Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-thighed Falconet Microhierax fringillarius

  

  A small falcon of tropical Asian forest and forest edges. It hunts small birds and insects from perches and is marked by a pale eyebrow, rufous underparts, and black thighs.

• White-crowned Hornbill Berenicornis comatus

  

  The White-crowned Hornbill has a conspicuous white crest and long tail. Adult males have white necks and underparts, while females are black; both forage in tropical forest canopies.

• Yellow-faced Siskin Spinus yarrellii

  

  The Yellow-faced Siskin is a small finch about 10 cm long. Adult males have a black crown and bright yellow face and underparts, while females are more yellowish olive.

• Brown-capped Babbler Pellorneum fuscocapillus

  

  This babbler is endemic to Sri Lanka. It inhabits forest, well-wooded areas, and thick undergrowth, and is absent from the extremely dry north and southeast according to the local species account.

• Slaty Bunting Emberiza siemsseni

  

  The Slaty Bunting breeds in central China and moves southeast for winter. Males and females have different plumage.

• Black-backed Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus pulchellus

  

  The Black-backed Tody-Flycatcher is a tiny tyrant flycatcher of southeastern Peru's eastern Andean slope. It moves through thick foliage along forest edges and in second growth.

• White-crested turaco Tauraco leucolophus

  A bird with an upright white crest that hops through the trees.

• Red-crested Bustard Lophotis ruficrista

  The Red-crested Bustard lives in dry parts of southern Africa. During courtship, the male makes a striking display by rising steeply and rolling his body backwards.

• Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus

  The rusty blackbird shows rusty feather edges and pale eyes in winter. It breeds in northern forests and winters in the eastern United States.

• Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina

  The Narina Trogon is described across forests south of the Sahara. Southern African accounts include evergreen and riverine forest and note seasonal movement from highland sites to lower ground in winter.

• Pygmy Batis Batis perkeo

  This small batis occurs in dry parts of East Africa. It uses acacia scrub, woodland, and wooded grassland.

• Olivaceous Piha Snowornis cryptolophus

  This cotinga has olive plumage and yellow bare skin around the eye. It uses the middle levels of Andean montane forest, where it may sit still before sallying for insects or taking fruit from hanging branches.

• Lesser Sooty Owl Tyto multipunctata

  The lesser sooty owl is a nocturnal owl with a sooty face and silvery-white spots. It hides by day and catches small mammals and other prey at night.

• Red-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron formosum

  This large laughingthrush ranges from southwestern China to northern Vietnam. Its red wings and tail stand out, and it occurs in evergreen broadleaf forest and nearby scrub or bamboo.

• Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus

  This lapwing is marked in black and white, with a red eye. It forages near water and pairs defend territories.

• Brown-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes

  In Hong Kong this small warbler is a common winter visitor to dense vegetation in open-canopy places. It also breeds in montane scrub there.

• White-winged Fairywren Malurus leucopterus

  It lives in dry scrub and grassland; breeding males show a conspicuous white wing patch.

• Cory's Shearwater Calonectris borealis

  A large shearwater that breeds on islands in the eastern Atlantic. After breeding, it winters off South America and southern Africa, returning to colonies in spring.

• Citron-crested Cockatoo Cacatua citrinocristata

  This white cockatoo is restricted to Sumba Island, Indonesia. Its crest and ear-coverts are golden orange, and the iris differs in color between males and females.

• Chinese Nuthatch Sitta villosa

  The Chinese Nuthatch is a small nuthatch with a blue-grey back and white brow. It lives in temperate forests, mostly in hills, and also eats pine seeds in winter.

• Cape Robin-Chat Cossypha caffra

  Male and female Cape Robin-Chats look alike, with a pale orange breast and a white eyebrow-like marking. In South Africa they use thickets, stream edges, forest margins, gardens, and parks, and feed near the ground on insects and other invertebrates.

• Black-and-cinnamon Fantail Rhipidura nigrocinnamomea

  This fantail is endemic to Mindanao in the Philippines. It has a black head with a white eyebrow and cinnamon-colored back and rump. It lives in montane forest, feeds mostly on insects, and sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.

• Blue Seedeater Amaurospiza concolor

  At El Imposible in El Salvador, this species was reported as almost always associated with vegetative bamboo in the understory. A 2023 study supports treating the South American Andean aequatorialis as a separate species.

• Sahul Cicadabird Coracina tenuirostris

  The Sahul Cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre) is the current Clements taxon split from the broad Cicadabird. An adult male was recorded along a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in May 2010.