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• Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema

  

  A sunbird ranging from western and central Africa into eastern Africa. Males have metallic blue-green on the forehead, chin and throat.

• Scaled Antpitta Grallaria guatimalensis

  This antpitta has dark rufous-brown plumage, a gray head, and a scaled pattern on its back. In Peru, it is recorded foraging on the forest floor.

• Slender-billed Prion Pachyptila belcheri

  This small seabird breeds on islands near the southern tip of South America and in the southern Indian Ocean. Some reach New Zealand waters in winter.

• Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida

  A warbler of East African scrub and forest. Williams and Arlott's 1980 field guide describes a green bird with a grey, black-banded crown and a dark chestnut throat patch that skulks in dense thickets, often near water.

• Great Dusky Swift Cypseloides senex

  A dark-brown swift, it catches insects above forests and uses rocky waterfalls for resting and breeding.

• Wandering Tattler Tringa incana

  The Wandering Tattler has heavily barred gray-and-white underparts in breeding plumage and a plain gray chest outside the breeding season. It breeds beside northern rivers and moves to rocky Pacific shores and islands.

• Short-bearded Honeyeater Melionyx nouhuysi

  This dark-plumaged honeyeater has a short, white beard-like throat tuft. It lives in high mountains of western New Guinea among trees and shrubs.

• Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella ochotensis

  Cornell eBird currently uses Helopsaltes ochotensis for Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler. Locustella ochotensis, used in the pool and the BirdForum account, is an earlier genus combination.

• Pine Siskin Spinus pinus

  The Pine Siskin is a small finch widespread in North America. In winter it moves widely in response to seed crops.

• Snowy Egret Egretta thula

  A slender white heron with black legs and bright yellow feet that searches shallow water for small aquatic animals.

• Hispaniolan Palm Crow Corvus palmarum

  The Hispaniolan Palm Crow is a small, all-black crow found on Hispaniola. It eats fruit and invertebrates and often comes down to the ground to feed.

• Cinnamon-throated Hermit Phaethornis nattereri

  The Cinnamon-throated Hermit lives in dry forest, savanna and woodland. It follows regular trap-lines between flowers and also eats insects. Its range includes separated areas in eastern Bolivia and Brazil, whose connection is uncertain.

• Hooded Mountain Toucan Andigena cucullata

  The Hooded Mountain Toucan is a large toucan about half a metre long. It eats fruit in humid Andean forest.

• Blackish-blue Seedeater Amaurospiza moesta

  This small bird lives in South America's Atlantic Forest and is closely associated with bamboo. It eats bamboo buds, shoots and insects, and may move as bamboo conditions change.

• Superb Fruit Dove Ptilinopus superbus

  The Superb Fruit-Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon with different plumage in males and females. It searches for fruit in trees.

• Moustached Babbler Malacopteron magnirostre

  The Moustached Babbler forages in small groups in the middle levels of Southeast Asian forest. It is brown above and whitish below, with a dark moustachial stripe.

• Red-billed Helmetshrike Prionops caniceps

  It has a blue-grey crown and lores, glossy black upperparts and throat, a white breast, buff belly, and red bill. In West African forest it forages in small, noisy flocks.

• Mountain Wren Troglodytes solstitialis

  A broad buff eyebrow and rufous-brown upperparts mark this wren. It forages in humid montane forest and scrub in the Peruvian Andes, often with mixed-species flocks.

• Hume's Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus humei

  Hume's Leaf Warbler breeds from Central Asia into China and migrates south for winter. The HKBWS account says most Hong Kong records are of subspecies mandellii.

• Green Barbet Stactolaema olivacea

  BirdLife South Africa's 2025 account describes a population restricted in South Africa to oNgoye Forest. It uses Cryptolybia olivacea and says the wider group's taxonomy remains unsettled. Local birds have bronzy-green upperparts and use the forest canopy.

• Iphis Monarch Pomarea iphis

  The Iphis Monarch occurs on Ua Huka in the Marquesas Islands. It lives in valley forests and eats insects. Its plumage differs by sex and age.

• Crested Owl Lophostrix cristata

  The Crested Owl has a chestnut-brown body and long ear tufts and is active at night in humid forest. It hunts insects and small animals from a perch.

• Javan Plover Charadrius javanicus

  It is a small plover recorded in Indonesia and Timor-Leste, with an incomplete white hindneck collar and pale, long legs.

• Grey-tailed Piha Snowornis subalaris

  The species lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope, with records in Colombia and Ecuador at about 800–1,350 m. Its populations are disjunct.