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• Black-headed Munia Lonchura malacca

  

  The Black-headed Munia is a small Asian finch with a dark head and chest and a chestnut back. It gathers in wet grasslands and rice fields to search for seeds.

• Baillon's Crake Zapornia pusilla

  Baillon’s Crake is a small, secretive rail. The species ranges across Eurasia, southeastern Africa, Madagascar, New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand; the BTO account identifies eastern Europe as its main range.

• Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja

  The Harpy Eagle is a large bird of prey of tropical forests in Central and South America. Its facial feather disk and hunting among the trees are distinctive.

• Blue-mantled Thornbill Chalcostigma stanleyi

  This hummingbird occurs in the high Andes of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It uses humid scrub, Polylepis woodland and open areas with short grass.

• Black-spotted Bare-eye Phlegopsis nigromaculata

  This antbird lives in Amazonian forest. It forages in the understory and sometimes follows columns of army ants.

• Vilcabamba Spinetail Cranioleuca weskei

  The Vilcabamba Spinetail occurs in south-central Peru. Its 1984 description treated it as Cranioleuca marcapatae weskei; the 2025 Clements checklist recognizes it as a separate species.

• Mountain Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola fytchii

  The Mountain Bamboo Partridge has a brown head and olive-toned back, with chestnut spots across its breast. It uses forest, scrub, grassland, and bamboo cover.

• Sunset Lorikeet Trichoglossus forsteni

  This large parrot inhabits Indonesian islands. It has a purple head and underparts, red chest, and green collar, and moves in groups through forest edges, woodland, and plantations. BirdLife’s assessment page uses Scarlet-breasted Lorikeet for the same scientific name.

• Indian Jungle Crow Corvus culminatus

  This crow is recorded from southern peninsular India and Sri Lanka. ITIS, citing the IOC checklist, lists it as a species, while Clements 2024 keeps it among the subspecies of the Large-billed Crow. This entry describes the southern form in an older regional account.

• Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus

  A sparrow of North American grasslands and fields. It often sings at twilight, and white tail feathers flash in flight.

• Red-naped Sapsucker Sphyrapicus nuchalis

  The Red-naped Sapsucker is a North American woodpecker that drills rows of holes in trees to feed on sap.

• Buffy Fish Owl Ketupa ketupu

  The Buffy Fish Owl lives in wooded areas near water and mainly eats fish and other aquatic animals. Its yellow eyes, white spot between the brows, and prominent ear tufts stand out.

• Slaty-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon superciliaris

  This small flycatcher inhabits humid montane forest from Central America into the northern Andes. It forages below the canopy, catching insects in flight or from foliage.

• Spotted Forktail Enicurus maculatus

  The Spotted Forktail forages beside streams in mountain forest. Its long tail is deeply forked.

• Banded Green Sunbird Anthreptes rubritorques

  This sunbird lives in Tanzania's mountain forests. Males have a red breast band, and birds search for nectar and small insects high in trees.

• Huet's Fulvetta Alcippe hueti

  Huet’s Fulvetta is a small babbler of southern China. It may be found in the lower layers of evergreen broadleaf and secondary forest, sometimes in pairs or mixed-species flocks.

• White-winged Duck Asarcornis scutulata

  The White-winged Duck lives in wetlands beside forests. It moves between feeding areas and resting places around dawn and dusk.

• Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus

  Bobolinks breed in North American grasslands and migrate to South America for winter. In breeding plumage, males are marked by a white back and a yellow rear crown.

• Burnt-neck Eremomela Eremomela usticollis

  A small bird that gleans prey from leaves and branches in acacia woodland. It ranges across southern Africa and also occurs in dry riverbeds.

• Ecuadorian Thrush Turdus maculirostris

  The Ecuadorian Thrush is a forest bird recorded from coastal and foothill western Ecuador to northwestern Peru.

• Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator

  The Pine Grosbeak is a large bird with a thick bill. Males are reddish, while females and young birds are mostly gray; it eats buds, seeds, and fruit.

• Greater Flowerpiercer Diglossa major

  This large flowerpiercer occurs in southeastern Venezuela and adjacent northern Brazil. It has a broad black mask, bluish-slate plumage, and a pale blue-gray bill with a strongly hooked tip. It feeds on nectar and insects.

• Vogelkop Honeyeater Melidectes leucostephes

  This honeyeater is restricted to western New Guinea. It occurs in the mountains of the Vogelkop Peninsula and also in the Fakfak and Kumawa ranges of the Bomberai Peninsula.

• Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia

  The Black-and-white Warbler is a small songbird with bold black-and-white stripes. It creeps along trunks and branches, searching bark for insects.