Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant Anairetes alpinus

  

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It moves along outer branches in Polylepis woodland and searches for caterpillars and other insects.

• Tufted Jay Cyanocorax dickeyi

  The Tufted Jay is a jay of western Mexico, recognized by its black fan-shaped crest and blue back. It moves through the forest in small groups.

• Seychelles Black Parrot Coracopsis barklyi

  Despite its name, the Seychelles Black Parrot is pale brown-grey, not black. It lives on Praslin, where native palm fruits are a preferred food.

• Black-headed Bulbul Brachypodius melanocephalos

  The common color morph has a glossy black head with olive and yellow body plumage. Small groups feed on fruit in forests and forest edges from northeastern India through Southeast Asia.

• Brown-throated Sunbird Anthreptes malacensis

  The Brown-throated Sunbird lives in Southeast Asian forests and mangroves, as well as parks. Males have green heads and yellow bellies, and the birds feed on nectar and insects.

• Ferruginous Antbird Drymophila ferruginea

  This antbird lives in humid forest and bamboo thickets in southeastern Brazil. Its black head has a white eyebrow and cheeks; its black tail has broad white bars, and its underparts are rusty.

• Tepui Brush Finch Atlapetes personatus

  This brushfinch lives in wet tepui forest in the Guiana Highlands; the male has a cinnamon-rufous nape and yellow underparts and forages near the ground.

• Santa Marta Parakeet Pyrrhura viridicata

  This parakeet has a dark green body and an orange-red belly. In the wild it flies between forest patches in small flocks and eats fruit and seeds.

• European Green Woodpecker Picus viridis

  A woodpecker found in lowland Britain. It has a green body and red crown, and searches the ground for ants.

• Purple-backed Sunbeam Aglaeactis aliciae

  Male Purple-backed Sunbeams have iridescent purple backs and rumps. This hummingbird feeds on nectar and small insects on high Andean slopes in northern Peru.

• Taiwan Green Pigeon Treron formosae

  In the Taiwan account, the male has a rusty-orange crown and nape, with some purple feathers on the shoulder. It eats fruit in the forest canopy.

• 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.

• Principe Scops Owl Otus bikegila

  This small owl was described from Príncipe Island in the Gulf of Guinea and reported as a distinct species in a 2022 study.

• Greater Ani Crotophaga major

  The Greater Ani has glossy black plumage with a green sheen and a large bill. It forms groups in wet lowland forests and forages from the trees down into the lower forest layers.

• Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis

  It is the largest cisticola in southern Africa. It lives in moist grasslands, where breeding males call from exposed perches and make display flights.

• Spot-breasted Laughingthrush Garrulax merulinus

  This laughingthrush uses forest understory and bamboo in parts of mainland Southeast Asia. It is dark brown, with black spots on a pale throat and breast and a white line behind the eye. It forages near the ground.

• Grey-sided Thrush Turdus feae

  The Grey-sided Thrush is a migratory bird that uses mountain forests in different seasons. It breeds in broadleaf forest and winters in evergreen forest.

• Sichuan Hill Partridge Arborophila rufipectus

  The Sichuan Hill Partridge is a pheasant that lives in forests of southwestern China. Its white throat and russet breast patch help distinguish it from related hill-partridges.

• Cape Siskin Crithagra totta

  The Cape Siskin lives in montane fynbos and other habitats of southwestern South Africa, where it searches for seeds on the ground.

• Black-faced Hawk Leucopternis melanops

  A small, stocky hawk with a black facial marking and orange cere, it searches for small prey in wet forest.

• Scarlet-bibbed Myzomela Myzomela sclateri

  The Scarlet-bibbed Myzomela (called Sclater's Myzomela by BirdLife) has a red-throated male and a drabber female with little or indistinct red on the throat. It feeds on nectar, insects, fruit, and flower parts in forests on islands of Papua New Guinea.

• Puna Miner Geositta punensis

  A ground-dwelling bird of high Andean grasslands in northwestern Argentina. It is brown above, greyish-white below, with cinnamon wings and tail marked by dark bands.

• Vermilion Tanager Calochaetes coccineus

  This tanager occurs on the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It has a deep red body with a black facial mask, throat, upper breast, wings, and tail, and joins mixed flocks in mountain-forest canopies.

• Hume's Wheatear Oenanthe albonigra

  Hume's Wheatear is a wheatear with a black head and back and a white breast and belly. The sexes look alike.