Meet the world’s animals.

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• Maroon Oriole Oriolus traillii

  

  The Maroon Oriole lives in moist deciduous and evergreen forests. The nominate male is black and maroon, while the female has a grey back and a pale, streaked belly.

• Black-throated Parrotbill Suthora nipalensis

  

  An orange parrotbill with a black eyebrow and throat that forms flocks in bamboo-rich mountain forest.

• Black-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens

  

  This cormorant inhabits southern Australian coasts. Adults have a black face and back with white underparts, and dive for fish.

• Crestless Curassow Mitu tomentosum

  

  A large curassow of the northern Amazon. Its mostly black plumage has a blue gloss, and two nests were recorded in white-sand forest in northern Brazil.

• Tablas Drongo Dicrurus menagei

  

  This drongo is treated as endemic to Tablas Island in the Philippines. Its outer tail feathers are very long and curve outward at the tips; most field observations were in mature, closed-canopy forest.

• Rufous-throated Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis caudatus

  

  This small babbler inhabits moist evergreen forest in the eastern Himalayas. It searches for insects in dense undergrowth in steep gullies and occurs from eastern Nepal through Bhutan to northeastern India.

• Yellow-legged Tinamou Crypturellus noctivagus

  A 2016 taxonomic reassessment separated two Brazilian forms previously grouped together as Yellow-legged Tinamou: Crypturellus noctivagus and C. zabele. This entry follows the Atlantic Forest form, C. noctivagus. A 2019 distribution study used the broader earlier concept, so its map should not be read as the range of C. noctivagus alone under the later treatment.

• Clarke's Weaver Ploceus golandi

  Clarke's Weaver is a weaver found in southeastern Kenya. Males show black and yellow plumage, while females are olive and yellow.

• Salvadori's Nightjar Caprimulgus pulchellus

  Salvadori's Nightjar has dark plumage and a short tail. It is active at night in forests of Sumatra and Java, catching insects in flight; the wing patch differs between the sexes.

• Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius

  A small sunbird with a broad range in western and central Africa. The sexes look very different, and birds often feed at low flowers.

• Northern Red-shouldered Macaw Diopsittaca nobilis

  A small green macaw with red shoulder feathers in adults. It eats seeds and fruit in South American savanna, woodland, and wetland habitats.

• Malherbe's Parakeet Cyanoramphus malherbi

  This small green parakeet has blue on the wings, a yellow crown, and an orange band above the eyes. Its native range is restricted to beech-forest valleys on New Zealand’s South Island.

• Seram Imperial Pigeon Ducula neglecta

  The Seram Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon of the southern Moluccas in Indonesia. It searches within lowland and mangrove forest and along forest edges, alone or in pairs.

• Fulvous Wren Cinnycerthia fulva

  The Fulvous Wren occurs in the eastern Andes of southeastern Peru and Bolivia. It is olive-rufous, with a pale eyebrow and throat and dark bars on the wings and tail.

• Layard's Warbler Curruca layardi

  This warbler ranges from western Namibia through South Africa to Lesotho. Adult males have grey upperparts and a white throat marked with black streaks. It forages low in shrubs, alone or in pairs.

• Tawny-faced Quail Rhynchortyx cinctus

  Adult plumage differs between the sexes. This elusive quail lives on the floor of humid forest, usually in pairs or small groups.

• Eastern yellow robin Eopsaltria australis

  A bird of eastern and southeastern mainland Australia. It pounces from low perches onto insects on the ground.

• King Bird-of-paradise Cicinnurus regius

  The King Bird-of-paradise occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. Males court with brilliant red plumage and their long ornamental tail feathers.

• Sri Lanka Swallow Cecropis hyperythra

  A swallow of Sri Lanka, it has a silvery purple-blue back and rusty rump and underparts. It catches insects in flight.

• Chaco Owl Strix chacoensis

  The Chaco Owl has a white facial disk edged in dark, a white crown with a brown center stripe, and dense brown barring below. It is active at dusk and night in the dry Chaco region of South America.

• Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps

  A small brown diving bird common across much of North America. It often hides among wetland plants and dives for food.

• Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus

  The Bronze-winged Courser is a ground-dwelling bird of dry African country. It is mostly active at dusk and night, and usually runs rather than flies when disturbed.

• Andaman Crake Rallina canningi

  This rail has chestnut head and upperparts and black-and-white bars on the belly. It hides in wet forest and marsh vegetation, so it is difficult to see.

• Chaplin's Barbet Lybius chaplini

  This Zambian barbet has a mostly white body, yellow-edged wings, and red skin around the eyes.