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• Grey-cowled Wood Rail Aramides cajaneus

  

  About 35.5 cm long. The olive-brown back, gray head and neck, rufous-and-black underparts, red legs, and yellow-green bill are useful field marks.

• Stub-tailed Antbird Sipia berlepschi

  This antbird occurs in lowlands of western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It uses densely vegetated lowland forest edges, light gaps, and second growth.

• Black-breasted Buzzard Hamirostra melanosternon

  This large raptor lives mainly in inland Australia. It takes prey on the ground and eats carrion; it is known for dropping stones to break eggs.

• Orinoco Piculet Picumnus pumilus

  This small woodpecker lives in humid forest in eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela and northwestern Brazil. It forages from low levels up to the canopy.

• Philippine Coucal Centropus viridis

  This coucal is about 41–43 cm long. It is active on the ground by day and feeds on ground invertebrates.

• Indochinese Yuhina Yuhina torqueola

  This small flocking bird occurs from Indochina into southern China. It is rufous-brown with a short grey crest and white underparts; chestnut ear-coverts have white streaks. Flocks forage in mature closed-canopy forest while calling to one another.

• Cinnamon-banded Kingfisher Todiramphus australasia

  The Cinnamon-banded Kingfisher has a green head and orange underparts. It lives in forests on Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands and the Tanimbar Islands.

• Sao Tome Prinia Prinia molleri

  This prinia is endemic to São Tomé. The study reports it as common in disturbed and edge habitats such as savanna, plantations, farmland and gardens, but rare and locally distributed in the primary-forest sites surveyed. It feeds low in the vegetation, from leaf undersides or the ground.

• Many-spotted Hummingbird Taphrospilus hypostictus

  This large hummingbird inhabits forest on the eastern slope of the Andes, with records from southern Colombia to Bolivia. Green spots on the white underparts and a white mark behind the eye are key features.

• African Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus nigricans

  The African Red-eyed Bulbul is a southern African bulbul marked by a red eye wattle. It lives in dry woodland, savanna, and Karoo scrub.

• Cinnamon Warbling Finch Poospiza ornata

  This small finch has a gray face and back, a chestnut patch on the mid-back, and cinnamon tones on its eyebrow and underparts. It breeds in Argentina’s Monte Desert and moves north-east in winter.

• Stripe-headed Brush-Finch Arremon torquatus

  The Stripe-headed Brush-Finch (Arremon torquatus) is a brush-finch of the southern Andes and forest understory. It has a black head with a pale central stripe and eyebrow, a white throat and a black breast band. The former Stripe-headed complex was divided into several lineages; this account is restricted to A. torquatus sensu stricto.

• Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla

  The Ovenbird has a spotted breast and bold black-and-orange crown stripes. It walks on the forest floor, searching among leaf litter for insects and other small prey.

• Gray-winged Francolin Scleroptila afra

  A finely patterned bird that blends into grassland, endemic to South Africa and Lesotho and found in mountains and rocky hills.

• Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator

  A diving duck with a long, thin bill and shaggy crest. It catches and eats fish.

• Western Gull Larus occidentalis

  A large gull of the Pacific coast, marked by a dark back, it eats fish and marine invertebrates.

• Chestnut-throated Spinetail Synallaxis cherriei

  This furnariid occurs in central and eastern Amazonia. Its wings are black, with chestnut upper coverts. In one northern Peruvian record, a bird called in young secondary growth and responded strongly to playback.

• Rufous-brown Solitaire Cichlopsis leucogenys

  This thrush has a disjunct range from northern South America through Peru to Brazil. In Peru it inhabits premontane forest and was recorded at Megantoni, Cusco, in 2022. Its body is ochraceous-brown, with a yellow bill, eye-ring, and legs.

• Plumbeous Euphonia Euphonia plumbea

  Male Plumbeous Euphonias have blue upperparts and yellow underparts. They occur in savanna with scattered trees and along woodland edges, where they eat small fruit.

• Dusky-tailed Flatbill Ramphotrigon fuscicauda

  This 15–17 cm flycatcher uses forest bamboo thickets and feeds on invertebrates. Sound recordings include sites in Peru’s Manu region.

• Subtropical Cacique Cacicus uropygialis

  The Subtropical Cacique occurs in the Andes from northwestern Venezuela through Colombia and Ecuador to southern Peru. It is recorded in the western and central Colombian Andes and at scattered sites along the eastern slope.

• Streaked Laughingthrush Trochalopteron lineatum

  This laughingthrush has fine grey and rufous streaks. It often moves on the ground among shrubs and forest edges around the Himalayas.

• Beck's Petrel Pseudobulweria becki

  Beck's Petrel is a small seabird with contrasting dark-brown and white plumage. It has been recorded at sea, but its breeding grounds have not been found.

• Moorland Chat Pinarochroa sordida

  The plumage and behaviour below come from a 1949 account of the Ruwenzori Mountains only. It describes birds above the bamboo zone, with dark brown upperparts, a faint wingbar and white outer tail feathers.