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• Black-tailed Native-hen Tribonyx ventralis

  

  This wetland bird has a blue-grey body and black tail. Large groups may appear or move after rain.

• Black-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus melanonotus

  This antshrike is recorded from Colombia north toward northwestern Venezuela. It uses forest understorey and mid-storey, as well as scrub beside shallow streams, and forages close to the ground.

• Changeable Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus cirrhatus

  The Changeable Hawk-Eagle is a forest raptor with pale and dark color morphs. The distribution and resident records cited here refer only to the documented localities.

• Rufous-breasted Piculet Picumnus rufiventris

  This small piculet occurs in western Amazonia. A 2013 field account recorded foraging among bamboo and vines and an apparent recently fledged juvenile.

• Bay Coucal Centropus celebensis

  The Bay Coucal has a mostly rufous body, with a gray crown and reddish wings. It moves through forest undergrowth on Sulawesi and nearby islands while searching for insects.

• Chestnut-faced Babbler Zosterornis whiteheadi

  This babbler is endemic to Luzon in the Philippines. It is recorded in mountain forest as well as open forest, secondary growth, and scrub.

• Little Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera hydrocharis

  This kingfisher has elongated central tail feathers. It lives in lowland forests on the Aru Islands and southern New Guinea, where it searches for insects on foliage and the ground.

• Hartert's Camaroptera Camaroptera harterti

  A small northwestern Angolan bird with gray-brown upperparts and green wings and tail. It uses humid forest undergrowth and thickets for small invertebrates.

• Amazilia Hummingbird Amazilis amazilia

  The Amazilia Hummingbird occurs west of the Andes. Its green throat and rufous belly stand out; it is found in coastal scrub and at gallery-forest edges.

• Black-headed Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla nigriceps

  The Black-headed Mountain Greenbul lives in mountain forests from southern Kenya to northern Tanzania. In the October 2024 Clements treatment, separated from the Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul, it has a blacker head and mainly gray underparts.

• Black-faced Grassquit Melanospiza bicolor

  The Black-faced Grassquit occurs across Caribbean islands and northern South America. It feeds mainly on grass and weed seeds, with insects also taken during the breeding season.

• Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina

  The Chipping Sparrow is a small North American bird with a conspicuous rufous crown as an adult. It searches for seeds in grassy places with trees and eats many insects during the breeding season.

• Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens

  The Black-throated Green Warbler has a yellow face and green back. In breeding-plumage males, black across the throat and chest is prominent; females and young birds have less black on the front.

• Bulwer's Pheasant Lophura bulweri

  A pheasant whose male has a blue face and large white tail. It lives in Borneo's montane tropical and highland rain forests.

• Common Merganser Mergus merganser

  A streamlined diving duck with a long, narrow bill that eats fish. It breeds widely across the north and moves south for winter.

• African Skimmer Rynchops flavirostris

  This waterbird has a lower bill longer than the upper one. It flies close to the surface with the lower bill in the water to catch small fish.

• Cream-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes albiventris

  This cinclodes occurs in the high Andes. It has a brown back, pale eyebrow, spotted breast and pale wing stripe, and walks on the ground to forage in grassland and by water.

• Russet Nightingale-Thrush Catharus occidentalis

  A thrush of montane forests in Mexico. Its reported body length is 15–18 cm; it forages on the ground by day and takes food including invertebrates.

• Taiwan Rosefinch Carpodacus formosanus

  An endemic bird of Taiwan's highlands. Nestlings of both sexes are brown; males may turn wine-red the following year, so brown plumage alone does not identify sex.

• Cinnamon-faced Tyrannulet Phylloscartes parkeri

  This small flycatcher is about 11.5 cm long. It ranges along the eastern Andean foothills of central and southeastern Peru and into adjacent northern Bolivia, using humid forest with tall canopy.

• White-browed Meadowlark Leistes superciliaris

  This icterid lives in open grasslands of South America. The male is black with red patches and a white eyebrow, while the female is brown-toned and looks different.

• Striated Laughingthrush Grammatoptila striata

  The Striated Laughingthrush is a brown, flocking bird with fine white streaks, found in forests of the Himalayan foothills.

• Rusty-tailed Flycatcher Muscicapa ruficauda

  This flycatcher occurs in Asia, including northern India and Nepal. Its rusty tail stands out; it breeds in open montane forest and searches for insects at forest edges and clearings in winter.

• White-necked Myna Streptocitta albicollis

  The White-necked Myna is a Sulawesi forest starling marked by a white collar and a long tail.