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• Wallacean Cuckooshrike Coracina personata

  

  The Wallacean Cuckooshrike occurs widely across the Lesser Sundas and Kai Islands. A survey on Alor and Pantar recorded birds in eucalyptus woodland and tropical forest, alone or in small groups.

• Tessmann's Flycatcher Muscicapa tessmanni

  This flycatcher was recorded in a Ghanaian forest survey. The 2009 paper uses the older genus Muscicapa, while a current species page lists it as Fraseria tessmanni.

• Puerto Rican Vireo Vireo latimeri

  It has a gray head, white breast, pale yellow belly, and a white eye-ring. It moves slowly through foliage, searching for insects, spiders, and small fruits.

• Volcano Junco Junco vulcani

  The Volcano Junco lives near volcanic summits in Costa Rica and western Panama. Adults have grey underparts and a black eye mask, and search for seeds and insects on the ground.

• Braun's Bushshrike Laniarius brauni

  This bushshrike is recorded in a restricted area of northern Angola. Its documented habitat includes secondary forest and forest edges.

• Drab Swiftlet Collocalia neglecta

  A resident swiftlet of Timor and other Lesser Sunda islands, it uses forest and dense vegetation and feeds on invertebrates.

• Stiles's Tapaculo Scytalopus stilesi

  Stiles's Tapaculo lives in humid montane forest in Colombia's Central Cordillera. It has dark plumage and searches for food in undergrowth and near the forest floor.

• Scissor-tailed Kite Chelictinia riocouri

  This slim grey-and-white kite has a long, deeply forked tail. It is a daytime bird of the dry Sahel, where it feeds mainly on invertebrates in semi-desert and sparsely grassed plains.

• Red-eyed Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys imberbis

  Erythrogenys imberbis is a scimitar babbler of Myanmar and Thailand. Clements' 2024 checklist treats it as a species split from the Himalayan E. erythrogenys.

• Cryptic Honeyeater Microptilotis imitatrix

  This honeyeater occurs in the Wet Tropics of north-eastern Queensland, Australia. In a comparative study, the form called imitatrix looked darker and more olive-green than the other Graceful Honeyeater form.

• Tahiti Monarch Pomarea nigra

  This forest monarch occurs on Tahiti. Young birds have orange plumage; black feathers increase as they mature, and birds are fully black at about four years old.

• Brown-bellied Swallow Orochelidon murina

  The Brown-bellied Swallow lives in the high Andes and forages above scrub, humid grassland, farmland, and settlements.

• Masked Yellowthroat Geothlypis aequinoctialis

  This small bird has yellow underparts and yellowish-green upperparts. Males have a black facial mask, which females lack; their facial markings also differ.

• 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.

• Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

  A large reed warbler that lives in wetlands. In Britain, its loud song can help observers find birds arriving during spring passage.

• Cinnamon Ibon Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus

  This sparrow-family bird lives in the cloud-forest canopy of Mindanao. Its skull has a feature also found in seed-eating sparrows.

• Rusty-backed Spinetail Cranioleuca vulpina

  The Rusty-backed Spinetail is a furnariid associated with Amazonian waterside woodland. Its rufous back, tail, and crown contrast with a pale eyebrow. PeruAves describes it feeding in pairs or small groups in flooded-forest understory and overhanging vegetation beside lakes or slow streams.

• Eastern Hooded Pitta Pitta novaeguineae

  The Eastern Hooded Pitta occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It is a current species split from the broader Hooded Pitta group and has a black head and red belly.

• Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa

  The Yellow-rumped Thornbill occurs in open woodland and grassland in eastern and southeastern Australia. Its yellow rump is distinctive, and it often feeds for insects on the ground.

• White-cheeked Tern Sterna repressa

  The White-cheeked Tern is a coastal seabird marked by white cheeks and a dark cap and feeds on fish and other marine prey.

• Plain-winged Antshrike Thamnophilus schistaceus

  This antshrike forages in the middle levels of Amazonian forest and often joins mixed-species flocks. Plumage differs by sex and between birds north and south of the Amazon River.

• Bristle-thighed Curlew Numenius tahitiensis

  The Bristle-thighed Curlew has a long, down-curved bill and a conspicuous head stripe. It breeds in western Alaska and migrates long distances to Pacific islands.

• Yellow-throated Fiji Whistler Pachycephala graeffii

  The Yellow-throated Fiji Whistler occurs on Fiji's islands. Male breast bands differ among island forms, and a tour account recorded very vocal birds on Taveuni.

• Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus

  This bulbul occurs in forests of western and central Africa. It has white spotting on the wings and tail, and also eats fruit and nectar.