Meet the world’s animals.

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• Blue-eyed Cockatoo Cacatua ophthalmica

  

  A large white cockatoo of lowland forest on New Britain.

• Black-necked Wattle-eye Platysteira chalybea

  This forest bird occurs in west-central Africa. Males are glossy greenish black, while females are duller and have a smaller blue-green eye wattle.

• Mato Grosso Antbird Cercomacra melanaria

  This antbird occurs in Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. A study in Brazil's Pantanal found it in understory thickets of forest and seasonally flooded savanna.

• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus

  The Blue-cheeked Bee-eater is a green bee-eater with bright blue cheeks. In Middle Eastern breeding areas it uses semidesert near water and digs a nesting tunnel in sandy banks.

• Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii

  This sandpiper has long, tapering wings and migrates from Arctic breeding grounds to South America. It often forages on dry ground away from water.

• Horned Parakeet Eunymphicus cornutus

  The Horned Parakeet is endemic to New Caledonia, where pairs and small groups move through forest canopy.

• Splendid Fairywren Malurus splendens

  The Splendid Fairywren is a small bird of Australian shrublands. Breeding males stand out with bright blue and black plumage, and the birds search for insects on the ground and in low shrubs.

• Streak-backed Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura striata

  This small bird ranges through the western Andes of Peru to northwestern Chile. A regional bird account describes pale streaks on the back and rufous streaks on the crown.

• Black-chinned Honeyeater Melithreptus gularis

  This honeyeater inhabits eucalypt forest and woodland on mainland Australia. It can move locally as its food plants flower.

• Sulphur-breasted Warbler Phylloscopus ricketti

  A yellow brow and crown stripe stand out on this small warbler, whose underside is also yellow. The source records observation sites in Thailand.

• Blackish Nightjar Nyctipolus nigrescens

  The Blackish Nightjar inhabits lowlands and foothills of northern South America. Its finely patterned brown and gray plumage blends with rocky ground near forest edges.

• Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler Cettia major

  The Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler is marked by its rufous crown. It breeds in mountain scrub, then moves downslope after breeding.

• Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet Touit purpuratus

  This small parrot occurs in northern South America. Its body and underparts are green, while crown and tail markings vary by subspecies and sex. It searches for food in forest crowns.

• Spot-winged Wood Quail Odontophorus capueira

  The Spot-winged Wood-Quail is a plump ground-dwelling bird of South America's Atlantic Forest.

• Seychelles White-eye Zosterops modestus

  The Seychelles White-eye is a small bird on Mahé. A survey report covering November 2022 to February 2023 describes a dull olive-brown body with a white eye-ring.

• Jankowski's Bunting Emberiza jankowskii

  Jankowski’s Bunting is an East Asian bunting that spends much time on the ground in grassland. An adult male in breeding plumage shows a chestnut crown and white wing bars.

• Red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris

  The Red-legged Kittiwake breeds on islands in the Bering Sea and is recognizable by its red legs and yellow bill.

• Crescent-faced Antpitta Grallaricula lineifrons

  The Crescent-faced Antpitta lives in humid montane forest in Colombia and Ecuador. Few localities are known, and it quietly forages near the forest floor.

• Nēnē (Hawaiian Goose) Branta sandvicensis

  A goose from the Hawaiian Islands that spends much time on land and eats a varied plant diet.

• Black Oropendola Psarocolius guatimozinus

  The Black Oropendola is a large bird of restricted humid lowlands in eastern Panama and northwestern Colombia. It searches high in trees and is thought to take nectar from flowers.

• Red-throated Crag-Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula

  The Red-throated Crag-Martin is a small swallow found widely in western and eastern Africa. It is dull brown, uses rocky and arid habitats, and attaches mud nests to cliffs or buildings.

• Rufous-and-white Wren Thryophilus rufalbus

  This wren lives in woodland and scrub in northwestern Costa Rica. Its rufous back and white eyebrow are distinctive; pairs place grass-and-root nests low in vegetation.

• Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava

  The Tawny-flanked Prinia is a small bird with a long graduated tail and short, rounded wings. In northern Namibia it uses grass and waterside shrubs, searching for insects on the ground and in bushes.

• Lovely Sunbird Aethopyga shelleyi

  This sunbird lives in forests on Palawan and nearby islands. Males show iridescent purple and crimson, while females have more subdued olive coloring.