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• Gray-throated Warbling Finch Microspingus cabanisi

  

  The Gray-throated Warbling Finch lives in woodland and forest edges in southeastern South America. Its throat and chest are pale horn-colored, its back is brown, and the outer tail feathers have small white spots. It is recorded as an omnivore in wooded habitats.

• African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro

  The African Goshawk is a widespread medium-sized African hawk. Its plumage varies by sex, age, and region.

• Audubon's Oriole Icterus graduacauda

  Audubon's Oriole is an oriole with a strong contrast between its black head, wings, and tail and its yellow body. It lives in woodland and brush in Mexico and southern Texas.

• Swallow-tailed Gull Creagrus furcatus

  An unusual gull that catches small fish and squid over the sea at night. Breeding adults show a red eye-ring, and head color changes outside the breeding plumage.

• Central American Pygmy Owl Glaucidium griseiceps

  This entry treats Glaucidium griseiceps as the Central American Pygmy Owl. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Least Pygmy Owl, and sources differ on the status of its local forms.

• Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis

  Breeding males have a golden head and build nests in grass. The bird eats insects and grass seeds and moves low among the vegetation.

• Indian Pied Myna Gracupica contra

  A starling with black-and-white plumage and a yellowish bill with an orange base. It forages in loose flocks near people.

• Himalayan Snowcock Tetraogallus himalayensis

  A large pheasant-family bird of high mountains from Central Asia to the Himalaya.

• Aztec Rail Rallus tenuirostris

  The Aztec Rail is a rail of Mexico’s highland freshwater marshes. A 2014 taxonomic proposal describes that population as bright rufous below, with diffuse barring on the flanks.

• White-spotted Woodpecker Veniliornis spilogaster

  This 16–20 cm woodpecker uses open forest and woodland and searches bark for invertebrates. Sound recordings include Ubatuba in São Paulo, Brazil.

• Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Leucosticte tephrocotis

  A pink-and-brown songbird of high North American mountains and Alaskan islands. In winter it moves lower to avoid heavy snow and may visit feeders.

• South African Shelduck Tadorna cana

  The South African Shelduck breeds at shallow freshwater and brackish wetlands in southern Africa. It uses holes in the ground for nesting.

• Burmese Collared Dove Streptopelia xanthocycla

  This dove is recorded in central Myanmar. A yellow ring of bare skin around the eye is a useful field mark. ITIS lists the name as valid and cites the 2025 IOC World Bird List.

• Black-and-white Antbird Myrmochanes hemileucus

  This small antbird is recorded in thickets on islands and along large rivers in the Amazon basin. Males have bold black-and-white plumage; females differ in appearance.

• Cameroon Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis

  A greenbul of the Cameroon Highlands. A field account near Bamenda describes it searching for insects and fruit among mosses, lichens, and peeling bark.

• Little Blue Macaw Cyanopsitta spixii

  The Little Blue Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) is a medium-sized parrot with grayish-blue plumage. Its historical wild range was limited to riverine woodland in northeastern Brazil.

• Gray-browed Brushfinch Arremon assimilis

  This roughly 20 cm bird lives in humid Andean montane forest. Yellow-olive upperparts, a striped gray-and-black head, and a white throat are distinctive.

• Greater Black Coucal Centropus menbeki

  The Greater Black Coucal is recorded from forest, scrub, and freshwater swamps on New Guinea. Adults have glossy blue-green black plumage, while juveniles look different.

• Rusty-crowned Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura pileata

  This tit-spinetail is endemic to Peru. It forages in Polylepis woodland and nearby scrub, and occurs on the western Andes and in the Marañón and upper Huallaga valleys.

• Pearl-bellied White-eye Zosterops grayi

  This small bird has yellowish plumage, a white belly, and a broad white eye-ring. It is found only on Kai Besar Island in Indonesia.

• Colima Warbler Leiothlypis crissalis

  This grey-brown bird has a distinct white eyering and a brilliant yellow base to the tail. On breeding grounds it searches foliage for insects and spiders.

• Forbes-Watson's Swift Apus berliozi

  Forbes-Watson's Swift has a pale throat patch with fine streaks. Its breeding range includes Socotra, Somalia, and the southern Arabian Peninsula.

• Rufous-backed Honeyeater Ptiloprora guisei

  During the Bishop Museum expedition to Mount Dayman in Papua New Guinea, it was recorded frequently above 1,400 m and used several forest strata.

• Brown-backed Solitaire Myadestes occidentalis

  The Brown-backed Solitaire is a thrush of mountain forests from Mexico into northern Central America. It is brown with gray markings and eats mostly fruit in forests near water.