Meet the world’s animals.

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• Western Fieldwren Calamanthus montanellus

  

  Western Fieldwren is recorded from the Stirling Range in Western Australia. Milligan's original account describes it running through stony ground and singing from the ground or low bushes.

• Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus lanceolatus

  

  The Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle is a large raptor of Indonesian forest, centered on Sulawesi. Adults have a rufous, streaked breast and a densely barred belly.

• Japanese pygmy woodpecker Yungipicus kizuki

  

  A small woodpecker with black-and-white markings, seen throughout the year in Japan from lowlands to low mountains.

• Plate-billed Mountain Toucan Andigena laminirostris

  

  The Plate-billed Mountain Toucan stands out for its blue-grey underparts and large bill patterned in red, black, and ivory. It mainly eats fruit, but also takes small animals and eggs during the breeding season.

• Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianinus

  

  The Pheasant Coucal is a large cuckoo relative with a long tail. It lives in grassland and scrub across northern and eastern Australia.

• Little Bittern Botaurus minutus

  

  European birds are pigeon-sized herons with pale wing panels. They hide in reedbeds and are active at dawn and dusk.

• Vanuatu White-eye Zosterops flavifrons

  This small white-eye is 11–13 cm long. The account lists forest, second growth, and farmland, with an omnivorous diet. Sound recordings include Loru on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu.

• Urubamba Antpitta Grallaria occabambae

  This ground-dwelling antpitta occurs in the southeastern Peruvian Andes. A 2020 paper treats it as a distinct species; the nominate subspecies has dark reddish-brown upperparts and paler underparts.

• Black-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita cabanisi

  This locally distributed East African weaver inhabits dry thornveld and forages on the ground, mainly for seeds; it also eats insects.

• Indian Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone paradisi

  The Indian Paradise Flycatcher catches insects while darting among branches. Some males have greatly elongated central tail feathers.

• Blue-capped Kingfisher Actenoides hombroni

  This kingfisher lives in the forests of Mindanao. Males are marked by a blue cap and red bill, while females have green upperparts.

• Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris

  This small bird lives in humid lowland forests in western and central Africa, including Ghana. It is resident and searches foliage for small invertebrates.

• Green-backed Hillstar Urochroa leucura

  The Green-backed Hillstar occurs on the northern eastern Andes of Peru and also in Colombia and Ecuador. It inhabits humid montane forest.

• Streak-breasted Bulbul Hypsipetes siquijorensis

  This bulbul is divided among four Central Philippine islands: Tablas, Romblon, Siquijor, and Cebu. It uses forest edges and secondary growth, but in degraded places it occurs only where forest remains nearby.

• Tropical Boubou Laniarius major

  This bush-shrike lives in woodland, forest edges, savanna woodland, and thickets. It eats insects and small animals, and wing markings vary by region.

• Spangle-cheeked Tanager Tangara dowii

  The Spangle-cheeked Tanager lives in wet mountain forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Adults have black-and-blue scaling on the cheeks and a rufous crown patch; immatures are duller and lack that crown patch. It eats fruit as well as insects and spiders.

• Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis

  A small North American bird whose plumage varies from grey to brown by region, with white outer tail feathers that flash in flight.

• Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum

  This warbler is known for frequently bobbing its tail. Eastern birds are more yellow, while western birds are generally paler.

• Bicolored Flowerpecker Dicaeum bicolor

  The Bicolored Flowerpecker is a small species endemic to the Philippines. The male has a black head and back with silvery-white underparts, and the species is found in forest canopy.

• Iberian Grey Shrike Lanius meridionalis

  This shrike occurs in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. It has a gray back, black eye mask, and white eyebrow, and watches open ground from a raised perch.

• Rodriguez Brush-Warbler Acrocephalus rodericanus

  A small bird of woodland on Rodrigues Island, it has olive-brown upperparts and moves quietly among leaves while foraging.

• Chestnut-crested Puffbird Malacoptila striata

  The Chestnut-crested Puffbird is endemic to Brazil. Its dark brown streaks and white crescent-shaped breast band stand out, and it searches in forest for insects and small animals.

• Tibetan Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon harmani

  A pheasant found in southeastern Tibet and one locality in northeastern India. Its blue-gray plumage, white throat band and long, drooping tail are distinctive.

• Giant Pitta Hydrornis caeruleus

  The Giant Pitta is a large pitta of lowland forests in Southeast Asia. A Sabah bird guide describes males as blue and females as browner.