Meet the world’s animals.

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• Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus

  

  A small hornbill with a striking red bill. It inhabits tropical lowland forest and gives wavering whistles alone or in pairs.

• Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

  A large reed warbler that lives in wetlands. In Britain, its loud song can help observers find birds arriving during spring passage.

• Apurimac Brush Finch Atlapetes forbesi

  A Peruvian brush-finch with a grey body and rufous head. It forages in Andean scrub and Polylepis woodland.

• Tapajos Antpitta Myrmothera subcanescens

  This antpitta occurs south of the Amazon River in Brazil. A field account describes grayer flanks, a browner and less olive back, and shorter streaks than in a close relative.

• Lawes's Parotia Parotia lawesii

  This bird-of-paradise lives in New Guinea’s mountain forests. Males dance with their plumage spread, while females build the nests. It also eats fruit and arthropods.

• Red-crested Turaco Tauraco erythrolophus

  The Red-crested Turaco is an Angolan endemic with a striking red crest and green body. It eats fruit and lives in pairs or groups in gallery and riverine forests.

• Dark-rumped Swift Apus acuticauda

  The Dark-rumped Swift has breeding records in the eastern Himalayas and northeastern India. It nests in cliff crevices near forest.

• Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata

  This large owl has white markings around its eyes that look like spectacles. It is active at night and nests in tree cavities.

• Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

  A glossy black crow with a long, curved red bill and red legs. In Britain it occurs along western coasts, around cliffs and coastal grassland.

• Purple-throated Cotinga Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema

  This cotinga has a purple throat. Adult males are black and white, while females are brown and barred, so the sexes look very different.

• Grey-headed Parrotbill Paradoxornis gularis

  This parrotbill stands out for its oversized orange bill, gray head, and black brow and throat.

• Flame-colored Tanager Piranga bidentata

  This tanager lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Panama. Adult males are orange-red and females are yellow, and the birds search for food in the canopy.

• Black-and-white Becard Pachyramphus albogriseus

  An integrative taxonomic study separated P. albogriseus from P. salvini, which had been included in the broader Black-and-white Becard. This entry concerns P. albogriseus, found on the eastern Andean slope and in montane forests of Costa Rica and Panama.

• Plain-backed Sparrow Passer flaveolus

  The male has a black throat, chestnut back, and yellowish face, while the female is much plainer. It feeds on seeds on the ground in open woodland and farmland.

• Alpine Pipit Anthus gutturalis

  A pipit of New Guinea's high alpine grasslands. It favors short grass and places with nearby bushes.

• Bengal Bush Lark Plocealauda assamica

  A lark of open country in South Asia. It forages on the ground and also occurs on dry, stony ground and cultivated land.

• Pale-mandibled Aracari Pteroglossus erythropygius

  This aracari is recorded from southwest Ecuador and northwest Peru. PeruAves describes it as rare in deciduous forest in extreme northwest Peru, where records extend to 800 m along the Andean foothills.

• Cinereous Tinamou Crypturellus cinereus

  The Cinereous Tinamou is a dark, nearly unpatterned ground bird of the Amazonian lowlands. It is commonly recorded in floodplain and várzea forest.

• Mountain Shrike Lanius validirostris

  It has a gray head and back, a black facial band, a white breast, and rufous-brown flanks. In the Philippine mountains, it watches for insects from exposed perches.

• Malaita Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx malaitae

  The Malaita Dwarf-Kingfisher is endemic to Malaita in the Solomon Islands.

• African Rail Rallus caerulescens

  The African Rail has a long red bill and red legs; males have fine white barring on the belly.

• Green Heron Butorides virescens

  This small heron waits motionless for fish in shallow water. It sometimes drops twigs or insects onto the water to lure fish.

• American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica

  The American Golden-Plover breeds on Arctic and subarctic tundra and winters from eastern Brazil to Argentina.

• Ruvu Weaver Ploceus holoxanthus

  The Ruvu Weaver is recorded along rivers in eastern Tanzania. A 2021 study treats it as distinct from the African Golden Weaver and reports adult plumage features and nests documented in riverside vegetation.