Meet the world’s animals.

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• Slate-throated Whitestart Myioborus miniatus

  

  The Slate-throated Whitestart lives in mountain forests and is marked by white edges on the tail and a reddish crown patch. Crown and belly colors vary by region.

• Yellow-throated Woodpecker Piculus flavigula

  This woodpecker inhabits Amazonian forest, including northern Peru. It may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Antillean Siskin Spinus dominicensis

  This small finch has strongly different male and female plumage. Males are conspicuously yellow, while females are mainly green. It lives in the mountains of Hispaniola.

• Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura

  A bulbul of western and central African forests. It eats fruit and other plant food and occurs in raffia-palm stands and damp forest near water.

• Swinhoe's Pheasant Lophura swinhoii

  Swinhoe's Pheasant lives in Taiwan's forests. The male stands out with a white crest and back and two long white tail feathers.

• White-browed Laughingthrush Pterorhinus sannio

  Its main range extends from northeastern India through Myanmar, northern Laos, and Vietnam to central and southern China. An isolated population also occurs in Hong Kong.

• Lawrence's Thrush Turdus lawrencii

  This thrush lives in the canopy of lowland Amazonian forest. It has dark brown upperparts, a rufous-brown belly, and a yellow bill and eye-ring skin.

• Ring-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas caribaea

  The Ring-tailed Pigeon is a large pigeon endemic to Jamaica. Its tail has a dark band and a broad pale tip, and it lives in forest.

• Forest Buzzard Buteo trizonatus

  A buzzard of southern African forests. It watches for prey from a perch, then drops down to catch it.

• Sooty-headed Tyrannulet Phyllomyias griseiceps

  The Sooty-headed Tyrannulet forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest. Peru Aves says its range is poorly understood and lists records in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil.

• Mountain Kingfisher Syma megarhyncha

  The Mountain Kingfisher is a large kingfisher of New Guinea's mountain forests. It has a longer bill than its close relative, although the black marking on the upper bill is absent in the Huon Peninsula subspecies.

• Red-eared Firetail Stagonopleura oculata

  This finch lives in forests in southwestern Australia. It has a red bill and ear patch and black-and-white spots on the belly.

• Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus

  The Chestnut-winged Starling has dark plumage with purple, green, and blue iridescence and chestnut patches on its wings.

• Rufous-crowned Sparrow Aimophila ruficeps

  The Rufous-crowned Sparrow is marked by reddish upperparts and a gray underside. It walks beneath low shrubs and grasses on dry, rocky hillsides to forage.

• Buff-bridled Inca Finch Incaspiza laeta

  This Inca finch occurs in Peru’s middle and upper Marañón drainage. Its grey head, black face, and broad buff cheek stripes are distinctive.

• Blue-capped Rock Thrush Monticola cinclorhynchus

  A thrush whose male has a blue head and orange body. It is recorded in forests and edges within Great Himalayan National Park.

• Violet Cuckoo Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus

  The Violet Cuckoo is notable for the male’s violet gloss and barred underside. It uses the canopy and lays its eggs in other birds’ nests.

• White-necked Crow Corvus leucognaphalus

  The White-necked Crow is a large corvid. Its present range is on Hispaniola and nearby islands.

• Unspotted Saw-whet Owl Aegolius ridgwayi

  The Unspotted Saw-whet Owl has a rounded head without ear-tufts and a brown facial disc edged in white. It is nocturnal and occurs in mountain forests from southern Mexico into Central America. Details of its diet and breeding remain poorly known.

• Western Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio

  In European wetlands, this large waterbird stands out for its purplish-blue body and red frontal shield. It handles reeds with its bill and feet.

• 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.

• Lined Antshrike Thamnophilus tenuepunctatus

  This antshrike has strongly different male and female plumage. It uses dense vegetation along humid forest edges in the eastern Andean foothills.

• Maroon Shining Parrot Prosopeia tabuensis

  A parrot of Fiji's forests, notable for reddish plumage and green wings. Fine details of its coloration vary by subspecies.

• Northern Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura longicauda

  This woodcreeper occurs in the Guianas and in Brazil north of the Amazon. In dry-ground and periodically flooded lowland forest, it climbs trunks from the base while searching for insects.