Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides

  

  This African shrike has a black facial band and a long tail. It searches for insects and other small prey in open, shrubby savanna.

• African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus

  The African Pipit is a ground-dwelling bird with streaked brown plumage and a pale eyebrow. It walks through grassland in search of small invertebrates.

• Eastern Grey Plantain-eater Crinifer zonurus

  The Eastern Grey Plantain-eater is a large gray bird with finely patterned plumage. It lives in open African woodland and grassland and mainly eats fruit.

• Stiles's Tapaculo Scytalopus stilesi

  Stiles's Tapaculo lives in humid montane forest in Colombia's Central Cordillera. It has dark plumage and searches for food in undergrowth and near the forest floor.

• Banded Kingfisher Lacedo pulchella

  Males are blue, while females show orange-and-black barring, making the sexes look quite different. It perches and waits for prey in lowland and hill forests.

• Coppersmith Barbet Psilopogon haemacephalus

  A barbet that lives in Singapore’s parks and residential areas. Adults are mostly green with red and yellow markings, and feed largely on figs and other fruit.

• Scarlet-and-white Tanager Chrysothlypis salmoni

  This tanager occurs in humid lowland forest in Colombia and northern Ecuador. Males are red and white, while females replace the red areas with brown; birds gather in canopy flocks.

• Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides

  The Northern Black Flycatcher occurs across northern and eastern sub-Saharan Africa, using moist woodland, acacia savanna and plantations. The male is bluish slate-gray with a long tail and short wings.

• Chestnut Rail Eulabeornis castaneoventris

  The Chestnut Rail is a large, ground-dwelling rail of mangroves that eats crabs. Different plumage forms have been reported in northern Australia.

• Sardinian Warbler Curruca melanocephala

  The Sardinian Warbler is a small bird of Mediterranean scrub. Males are marked by a black head and a red eye-ring.

• Golden-collared Toucanet Selenidera reinwardtii

  This small toucanet lives in Amazonian forest canopy and foothill forest. Males have a golden collar against green and black plumage, while females are chestnut on the head and underparts.

• Cinereous Tyrant Knipolegus striaticeps

  The sexes have different plumage. Males have a dark crown and tail, while females have a chestnut head and gray back. A 2019 report describes it as locally common in Paraguay’s drier Chaco.

• Yellow-bellied Warbler Abroscopus superciliaris

  The Yellow-bellied Warbler is a small bird of Southeast Asian forest and bamboo. Its yellow belly and white eyebrow are distinctive.

• Brown Tinamou Crypturellus obsoletus

  This tinamou has reddish-brown plumage. In the eastern Andes of Peru it uses the undergrowth of humid montane forest and is reported to eat mainly seeds.

• Sri Lanka Blue Magpie Urocissa ornata

  The Sri Lanka blue magpie is a blue-and-chestnut bird that lives in small groups in Sri Lanka's wet forests.

• Ochre-striped Antpitta Grallaria dignissima

  The Ochre-striped Antpitta occurs in Peru's northern Amazonian lowlands. It has a brown head and back, ochre face, throat, and upper breast, and long black streaks on the whitish lower underparts. It forages on the floor of terra firme forest.

• Grey-sided Flowerpecker Dicaeum celebicum

  Males have a black head and upperparts with a purple sheen, a white throat, and a red patch on the lower throat and breast. Females are gray-brown. It feeds on fruit and small animals in the forest canopy.

• Black Boubou Laniarius nigerrimus

  A study of the Black Boubou distinguished the all-black birds of bushy savanna in northern Kenya and southern Somalia as Laniarius nigerrimus. Species accounts describe it as resident, active by day, and mainly an invertebrate eater.

• Buff-barred Warbler Phylloscopus pulcher

  This small leaf warbler lives in hill and mountain forests around the Himalayas. Its breeding range extends through the southern Tibetan and southwestern Chinese region.

• Emerald-collared Parakeet Psittacula calthrapae

  Layard's Parakeet is endemic to Sri Lanka and uses moist forest, tea plantations, gardens, and forest edges.

• Cameroon Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis

  A greenbul of the Cameroon Highlands. A field account near Bamenda describes it searching for insects and fruit among mosses, lichens, and peeling bark.

• Mangrove Gerygone Gerygone levigaster

  This small Australasian warbler occurs along Australian coasts. The Australian banding account covers two subspecies; a Darwin study found it using tidal-creek mangroves and shrubs around bare salt flats.

• Eastern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris mediocris

  This sunbird lives in the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania. The entry follows current Cinnyris mediocris after the related Forest Sunbird and Usambara Double-collared Sunbird were separated.

• Rufous-tailed Fantail Rhipidura phoenicura

  It has a gray head and back, a white eyebrow, and orange-chestnut belly and tail feathers. Endemic to Java's moist mountain forests, it is active by day and catches insects and other invertebrates in the air.