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• White-flanked Sunbird Aethopyga eximia

  

  This sunbird lives in the highlands of Java. Males and females differ in color, and both show white feathers on the flanks.

• Ornate Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla ornata

  The Ornate Stipplethroat occurs in the lower and middle forest layers of the Amazon region. It has been reported moving through hanging dead leaves while foraging.

• Short-billed Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus parvirostris

  This small bird inhabits humid forests on the eastern Andes from Colombia to northwestern Bolivia. It has olive upperparts and yellow lines at the sides of the throat; the gray below varies among subspecies.

• Puna Plover Charadrius alticola

  This small plover lives by high-Andean rivers and lakes. Its head and neck colors change between breeding and winter plumage.

• Brown-breasted Parakeet Pyrrhura calliptera

  The Brown-breasted Parakeet is a green parakeet that lives in small flocks in the humid montane forests of Colombia’s Eastern Andes, eating fruit, flowers, and seeds.

• Rufous-naped Greenlet Hylophilus semibrunneus

  This small greenlet occurs in forests of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Its nape is rusty brown and its back is greenish.

• Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis

  The Connecticut Warbler has a gray hood and yellow belly and breeds mainly in southern Canada. It walks near the ground to find insects.

• Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea

  A dark-brown seabird of the open ocean, with silvery flashes under its wings. It nests on Southern Hemisphere islands and dives to catch fish and other marine prey.

• Pennant-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus vexillarius

  The Pennant-winged Nightjar has a breeding male with long pennant-like feathers and catches insects in the air.

• Blood-colored Woodpecker Veniliornis sanguineus

  The Blood-colored Woodpecker is a woodpecker of the Guianas. A 1953 account from Suriname recorded it in coastal coffee plantations and dry sandy country inland.

• Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus

  The Northern Red Bishop changes markedly in the male's breeding plumage. Flocks feed mainly on seeds in wet grasslands and marshes.

• Black-crested Titmouse Baeolophus atricristatus

  The Black-crested Titmouse is a gray songbird with a bold black crest. It searches bark and branches for insects and seeds, and may join small flocks outside the breeding season.

• Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia castaneiventris

  A hummingbird endemic to Colombia, with a bronze-red back, chestnut belly, and iridescent green throat. It takes nectar and may defend sites where flowers are abundant.

• Peruvian Wren Cinnycerthia peruana

  The Peruvian Wren is rufous with dark bars and a noticeable grey eyebrow. It searches the understory in pairs or family groups in humid mountain forest on Peru's eastern Andean slope.

• Bradfield’s Swift Apus bradfieldi

  Bradfield’s Swift occurs from southwestern Angola through Namibia to northern South Africa. It flies in flocks over arid country and catches flying insects.

• Black-capped White-eye Zosterops atricapilla

  This white-eye lives in montane forest. In 2025, a pair was observed taking nectar from flowers near a nest at Kinabalu Park, Malaysia.

• Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis

  A large gull found around the Mediterranean and northwestern Africa. Adults have a gray back and yellowish legs.

• Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata

  The Red-eyed Dove has red eyes and a pink breast. It is resident in southern Africa, where it lives from riverine forest to suburban areas.

• Boyer's Cuckooshrike Coracina boyeri

  Boyer’s Cuckooshrike lives in forests of New Guinea. It occurs in moist lowland forest and mangroves, and compiled diet data classify it as frugivorous.

• Paperbark Flycatcher Myiagra nana

  This flycatcher lives in northern Australia. Adult males have a blue sheen on dark upperparts, while females often show an orange-buff breast.

• Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica

  The Hudsonian Godwit has long legs and a long, slightly upturned bill. It is reddish in breeding plumage and gray-brown outside the breeding season.

• Sunda Teal Anas gibberifrons

  The Sunda Teal is a small duck of wetlands around Indonesia and Timor. A small bump on the forehead helps distinguish it from similar teals.

• Monotonous Lark Mirafra passerina

  The Monotonous Lark is a ground-foraging bird of dry scrub and woodland. The Namibian account describes it as solitary or in pairs.

• Long-tufted Screech Owl Megascops sanctaecatarinae

  This owl is recorded in southern Brazil, northern Uruguay and northeastern Argentina. In Corrientes, Argentina, the first documented provincial records were reported in 2022.