Meet the world’s animals.

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• Helmeted Manakin Chiroxiphia galeata

  

  The Helmeted Manakin is a small manakin with different male and female plumage. A study in southeastern Brazil documented nests low in the forest undergrowth.

• Guianan Red Cotinga Phoenicircus carnifex

  The Guianan Red Cotinga lives in northern South American rainforest. Males are conspicuously red, while females and immatures have more olive coloring. A study in Suriname observed male display sites.

• Eastern yellow robin Eopsaltria australis

  A bird of eastern and southeastern mainland Australia. It pounces from low perches onto insects on the ground.

• Chuuk Flycatcher Myiagra oceanica

  The Chuuk Flycatcher is endemic to the Chuuk Islands in Micronesia. Males have a blue-gray brown crown and rufous breast; birds hunt insects from low perches around forest edges and gardens.

• 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.

• White-naped Swift Streptoprocne semicollaris

  This large swift occurs in the mountains of Mexico. It catches flying insects above forests and uses caves or cliff crevices for roosting and nesting.

• Pale Batis Batis soror

  The Pale Batis is a small bird of miombo woodland and coastal forest.

• Stierling's Wren-Warbler Calamonastes stierlingi

  This small bird occurs in miombo woodland. A survey in northern Mozambique found it on the lower slopes of Mt Chitagal and Mt Sanga and recorded up to four territorial individuals in a day.

• Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis

  This nightjar is marked by a reddish collar and a whistled call at night. It ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa and catches insects from dusk into the night.

• Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus

  The Rock Wren is a wren of dry rocky places in western North America. It probes rock crevices and searches for insects on the ground and among rocks.

• African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides

  A raptor of woodland and forest across sub-Saharan Africa. It has a gray crest and broad rufous bars below, and searches for prey from one perch to another.

• Olive-headed Weaver Ploceus olivaceiceps

  The Olive-headed Weaver lives in montane miombo woodland in southern Tanzania and nearby regions. Males have a bright yellow crown and rusty breast.

• Pavonine Cuckoo Dromococcyx pavoninus

  The Pavonine Cuckoo is a forest cuckoo with a rufous head and neck and a long tail. On the ground it spreads its wings and tail to flush insects, then chases and catches them.

• Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush Ianthocincla konkakinhensis

  Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush is a laughingthrush recorded in montane forest in central Vietnam. Reports from Laos remain uncertain.

• Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia

  The world's largest tern, with a large red bill. It pursues fish along coasts and on inland lakes and rivers.

• Crimson-fronted Barbet Psilopogon rubricapillus

  The Crimson-fronted Barbet is a small forest barbet in Sri Lanka. A male of the nominate subspecies has a red forehead and orange-golden throat, and visits fruiting trees.

• Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus

  A black bird with a deeply forked tail. It lives in open areas such as farms and wetlands in India, perching at vantage points to chase insects.

• Javan Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus montanus

  A yellow, downcurved bill, white eyebrow and chestnut back identify this babbler. It forages in the lower growth of forests on Java and Bali.

• Moluccan Scops Owl Otus magicus

  The Moluccan Scops Owl is active at night and has black-spotted plumage that occurs in several color forms.

• Mount Cameroon Speirops Zosterops melanocephalus

  It has a pale grey-white forehead and eye area, with a dark brown head and nape. It occurs in open forest edges and mountain scrub on Mount Cameroon.

• Thick-billed Lark Ramphocoris clotbey

  The Thick-billed Lark is a pale, dry-country lark with a notably large bill. It searches for food close to the ground.

• Grey-cheeked Nunlet Nonnula frontalis

  The Grey-cheeked Nunlet ranges from central Panama to northern Colombia in lowland forest. It has a long, slender blue-gray bill, red eye-ring, gray cheeks and chestnut crown, and catches arthropods from branches and leaves in short sallies.

• Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema

  A sunbird ranging from western and central Africa into eastern Africa. Males have metallic blue-green on the forehead, chin and throat.

• Philippine Bush-hen Amaurornis olivacea

  The species account gives a body length of 24–31 cm, freshwater wetland habitat, and an omnivorous diet. Its listed sound recordings come from several parts of the Philippines.