Meet the world’s animals.

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• Wallace's Fairywren Sipodotus wallacii

  

  Wallace’s Fairywren lives in lowland and foothill rainforest on New Guinea. It has a long bill and short tail, and has been observed in forests with abundant vines and ground cover.

• Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia variegaticeps

  A foliage-gleaner ranging from Central America to the western Andes, where it searches branches and leaves for small invertebrates.

• Singing Honeyeater Gavicalis virescens

  The Singing Honeyeater has a gray-brown back, a pale streaked underside, and a black facial mask edged below in yellow. It searches low in shrubs and trees for insects, nectar, and other foods.

• Limestone Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus calciatilis

  This leaf-warbler was described from limestone karst mountains in Vietnam and Laos. The paper records it in evergreen and semi-evergreen broadleaf forest.

• Ladder-tailed Nightjar Hydropsalis climacocerca

  It is gray-brown with fine markings. The male has a long tail that looks W-shaped when spread. It is nocturnal and occurs along rivers.

• Hume's Bush Warbler Horornis brunnescens

  Hume's Bush Warbler is a small bird of the Himalayan region. It occurs in grassy places and bamboo thickets and has brown upperparts with a pale line above the eye.

• Thick-billed Parrot Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha

  The thick-billed parrot is a green parrot of high-elevation pine forests. It travels in flocks and eats pine seeds.

• Black-eared Wood Quail Odontophorus melanotis

  The Black-eared Wood Quail is an elusive bird of humid forests from Honduras to eastern Panama.

• Bonin White-eye Apalopteron familiare

  The Bonin White-eye is a small bird endemic to the Ogasawara Islands and now lives on Hahajima and nearby small islands. Historical records also describe a population with yellow, green, and black markings.

• Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella

  A bunting that stays on farmland in Britain year-round; males have a bright yellow head.

• Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus

  The Lesser Black-backed Gull is a large gull with a dark gray back and white body. It breeds from northern Europe to western Siberia and moves south for winter.

• Ayacucho Antpitta Grallaria ayacuchensis

  This antpitta is known from the eastern Andean slope of Ayacucho, Peru. A 2020 taxonomic paper described dark reddish-brown upperparts, a paler lower belly, and a male collected in a Chusquea thicket in secondary forest.

• Baikal Teal Sibirionetta formosa

  A duck that breeds in eastern Siberia and winters in East Asia. In Hong Kong it is a scarce winter visitor to the Deep Bay area.

• Orange-backed Troupial Icterus croconotus

  A striking black-and-orange oriole of the Amazon Basin, it also uses secondary growth and forest edges and may occur near water. It is not a true starling despite its English name ending in “troupial.”

• Tawny-headed Swallow Alopochelidon fucata

  This small swallow has a tawny head and pale underside. It is migratory and catches flying insects in the air.

• Fasciated Wren Campylorhynchus fasciatus

  This wren occurs in Peru and Ecuador. Its upperparts have pale and dark grey stripes; photographs may show a brownish cast. It is reported west of the Andes in the north, with records also east of the Andes farther south.

• Chirping Cisticola Cisticola pipiens

  The Chirping Cisticola is a small bird of wetlands and flooded grassland in south-central Africa. It has a greyish-brown back, brown head and grey throat.

• Red-throated Sunbird Anthreptes rhodolaemus

  Male Red-throated Sunbirds show glossy green and violet plumage, while females are subdued olive. They forage for flowers and small prey in forest canopies.

• Banded Barbet Lybius undatus

  The Banded Barbet has a red forehead and a black head and breast. It occurs in Eritrea and Ethiopia, feeds mainly on fruit—especially figs—and also catches flying insects.

• Tawny-backed Fantail Rhipidura superflua

  The Tawny-backed Fantail lives in humid forest on Buru Island. It is about 14 cm long and catches flying insects and other small invertebrates by day.

• Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis

  The Canada Warbler is a migrant that breeds in northern North American forests and winters in South America. It arrives on its breeding grounds late in spring.

• Pale-yellow Robin Tregellasia capito

  This small bird occurs in two separated parts of eastern Australia. It searches for insects in moist forest and has a gray-olive back and yellow underside.

• Andaman Woodpecker Dryocopus hodgei

  A large woodpecker with a black body, red crest, and long bill. It searches for food mainly high in forest trees.

• Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata

  The Brimstone Canary ranges from central to southern Africa and uses thickets, forest edges, gardens, and other open places. It mainly eats seeds and fruit, along with insects and nectar.