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• Capuchinbird Perissocephalus tricolor

  

  This large cotinga searches for fruit in the canopy. A 1970 study in southern Guyana recorded males displaying at forest leks and feeding on fruit and insects.

• Many-colored Rush Tyrant Tachuris rubrigastra

  This colorful small bird lives in reedbeds at lakes and lagoons. It has a black head with a red crown and yellow eyebrow, makes short flights near the water, and nests in reeds.

• Miombo Tit Melaniparus griseiventris

  The Miombo Tit is a black, white, and grey member of the tit family. In Zimbabwean miombo woodland it forages on large trees and sometimes joins other small birds.

• Buffy Pipit Anthus vaalensis

  The Buffy Pipit lives in open grassland and searches the ground for insects and seeds. It occurs widely across southern Africa.

• Black Guan Chamaepetes unicolor

  The Black Guan is a large highland bird found from Costa Rica to western Panama. Its black plumage, red eye, and blue bare skin around the face are distinctive.

• Falkenstein's Greenbul Chlorocichla falkensteini

  Falkenstein's Greenbul is a bulbul ranging from southern Cameroon to western Angola. In Angola, the cited guide reports it along northern and central escarpments. That guide uses the English name Yellow-necked Greenbul.

• Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan

  A gull that breeds in large groups in North American prairie wetlands and winters along the coasts of Peru and Chile. Breeding adults may have a pale pink wash on the chest.

• Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus

  The Southern Masked Weaver lives in open areas of southern Africa. Breeding males have a striking black face and yellow body, and the species eats seeds and other foods.

• Collared Nightjar Gactornis enarratus

  The Collared Nightjar is a nocturnal bird found in Madagascar. It prefers humid forest, though it has also been recorded in other wooded habitats on the island.

• Timor Sparrow Lonchura fuscata

  This flocking bird is found in the eastern Lesser Sundas, in open scrub, farmland, and sparsely wooded country. eBird labels it Padda fuscata, while the batch list uses Lonchura fuscata, so the genus name differs.

• Rufous-throated Solitaire Myadestes genibarbis

  The Rufous-throated Solitaire is a year-round resident of Caribbean mountain forests. It is mostly gray, with a rufous throat and white outer tail feathers; plumage varies among islands.

• Metallic-green Tanager Tangara labradorides

  This small, iridescent green tanager is recorded in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It uses montane forest canopy and second growth and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis

  This coucal has a black cap and pale underparts. It searches for food among grasses and thickets, usually keeping to dense cover.

• Cinnamon-banded Kingfisher Todiramphus australasia

  The Cinnamon-banded Kingfisher has a green head and orange underparts. It lives in forests on Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands and the Tanimbar Islands.

• Arrowhead Piculet Picumnus minutissimus

  The Arrowhead Piculet is a small woodpecker of the coastal lowlands of the Guianas. Its underparts have an arrowhead-like scaly pattern; males have broad red feather tips on the crown.

• Silvered Antbird Sclateria naevia

  This antbird occurs in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. Males are gray and white, while females are browner. It lives on or near the ground in flooded evergreen forest and eats insects and arachnids.

• Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus

  Its black crest and yellow bill stand out. It also occurs in city parks and agricultural areas in Hong Kong.

• Malabar Gray Hornbill Ocyceros griseus

  Male and female Malabar Gray Hornbills have different bill shapes. These gray hornbills mainly eat fruit in forests.

• Auckland Islands Teal Anas aucklandica

  The Auckland Island teal is a flightless duck found only in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand. Both sexes are brown, with differences in plumage.

• 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.

• Scaly Chatterer Argya aylmeri

  It is gray-brown above, with a rufous crown and buff underparts. The throat and breast are scaled, and the bill is yellow. Small groups forage near and on the ground in dry shrubland and thickets.

• Pale-eyed Blackbird Agelasticus xanthophthalmus

  This bird has glossy black plumage and a pale eye. An adult was recorded at Cocha Cashu, Peru, in 1982; the species account lists wet grasslands and grassy margins of oxbow lakes as habitat.

• Doria's Goshawk Megatriorchis doriae

  A large raptor of New Guinea's lowland and foothill forests. It hunts birds in the forest, and a juvenile recorded at Varirata had a pale head and streaked underparts.

• Crested Spinetail Cranioleuca subcristata

  The Crested Spinetail is an ovenbird of forests in northern South America. It has a brownish face, a white eyebrow, and a slight crest, and it feeds mainly on arthropods.