Meet the world’s animals.
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- Rüppell's Warbler Curruca ruppeli
Photo: Antonios Tsaknakis · CC BY-SA 4.0 Rüppell's Warbler breeds around the eastern Mediterranean and migrates to Africa for the non-breeding season.
- European Greenfinch Chloris chloris
This finch flashes yellow and green in flight. In the UK it visits gardens and eats seeds and insects.
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
Breeding males have a bright orange face and throat and forage high in leafy forest canopies.
- Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
Its black crest and yellow bill stand out. It also occurs in city parks and agricultural areas in Hong Kong.
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
The Green Twinspot is a small bird with a green body and a black, white-spotted belly. It searches for seeds and other food in low vegetation.
- Javan Banded Pitta Hydrornis guajanus
It searches among leaf litter and dense cover in the lowland and foothill forests of Java. BirdGuides also shows photo records from Bali.
- Black-streaked Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys gravivox
This scimitar babbler lacks a pale eyebrow and has brown cheeks; most subspecies show black breast spots or streaks. It uses open woodland, edges, scrub and bamboo.
- Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens
The adult male has a green crown and a black band across the forehead. The species uses forest edges and clearings, farms, plantations and village gardens, feeding on nectar as well as small insects and fruit. Cameroon is one country listed in the profile's range.
- Chinese Nuthatch Sitta villosa
The Chinese Nuthatch is a small nuthatch with a blue-grey back and white brow. It lives in temperate forests, mostly in hills, and also eats pine seeds in winter.
- Bolivian Tapaculo Scytalopus bolivianus
A small, secretive bird of humid mountain forests from southeastern Peru into Bolivia. It forages on or close to the ground and uses forest understory and edges.
- Yellow-crested Manakin Heterocercus flavivertex
This manakin occurs in the lowlands of northern South America. At one study site in northern Venezuela it was observed in seasonally flooded forest and white-sand scrub woodland.
- West Peruvian Dove Zenaida meloda
This sand-gray dove has a white crescent mark on its wings. It picks up seeds from the ground and may fly in flocks.
- Cobb's Wren Troglodytes cobbi
This wren is now confined to small offshore islands in the Falklands. It searches for small animals in grassland near the tide line and on rocky shores.
- Auckland Shag Leucocarbo colensoi
This marine shag is found only in the Auckland Islands. It has black-and-white plumage and pale pink feet; in breeding season it develops a head crest and red facial skin and throat pouch.
- White-browed Fantail Rhipidura aureola
The White-browed Fantail is a small bird with a white brow and a fan-shaped tail. It catches small flying insects in woodland and open places.
- Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis
The Plain Antvireo is recorded across Central and South America. In Costa Rica, it occurs in the understory of humid mountain forests, and males and females differ in plumage.
- White-bridled Finch Melanodera melanodera
The White-bridled Finch forages on the ground in the grasslands of Magallanes and has conspicuous yellow wings.
- New Caledonian Friarbird Philemon diemenensis
This large honeyeater is found only in New Caledonia. It eats flower nectar, fruit, and insects, and also uses open places where flowers grow.
- Spotted Puffbird Bucco tamatia
Its face has fine rufous and dark markings, with long white bristles on the chin. It waits motionless on a shaded branch, then darts from the foliage to catch insects.
- Melanesian Cuckooshrike Coracina caledonica
c. caledonica in forest and savanna. Its range and life-history details here refer to that local form.
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
The Red-eyed Vireo is a woodland songbird that searches leaves in the canopy for caterpillars and also eats fruit in its South American wintering areas.
- Mindoro Bulbul Hypsipetes mindorensis
Mindoro Bulbul is endemic to Mindoro in the Philippines. Its 1890 description records dark olive-brown upperparts and a rufous-tinged breast.
- Black-tailed Leaftosser Sclerurus caudacutus
This ovenbird ranges across northern South America and the Amazon region. It has a reddish-brown face and dark brown crown and lives in tropical lowland evergreen forest. It digs a tunnel into an earth bank and builds its nest cup at the far end.
- Brown-throated Barbet Psilopogon corvinus
The Brown-throated Barbet has a brown head and throat with green upperparts. It is usually solitary in Java's mountain forests, but may feed with other birds at fruiting trees.