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• Boyaca Antpitta Grallaria alticola

  

  This antpitta occurs in Colombia's eastern Andes. The 2023 eBird taxonomy update treats it as separate from Tawny Antpitta (Grallaria quitensis). Todd's 1919 description of the adult male type records a dark back and ochre underparts with white mottling. A December 2025 field report records it foraging at Sumapaz National Park.

• Christmas Boobook Ninox natalis

  This owl lives in the forests of Christmas Island, with reddish-brown plumage and yellow eyes, and hunts at night.

• White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon

  This prinia uses scrub and forest edges across tropical Africa. It has a white throat and broad tail; field observations describe it in small groups among dense vegetation.

• Golden Myna Mino anais

  The Golden Myna has a black head and back with a broad orange-yellow collar along the sides of the neck. It forages for fruit in the canopy of New Guinea's lowland forests.

• Mountain Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron inopinatum

  The Mountain Peacock-Pheasant is a pheasant of montane forests in the Indomalayan region. It spends time on the forest floor and eats small animals such as insects.

• South Island Takahe Porphyrio hochstetteri

  The South Island Takahe is a large flightless rail with stout red legs and a strong bill. In the wild it feeds on grassland plants and may move into forest when snow is deep.

• Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus

  The Speckled Piculet is a tiny woodpecker with fine black-and-white markings. It searches trunks and branches for insects and is also recorded in natural forests in Hong Kong.

• House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus

  Adult males can show red or orange plumage. House Finches also often live near people.

• West Indian Whistling Duck Dendrocygna arborea

  The West Indian Whistling Duck is a large duck of Caribbean islands. It has a long neck and legs and is active at night.

• Tanna Fruit Dove Ptilinopus tannensis

  Endemic to Vanuatu, it feeds on fruit in the canopy of tall fruiting trees. Males have silver shoulder spots that females lack.

• Blackish Antbird Cercomacroides nigrescens

  The male and female have very different plumage. The species searches for insects in dense vines and shrubs at forest edges and in floodplain forest.

• Moluccan Cuckooshrike Coracina atriceps

  Glossy black head and breast stand out against the grey back and white belly. This cuckooshrike uses the upper forest canopy on the northern Moluccas and Seram.

• Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris

  It breeds in reedbeds and grassland; males give complex songs that include imitations of many other birds.

• White-chested Babbler Pellorneum rostratum

  A babbler of the peninsula and islands’ wet forests. It searches the forest floor for small invertebrates.

• Yellow-throated Scrubwren Neosericornis citreogularis

  The Yellow-throated Scrubwren is a ground-dwelling bird of rainforest and wet, densely vegetated gullies along Australia's east coast.

• Finsch's Bulbul Iole finschii

  Finsch's Bulbul has mainly olive-toned plumage. It uses the middle and upper forest and is seen in pairs or small groups searching for food.

• Ash-colored Tapaculo Myornis senilis

  This tapaculo lives in Andean montane forest. It is mostly gray, feeds near the ground, and appears to be associated with bamboo stands.

• Striated Caracara Phalcoboenus australis

  The Striated Caracara is a raptor of southern South America and nearby islands. It uses coastal and grassland habitats, scavenges carcasses, and may turn stones while searching for food.

• Grey-winged Cotinga Lipaugus conditus

  This cotinga was recorded in mountain cloud forests in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. A field report described calling males as similar to females but brighter, with a greyer face.

• Blue-winged Parrotlet Forpus xanthopterygius

  The Blue-winged Parrotlet is a small green parrot. Males of the nominate subspecies have blue-purple on the wings and rump, while females are green in those areas.

• Costa Rican Brush Finch Arremon costaricensis

  This brush finch lives in forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its 1907 description noted the olive back and yellow wing bend as differences from a close relative.

• Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx vagans

  The Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo lives in Southeast Asian forests. It has a hawk-like shape and a dark line behind the eye, and lays its eggs in nests of forest babblers.

• Marsh Tit Poecile palustris

  The Marsh Tit is a small bird with a glossy black cap and dark bib. In the UK it can be confused with the similar Willow Tit.

• White-browed Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura xenothorax

  This small bird lives in high-Andean Polylepis woodland in Peru. Its rufous head, long white eyebrow, and black-checkered white throat are distinctive.