Meet the world’s animals.

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• Variegated Tinamou Crypturellus variegatus

  

  The Variegated Tinamou is a wary bird of humid forests in northern South America. Its rufous neck and dark bars across the back are striking features.

• Greater Ground Robin Amalocichla sclateriana

  This ground robin is known from high montane forests of New Guinea. One bird was recorded on the Huon Peninsula in 2011, and researchers noted that it might differ in size from known populations.

• Long-billed Murrelet Brachyramphus perdix

  The Long-billed Murrelet is an alcid that breeds along the Siberian coast and also spends time at sea. It is recorded only rarely as a vagrant in North America.

• Comoro Blue Vanga Cyanolanius comorensis

  The Comoro Blue Vanga is a blue bird of woodland in the Comoros. It was formerly grouped with the Madagascar Blue Vanga but is now a separate species. Its current status on Grand Comoro is uncertain.

• Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava

  The Black Cuckooshrike lives in woodland across eastern and southern Africa. Males occur in an all-black form and a form with yellow wing patches.

• 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.

• Northern Marquesan Reed-warbler Acrocephalus percernis

  This reed-warbler lives on four Marquesan islands. The sexes look alike, and singing males defend territories.

• Dusky Fulvetta Schoeniparus brunneus

  The Dusky Fulvetta uses forests and grass-jungle in China and Taiwan. It has a rufous cap with a thin black line and grey-buff underparts.

• Rockwarbler Origma solitaria

  This small bird is restricted to the Sydney region of New South Wales. It occurs in sclerophyll forest and tall woodland associated with sandstone outcrops.

• Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla kikuyuensis

  The Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul is a mountain-forest bulbul of eastern Africa. Clements separated it from Black-headed Mountain Greenbul in 2024 and treats it as ranging from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to central Kenya.

• Blue-moustached Bee-eater Merops mentalis

  This bee-eater lives in forests of West and Central Africa. It uses forest interiors, edges, and treefall gaps.

• Chucao Tapaculo Scelorchilus rubecula

  This tapaculo inhabits temperate forests in Chile and Argentina. A Chilean government assessment lists records from several southern regions of Chile.

• Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus remifer

  The Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo is a dark bird with racket-shaped tail tips. In Southeast Asian forests it catches insects near the canopy and may imitate other birds' calls.

• Saker Falcon Falco cherrug

  A large falcon of dry grassland and semi-desert, with plumage that varies in colour.

• Rufous Piha Lipaugus unirufus

  The Rufous Piha is a uniformly rufous bird. It perches in trees in tropical lowland evergreen forest and may remain still for long periods.

• Plain Parakeet Brotogeris tirica

  The Plain Parakeet is a small green parrot that eats fruit, flowers, and nectar and moves in pairs or flocks. It is native to the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil and also visits gardens where fruit is available.

• Karoo Bustard Heterotetrax vigorsii

  The Karoo Bustard has a gray-brown body, a black throat, and a black patch on the nape. It walks through stony Karoo shrubland while foraging.

• Worthen's Sparrow Spizella wortheni

  This small sparrow is restricted to dry upland grasslands in northeastern Mexico. It keeps low among short shrubs and feeds mostly on seeds in winter.

• Western Grey Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator

  This large bird lives in West African savanna, open woodland, and cultivated land. Its plumage is mostly subdued gray and brown, and it feeds mainly on fruit.

• Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani

  The Smooth-billed Ani lives in groups in shrubby parts of tropical South America and the Caribbean. Its glossy black plumage and oversized bill stand out.

• Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus

  The Green-backed Tit is a small bird found in mountain forests in northern India. Its green back, yellow underside, and black head with white cheeks stand out as it searches branches and trunks for food.

• White-chinned Woodcreeper Dendrocincla merula

  The White-chinned Woodcreeper lives low in humid Amazonian forest and is strongly associated with army-ant swarms, catching arthropods disturbed by the ants rather than eating the ants. A white chin is useful, but iris color varies among subspecies.

• Crested Bobwhite Colinus cristatus

  Its pointed crest and finely mottled plumage make this ground-dwelling bird distinctive. It lives in open grassland and woodland edges, feeding mainly on seeds.

• Scaly-breasted Wren Microcerculus marginatus

  This wren lives near the forest floor in Amazonian lowlands. Adults have brown upperparts, a white throat and breast, and brown scale-like markings across the breast and flanks.