Meet the world’s animals.

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• Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami

  

  A large ground-dwelling bird with black-and-white wing markings. In South Africa and Eswatini, males inflate the neck and display white plumes.

• Kilombero Cisticola Cisticola bakerorum

  This cisticola is restricted to reedbeds in Tanzania's Kilombero Swamp. Its rufous cap and tail-tip bands help identify it.

• Black-billed Thrush Turdus ignobilis

  This thrush is noted for its black bill. Its chest markings vary, and in northern and western Bolivia it uses forest edges, riverside woods, the ground and trees.

• Desertas Petrel Pterodroma deserta

  A seabird that breeds on Bugio Island in the Madeira archipelago. During incubation it can make long flights across the North Atlantic; after breeding it winters mainly in the South and West Atlantic.

• Visayan Pygmy Babbler Dasycrotapha pygmaea

  A small bird of Leyte and Samar in the Philippines. It feeds at middle heights in forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Black Rosy Finch Leucosticte atrata

  The Black Rosy-Finch is a finch of the high mountains of western North America. It uses rocky high elevations for breeding and descends in winter.

• King of Saxony Bird-of-paradise Pteridophora alberti

  This bird-of-paradise lives in the forests of New Guinea’s central mountains. The male raises its long head plumes and displays them during courtship.

• Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui

  The Little Tinamou is a small bird of the ground in humid tropical lowland forest. It is rarely seen and usually runs for cover rather than flying when disturbed.

• Two-banded Plover Charadrius falklandicus

  This plover occurs in southern South America. Breeding adults have two black bands across the breast.

• Wreathed hornbill Rhyticeros undulatus

  A tropical forest bird with a ridged structure above its bill.

• Green Manakin Cryptopipo holochlora

  It occurs on the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, in moist lowland and foothill forest and at forest edges. Ecuadorian records extend to about 1,500 m.

• Tibetan Snowfinch Montifringilla adamsi

  White wings stand out on this high-altitude sparrow. It searches for food in meadows and pastures and may gather near people.

• Antarctic Shag Leucocarbo bransfieldensis

  This seabird breeds on the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, and Elephant Island. Its upperparts are glossy black and its throat and belly white; it feeds on fish and benthic animals near coasts and pack ice.

• White-lined Tanager Tachyphonus rufus

  Males are black, with white lines under the wings visible in flight; females are rufous brown. In Brazil the species also occurs at forest edges, in scrub, secondary growth and gardens, where pairs forage low in the vegetation.

• Cinnamon-breasted Whistler Pachycephala johni

  This whistler is recorded on Obi Island. Its taxonomic treatment differs among sources, which may rank it as a species or as a subspecies.

• Dusky Nightjar Antrostomus saturatus

  The Dusky Nightjar is a dark-plumaged highland nightjar. In Costa Rica it nests at forest edges and occurs in high elevations of the Central Volcanic and Talamanca ranges and other highlands.

• Planalto Tapaculo Scytalopus pachecoi

  A small ground-dwelling bird of humid forest in southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina, recorded in woodland with bamboo and scrub.

• Duetting Giant-Honeyeater Gymnomyza brunneirostris

  The Duetting Giant-Honeyeater is endemic to Viti Levu, Fiji. It inhabits rainforest and feeds on nectar, insects, and caterpillars.

• Chestnut-capped Warbler Basileuterus delattrii

  The Chestnut-capped Warbler is associated with forest and second-growth habitat in Central America. A 2020 paper treated the delattrii group as a subspecies group of the Rufous-capped Warbler and compared its adult plumage and range.

• White-winged Cuckooshrike Coracina ostenta

  It lives in forests of the Western Visayas in the Philippines and forms small groups in the canopy or at forest edges. A large white wing patch is its field mark.

• Red-throated Caracara Ibycter americanus

  A mostly black caracara with a red face and throat. It travels in groups and eats wasp larvae and fruit.

• Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus

  The Red-billed Starling is identified by its red bill. Males have a white head and grey body, while females are mainly brown; large flocks form in winter.

• Scrub Greenlet Hylophilus flavipes

  This small bird was studied in populations of Colombia’s Magdalena Valley. It searches foliage in scrub and woodland for small invertebrates.

• Chami Antpitta Grallaria alvarezi

  The eBird/Merlin account places the Chami Antpitta in high-elevation cloud forest in Colombia’s western Andes. It also notes that the species was once treated as one form within the broader Rufous Antpitta group.