Meet the world’s animals.

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• Palawan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis lemprieri

  

  This flycatcher occurs on Palawan and nearby Philippine islands. It is found alone or in pairs in the understory of moist lowland, foothill, and secondary forest.

• Blue-headed Fantail Rhipidura cyaniceps

  

  A fantail of forest understory on Luzon and Catanduanes in the Philippines. It catches insects in the forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Red-headed Tanager Piranga erythrocephala

  

  This tanager inhabits mountain forests in western Mexico. Males have a red head and throat; females lack the red areas.

• Ground Cuckooshrike Coracina maxima

  

  This large cuckooshrike lives in inland Australia. Two birds followed in the western Kimberley in 2025 repeatedly used the same roost and foraged on the ground in a recently burnt area.

• Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus

  

  An African starling with glossy green and blue plumage and a bronze-glossed purple tail. It eats insects and fruit.

• Black-necked Stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus

  

  The Black-necked Stork has a glossy black head and neck, a white body and long legs. It waits to ambush prey in shallow water.

• Chalk-browed Mockingbird Mimus saturninus

  The Chalk-browed Mockingbird ranges across eastern and southern Brazil, eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northern Argentina. It has a grey body, pale eyebrow, and white tail tips, and forages on the ground or in low bushes.

• Dunn's Lark Eremalauda dunni

  A lark of arid land along the southern Sahara margin; it may move after rain.

• Sangihe Shrike-thrush Coracornis sanghirensis

  This bird occurs only on Indonesia’s Sangihe Island. It has dark olive-brown upperparts and pale underparts, and is found in the canopy of mature hill forest.

• Barratt's Warbler Bradypterus barratti

  Barratt’s Warbler is a small bird that keeps to dense shrubs and bracken in southern Africa. It searches for insects near the ground and is difficult to see.

• Magellanic Tapaculo Scytalopus magellanicus

  This small tapaculo lives year-round in the Andean-Patagonian forest of northwestern Patagonia. It uses humid forest, forest transitions, and dense marsh vegetation.

• Black-tailed Tityra Tityra cayana

  The Black-tailed Tityra is widespread in Amazonia; in Peru, the account records it up to about 700 m in the Andean foothills.

• Black-headed Jay Garrulus lanceolatus

  A jay with blue wings and a gray head, it searches for a varied diet in trees and on the ground.

• Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda

  This small bird has a grey face, orange cheeks, and a red bill. It eats seeds and insects in grasslands and scrub in western and central Africa.

• Rothschild's Swift Cypseloides rothschildi

  Rothschild's Swift is a dark, sooty swift. It occurs above humid forests on the eastern side of the Andes, from Bolivia to northwestern Argentina.

• Brown-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus brevirostris

  This small honeyeater lives in open eucalypt forest and woodland in Australia. Small flocks glean mainly insects from bark, branches, leaves, and flowers, and also take nectar.

• Green-tailed Jacamar Galbula galbula

  The Green-tailed Jacamar is a forest bird that catches flying insects with its long, slender bill.

• White-lored Gnatcatcher Polioptila albiloris

  The White-lored Gnatcatcher ranges from western Mexico to northwestern Costa Rica. It uses open woodland and semi-open wooded areas; its white eyebrow and black crown pattern changes with season.

• Razorbill Alca torda

  In breeding plumage, this seabird is black above and white below. In Britain and Ireland, it breeds in colonies on coastal cliffs.

• Giant Ibis Pseudibis gigantea

  The world’s largest ibis now remains in lowland forest in northern and eastern Cambodia. It searches for food at secluded forest pools.

• Black-eared Oriole Oriolus bouroensis

  A large gray-brown oriole with a faint dark facial mask. It occurs in lowland and foothill forest, forest edge, mangroves, and woodland on Buru Island.

• Chinese Fulvetta Fulvetta striaticollis

  This 12–14 cm bird inhabits high mountains in China, including conifer forest, rhododendron scrub and low shrubs.

• Pelagic Cormorant Urile pelagicus

  A coastal cormorant smaller than the Japanese Cormorant, with crests and white patches in breeding season.

• Helmeted Curassow Pauxi pauxi

  This large black bird bears a blue-gray helmet-like casque on its forehead. Pairs and small groups walk the floor of mature mountain forest in search of fruit and seeds.