Meet the world’s animals.

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• Thick-billed Warbler Iduna aedon

  

  The Thick-billed Warbler is a small brown bird with rufous on its crown and tail. It stays concealed in dense grass and shrubs and moves between breeding and wintering areas.

• Carpentarian Grasswren Amytornis dorotheae

  This bird inhabits spinifex grassland and rocky areas in northern Australia, around the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.

• African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae

  The African Grey Woodpecker lives in wooded habitats across parts of western, eastern, and central Africa and feeds mainly on insects such as termites.

• Seychelles Blue Pigeon Alectroenas pulcherrimus

  This large pigeon lives on islands in the Seychelles. Its dark blue body, pale breast patch, and red bare skin on the face stand out; it feeds on fruit and seeds in trees.

• Jamaican Euphonia Euphonia jamaica

  Males are bluish grey with a yellow band across the mid-belly; females and young birds are olive and grey. It eats fruit and buds.

• Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus

  This barbet inhabits forests in western and central Africa. The skin on its face and crown is bare, and groups use trees bearing fruit.

• Yellow-throated Whistler Pachycephala macrorhyncha

  This whistler lives in forest and wooded areas of the Moluccas. Males have yellowish underparts, and throat color varies among island populations.

• White-bellied Fantail Rhipidura euryura

  The White-bellied Fantail lives in moist mountain forests on Java. Its gray body has a white belly and a broad white stripe above each eye.

• Red-headed Myzomela Myzomela erythrocephala

  Adult males have a red face and rump, while females have only faint red on the face. The species is mainly found in coastal mangroves, where it feeds on nectar.

• Grey-eyed Greenlet Hylophilus amaurocephalus

  This vireo relative lives in forest and scrub in eastern Brazil. Its gray iris and rufous crown stand out, and it searches for insects in trees.

• Teardrop White-eye Rukia ruki

  The Teardrop White-eye is recorded on four islands in the Faichuk group of Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia. It has been observed in old native forest and secondary forest, where it gleans insects from foliage.

• Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata

  The Greenish Elaenia has a concealed yellow crown patch. In Bolivia it occurs in woodland and wooded savanna, with lowland records varying by season.

• Plum-headed Finch Neochmia modesta

  Both sexes have a plum-colored head spot, while only the male has a dark chin spot. The JCU page documents a local occurrence in Townsville.

• White-gorgeted Flycatcher Anthipes monileger

  A forest flycatcher with a bright white throat, it searches for small invertebrates low in the undergrowth.

• Graceful Pitta Erythropitta venusta

  A pitta of Sumatra's forests. Adults have a dark head, blue-green eyebrow, and red belly, and search for food on the forest floor.

• Sucre Antpitta Grallaricula cumanensis

  This antpitta occurs in the Turimiquire and Paria mountains of northeastern Venezuela. It stays close to the ground in dense or more open undergrowth.

• Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis

  This bushshrike has a pale eyebrow and rufous wings. It searches for insects near the ground in scrub and open woodland.

• Black-streaked Puffbird Malacoptila fulvogularis

  An Andean bird of humid forests that sallies from a perch to catch invertebrates.

• Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis

  A black-and-white kingfisher with a long bill. It can hover over water while searching for fish.

• Cuban Nightjar Antrostomus cubanensis

  The Cuban Nightjar is endemic to Cuba. Its cryptic plumage blends with the forest floor, where it rests between insect-hunting bouts.

• Cinnamon-vented Piha Lipaugus lanioides

  A cotinga endemic to southeastern Brazil, inhabiting humid montane Atlantic Forest, mainly at about 500–1,000 m.

• Australian Boobook Ninox boobook

  This nocturnal owl is about 28–36 cm long. It has a dark brown back and rufous-brown underparts marked with white, and hunts small animals from elevated perches.

• Ground Cuckooshrike Coracina maxima

  This large cuckooshrike lives in inland Australia. Two birds followed in the western Kimberley in 2025 repeatedly used the same roost and foraged on the ground in a recently burnt area.

• Forest Raven Corvus tasmanicus

  The Forest Raven is a large corvid with black plumage and a white eye-ring. In Tasmania it is found from forests to coasts.