Meet the world’s animals.

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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.

• Duetting Giant-Honeyeater Gymnomyza brunneirostris

  The Duetting Giant-Honeyeater is endemic to Viti Levu, Fiji. It inhabits rainforest and feeds on nectar, insects, and caterpillars.

• Blue-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra alinae

  This sunbird has a metallic blue-green head and olive-green upperparts. It occurs in montane forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi.

• Peach-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula aurea

  Its green wings have blue edges, and its face has fine markings. Pairs and small groups use open areas and wetland edges.

• Yellow-bibbed Lory Lorius chlorocercus

  The Yellow-bibbed Lory is a parrot with a red body, black crown, yellow chest band, and green wings. In the wild it lives in forests of the eastern Solomon Islands and eats flowers, fruit, and other foods.

• Sao Tome Green Pigeon Treron sanctithomae

  The Sao Tome Green Pigeon is restricted to Sao Tome Island in the Gulf of Guinea. It feeds on fruit high in forest canopies and also uses forest-edge plantations.

• Japanese Scops Owl Otus semitorques

  The Japanese Scops Owl blends into woodland with bark-like mottled plumage and is active at night.

• Red-necked Crake Rallina tricolor

  The Red-necked Crake ranges from eastern Indonesia through New Guinea to northeastern Australia. Adults are chestnut from the head to the breast.

• Rufous-throated Antbird Gymnopithys rufigula

  An antbird of northeastern South American lowland forest, including the Guianas and northeastern Brazil. It follows army-ant swarms to catch insects fleeing from the ants.

• Grey-backed Hawk Pseudastur occidentalis

  It has dark grey upperparts, a white underside, and a streaked head. A thick black band near the tip of its white tail is especially visible in flight.

• Scaly-breasted Woodpecker Celeus grammicus

  The Scaly-breasted Woodpecker occurs across the Amazon region. Adults are chestnut to rufous, with dark bars above and below; males have a red malar stripe.

• Pied Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites crassirostris

  This cuckoo occurs on the Tayandu and Kai islands and the Tanimbar Islands of eastern Indonesia. The current Clements checklist treats it as a distinct species split from Little Bronze-Cuckoo.

• Chirinda Apalis Apalis chirindensis

  The Inyanga National Park survey recorded Chirinda Apalis specimens in forest on the upper slopes of Pungwe Gorge. The account notes pale yellow-brown irises and small insects in stomach contents.

• White-bellied Hummingbird Elliotomyia chionogaster

  Subspecies hypoleucus ranges from southeastern Peru through Bolivia, eastern and central Brazil, Paraguay, and northwestern Argentina. A 2022 paper documented the first photographic records in Misiones, Argentina.

• Halmahera Golden Bulbul Hypsipetes chloris

  This bulbul occurs on Morotai, Halmahera, and Bacan in the North Moluccas. A 2013 paper uses the former genus combination Thapsinillas chloris, while the IUCN account uses Hypsipetes chloris. It is frequently recorded in forest and woodland, with some mangrove records.

• Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus

  This bird lives in humid forests from Central America into northern South America. It has a green back, white eyebrow, and pale throat edged in black, and feeds on fruit and insects in the lower vegetation.

• Seaside Sparrow Ammospiza maritima

  The Seaside Sparrow is a small sparrow of North American salt marshes. It searches mudflats for small animals and seeds with its long, heavy bill.

• Chestnut-capped Warbler Basileuterus delattrii

  The Chestnut-capped Warbler is associated with forest and second-growth habitat in Central America. A 2020 paper treated the delattrii group as a subspecies group of the Rufous-capped Warbler and compared its adult plumage and range.

• Chinese Grouse Tetrastes sewerzowi

  This grouse lives in mountain forests in China. Its brown body has a finely patterned belly, and it also eats buds and flowers in spring.

• Philippine Duck Anas luzonica

  The Philippine Duck is endemic to the Philippines and has a cinnamon-brown head with a black crown and eye stripe. It feeds at shallow wetlands.

• Ochre-cheeked Spinetail Synallaxis scutata

  A furnariid of South America. In southeastern Peru it forages in dense understory along forest edges and in second growth.

• Taiwan Thrush Turdus niveiceps

  This thrush is endemic to Taiwan. It breeds in montane forest at about 1,000–2,500 m and may descend to foothills and lowlands in winter.

• Hispaniolan Euphonia Euphonia musica

  The Hispaniolan Euphonia (Chlorophonia musica) is resident on Hispaniola, including Gonâve Island. It uses forest and semi-open habitats and feeds on fruit.

• Tawny-chested Flycatcher Aphanotriccus capitalis

  About 12 cm long, this small flycatcher has a gray head, white throat, orange-brown breast, and yellow belly. It hunts insects in dense forest undergrowth.