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• Blue-crowned Trogon Trogon curucui

  

  The male has a blue head and chest with a red belly; the female’s head and chest are gray. In a Peruvian account, birds watched for prey from lower and middle parts of the canopy and dropped down to catch insects.

• Violaceous Coucal Centropus violaceus

  The Violaceous Coucal is a large coucal found only on New Britain and New Ireland. It searches for insects and small animals in trees in humid lowland forest.

• Madagascar Snipe Gallinago macrodactyla

  The Madagascar Snipe is a snipe of wetlands and rice fields on Madagascar.

• Pale-headed Munia Lonchura pallida

  The Pale-headed Munia has a pale head that contrasts with its darker body. It occurs in the lowlands of eastern Indonesia, including dry scrub, grassland, marshes, and farmland.

• African Blue Tit Cyanistes teneriffae

  A small tit with blue upperparts and a yellow underside. It inhabits woodland and scrub in the Canary Islands and North Africa, with some regional variation in wing markings.

• Blue Lorikeet Vini peruviana

  Adult Blue Lorikeets are dark blue-purple with white on the face and upper breast. They feed on nectar and soft fruit and move in small groups between flowering coconut palms.

• Sumba Green Pigeon Treron teysmannii

  This green pigeon is native only to Sumba, where it eats fruit in forest canopies and along edges that retain large trees.

• Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus

  A dark-brown eagle with yellow eyes and bare whitish legs. It often watches for snakes from a perch and ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa.

• Grey-throated Babbler Stachyris nigriceps

  The Grey-throated Babbler lives in the lower growth of Southeast Asian forests. White streaks mark its dark crown, and throat color varies among regional subspecies.

• Buru White-eye Zosterops buruensis

  The Buru White-eye is endemic to Buru Island, Indonesia, and has yellow underparts. A 1995 survey recorded it in logged and primary forest near Fogi and Waikeka; in 2011, small flocks were seen in forest near Waikeka.

• Green-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga nipalensis

  This sunbird has a long, curved bill and a long tail and lives in montane forest. Its diet is reported to include nectar and small arthropods.

• Papyrus Gonolek Laniarius mufumbiri

  This bush-shrike lives in East African papyrus wetlands. Adults have black upperparts, a yellow crown, a white wing bar, and orange-red underparts.

• Wood Pipit Anthus nyassae

  The Wood Pipit searches the grassy floor of woodland for insects and other small invertebrates in south-central Africa.

• Marquesan Monarch Pomarea mendozae

  This island endemic survives on Moho Tani in the Marquesas. It hunts insects, spiders, and small lizards in forest habitat.

• Pale-legged Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes

  The Pale-legged Leaf Warbler breeds in East Asia and winters farther south in Southeast Asia. It has olive-brown upperparts and a pale eyebrow.

• Pacific swift Apus pacificus

  A long-winged bird that catches insects in flight and visits Japan in summer.

• Collared Falconet Microhierax caerulescens

  The Collared Falconet is a small falcon of South and parts of Southeast Asia. It is active by day and catches insects and other small prey in flight, using open woodland, forest edges and farmland near water.

• Velvety Manakin Lepidothrix velutina

  This manakin ranges from Central America to western South America. Males court in the forest understory; a 2025 study in northwestern Ecuador found all six sampled display sites in primary forest.

• Samar Hornbill Penelopides samarensis

  A hornbill of several central Philippine islands. The male is strongly patterned in cream and black, while the female is mostly black.

• Opal-crowned Tanager Tangara callophrys

  This tanager forages in the canopy of mature Amazonian forests, often with mixed-species flocks. The Peru Aves account records it up to 1,000 m along the Andean foothills.

• White-throated Kingbird Tyrannus albogularis

  This tyrant flycatcher has a white throat and yellow belly. It is a seasonal visitor to the Peruvian Amazon, using semi-open places and forest edges.

• Gray Bunting Emberiza variabilis

  This bunting has dark blue-gray plumage in the male. It breeds in mountain areas and moves in autumn and winter to dark woodland thickets in places without persistent snow.

• Slaty-backed Thornbill Acanthiza robustirostris

  This small bird has a gray head, dark gray tail, and cinnamon rump. It lives in Australia's dry inland scrub and builds a globular nest from grass stems and spider web.

• Banded Cotinga Cotinga maculata

  The Banded Cotinga has shimmering blue and purple plumage in males; females are much less conspicuous and brown. Records from Brazil's eastern coast place it high in forest canopies.