Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hooded Tinamou Nothocercus nigrocapillus

  

  Its head and upper neck are dusky, its throat is white, and its brown body has whitish specks on the wings and back. It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes and usually walks alone on the forest floor.

• Bertram's Weaver Ploceus bertrandi

  

  This weaver lives around highland forest edges, and males and females differ in the black pattern on the crown.

• Sombre Nightjar Caprimulgus fraenatus

  

  The Sombre Nightjar catches flying insects on the wing and lives in open stony bushland, scrub and grassland.

• Coppery Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus

  

  Breeding males have a coppery head that can look black in poor light. The species uses savanna, scrub, gardens, and other open places, and is a resident native in Ghana.

• Sulphur-winged Parakeet Pyrrhura hoffmanni

  

  This parakeet has large yellow patches on its wings. It forms flocks in Costa Rica's mountains and nests in tree cavities.

• Moluccan Hanging Parrot Loriculus amabilis

  

  This small parrot lives in the North Moluccas. It feeds on fruit in the forest canopy and is seen alone, in pairs, or in small groups.

• Picazuro Pigeon Patagioenas picazuro

  A Buenos Aires City account describes a vinous purple-brown body and a neck that shines blue-bronze in sunlight. In the city, it feeds on seeds and fruit in parks and other tree-lined places.

• Clarion Wren Troglodytes tanneri

  This wren is restricted to Clarion Island, Mexico. It lives in open habitats and nests in cavities among volcanic rock or sand, as well as holes in human-made structures.

• Common Whitethroat Curruca communis

  A small bird that darts through low scrub and often flicks its long tail.

• Black-throated Bobwhite Colinus nigrogularis

  This ground-dwelling quail has a conspicuous black throat and white facial lines in the adult male. It rests in small groups among grass.

• Pale-yellow Robin Tregellasia capito

  This small bird occurs in two separated parts of eastern Australia. It searches for insects in moist forest and has a gray-olive back and yellow underside.

• Vogelkop Lophorina Lophorina superba

  The male spreads black plumage around an iridescent blue-green breast shield. It eats fruit and arthropods and performs a courtship display.

• Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis

  This North American swallow catches insects while flying low over water and nests in burrows in banks.

• Stygian Owl Asio stygius

  A pale rim borders its dark facial disk, and it has long ear tufts. It uses semi-humid to wet woodland and forest edges and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Bald-faced Rail Gymnocrex rosenbergii

  A forest-floor rail of Sulawesi and Peleng. It has a rich chestnut back, black underparts, and a patch of blue bare skin behind the eye.

• Bearded Barbet Lybius dubius

  This stocky bird with a large bill lives in tropical West Africa. It has black upperparts, a red throat and belly and a yellow eye patch. Figs are a favoured food, and several birds may roost together.

• Nuthatch Vanga Hypositta corallirostris

  The Nuthatch Vanga is a small Madagascar endemic that searches for insects while climbing up tree trunks.

• Rosy Bee-eater Merops malimbicus

  This bee-eater stands out for its pink underparts and dark eye-stripe. Groups dig nest burrows in sandy riverbanks and sandbars.

• Black Antshrike Thamnophilus nigriceps

  The Black Antshrike occurs in eastern Panama and northern Colombia. The AOS checklist places it at lowland evergreen-forest edges and in secondary forest from 0–600 m; a species account lists its length as 16 cm.

• Alstrom's Warbler Seicercus soror

  Alstrom’s Warbler, Phylloscopus soror, breeds in China and winters from southwestern China into Indochina. In Hong Kong it is a passage migrant in autumn and early winter.

• Owston's Tit Sittiparus owstoni

  This tit inhabits forests on the southern Izu Islands. It eats insects as well as seeds and nuts.

• Golden-naped Barbet Psilopogon pulcherrimus

  This Bornean endemic has mostly green plumage and a golden-yellow patch on the nape. It eats fruit in the canopy of hill and montane forest.

• Long-tailed Manakin Chiroxiphia linearis

  Male and female Long-tailed Manakins have very different plumage. During courtship, two males dance together, and the birds mainly eat fruit.

• Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus

  The Asian Dowitcher probes wetland mud with its long bill and moves between breeding and wintering areas.