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• Grey-crowned Negrofinch Nigrita canicapillus

  

  This small bird occurs in forests from western to eastern Africa. Its silvery-grey crown and back contrast with a black face and white spots on the upper wings.

• Red-necked Crake Rallina tricolor

  The Red-necked Crake ranges from eastern Indonesia through New Guinea to northeastern Australia. Adults are chestnut from the head to the breast.

• Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus ruficapilla

  This warbler occurs in scattered forests across southern and eastern Africa. It forages actively among leaves in the mid-stratum and canopy of mature evergreen forest. It is small and slender, with a narrow bill, a relatively long tail, and a dark line through the eye.

• Madagascar Buzzard Buteo brachypterus

  The Madagascar Buzzard is a medium-sized raptor endemic to Madagascar. It searches for prey on the ground in places such as forest edges and savannah.

• Fuegian Snipe Gallinago stricklandii

  The Fuegian Snipe occurs in the temperate-forest region of southern South America. It probes wet soil for small invertebrates with its long, slender bill; some birds have been recorded year-round in Cape Horn National Park.

• Gillett's Lark Calendulauda gilletti

  This lark occurs in eastern Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya. It has brown streaking and a rufous crown and searches for prey on the ground in semi-arid savanna. The source's treatment includes the former Degodi Lark.

• White-bellied Hummingbird Elliotomyia chionogaster

  Subspecies hypoleucus ranges from southeastern Peru through Bolivia, eastern and central Brazil, Paraguay, and northwestern Argentina. A 2022 paper documented the first photographic records in Misiones, Argentina.

• Guianan Streaked Antwren Myrmotherula surinamensis

  This small antwren inhabits riverside vine tangles and seasonally flooded forest. It gleans insects from leaves and is listed in a Smithsonian field checklist for Guyana.

• Henna-hooded Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis erythrocephalus

  This Andean forest ovenbird has a reddish hood, wings, and tail that stand out against its brown body. It searches for prey by moving dead leaves near the forest floor.

• Orange-necked Hill Partridge Arborophila davidi

  Surveys in southern Vietnam found it on slopes with bamboo and deep leaf litter. Its orange neck and black eye-stripe extending down the lower neck are distinctive.

• Gray-headed Lovebird Agapornis canus

  This lovebird is native to Madagascar. Males have a pale gray head and upper chest, while those areas are green in females. Wild birds feed on grass seeds.

• Asir Magpie Pica asirensis

  This long-tailed magpie is restricted to the mountains of southwestern Arabia and has white patches on its belly and sides.

• Pectoral Sparrow Arremon taciturnus

  This sparrow occurs in the forest understory of the Amazon Basin. White head stripes and the male's black breast band are useful field marks.

• Bay Woodpecker Blythipicus pyrrhotis

  The Bay Woodpecker climbs trunks and large branches while foraging. The Hong Kong account describes it in mature broad-leaved forest, alone, in pairs, or in small family groups.

• Rufescent Screech Owl Megascops ingens

  The Rufescent Screech Owl is a small nocturnal owl of humid Andean forests. The Bolivia account describes it alone or in pairs in dense middle-level foliage.

• White-fronted Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola albifrons

  In the Peruvian Andes, this ground-tyrant is associated with high-altitude bogs and cushion plants, at 3,700–4,900 m in the Peru Aves account. It can be locally common where suitable habitat occurs.

• Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher Ficedula strophiata

  The Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher has two subspecies. A male of F. s. strophiata is grayish with a white band above the eyes and a rufous breast patch, and searches for small invertebrates in forest undergrowth.

• Cape Verde Swift Apus alexandri

  The Cape Verde Swift is endemic to the Cape Verde Islands and breeds in crevices on cliffs and ravines.

• Scaly-feathered Weaver Sporopipes squamifrons

  The Scaly-feathered Weaver is a small bird with bold black-and-white head markings. It forages in groups on seeds in dry open woodland and grass patches of southern Africa.

• Violet-tailed Sunbird Anthreptes aurantius

  This sunbird uses wooded habitats near water in Central Africa and takes nectar and fruit. A study in the Republic of the Congo documented several adults feeding young both before and after they fledged.

• Vietnamese Cutia Cutia legalleni

  This babbler ranges across southeastern Laos and Vietnam. Males have rufous-chestnut backs, females have olive-brown backs, and both have black bars below. It searches mossy forest branches and trunks for food.

• Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata

  The Surf Scoter is a sea duck that nests in northern North America and spends the rest of its annual cycle mostly near ocean coasts.

• Eurasian Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris

  The Eurasian Crag Martin catches flying insects as it moves near cliffs and gorges.

• Orange Oriole Icterus auratus

  The Orange Oriole occurs on the Yucatán Peninsula and in northern Belize. It uses waterside forest edges and open woodland; males show orange and black plumage with white wing bars.