Meet the world’s animals.

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• Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus

  

  This small cormorant has a long tail and short crest, and breeds mainly around African fresh waters.

• Nightingale Finch Nesospiza questi

  A finch of Nightingale Island in Tristan da Cunha. A breeding study records females building nests in dense grass tussocks.

• Maroon-backed Whistler Coracornis raveni

  Males are sooty grey with a maroon back. Females and juveniles are rusty brown above and olive below. It is shy and stays low in Sulawesi's montane forest, usually alone or in pairs.

• Satanic Nightjar Eurostopodus diabolicus

  The Satanic Nightjar is a nocturnal bird of Sulawesi. Males have a white throat band and females a pale buff band.

• Bahia Tapaculo Eleoscytalopus psychopompus

  The Bahia Tapaculo occurs in lowland Atlantic Forest along the coast of Bahia, Brazil. In the coastal birds examined in the study, the flanks are rufous and the thighs bluish.

• Black-throated Honeyeater Caligavis subfrenata

  This honeyeater lives in the mountains of New Guinea. Its black throat and yellow-and-white ear patches are useful identification features.

• Plumbeous Warbler Setophaga plumbea

  This warbler occurs on Guadeloupe and Dominica. Adults are gray overall with a white eyebrow and wing bars; immatures are greener above and yellow below.

• Black-browed Triller Lalage atrovirens

  The Black-browed Triller occurs in northern New Guinea and nearby islands. Males are boldly black and white; females are duller, and the species uses forest edges and middle to upper canopy.

• Merlin Falco columbarius

  A small falcon that visits Japanese coasts and farmland in winter and pursues small birds.

• Black-collared Starling Gracupica nigricollis

  The Black-collared Starling is a starling marked by a black-and-white collar and yellow skin around the eyes. It forages on the ground and also occurs in parks and farmland.

• Yellow-browed Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius eximius

  This shrike-vireo occurs from eastern Panama through northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela. It uses humid lowland forest and tall second-growth woodland, gleaning food in the canopy.

• Ayacucho Antpitta Grallaria ayacuchensis

  This antpitta is known from the eastern Andean slope of Ayacucho, Peru. A 2020 taxonomic paper described dark reddish-brown upperparts, a paler lower belly, and a male collected in a Chusquea thicket in secondary forest.

• Lineated Barbet Psilopogon lineatus

  The Lineated Barbet eats fruit and excavates nesting holes in dead trees. In Singapore, an introduced population occurs in parks and along woodland edges.

• Gray-cheeked Parakeet Brotogeris pyrrhoptera

  This small parakeet occurs in southeastern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It uses dry woodland and is also recorded on farmland where large trees remain.

• Pied Monarch Arses kaupi

  Adults are black and white with a blue bare eye-ring. The male has a broad black breast band below the white throat; in the female the band is narrower and browner. It takes insects from trunks and vines in rainforests of north-eastern Queensland, Australia.

• Namaqua Dove Oena capensis

  The Namaqua Dove is a small, long-tailed dove that searches for seeds on the ground in dry, open country.

• Forest Kingfisher Todiramphus macleayii

  The Forest Kingfisher is an Australian kingfisher with a blue back and white underside. Males have a white collar, and both sexes hunt from perches.

• Norfolk Gerygone Gerygone modesta

  The Norfolk Gerygone is a small bird endemic to Norfolk Island. Parks Australia's account describes both sexes as dull grey-brown above and whitish below, and notes quick flights among trees.

• Charlotte's Bulbul Iole charlottae

  This bulbul occurs in the Sundaic lowlands. BirdLife lists the same scientific taxon as the Buff-vented Bulbul. A 2017 paper describes it as slightly larger, with a longer, heavier bill and paler undertail coverts than Indochinese Iole taxa.

• Superciliated Wren Cantorchilus superciliaris

  The Superciliated Wren is about 15 cm long. It has a rufous back and tail with black bars on the tail and flight feathers. A white eyebrow, head sides, throat, and breast contrast with the rufous lower underparts. It forages in semideciduous-forest understory and midstory and dry scrub in northwestern Peru, up to about 1,000 m.

• Short-tailed Pipit Anthus brachyurus

  The Short-tailed Pipit is a small, ground-living bird with bold streaks on its back and breast. It ranges from Gabon through the Congo region to eastern Angola and Zambia, with a separate population in Uganda. In southern Africa it uses moist, short grassland.

• Maroon Oriole Oriolus traillii

  The Maroon Oriole lives in moist deciduous and evergreen forests. The nominate male is black and maroon, while the female has a grey back and a pale, streaked belly.

• Eastern Orphean Warbler Curruca crassirostris

  A migratory warbler of open woodland and scrub, it feeds on small invertebrates.

• Pied Coucal Centropus ateralbus

  The Pied Coucal occurs in the Bismarck Archipelago. Its plumage varies from mostly black birds to individuals with much more white or pearly grey.