Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brown-breasted Gerygone Gerygone ruficollis

  

  A small warbler of New Guinea's montane forests. Its very high whistle descends slightly before leveling off.

• Buff-browed Chachalaca Ortalis superciliaris

  This chachalaca occurs in lowland northeastern Brazil south of the Amazon. A pale eyebrow and chestnut outer tail feathers help distinguish it.

• Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla

  The Nashville Warbler is a small bird that breeds in North America and winters in Mexico. Its white eye ring and foraging in shrub tangles are distinctive.

• Wrentit Chamaea fasciata

  The Wrentit is a small bird of the shrubs along the western coast of the United States. It has a gray-brown body and a long tail, and searches dense brush for insects and fruit.

• Spot-necked Babbler Stachyris strialata

  The Spot-necked Babbler is a small babbler, 15–17 cm long. It searches forest cover for invertebrates, and a rare field report describes it preening a different babbler species.

• Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan Andigena hypoglauca

  A large toucan of humid Andean forests, it searches among high trees for fruit and lives at elevations above those of most toucans.

• Flame-crested Manakin Heterocercus linteatus

  This manakin lives in Amazonian forest. In Peru, only a small number of visual records are reported from the far southeast; it also occurs in Brazil and Bolivia.

• Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksii

  The Red-tailed Black Cockatoo is a black parrot with a conspicuous red tail. The sexes differ in plumage, and the species includes several subspecies and disjunct populations.

• Schalow's Turaco Tauraco schalowi

  Schalow’s Turaco lives in forests of south-central Africa. It climbs and hops through the canopy and eats fruit, especially figs.

• Caura Antbird Myrmelastes caurensis

  The male has red eyes and an entirely dark bill. The species ranges from southern Venezuela to northern Amazonas, Brazil, and searches for arthropods around open forest understorey and large boulders.

• Bernier's Vanga Oriolia bernieri

  This vanga lives in humid evergreen forest in eastern Madagascar. It searches leaf bases and dead wood for insects.

• White-crowned Tapaculo Scytalopus atratus

  This small bird lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes of Peru. It forages near the ground and can be difficult to see.

• Splendid Astrapia Astrapia splendidissima

  Adult males shimmer green, blue, and copper, while females are dark brown. This bird of paradise feeds mainly on fruit in New Guinea's mountain forests.

• Pygmy Flowerpecker Dicaeum pygmaeum

  This small flowerpecker is endemic to the Philippines. Males and females have different plumage.

• Puna Teal Spatula puna

  This small duck has a black cap extending below the eyes and a pale blue bill. It eats aquatic plant seeds and insects in high-Andean lakes and wetlands.

• Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot Loriculus galgulus

  The Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot is a small parrot of Southeast Asian forests. The sexes differ in their blue and red head markings, and the bird may rest hanging upside down from a branch.

• African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus

  This parasitic cuckoo occurs in Africa and is characteristically associated with the canopy of evergreen forest.

• Crested Becard Pachyramphus validus

  Adult males have dark crowns and upperparts, while females are cinnamon-colored with gray crowns. In southern Peru's inter-Andean valleys, the account describes subspecies audax as a rare resident.

• Dark-backed Sibia Heterophasia melanoleuca

  The Dark-backed Sibia is a slender, long-tailed bird of mountains in Myanmar, northwestern and western Thailand, and northwestern Laos. It has a black head and white underparts.

• White-winged Tanager Piranga leucoptera

  Males are red with a black face and wings marked by two white bars. Females are yellow-green and forage in trees, in pairs or mixed-species flocks.

• Cave Swiftlet Collocalia linchi

  The Cave Swiftlet is a small swiftlet found on islands including Java. Its green gloss and square-ended tail are useful field marks.

• Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis

  The Carolina Chickadee is a small bird with a black cap and bib, gray back, and whitish underside. In winter it may forage in flocks with other small birds.

• Pallas's Fish Eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus

  Pallas's Fish Eagle is a large raptor found across parts of central, southern, and eastern Asia. It uses rivers and wetlands where it can catch fish.

• Gray-headed Tanager Eucometis penicillata

  This tanager has a gray head and yellow-orange underparts. Peruvian accounts place it in the middle levels of floodplain forest.