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• Ruddy Treerunner Margarornis rubiginosus

  

  This ovenbird lives in the mountain forests of Costa Rica and Panama. It has bright rufous upperparts and a white eyebrow, and eats insects and spiders.

• Collared Grosbeak Mycerobas affinis

  The Collared Grosbeak is a large finch whose plumage differs between males and females. This account gives the Chinese part of its range described by the Kunming Institute of Zoology.

• Panama Flycatcher Myiarchus panamensis

  The Panama Flycatcher is a tyrant flycatcher found from southwestern Costa Rica to northern Venezuela. It uses semi-open scrub and woodland in lowlands and foothills.

• Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher Cyornis omissus

  The Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher is restricted here to Sulawesi's main island, Indonesia. A broad species account lists moist lowland and montane forest as habitats.

• Dusky-billed Parrotlet Forpus modestus

  A small parrot with different plumage in males and females. It uses forest edges and open lowland areas in northern South America, eating fruit, seeds, and berries.

• Blue-eared Lory Eos semilarvata

  This parrot occurs in the montane forests of Seram, Indonesia. Its dark-red body contrasts with purplish-blue cheeks and ear-coverts and black streaks on the wings. Flowers are part of its diet.

• Barking Imperial Pigeon Ducula latrans

  This large pigeon lives in Fiji's forests. Its gray head and breast contrast with a reddish-brown belly. It eats fruit and uses the forest canopy.

• Black-and-white Owl Strix nigrolineata

  The Black-and-white Owl is a nocturnal owl with bold black-and-white bars across its chest and neck.

• Sooretama Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus ambiguus

  This antbird occurs mainly near the coast of southeastern Brazil. Males are gray and black, while females are brown-toned; the species searches for insects along forest edges and in coastal woodland.

• Slender-billed Vulture Gyps tenuirostris

  The Slender-billed Vulture is a large scavenging vulture. A 2023–2025 survey recorded 20 nests at 12 sites in Upper Assam, India.

• Streak-breasted Woodpecker Picus viridanus

  It is a green woodpecker with a streaked breast, found in moist lowland forests and mangroves.

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris

  A tiny hummingbird that breeds in eastern North America. It hovers while taking nectar from flowers and migrates to Central America in autumn.

• Collared Warbling Finch Poospiza hispaniolensis

  The Collared Warbling Finch occurs in Ecuador and Peru. Males show a white eyebrow and breast band, while females are browner and have dark streaks on the breast and belly.

• Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus

  In introduced North American populations, males have a red face and white neck ring, while females are brown. They search the ground for seeds and insects.

• Salvadori's Teal Salvadorina waigiuensis

  Salvadori's Teal is a small duck of the New Guinea highlands. It lives along mountain streams and fast-flowing rivers.

• Austral Canastero Asthenes anthoides

  The Austral Canastero occurs in Patagonia in Chile and adjoining Argentina. It moves alone or in pairs through grassland and steppe with patches of shrubs.

• White-lored Euphonia Euphonia chrysopasta

  This small finch is recorded in Bolivian forests. It is mostly found in pairs in the canopy and mainly eats fruit, especially mistletoe berries. Its bill is pale gray with a dark tip.

• Salinas Monjita Neoxolmis salinarum

  A localized tyrant flycatcher of saline steppe around Argentina's Salinas Grandes and Ambargasta flats. It has a white underside and eyebrow, and the published nesting evidence is one nest placed in a low shrub.

• Ashy Flycatcher Muscicapa caerulescens

  The Ashy Flycatcher is grey to blue-grey, with a pale brow line that joins a narrow white eye-ring. It uses edges and clearings in dry and moist forest as well as moist savanna, catching mainly insects. The source uses Fraseria caerulescens and notes its former placement in Muscicapa.

• Chestnut-fronted Macaw Ara severus

  The Chestnut-fronted Macaw is a green macaw with a long tail and blue and red markings. It can be quiet and hard to spot in the canopy, and is usually in pairs or small flocks outside communal roosts.

• Philippine Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia tenuirostris

  A long-tailed dove found on islands in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan.

• Sao Tome Scops Owl Otus hartlaubi

  This small owl is endemic to São Tomé. Its rufous-brown plumage, white brows and chin, and dark belly streaks are distinctive.

• Cordillera Azul Antbird Myrmoderus eowilsoni

  This antbird is known from the Cordillera Azul of Peru. The describing paper reports it walking on the ground in humid montane forest and, at the time, known only from one ridge.

• Fiji Goshawk Tachyspiza rufitorques

  This diurnal hawk is reported from open woodland, well-wooded farmland, suburbs, and parks. Audio records on Oiseaux.net are from Fiji.