Meet the world’s animals.

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• Campbell's Hill Partridge Arborophila campbelli

  

  This partridge has black-and-white bands on its head, olive-brown upperparts, and a grey breast. It lives in montane rainforest on the Malay Peninsula.

• Brown Lory Chalcopsitta duivenbodei

  The Brown Lory has olive-brown plumage with a yellow face and yellow wing bands. It lives in moist lowland forests of northern New Guinea and feeds on nectar, pollen, and other plant material.

• Heart-spotted Woodpecker Hemicircus canente

  A woodpecker with a large head and short, rounded tail, it searches humid forest and bamboo for ants, termites, and other insects.

• Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata

  This large owl has white markings around its eyes that look like spectacles. It is active at night and nests in tree cavities.

• Olive Tufted Flycatcher Mitrephanes olivaceus

  This small flycatcher is mostly olive and lives in montane forest on the eastern slope of the Andes. It forages at forest openings in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis

  The Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush lives among mountain rocks. In breeding plumage, the male stands out in blue and orange.

• Silver Teal Spatula versicolor

  The silver teal is a small duck with a dark brown cap and a blue-green wing patch. It is recorded at lakes and rivers in Argentina.

• Jungle Prinia Prinia sylvatica

  This prinia occurs on the Indian Peninsula and often uses dry scrub and grassy hills.

• Pale-vented Thrush Turdus obsoletus

  The Pale-vented Thrush is mostly brown, with a pale vent as a field mark. It may eat fruit in forests and at their edges, and gives a flute-like song from the canopy.

• Purple-throated Euphonia Euphonia chlorotica

  This 9–10 cm bird is active by day and feeds on fruit.

• Scarlet-thighed Dacnis Dacnis venusta

  This small bird occurs in forests from Central America to northwestern South America. Males are turquoise with scarlet thighs; females are duller green-blue, with pale underparts and no scarlet thigh patch.

• Orange-cheeked Parrot Pyrilia barrabandi

  An Amazonian parrot with orange cheeks against a black head and olive throat and breast.

• Short-billed Pigeon Patagioenas nigrirostris

  This pigeon ranges from southeastern Mexico through Central America to northwestern Colombia. Its body is reddish purple, with a browner belly and olive-brown upperparts.

• Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus

  The Blue-headed Coucal occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Its crown and nape are black with a blue sheen in good light, while the lower back and wings are chestnut.

• Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus

  The Martial Eagle is a large eagle with dark spots on its white belly. It uses open habitats such as wooded savanna and grassland.

• Mangrove Hummingbird Amazilia boucardi

  The Mangrove Hummingbird is endemic to Costa Rica and mainly lives in Pacific-coast mangroves, especially where Pelliciera rhizophorae is abundant.

• Pacific Antwren Myrmotherula pacifica

  The Pacific Antwren is a small bird with different male and female plumage. It occurs on the Pacific side of Central America and north-western South America, using vine-rich forest.

• Rock Earthcreeper Ochetorhynchus andaecola

  This earthcreeper inhabits high Andean steppe in northwestern Argentina. It has a long, slightly curved bill, cinnamon-brown upperparts and a pale eyebrow.

• Erckel's Francolin Pternistis erckelii

  Erckel's Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird of the highlands of Eritrea, Ethiopia, and northeastern Sudan. Pale markings show on its body.

• Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae

  Lilian's Lovebird is a small green parrot with a white eye ring and red bill. In the wild it lives in flocks and uses woodland near water in southeastern Africa.

• Fine-banded Woodpecker Campethera taeniolaema

  An East African montane woodpecker. The 2023 Clements Checklist treats it as a distinct species based on plumage and genetic evidence.

• Mottled Wood Owl Strix ocellata

  The Mottled Wood Owl is a large owl without ear tufts, marked with reddish-brown and white mottling. It uses gardens and open woodland near dry forests and calls at dawn and dusk.

• Baird's Flycatcher Myiodynastes bairdii

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It has a gray head and back, rufous wings and tail, and a pale yellow underside, and forages in semi-open places.

• White-rumped Shama Copsychus malabaricus

  A small bird of Southeast Asian forest floors and thickets. Males have rich songs and can imitate the calls of other birds.