Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens

  

  The Eastern Wood-Pewee is a small bird of eastern North American forests that waits on a perch and catches flying insects.

• Bornean Black Magpie Platysmurus aterrimus

  This forest corvid is restricted to Borneo. The 2024 Clements treatment separates it from the Malay Black Magpie.

• Yellow-breasted Racket-tail Prioniturus flavicans

  The Yellow-breasted Racket-tail has a yellow breast and racket-shaped tips on its central tail feathers. It searches for food in the canopy of forests on Sulawesi and nearby islands, often in pairs or small groups.

• Ayeyarwady Bulbul Pycnonotus blanfordi

  The Ayeyarwady Bulbul is 17–20 cm long. It uses shrubland and other semi-open places, and is classified as an omnivore.

• Dusky Sunbird Cinnyris fuscus

  A breeding male has a glossy black head, back, and chest with a white belly. The orange pectoral tufts may show when he is excited or displaying. The species feeds mainly on nectar.

• White-breasted Antbird Rhegmatorhina hoffmannsi

  This antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory. Willis described the male with a white face, throat, and breast, a black crest, grey underparts, and greenish-brown upperparts; the female differs in crown and body pattern.

• Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum

  The Grasshopper Sparrow is a small bird that runs through tall grass while foraging. It can disappear among the grasses and sometimes sings an insect-like buzz from a stalk.

• Hispaniolan Parakeet Psittacara chloropterus

  The Hispaniolan Parakeet is a green parrot native to Hispaniola. A city survey in the Dominican Republic found that records were associated with the richness of tree species.

• Ochre-backed Woodpecker Celeus ochraceus

  This woodpecker occurs in northern and north-eastern Brazil. Males have a red cheek stripe, and a study in Maranhão recorded the species excavating nest cavities in tree trunks.

• Steely-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia saucerottei

  This hummingbird ranges from Central America to Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. It has a green body and a blue-black tail and feeds on flower nectar. It is recorded in secondary growth, scattered-tree savanna, coffee plantations, gardens, and edges of evergreen gallery forest.

• Thick-billed Ground Pigeon Trugon terrestris

  A large pigeon of New Guinea's forests, marked by a thick pale bill and rufous flanks. It searches for food on the forest floor.

• Baikal Teal Sibirionetta formosa

  A duck that breeds in eastern Siberia and winters in East Asia. In Hong Kong it is a scarce winter visitor to the Deep Bay area.

• Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus

  The Spotted Eagle-Owl is a nocturnal owl widespread in southern Africa. It can also live in towns with parks and gardens.

• Buff-headed Coucal Centropus milo

  The Buff-headed Coucal is a large coucal of the Solomon Islands' humid forests. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a black body with a buff head and chest.

• Red-pate Cisticola Cisticola ruficeps

  The Red-pate Cisticola is mainly an East African bird, with confirmed records in northeast Nigeria. The rust-red crown and gray back described below apply only to the breeding-plumaged scotoptera subspecies.

• Bugun Liocichla Liocichla bugunorum

  This liocichla was documented around Eaglenest in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Observations included sites from roadside scrub to primary forest.

• Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus

  A thrush with a white eyebrow stripe. It visits wooded areas in Japan in spring and autumn, often eating fruit high in trees.

• Harwood's Francolin Pternistis harwoodi

  This spurfowl is endemic to Ethiopia. At the study sites, breeding females' plumage blended with the ground and stones, while males gave territorial calls.

• Jamaican Euphonia Euphonia jamaica

  Males are bluish grey with a yellow band across the mid-belly; females and young birds are olive and grey. It eats fruit and buds.

• Semiplumbeous Hawk Leucopternis semiplumbeus

  This small raptor inhabits humid forest from Central America into northwestern South America. It uses the understory and lower canopy and rarely ventures into open areas.

• Black-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus affinis

  This honeyeater is endemic to Tasmania. It moves through the canopy of wet and dry sclerophyll forest while looking for food.

• Chiriqui Foliage-gleaner Automolus exsertus

  The Chiriqui Foliage-gleaner occurs on the Pacific slope from southwestern Costa Rica to western Panama. It skulks in humid forest undergrowth and has a rich buff throat, broad eyebrow, and dark rusty tail.

• Rusty-browed Warbling Finch Microspingus erythrophrys

  This small finch occurs along montane forest edges and in alder groves in Bolivia and Argentina. The male is marked by a blue-gray face and a long rusty eyebrow.

• White-gorgeted Flycatcher Anthipes monileger

  A forest flycatcher with a bright white throat, it searches for small invertebrates low in the undergrowth.