Meet the world’s animals.

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• Fairy Gerygone Gerygone palpebrosa

  

  The Fairy Gerygone is a small bird about 10–12 cm long. It uses humid forest, riparian woodland and mangroves, gleaning invertebrates from foliage by day.

• American Goshawk Astur atricapillus

  

  This large forest raptor uses mature woodland. Wisconsin’s wildlife agency records it across the northern two-thirds of the state, in mature deciduous, conifer, and mixed forest.

• Philippine Megapode Megapodius cumingii

  

  This megapode has brown-to-grey plumage and bare red facial skin. In Borneo it searches on the ground and buries eggs in a mound of plant material, where heat from decomposition incubates them.

• Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus nanus

  

  This small woodpecker searches tree bark for invertebrates in forests and more open woodland.

• Yellow-eared Toucanet Selenidera spectabilis

  

  This toucanet lives in humid forest from Honduras to Panama and searches for fruit and small animals in high branches.

• Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus

  

  The Oriental Cuckoo is a migratory cuckoo that breeds in forests. Females include both grey and rufous plumage forms.

• Striated Heron Butorides striata

  A small waterside heron found in Brazil around lakes, rivers, estuaries, and mangroves.

• Cream-throated White-eye Zosterops atriceps

  The Cream-throated White-eye occurs in Indonesia's North Maluku islands. A 2010 survey recorded it on Obi, where the observers heard it often but saw it only occasionally.

• Scarlet-banded Barbet Capito wallacei

  This barbet is known from Cordillera Azul in Peru. During the original description study, birds were observed taking fruit in the canopy of high-elevation cloud forest and moving in loose groups.

• Santa Marta Antpitta Grallaria bangsi

  The Santa Marta Antpitta occurs only in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northern Colombia. It is a ground-dwelling bird recorded in humid montane forest and forest edges.

• Russet Sparrow Passer rutilans

  A sparrow ranging from the Himalayas across East Asia. Western populations use open woodland and terraced fields, while eastern populations use woodland edges and cultivated land; winter flocks sometimes forage together.

• Broad-billed Motmot Electron platyrhynchum

  This forest bird ranges from Central America into northwestern South America and catches insects and small animals.

• Pohnpei Broadbill Myiagra pluto

  Myiagra pluto is confined to Pohnpei Island in Micronesia. It also occurs at forest edges and village gardens, catching insects from low perches.

• Javan Blue-banded Kingfisher Alcedo euryzona

  The Javan Blue-banded Kingfisher is a kingfisher recorded on the Indonesian island of Java. A report describes observations along rocky rivers in Central Java.

• White-eared Catbird Ailuroedus buccoides

  White-eared Catbirds live in forests in northwestern New Guinea and nearby islands. Their green backs and white ear patches stand out, and they eat fruit and insects.

• Ethiopian Cisticola Cisticola lugubris

  This cisticola occurs in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea, from marsh edges to montane heath and bracken.

• Golden-crowned Emerald Cynanthus auriceps

  This small hummingbird lives in western Mexico. Males are green with a deeply forked tail; females are paler below and have a shallower tail fork. A western Mexico study that included this species described an open-cup nest made from plant material and spider web.

• Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis

  This seabird spends much of its time over the North Pacific and returns to remote island colonies to raise its chick.

• Cinereous Bulbul Hemixos cinereus

  This bulbul occurs in Southeast Asian mountain forests. It eats fruit, seeds, and insects; the Bornean subspecies is described with a yellow undertail.

• Willard's Sooty Boubou Laniarius willardi

  Willard’s Sooty Boubou was described from a small series of specimens from the western Albertine Rift. The description reports collection localities in Uganda and Burundi, but the few specimens do not establish a complete range.

• Masked Cardinal Paroaria nigrogenis

  This tanager-like bird occurs in northeastern Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad. It uses wetlands and mangroves near water.

• Lark Bunting Calamospiza melanocorys

  Breeding males are black with a white wing patch, while females, young birds, and males outside the breeding season are brown. It gathers in grasslands and shrubsteppe of the Great Plains.

• Colima Warbler Leiothlypis crissalis

  This grey-brown bird has a distinct white eyering and a brilliant yellow base to the tail. On breeding grounds it searches foliage for insects and spiders.

• Blood-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum sanguinolentum

  At Gunung Merapi National Park on Java, a male was recorded visiting a nest and feeding two chicks. This was an observation of one nest and does not establish the species' general breeding behaviour.