Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sao Tome Ibis Bostrychia bocagei

  

  An ibis of São Tomé's lowland forests, with a glossy sheen that combines bark-brown and leaf-green colors.

• White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus

  Adults of the nominate subspecies have a white eyebrow and a rufous-brown back. This coucal catches insects on the ground among tall grass.

• Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor

  The Lesser Grey Shrike hunts large beetles and other insects in open farmland and grassland. It migrates from European breeding areas to southern Africa.

• Jameson's Wattle-eye Platysteira jamesoni

  This small bird lives in humid forests from eastern DR Congo into western East Africa. Blue-green eye wattles and chestnut patches along the sides of the neck are distinctive.

• Rusty Laughingthrush Pterorhinus poecilorhynchus

  This laughingthrush is endemic to Taiwan's mid-elevation forests. Mainland birds once included within the same species are now treated as Buffy Laughingthrush, Pterorhinus berthemyi.

• Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris

  The Little Black Cormorant is slim and black, with a green sheen on its back. It dives to catch fish and other prey.

• 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.

• Sand-colored Nighthawk Chordeiles rupestris

  The Sand-colored Nighthawk has sandy mottled plumage and occurs along rivers in the Peruvian Amazon region. It also forages above rivers during the day.

• Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus

  A pipit whose adult breeding plumage has a rusty-red throat and breast. It breeds on northern tundra and moves south seasonally.

• Dark-throated Oriole Oriolus xanthonotus

  This small oriole lives in Southeast Asian forests. The male has a black head and chest with a yellow back, and it eats fruit and insects.

• Chimango Caracara Milvago chimango

  Argentina's biodiversity record describes a brown caracara marked by a white patch at the wing tips. It feeds mainly on carrion and searches for food in open places and along roads.

• Striated Grasswren Amytornis striatus

  The Striated Grasswren lives in open mallee woodland in South Australia. This entry follows the sandplain subspecies described in the state fact sheet.

• Golden Palm Weaver Ploceus bojeri

  The Golden Palm Weaver lives in lowland eastern Africa. A breeding-plumage male has an orange head and breast. The species eats seeds and insects and is known for its complex, ball-shaped woven nest.

• Pacific Parakeet Psittacara strenuus

  This parakeet ranges from Mexico to Nicaragua. It is mainly green, feeds chiefly on seeds and fruit, and uses forests and other green areas.

• Yellow-backed Tanager Hemithraupis flavicollis

  This tanager occurs from eastern Panama to southeastern Brazil. eBird describes pairs feeding in the canopy, often with mixed-species flocks.

• Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella

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

• Australian King Parrot Alisterus scapularis

  The Australian King Parrot is a large parrot whose plumage differs between males and females. It feeds on fruits and seeds in forests and forest edges of eastern Australia.

• Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin Neopelma chrysolophum

  The Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin lives in montane Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. A 2023 paper describes its developed yellow crown patch and proposes the genus Protopelma.

• Queen Carola's Parotia Parotia carolae

  Queen Carola's Parotia lives in mountain forests of central New Guinea. The male has a dark body with iridescent green-blue tones and white flank plumes; the brown female has a finely patterned underside.

• Giant Hummingbird Patagona gigas

  This entry covers the southern species Patagona gigas. It looks very similar to the Northern Giant Hummingbird, P. peruviana, but differs in breeding range and vocalizations.

• Cerulean Kingfisher Alcedo coerulescens

  The Cerulean Kingfisher is a small bird with a blue back and white underside. It hunts from waterside branches and posts and eats small fish and aquatic insects.

• Song Wren Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus

  The Song Wren inhabits humid lowland forest from Central America into northwestern South America and searches the leaf litter for food. It may be seen in family groups.

• Southern Hill Myna Gracula indica

  Adults have glossy black plumage, a white wing patch, yellow skin wattles behind the eyes, and an orange-to-red bill. They feed mainly on fruit and nectar and are usually seen in pairs or small groups.

• Yellow-wattled Lapwing Vanellus malabaricus

  The Yellow-wattled Lapwing is a plover of dry, open country in the Indian subcontinent. It may make short movements in response to rain.