Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-vented Flowerpecker Dicaeum chrysorrheum

  

  The Yellow-vented Flowerpecker is a small flowerpecker found from the Indian subcontinent through Southeast Asia. It has yellowish-green upperparts, streaked white underparts, and orange-yellow undertail coverts.

• Cocha Antshrike Thamnophilus praecox

  This antshrike was photographically documented at Bretaña in Loreto, northeastern Peru, in 2022. The male is black and the female chestnut; the record site was whitewater-flooded forest.

• Slender-billed Xenops Xenops tenuirostris

  This small ovenbird relative has a thin, straight bill and moves over trunks and branches. The Peru account places it in lowland Amazonian forest edges and secondary growth, with records to 500 m along the Andean foothills.

• Eared Pitta Hydrornis phayrei

  The Eared Pitta lives close to the forest floor, where it searches among leaf litter for small prey.

• Willard's Sooty Boubou Laniarius willardi

  Willard’s Sooty Boubou was described from a small series of specimens from the western Albertine Rift. The description reports collection localities in Uganda and Burundi, but the few specimens do not establish a complete range.

• Nonggang Babbler Stachyris nonggangensis

  This babbler was described from Nonggang Nature Reserve in southwest China and depends on limestone forest. Its confirmed known range is restricted; northern Vietnam is discussed as a possible area, not confirmed range.

• Tomtit Petroica macrocephala

  This small bird has a large head, short bill, and short tail. It lives in New Zealand forest and scrub and has five subspecies restricted to different islands or island groups.

• Red-necked Francolin Pternistis afer

  Red skin around the face and red legs help identify this spurfowl. Plumage varies across its range, and its diet shifts from mostly invertebrates in summer to plant matter in winter.

• Musk Lorikeet Glossopsitta concinna

  This lorikeet lives in eucalypt woodland in southeastern Australia. Red facial markings and a blue crown stand out against its green body.

• Cayenne Jay Cyanocorax cayanus

  The Cayenne Jay is marked by blue upperparts and a white nape and belly. It may travel in flocks.

• Chaco Sparrow Rhynchospiza strigiceps

  This sparrow uses dry grassland and scrub in South America. It breeds in north-central Argentina, and some birds move seasonally into Bolivia and Paraguay.

• California Thrasher Toxostoma redivivum

  The California Thrasher is a large thrasher of California chaparral. It searches for food on the ground beneath dense shrubs, sweeping leaf litter with its bill.

• Spot-breasted Woodpecker Colaptes punctigula

  This woodpecker is marked by a spotted black breast and red nape. In the Amazon it uses flooded and riverside forests.

• Puna Ibis Plegadis ridgwayi

  This ibis lives in Andean wetlands. Breeding adults have a chestnut head through upper breast and a black body with greenish iridescence.

• Chestnut-headed Chachalaca Ortalis ruficeps

  This chachalaca occurs south of the Amazon River in Brazil. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of O. motmot, O. m. ruficeps; a 2020 paper presents evidence for species status. It is found mostly in riverine habitats.

• Philippine Eagle-Owl Ketupa philippensis

  The Philippine Eagle-Owl has yellow eyes and a streaked brown head. It is nocturnal and uses lowland forest.

• Southern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus anguitimens

  The Southern White-crowned Shrike lives in open acacia and riverine woodland in southern Africa. It searches the ground for invertebrates; a South African field report also describes small groups.

• Black-billed Flycatcher Aphanotriccus audax

  This small flycatcher occurs locally from eastern Panama to northern Colombia. The male has an olive-grey crown.

• Kalahari Scrub Robin Erythropygia paena

  This small bird lives in dry grassland and shrubland of southern Africa. Sandy-brown upperparts contrast with pale underparts, and the rusty rump and tail stand out. It forages near the ground and has a varied song.

• Brown-winged Parrotbill Suthora brunnea

  This parrotbill occurs in the mountains of southwestern China and northern Myanmar. Its chestnut head and vinous streaking across the throat and upper breast are distinctive.

• Cook's Swift Apus cooki

  Cook's Swift has long, sickle-shaped wings and a tail that closes to a needle-like point. It flies high over mountains, woodland, towns, and coasts, catching insects in the air.

• White-tailed Shrike Lanioturdus torquatus

  This bird occurs in southwestern Angola and northern Namibia. It has black, grey, and white plumage with yellow eyes and searches for insects on the ground and in trees.

• Black-streaked Puffbird Malacoptila fulvogularis

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

• Rufous Songlark Megalurus mathewsi

  The Rufous Songlark occurs in open grassland, open woodland, and farmland in Australia. It moves south to breed in summer and returns north in colder months.