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• Micronesian Myzomela Myzomela rubratra

  

  The Micronesian Myzomela is a red-and-black nectar-feeding bird that moves as flowers come into bloom. In the Mariana subspecies, the Guam population was gone by 1986; populations remain on Rota, Saipan, and Tinian.

• Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea

  The Grey Petrel ranges widely over the Southern Hemisphere's oceans. It has a grey body and white belly, and uses burrows on its breeding islands.

• Cinnamon-chested Flycatcher Ficedula buruensis

  This flycatcher is recorded in the mountains of Buru, Seram, and Kai Besar. In 2023, a male of the Kai Besar subspecies had brightly iridescent blue upperparts; another bird, possibly a female, looked less blue and more slate-grey.

• Grey Crow Corvus tristis

  This crow has bare pink facial skin and pale blue eyes. It is often seen in noisy groups in forests around New Guinea.

• Blue-naped Chlorophonia Chlorophonia cyanea

  The male is a small bird with vivid blue, green, and yellow plumage. It searches for fruit high in trees; the preserved account records it at nine southeastern Brazilian localities.

• White-tailed Warbler Poliolais lopezi

  This cisticolid lives in the forest understory of western equatorial Africa and also uses dense cover at forest edges and clearings.

• Arrowhead Warbler Setophaga pharetra

  This warbler is endemic to Jamaica. Adults have its namesake arrowhead-like streaking, while first-year birds have a different plumage and lack that pattern.

• Pied Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites crassirostris

  This cuckoo occurs on the Tayandu and Kai islands and the Tanimbar Islands of eastern Indonesia. The current Clements checklist treats it as a distinct species split from Little Bronze-Cuckoo.

• Amami Woodcock Scolopax mira

  The Amami Woodcock is a large ground-dwelling shorebird of broadleaf forests in the Amami Islands and northern Okinawa Island. Its dark plumage and long legs blend into the forest floor.

• Black-faced Waxbill Estrilda erythronotos

  The black-faced waxbill has a black face and red rump and flanks. The southern African form lives in Acacia thornveld and eats grass seeds and insects.

• Bourke's Parrot Neopsephotus bourkii

  Bourke's Parrot is a small parrot of dry scrub in inland Australia. It feeds on seeds on the ground.

• Black Cuckoo-Dove Turacoena modesta

  This large dove occurs on Timor and Wetar and feeds almost entirely on fruit.

• New Caledonian Goshawk Tachyspiza haplochroa

  The New Caledonian Goshawk is endemic to New Caledonia. It has a bluish-black head, wings, and back, a gray throat, and a white body below.

• Grey-hooded Ibon Lophozosterops pinaiae

  This white-eye occurs on Seram in Indonesia. It searches montane tree-fern forest for insects and fruit.

• Ruby-cheeked Sunbird Chalcoparia singalensis

  The Ruby-cheeked Sunbird has different male and female plumage. It forages high in trees, taking nectar from flowers and sometimes insects from spider webs.

• Blue Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone cyanescens

  The male has blue plumage and a dark face. This paradise flycatcher occurs on Palawan and the Calamian Islands in the southwestern Philippines, where it catches flying insects in primary and secondary forest.

• Mascarene Swiftlet Aerodramus francicus

  A swiftlet of Réunion and Mauritius, it has brown upperparts, a pale rump and a shallowly forked tail. It roosts in caves and lava tubes.

• Black-and-gold Tanager Bangsia melanochlamys

  The Black-and-gold Tanager is endemic to Colombia. It inhabits cloud forest in the western Andes and at the northern end of the Central Andes, and its plumage combines black, orange, yellow, and blue.

• Rufous-tailed Flatbill Ramphotrigon ruficauda

  This flycatcher uses the lower levels of South American forests. It has a reddish-brown body and rusty tail; a Brazilian breeding record describes a nest in a cavity in a standing dead trunk.

• Great Thrush Turdus fuscater

  A large thrush common in Andean highlands, it is brown with an orange bill and legs. Males have a yellow eye-ring.

• Fulvous Wren Cinnycerthia fulva

  The Fulvous Wren occurs in the eastern Andes of southeastern Peru and Bolivia. It is olive-rufous, with a pale eyebrow and throat and dark bars on the wings and tail.

• Cotton Pygmy-Goose Nettapus coromandelianus

  A very small duck that uses plant-rich freshwater areas in eastern Queensland, Australia.

• East Andean Antbird Drymophila caudata

  The East Andean Antbird is a small antbird of Colombia’s eastern Andean slopes. Males are dark, while females are browner or more rufous.

• Red-winged Lark Corypha hypermetra

  A 2024 taxonomic study places the nominate form from southern Somalia through Kenya to north-eastern Tanzania, and subspecies gallarum in Ethiopia. It cautions that range boundaries remain uncertain and separates the Kidepo form as another species.