Meet the world’s animals.

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• Southern Tchagra Tchagra tchagra

  

  This southern African bushshrike lives in scrub and at woodland edges and forages near the ground. Its plumage description here is limited to the nominate subspecies.

• Rufous-browed Hemispingus Poospiza rufosuperciliaris

  

  This small tanager inhabits high elevations in Peru's eastern Andes. Its broad rufous eyebrow contrasts with the gray plumage, and it occurs in humid montane forest and scrub.

• Black-spectacled Brush Finch Atlapetes melanopsis

  

  This brush-finch inhabits montane scrub and forest edges around Peru's upper Mantaro Valley. Adults have gray bodies, a rufous head, and black markings around the eyes.

• Brown-capped Whitestart Myioborus brunniceps

  

  The Brown-capped Whitestart is an Andean bird with a rufous crown and yellow underparts. It ranges from Bolivia to northwestern Argentina.

• Malagasy Brush Warbler Nesillas typica

  

  The Malagasy Brush Warbler is common in suitable cover on Madagascar and is also recorded on Mohéli. Checklists differ over whether the Anjouan Brush Warbler belongs in the same species.

• Gunnison Grouse Centrocercus minimus

  

  In spring courtship, males inflate their chest sacs and fan their tails. The species is restricted to western Colorado and eastern Utah.

• Malindi Pipit Anthus melindae

  The Malindi Pipit is reported from coastal grasslands of Kenya and Somalia. Photo notes describe long legs and heavy streaking; it walks on the ground to find small invertebrates. The cited project source also records gaps in range information.

• Pink-eared Duck Malacorhynchus membranaceus

  The Pink-eared Duck is a small duck with white and dark brown bars, a large brown patch around the eye, and a small pink patch behind it.

• Indian Skimmer Rynchops albicollis

  The Indian Skimmer has a lower bill longer than the upper one. Outside the breeding season its plumage is duller, with browner upperparts.

• Buffy Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes lawrencii

  The Buffy Tuftedcheek inhabits wet mountain forests in Costa Rica and western Panama. A study in Costa Rica recorded it searching among the leaves of epiphytic bromeliads for arthropods.

• Orange Ground Thrush Geokichla gurneyi

  The Orange Ground Thrush lives in mountain forests of eastern and southeastern Africa. Its orange face and chest contrast with a white belly, and it searches for small animals and fruit in the lower forest.

• Brown-headed Greenlet Hylophilus brunneiceps

  The Brown-headed Greenlet has a brown head and olive-green back. In northern Brazil it occurs in flooded forest and white-sand woodland, where it searches leaf undersides for insects and caterpillars. Its range also extends into eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela.

• African Pygmy Falcon Polihierax semitorquatus

  The African Pygmy Falcon lives in dry and semi-dry parts of Africa and hunts ground prey from a perch. It uses spacious communal weaver nests for roosting and nesting.

• Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus

  A black-and-white forest hornbill with a large bill, it feeds on fruit and changes its movements with the season

• Maui Alauahio Paroreomyza montana

  The Maui Alauahio is a small Hawaiian honeycreeper. Its surviving population lives in Maui's highlands and mainly eats small invertebrates.

• Melodious Babbler Malacopteron palawanense

  This babbler is endemic to Palawan and Balabac in the Philippines. It forages in the middle and lower forest layers of lowland evergreen forest.

• Lark-like Bunting Emberiza impetuani

  The Lark-like Bunting lives in dry areas of southern Africa. Both sexes have pale buff-brown streaked plumage, and the birds may move as conditions change.

• Eastern Olivaceous Flatbill Rhynchocyclus olivaceus

  This flatbill occurs in Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest. A 2022 taxonomic study examined several lineages formerly grouped under the same name and placed the subspecies R. o. olivaceus in forest from Pernambuco to Rio de Janeiro.

• Yellow Oriole Icterus nigrogularis

  This oriole ranges across northern South America. Males are yellow with black wings and face markings; females are duller. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Guianan Trogon Trogon violaceus

  Its violet-blue head and breast, green back, and yellow belly make this trogon easy to recognize. It perches high in the tropical forests of northern South America.

• Grey-tailed Piha Snowornis subalaris

  The species lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope, with records in Colombia and Ecuador at about 800–1,350 m. Its populations are disjunct.

• Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush Pterorhinus treacheri

  The Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush is endemic to Borneo, with a patchy distribution. The account describes three subspecies across the island's mountain regions.

• St. Helena Plover Charadrius sanctaehelenae

  This plover lives only on St Helena. It has thin, long legs and remains throughout the year in open grassland and other open parts of the island.

• Antarctic Prion Pachyptila desolata

  The Antarctic Prion is a small seabird with a blue-gray back and white belly. It gathers over the Southern Ocean and feeds on small crustaceans near the water's surface.