Meet the world’s animals.

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• Crested Satinbird Cnemophilus macgregorii

  

  The Crested Satinbird lives in high mountain forest. Male plumage varies by region, while females are mainly olive green.

• Sickle-billed Vanga Falculea palliata

  

  The Sickle-billed Vanga is a black-and-white bird with a long, slender bill that curves down. It searches among branches for food in Madagascar's forest and savanna habitats.

• Asian Green Bee-eater Merops orientalis

  

  The Asian Green Bee-eater is a green bee-eater with a slender bill. The details here are limited to the account of the nominate subspecies in India.

• Black Currawong Strepera fuliginosa

  

  This black bird is confined to Tasmania and nearby islands. White tips on its wings and tail and its yellow eye are distinctive; it feeds in forests and near towns.

• Galapagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus

  

  The Galapagos Penguin is a small penguin found only on the Galapagos Islands. It lives and breeds there year-round in the tropics.

• Russet Antshrike Thamnistes anabatinus

  

  This antshrike inhabits forests from Mexico to Ecuador. It has warm-brown plumage, a pale eyebrow, and a rustier tail, and forages in the middle to upper levels of forest understory. The Rufescent Antshrike in Peru and Bolivia is a separate species.

• Sakhalin Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus borealoides

  The Sakhalin Leaf Warbler breeds from Sakhalin through the northern Japanese islands and winters south into Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong it occurs mainly during autumn passage, using the lower layers of woodland and shrubs.

• Pipipi Mohoua novaeseelandiae

  This small bird lives in forest and shrubland on New Zealand's South and Stewart Islands. A chattering flock moving high through the trees is often the first sign of its presence.

• Black-bellied Storm-Petrel Fregetta tropica

  The species breeds on subantarctic islands, and some birds move toward equatorial waters in winter.

• Black-tailed Treecreeper Climacteris melanurus

  The Black-tailed Treecreeper hops up tree trunks while searching bark for invertebrates. It occurs in northern Australia, and the throat and chest pattern differs between the sexes.

• White-throated Bushtit Aegithalos niveogularis

  This small Himalayan bird is marked by its white throat. It searches for insects in birch and pine woods and moves in flocks.

• Red-capped Crombec Sylvietta ruficapilla

  This small bird occurs in Africa. It has a pale-grey back, chestnut ear-coverts and breast band, while the forehead and crown vary from grey to chestnut.

• Juniper Titmouse Baeolophus ridgwayi

  The Juniper Titmouse is a gray bird of dry pinyon-juniper woodland, with a crest and a prominent dark eye.

• Stripe-headed Tanager Spindalis zena

  The Stripe-headed Tanager occurs on Caribbean islands and nearby regions, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Golden-whiskered Barbet Psilopogon chrysopogon

  The Golden-whiskered Barbet lives in forests from the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. It forages mainly for fruit in the canopy.

• Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii

  This small bird lives at forest edges and in open woodland in west-central Africa. It has chestnut on the crown, rump, and tail, with a buff breast and white belly. It gleans insects from leaves and sometimes sallies after flying insects.

• Spotted Dikkop Burhinus capensis

  The Spotted Dikkop is a ground-dwelling bird with long legs and yellow eyes. It hunts insects by running, stopping, and jabbing at prey with its bill.

• Sulphur-bellied Tyrant-Manakin Neopelma sulphureiventer

  The Sulphur-bellied Tyrant-Manakin occurs from eastern Peru to northern Bolivia and adjacent western Amazonian Brazil. A yellow stripe down the middle of its crown is a field mark. It uses dense undergrowth in humid forest, especially along rivers; little is known about its diet.

• Shoebill Balaeniceps rex

  A bird of African wetlands with a broad, shoe-shaped bill.

• White-naped crane Antigone vipio

  A crane with a gray-and-white neck and pinkish legs.

• Broad-billed Sandpiper Calidris falcinellus

  A small sandpiper with a split pale eyebrow. It breeds from northern Europe to Siberia, with the two subspecies wintering in areas including the Middle East, southern and Southeast Asia and Australia.

• African Darter Anhinga rufa

  This diving waterbird catches fish. In South Africa, the subspecies present swims with only its long neck and head above the water.

• Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris

  This small bird occurs widely across Australia. Its short tail and stubby bill are distinctive, and it searches among tree leaves for food.

• Ivory-backed Woodswallow Artamus monachus

  Its white back and body contrast with a brown-grey head and dark wings. It catches flying insects over forest edges and openings.