Meet the world’s animals.

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• Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis

  

  The Southern Lapwing is a plover with a black-and-white patterned head, red legs and a habit of searching the ground for small animals.

• Mountain Barbet Psilopogon monticola

  It is a stocky green bird with a bare orange-yellow patch around the eye and a heavy pale bill. In Borneo's montane forest canopy it feeds mainly on fruit and berries.

• Brown Nunlet Nonnula brunnea

  This nunlet lives in forest in northeastern Peru. It has a reddish-brown body and red skin around the eye, and is described perching on branches.

• Southern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris chalybeus

  Males have a narrow red breast band and pale gray belly; females are gray-brown. At Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, records describe it as common in coastal thicket, feeding mainly on insects while also taking nectar.

• Yemen Warbler Curruca buryi

  The Yemen Warbler is a small warbler found in the highlands of Yemen. It feeds on insects and other invertebrates.

• Pacific Robin Petroica multicolor

  The Pacific Robin is represented here by the Norfolk Island population described by Parks Australia. Males have a red breast; females have a brown chest.

• Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus

  A North American bird: adult males are black and white with a red breast, while females and young birds are brown and streaked.

• Bar-throated Apalis Apalis thoracica

  This apalis ranges from eastern to southern Africa and is recorded in evergreen forest, valley woodland, and scrub.

• Plain Swift Apus unicolor

  This blackish-brown swift has a small pale throat patch, narrow pointed wings and a deeply forked tail. It breeds on Madeira and the Canaries, and some birds move to North Africa in winter.

• Samoan Fantail Rhipidura nebulosa

  The Samoan Fantail is a small bird described with dusky plumage, a pale throat, and white feathers under the tail. Its life account here is limited to an 1848 observation in Samoa.

• Tawny Antpitta Grallaria quitensis

  This antpitta occurs in the Andes from Colombia through Ecuador to northern Peru. Under the current treatment, Boyacá Antpitta and Atuen Antpitta, formerly included here, are separate species.

• Common Poorwill Phalaenoptilus nuttallii

  The Common Poorwill rests on the ground or low branches by day and catches flying insects at night.

• Orange-collared Manakin Manacus aurantiacus

  This manakin lives in Pacific lowlands of Central America. Adult males have a bright orange throat and collar with a green belly, while females are mostly subdued green.

• Bristle-crowned Starling Onychognathus salvadorii

  A starling of Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya in eastern Africa. It has bristle-like black feathers on the forehead, a blue sheen, and uses rocky mountain habitat.

• Gray-faced buzzard Butastur indicus

  A slender-winged migratory hawk seen around woodland and farmland in Japan.

• Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus

  A leaf warbler with a pale crown stripe that favors the upper parts of forests.

• Scaly Chatterer Argya aylmeri

  It is gray-brown above, with a rufous crown and buff underparts. The throat and breast are scaled, and the bill is yellow. Small groups forage near and on the ground in dry shrubland and thickets.

• 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.

• Paradise Shelduck Tadorna variegata

  This New Zealand endemic duck has white-headed females and black-headed males. Pairs are often seen together.

• Tufted Coquette Lophornis ornatus

  This tiny hummingbird has a rufous crest and neck plumes in males; females lack both. It feeds on nectar and small invertebrates in forest edges, open country, gardens, and cultivation.

• Red-billed Woodcreeper Hylexetastes perrotii

  This woodcreeper inhabits moist lowland forest in South America. It searches trunks and branches for arthropods.

• Black Pitohui Melanorectes nigrescens

  This whistler relative inhabits mid-mountain forest on mainland New Guinea. Males are black, females olive-brown to rufous, and the birds forage for arthropods.

• Green pheasant Phasianus versicolor

  A long-tailed bird of open woods, grassland and farmland in Japan. Males and females differ markedly in colour.

• Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus

  The Black-headed Oriole occurs in Africa. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a black head and bright yellow plumage; the species account describes the bird as diurnal and omnivorous in open woodland and forest.