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• Sulphur-breasted Parakeet Aratinga maculata

  

  The Sulphur-breasted Parakeet is recorded in northern Brazil. Its 2005 description used the name Aratinga pintoi; a later taxonomic paper explains that name as a synonym of Aratinga maculata.

• Colasisi Loriculus philippensis

  The Colasisi is a small parrot of the Philippine islands that feeds on nectar, blossoms, and fruit. It may forage upside down in the canopy.

• Buru Green Pigeon Treron aromaticus

  The Buru Green Pigeon is a forest pigeon with green plumage. Males have a chestnut back, females a green back, and the species is endemic to Buru Island.

• Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis

  The Northern White-faced Owl is a nocturnal owl of dry savanna and open woodland in sub-Saharan Africa. It occurs in both light and dark plumage morphs.

• 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.

• White-throated Antbird Oneillornis salvini

  This antbird lives in lowland Amazonian forest. The male is gray with a white throat, while the female is reddish brown with black barring; in Peru it uses the forest understory.

• Grey-backed Hawk Pseudastur occidentalis

  It has dark grey upperparts, a white underside, and a streaked head. A thick black band near the tip of its white tail is especially visible in flight.

• Scaly-breasted Woodpecker Celeus grammicus

  The Scaly-breasted Woodpecker occurs across the Amazon region. Adults are chestnut to rufous, with dark bars above and below; males have a red malar stripe.

• Pied Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites crassirostris

  This cuckoo occurs on the Tayandu and Kai islands and the Tanimbar Islands of eastern Indonesia. The current Clements checklist treats it as a distinct species split from Little Bronze-Cuckoo.

• Grey-breasted Prinia Prinia hodgsonii

  The Grey-breasted Prinia is a small, quick-moving bird of scrub and woodland edges. Its plumage changes with the season and is duller outside the breeding period.

• Blue-capped Puffleg Eriocnemis glaucopoides

  This resident hummingbird is recorded in Argentina and Bolivia, at elevations of 1,500–3,400 m.

• 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.

• Golden-collared Honeycreeper Iridophanes pulcherrimus

  This tanager-family bird occurs in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Males are strikingly patterned in black, blue, and gold.

• Seaside Sparrow Ammospiza maritima

  The Seaside Sparrow is a small sparrow of North American salt marshes. It searches mudflats for small animals and seeds with its long, heavy bill.

• Chestnut-capped Warbler Basileuterus delattrii

  The Chestnut-capped Warbler is associated with forest and second-growth habitat in Central America. A 2020 paper treated the delattrii group as a subspecies group of the Rufous-capped Warbler and compared its adult plumage and range.

• Chinese Grouse Tetrastes sewerzowi

  This grouse lives in mountain forests in China. Its brown body has a finely patterned belly, and it also eats buds and flowers in spring.

• Philippine Duck Anas luzonica

  The Philippine Duck is endemic to the Philippines and has a cinnamon-brown head with a black crown and eye stripe. It feeds at shallow wetlands.

• Sharp-billed Treehunter Heliobletus contaminatus

  This small bird lives in evergreen forest in South America. A broad pale-golden eyebrow and a dark stripe behind it help identify it.

• Red-legged Thrush Turdus plumbeus

  The Red-legged Thrush has blue-grey to slate-grey upperparts and bright reddish-orange legs. Its plumage varies among islands, and some subspecies have conspicuous white tail tips.

• Golden-sided Euphonia Euphonia cayennensis

  This small euphonia is found in northern South America, using humid forest, forest edges, savanna and secondary growth. It is recorded as sedentary and commonly eats fruit.

• Tawny-chested Flycatcher Aphanotriccus capitalis

  About 12 cm long, this small flycatcher has a gray head, white throat, orange-brown breast, and yellow belly. It hunts insects in dense forest undergrowth.

• Scaly Laughingthrush Trochalopteron subunicolor

  The Scaly Laughingthrush occurs in eastern Himalayan mountain forest and scrub, and may move to lower elevations in winter. A museum specimen is also recorded from Mount Fansipan in northern Vietnam.

• Ashy-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa randi

  This flycatcher occurs in moist lowland forest on Luzon and Negros in the Philippines. The account places it mainly below 1,000 m.

• White-throated Jay Cyanolyca mirabilis

  This small jay is dark blue with a striking black-and-white head pattern. It lives in mountain forests of southwestern Mexico and is seen in pairs or small groups.