.

• Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans

  The Crimson Rosella lives in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia. Alongside red adults, yellow and orange color forms occur in parts of its range.

• Zoe's Imperial Pigeon Ducula zoeae

  Zoe's Imperial Pigeon has a light grey head and a pink neck and upper breast. It inhabits moist forests on New Guinea and larger nearby islands and eats almost entirely fruit.

• Jobi Manucode Manucodia jobiensis

  The Jobi Manucode is a bird-of-paradise with blue-violet iridescence and red eyes. It feeds on fruit and arthropods in lowland forest on northern New Guinea and Yapen Island.

• Belford's Honeyeater Melidectes belfordi

  This large honeyeater inhabits high-elevation forests of New Guinea's central ranges. White scaling on the back and a stripe across the black head are useful field marks.

• Glossy-backed Becard Pachyramphus surinamus

  This becard occurs in the Guianas and lower Amazon region. It searches for insects and fruit in the upper and middle parts of humid forest.

• Buller's Shearwater Ardenna bulleri

  Buller's Shearwater breeds on the Poor Knights Islands of New Zealand and migrates to the North Pacific outside the breeding season. At sea it feeds on krill and small fish, among other prey.

• Green Oropendola Psarocolius viridis

  The Green Oropendola is uniformly dusky green, with a thick yellow-and-red bill and blue eyes. Males are larger than females, and the species uses forest canopy in Peru.

• Lowland White-eye Zosterops meyeni

  A white-eye recorded in the Philippines. An old museum catalogue describes the color of Luzon specimens, while Philippine Museum field notes describe small groups on Calayan Island.

• Italian Sparrow Passer italiae

  The Italian Sparrow occurs in towns and rural areas in Italy and uses places close to people. Males and females differ in head markings, and the birds nest in gaps in buildings and similar sites.

• Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus

  The Yellow-throated Tinkerbird is a small bird with a glossy bluish-black crown and a yellow throat and rump. The account lists three subspecies across coastal West and Central Africa, Uganda, and Bioko Island. It eats fruit.

• Agami Heron Agamia agami

  The Agami Heron is a tropical heron with a long neck and bill and a chestnut belly. During breeding, blue crest and back plumes grow longer, and the bird hunts fish at the water's edge.

• Indian Gray Hornbill Ocyceros birostris

  The Indian Gray Hornbill is a grayish-brown hornbill with a casque above the bill. The male's casque is larger than the female's.

• Manipur Fulvetta Fulvetta manipurensis

  This babbler ranges from northeastern India to northern Vietnam. Records in China are from western and southeastern Yunnan, where it searches for insects in forest undergrowth and bamboo thickets.

• White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata

  The White-tailed Alethe occurs in the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa. Its reddish crown and broad white tips on the outer tail feathers are distinctive. A Ghana study treated it as a sedentary forest specialist that forages for insects on the ground.