Meet the world’s animals.
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- Western Orphean Warbler Curruca hortensis
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0 The Western Orphean Warbler is a migratory warbler that breeds around the Mediterranean. The male has a gray head and back, a white throat, and pale pinkish underparts.
- Guianan Toucanet Selenidera piperivora
This toucanet has green upperparts and tail, chestnut tail tips and a red-and-black bill. It ranges from southeastern Venezuela through the Guianas to northern Brazil north of the Amazon and eats fruit and insects.
- Stub-tailed Spadebill Platyrinchus cancrominus
The Stub-tailed Spadebill is a small bird whose nest was observed in dry lowland forest in Costa Rica. At that nest, adults carried spiders and insects to the chicks.
- Solitary Tinamou Tinamus solitarius
It walks quietly on the ground in the Atlantic Forest, with gray-brown barring and a pale stripe on the side of the neck. It is secretive, so its whistled song can help reveal its presence.
- Thick-billed Raven Corvus crassirostris
The Thick-billed Raven is a highland corvid with glossy black plumage, a large white nape patch, and a massive bill.
- White-lored Antpitta Myrmothera fulviventris
The White-lored Antpitta is a lowland Amazonian bird with conspicuous white marks before and behind the eye. Records cover southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and northern Peru.
- Striped Flowerpecker Dicaeum aeruginosum
A small flowerpecker recorded from Philippine islands. The aeruginosum form is olive green above, with a whitish breast and belly heavily streaked brown. A 1992 account reported no recent records on Cebu and considered the island birds restricted to mature forest.
- Braun's Bushshrike Laniarius brauni
This bushshrike is recorded in a restricted area of northern Angola. Its documented habitat includes secondary forest and forest edges.
- Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
The Two-barred Warbler is a small leaf warbler with two wing-bars and a noticeable supercilium. It forages actively in mid-levels of trees and moves between breeding and wintering areas.
- Nicobar Parakeet Psittacula caniceps
The pale grey head and dark facial bands are distinctive. This parakeet lives in coastal forest on a small group of Nicobar Islands.
- Yellow-throated Bulbul Pycnonotus xantholaemus
The Yellow-throated Bulbul is a breeding endemic of India and is about 20 cm long. It uses scrub and open forest on rocky hills.
- Scrubtit Acanthornis magna
A small scrubbird from Tasmania and King Island. It is secretive but searches bark, litter, and foliage for small invertebrates near the forest floor.
- Banded Green Sunbird Anthreptes rubritorques
This sunbird lives in Tanzania's mountain forests. Males have a red breast band, and birds search for nectar and small insects high in trees.
- Mindanao Blue Fantail Rhipidura superciliaris
This blue fantail lives in lowland forest on Basilan and Mindanao. It has a blue head and long tail and feeds mostly on insects.
- Lattice-tailed Trogon Trogon clathratus
This trogon lives in very wet mountain-slope forest in Costa Rica. Males are green and red, females are gray and brown, and the birds use the lower and middle forest levels.
- Sulphur-billed Nuthatch Sitta oenochlamys
This Philippine endemic nuthatch has violet-blue upperparts and pale orange underparts. It searches trees for insects and spiders.
- Leaden Antwren Myrmotherula assimilis
This small bird occurs in the Amazon region of Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia. Males are grey and females olive-grey; river-edge and flooded-forest records are documented.
- Bachman's Sparrow Peucaea aestivalis
Bachman's Sparrow lives in open pine woods and grasslands in the southeastern United States. It searches the ground for grass seeds and insects and has reddish streaks on its back.
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
A widespread reed warbler of sub-Saharan wetlands, it moves through reeds while feeding on insects and spiders.
- River Lapwing Vanellus duvaucelii
The River Lapwing is seen along rivers in India. Its black, grey, and brown plumage and raised black crest are distinctive.
- Western Striolated Puffbird Nystalus obamai
The Western Striolated Puffbird ranges from western Amazonia into the Andean foothills. Its crown spots are concentrated toward the front, and it has a pale ochre nape collar.
- Bahama Mockingbird Mimus gundlachii
The Bahama Mockingbird is an island bird with gray-brown plumage and dark streaks on the flanks. Its song has varied notes and phrases, but it does not mimic other species.
- Red-browed Amazon Amazona rhodocorytha
Adult Red-browed Amazons are green, with a red forehead and crown and blue on the throat and upper cheeks. In the wild, they eat fruits and seeds high in the trees of humid forests in eastern Brazil.
- Black-capped Vireo Vireo atricapilla
The Black-capped Vireo is a small bird that moves between breeding and wintering areas. Adult males have black caps, while females have olive-colored heads; both forage for insects and spiders among leaves.