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• White-speckled Laughingthrush Ianthocincla bieti

  

  Biet's Laughingthrush is endemic to China, but its distribution and population remain poorly documented. Two active nests found at Laojun Mountain in 2021 and 2024 were in mixed forest with bamboo.

• Common Squirrel-cuckoo Piaya cayana

  This cuckoo ranges from northeastern Mexico to northern Argentina in the tropics. It moves through trees with its long tail as it searches for insects.

• Bahama Swallow Tachycineta cyaneoviridis

  The Bahama Swallow is most often found on Andros in the Bahamas and uses both open fields and forest.

• Cuban Solitaire Myadestes elisabeth

  The Cuban Solitaire is a forest bird endemic to Cuba. Its brown upperparts, pale gray underparts, and white eyering are distinctive.

• Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus

  It is a small cisticola of African savannas and grasslands. During breeding, males sing from exposed perches and also perform aerial courtship displays.

• Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia

  The world's largest tern, with a large red bill. It pursues fish along coasts and on inland lakes and rivers.

• Emperor Goose Anser canagicus

  A goose with a striking white head and gray body. It feeds on coastal plants and shellfish; Alaska’s Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta is one part of its breeding range.

• Jamaican Parakeet Eupsittula nana

  The Jamaican Parakeet is a small green parakeet with olive coloring on the throat and upper breast. This account focuses on the Jamaican native form and on the habitat and food described for the species.

• Tibetan Rosefinch Carpodacus roborowskii

  A rosefinch of high elevations on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and nearby regions. It searches for food on the ground in rocky steppe and alpine meadows.

• Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica

  The Yellow-throated Warbler has a grey back and vivid yellow throat. It moves through the forest canopy, probing branches and pine needles for insects.

• Chestnut-tailed Starling Sturnia malabarica

  The Chestnut-tailed Starling is a small, pale starling with chestnut on the tail tips and sides near the vent.

• Plum-headed Finch Neochmia modesta

  Both sexes have a plum-colored head spot, while only the male has a dark chin spot. The JCU page documents a local occurrence in Townsville.

• Loveridge's Sunbird Cinnyris loveridgei

  Loveridge’s Sunbird is restricted to the mountains of Tanzania. Males have a golden-green head, a narrow violet breast band, and an orange-red breast; they visit flowers in montane forest.

• Polynesian Imperial Pigeon Ducula aurorae

  The Polynesian Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon still recorded on Makatea in French Polynesia. Adults have a pale grey head and green-glossed blue back, and they feed on fruit.

• Black-faced Antbird Myrmoborus myotherinus

  The Black-faced Antbird lives in humid Amazonian forests. Males are bluish grey and black, while females are brown with a black mask, so the sexes have different plumage. It forages in the middle and upper canopy for insects and other arthropods.

• Dark-throated Seedeater Sporophila ruficollis

  The Dark-throated Seedeater is a small bird of open South American landscapes. The male has a gray back, black throat and upper breast, and rufous rump and underparts; the female is olive-brown. Rare records from southeastern Peru are described as visits by migrants.

• Black-throated Honeyeater Caligavis subfrenata

  This honeyeater lives in the mountains of New Guinea. Its black throat and yellow-and-white ear patches are useful identification features.

• White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis

  A 1994 field-identification paper reports occurrence west to Sierra Leone in Upper Guinea, with an apparently isolated population in southern Senegal. It is encountered more often in gallery forest.

• Bar-bellied Woodcreeper Hylexetastes stresemanni

  This large woodcreeper occurs in humid Amazonian lowland forest. It has a large head, a short, large bill, and a short tail.

• Bukidnon Woodcock Scolopax bukidnonensis

  This woodcock inhabits montane and mossy montane forest in the Philippines, as well as adjacent clearings. Records are from northern and central Luzon and mountains on Mindanao.

• Wallace's Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus nanus

  Among the smaller eagles, it hunts birds, bats, and other vertebrates within or at the edge of tropical lowland forest.

• Blue-capped Redstart Phoenicurus coeruleocephala

  The Blue-capped Redstart is about 15 cm long, and the sexes differ in plumage. It takes small invertebrates in rocky mountain habitat and open pine forest by day. Recordings in northern India and Central Asia show only part of its range.

• Great Sapphirewing Pterophanes cyanopterus

  This large hummingbird has a dark green body and blue wings in the male; the female is green above and rufous below. In Bolivia it uses highland grassland and forest edges.

• Sooty Tyrannulet Serpophaga nigricans

  This small bird catches insects among riverside and wetland shrubs, moving between perches. Its white crown patch is usually concealed unless it is excited.