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• White-browed Antpitta Hylopezus ochroleucus

  

  This antpitta occurs in northeastern Brazil. It has a white eyebrow and a second pale line below it, with rufous flanks, and searches for small invertebrates near the forest floor.

• Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker Dicaeum melanozanthum

  A small bird of forests from the Himalayas into northern Southeast Asia. The male has a dark head and back with a yellow belly, and the species moves with elevation.

• Southern Boubou Laniarius ferrugineus

  The Southern Boubou moves through dense undergrowth and searches for prey near the ground. Males show a striking mix of black, white, and rufous.

• Negros Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus nigrorum

  A small leaf warbler widespread in the Philippines and associated with montane rainforest. eBird treats it as a species separate from Mountain Leaf Warbler.

• Kuhl's Lorikeet Vini kuhlii

  This small lorikeet is native to Rimatara. It is often recorded in plantations and around villages where flowers and fruit are plentiful, and feeds on nectar.

• Halmahera Golden Bulbul Hypsipetes chloris

  This bulbul occurs on Morotai, Halmahera, and Bacan in the North Moluccas. A 2013 paper uses the former genus combination Thapsinillas chloris, while the IUCN account uses Hypsipetes chloris. It is frequently recorded in forest and woodland, with some mangrove records.

• White-throated Gerygone Gerygone olivacea

  The White-throated Gerygone is a small bird with gray-brown upperparts and bright yellow underparts.

• Copper-throated Sunbird Leptocoma calcostetha

  Males stand out for their copper-red throat. The species feeds on flower nectar in coastal mangroves, and an observation also recorded it eating an arthropod.

• Palau Fantail Rhipidura lepida

  This fantail occurs in the understory of the Palau Islands. In the 1951 account, it foraged through brush alone or in pairs.

• Pavonine Quetzal Pharomachrus pavoninus

  The Pavonine Quetzal lives in the upper canopy of Amazonian forest. Adult males have a bill with an orange-red base and yellow tip, while much of the species' ecology remains poorly known.

• Spot-backed Antbird Hylophylax naevius

  This antbird lives in Amazon Basin forests. Males have black streaks on a white breast, while females have buff spots across the breast and belly. It forages in low forest cover.

• Black-striped Sparrow Arremonops conirostris

  The Black-striped Sparrow has a gray head marked with black stripes and yellow edging on the shoulder. In Costa Rica it uses shrubs and forest edges in humid lowlands, forming pairs or family groups.

• Dark-capped Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis

  The Dark-capped Yellow Warbler occurs in the Afrotropical region and uses scrub and open habitats near freshwater. It is listed at about 13 cm and 10–11 g, and gleans small invertebrates among foliage by day.

• Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula

  A small shorebird that breeds on beaches. Britain has birds present year-round, winter visitors, and birds passing through on migration.

• Grey-cheeked Nunlet Nonnula frontalis

  The Grey-cheeked Nunlet ranges from central Panama to northern Colombia in lowland forest. It has a long, slender blue-gray bill, red eye-ring, gray cheeks and chestnut crown, and catches arthropods from branches and leaves in short sallies.

• Chilean Mockingbird Mimus thenca

  This large mockingbird occurs in open woodland and scrub in Chile. Its long tail, white eyebrow, and dark facial stripe are conspicuous, and it eats insects and fruit. A breeding study in central Chile recorded cup nests built from thorny sticks.

• Scaly-naped Amazon Amazona mercenarius

  The Scaly-naped Amazon lives in Andean forests. This account separates the appearance and range of subspecies A. m. mercenarius from behavior reported for the species as a whole.

• Pied Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius flaviscapis

  The Pied Shrike-Babbler occurs on Java. Males and females differ in plumage, and the species searches for food in forest foliage.

• Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea

  This warbler has rich red-brown and creamy buff in summer, then becomes mostly green and white in fall. It searches lower branches of conifers on its breeding grounds.

• Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus

  The Dead Sea Sparrow is a small bird with a gray head and brown body. It is found around waterside vegetation, and at some breeding sites it nests in loose colonies.

• Wilson's Bird-of-paradise Diphyllodes respublica

  Wilson's Bird-of-paradise is a bird whose adult male has vivid colors and curved central tail feathers. It lives in hill forest on Waigeo and Batanta in Indonesia.

• Cory's Shearwater Calonectris borealis

  A large shearwater that breeds on islands in the eastern Atlantic. After breeding, it winters off South America and southern Africa, returning to colonies in spring.

• Heard Island Shag Leucocarbo nivalis

  This shag lives on Heard Island. Museum specimens of adults show white cheek plumage extending above the gape. A diet study found that benthic animals, especially polychaetes, were common prey for much of the island population. Clements 2025 includes nivalis as a subspecies of Imperial Shag.

• Band-winged Nightjar Systellura longirostris

  Its grey plumage with black and ochre markings camouflages it on the ground. It catches flying insects in open areas at dusk and at night, and rests on the ground by day. The range recorded here follows Argentina's national parks information system.