Meet the world’s animals.

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• Visayan Broadbill Sarcophanops samarensis

  

  The Visayan Broadbill stands out for the blue fleshy skin around its eyes and its purple crown. It lives in lowland forest in the central Philippines and is reported to eat insects.

• Gilded Barbet Capito auratus

  

  The Gilded Barbet lives in forests along the foothills of the Andes in Amazonia. It has black facial markings and golden streaks; females resemble males but have more blackish and gold streaking.

• Tawny Antpitta Grallaria quitensis

  

  This antpitta occurs in the Andes from Colombia through Ecuador to northern Peru. Under the current treatment, Boyacá Antpitta and Atuen Antpitta, formerly included here, are separate species.

• Sooty Oystercatcher Haematopus fuliginosus

  

  The Sooty Oystercatcher has a black body and a red-orange bill. Along Australian coasts it searches for shellfish and other small animals, and it may form flocks outside the breeding season.

• Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis

  

  The Spanish Sparrow breeds in southern Europe; males are notable for their black chest.

• African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda

  

  This blue flycatcher occurs in wooded habitats of West and Central Africa. It perches among foliage and makes short flights to catch small arthropods.

• Turquoise-browed Motmot Eumomota superciliosa

  A Central American bird noted for its turquoise brow and racket-tipped tail feathers. It searches for insect prey in open dry woodland and scrub.

• Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata

  This small bird ranges widely across Africa. Breeding males vary in plumage and bill color among regional forms, and they mimic the songs of their firefinch hosts.

• Mascarene Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone bourbonnensis

  The Mascarene Paradise Flycatcher is a forest bird found only on Réunion and Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands. It feeds in the lower canopy and catches insects in flight.

• American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos

  The American White Pelican is a North American pelican with broad black-and-white wings and a huge bill. It scoops fish in shallow water, sometimes herding fish with other pelicans.

• Rufous-collared Kingfisher Actenoides concretus

  The Rufous-collared Kingfisher is a colorful forest kingfisher. It favors woodland near water and takes fish as well as large insects and small animals.

• Huon Bowerbird Amblyornis germanus

  This bird lives in montane forest on the Huon Peninsula. Males have an orange crest and decorate stick bowers with colored objects; females lack the orange crest.

• Black-tailed Cisticola Cisticola melanurus

  The Black-tailed Cisticola is recorded at scattered sites from eastern Angola to western Democratic Republic of Congo. An Angolan survey found it foraging in mature miombo woodland from near the ground to the canopy.

• Slender Sheartail Doricha enicura

  This small hummingbird lives in mountains and valleys from southern Mexico into northern Central America. The male has a very long forked tail; the female’s is shorter.

• Light-mantled Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata

  An albatross of Antarctic and subantarctic seas; about 1,000 pairs breed each year on Macquarie Island. It has a dark gray head, lighter gray body, and white crescent around most of the eye.

• Square-tailed Bulbul Hypsipetes ganeesa

  This bulbul is recorded throughout the Western Ghats of southern India. It has a slate-grey to black body, a black crest, and a red bill and legs. A study of 81 nests in Silent Valley National Park found breeding from January to June, with a peak in April and May.

• Long-tailed Potoo Nyctibius aethereus

  This nocturnal bird has a long tail and mottled plumage. It stays still on a branch by day and catches flying insects at night.

• Red-naped Bushshrike Laniarius ruficeps

  This bushshrike inhabits dry lowland scrub. Its underparts are whitish and its hindcrown and nape are chestnut; it searches for insects low in bushes and on the ground.

• Chestnut-bellied Mountain Tanager Dubusia castaneoventris

  This tanager ranges in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Its blue upperparts contrast with a chestnut belly, and it forages in the canopy of mountain forest.

• Mayan Antthrush Formicarius moniliger

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in humid forests from southern Mexico to central Honduras. The sexes have similar plumage: olive-brown above, black on the throat, and gray on the breast and belly. It walks on the forest floor while searching for insects and land snails.

• Yellow-thighed Brushfinch Atlapetes tibialis

  This brushfinch occurs in Panama. The sexes have nearly identical plumage. It is often found at forest or scrub edges and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Choco Warbler Myiothlypis chlorophrys

  The Choco Warbler inhabits forest and scrub in western Colombia and western Ecuador. This population responds differently to songs from the eastern Peru population and is treated as a separate species.

• Yellow-vented Flowerpecker Dicaeum chrysorrheum

  The Yellow-vented Flowerpecker is a small flowerpecker found from the Indian subcontinent through Southeast Asia. It has yellowish-green upperparts, streaked white underparts, and orange-yellow undertail coverts.

• Mackinnon's Shrike Lanius mackinnoni

  This black-and-white shrike has a long tail; males have a black band extending from the lores to the ear coverts.