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• Variegated Tinamou Crypturellus variegatus

  

  The Variegated Tinamou is a wary bird of humid forests in northern South America. Its rufous neck and dark bars across the back are striking features.

• Large-billed Lark Galerida magnirostris

  The Large-billed Lark is marked by a thick bill and a raised crest. It walks on the ground to find food in the grasslands and scrub of southern Africa.

• Red-headed Trogon Harpactes erythrocephalus

  In the Vietnamese adult description, the male’s head and breast are dark red, while the female’s are olive-brown. A study in Thailand found it nesting in cavities in rotting wood.

• Reunion Olive White-eye Zosterops olivaceus

  A white-eye endemic to Réunion, with yellow-green plumage and a conspicuous white ring around the eye.

• Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis

  The Bat Falcon hunts in forests and at forest edges in Central and South America. Despite its name, it eats bats but mainly preys on small birds and large insects.

• Papuan Pitta Erythropitta macklotii

  The Papuan Pitta inhabits forests on New Guinea and nearby islands. It has a red belly, rusty nape, black throat, and a blue breast band edged in black. In the 2024 eBird taxonomy, the former northern and southern pittas are treated as one species.

• Black-chested Sparrow Peucaea humeralis

  This sparrow is locally distributed in inland southwestern Mexico. It moves in pairs or small groups through dry scrub on slopes and in valleys.

• White-crowned Parrot Pionus senilis

  The White-crowned Parrot is a Central American parrot with a white head and blue-green cheeks. It flies in pairs or small flocks and eats fruits and seeds.

• Speckled Warbler Pyrrholaemus sagittatus

  This small ground-dwelling bird lives in grassy eucalypt communities of south-eastern Australia. Its grey-brown plumage is finely streaked, and it searches for seeds and insects around tussocks.

• Yellow-headed Manakin Chloropipo flavicapilla

  The male has a yellow head and olive back. It lives in the lower growth of Andean forest and feeds on fruit.

• Indian Cuckooshrike Coracina macei

  The Indian Cuckooshrike occurs on the Indian peninsula and Sri Lanka. The male described from India has gray upperparts, a dark face mask, and fine gray bars on its white belly.

• Red-keeled Flowerpecker Dicaeum australe

  A Philippine flowerpecker that feeds on fruit and nectar.

• Cook Reed Warbler Acrocephalus kerearako

  The Cook Reed Warbler is an island reed warbler of the Cook Islands. Bell’s comparative study covers populations on Mangaia and Mitiaro and records the species beside lakes, ponds, and rivers.

• Western Parotia Parotia sefilata

  Males are black with a white forehead, an iridescent breast shield, and wire-like head plumes. They eat fruit and arthropods and perform courtship dances in mountain forest.

• Tree Martin Petrochelidon nigricans

  The Tree Martin has a glossy blue-black head and back, a red-brown forehead, and a light gray rump. It catches insects in flight.

• Spectacled Fulvetta Fulvetta ruficapilla

  This small fulvetta occurs in central and southern China. It has a brown to gray-brown crown, a dark side crown stripe, a broad pale-gray eyebrow, and rufous wings. It eats invertebrates and seeds.

• Copper pheasant Syrmaticus soemmerringii

  A pheasant of Japan’s mountain forests, with a conspicuously long tail in males.

• Edwards's Fig Parrot Psittaculirostris edwardsii

  The adult male has red cheeks and throat and a blue-black breast band. Pairs and flocks visit fruiting trees in New Guinea.

• Grey-and-gold Warbler Myiothlypis fraseri

  A wood-warbler of humid forest in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It searches for food in shrubs and dense lower vegetation.

• Tibetan Snowfinch Montifringilla adamsi

  White wings stand out on this high-altitude sparrow. It searches for food in meadows and pastures and may gather near people.

• Lesser Shortwing Brachypteryx leucophris

  The Lesser Shortwing is a small brown flycatcher with very short wings and tail and a white eyebrow that can become conspicuous when excited. It stays secretive in forest undergrowth.

• Red-necked Crake Rallina tricolor

  The Red-necked Crake ranges from eastern Indonesia through New Guinea to northeastern Australia. Adults are chestnut from the head to the breast.

• Many-colored Bushshrike Chlorophoneus multicolor

  This bushshrike lives in forests of western and central Africa. It has several plumage forms, including birds with orange or red underparts.

• Black Nunbird Monasa atra

  The Black Nunbird is about 25–29 cm long. It is diurnal in northern South American humid forest and scrub, where it sallies to take small invertebrates from nearby surfaces.