Meet the world’s animals.
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- Western Yellow Robin Eopsaltria griseogularis
Photo: Julia Gross · CC BY 2.0 The Western Yellow Robin lives in woodland and forest in southwestern Australia. It is gray with a white throat and yellow rump, and drops from low branches to the ground to catch invertebrates.
- Cheer Pheasant Catreus wallichii
This pheasant is notable for its long crest and red bare facial skin. It lives on rocky western Himalayan slopes and lays its eggs in undergrowth during the breeding season.
- Elegant Parrot Neophema elegans
An olive-green parrot with a yellow face and blue forehead band. It searches on the ground for seeds and nests in tree hollows.
- Indochinese Green Magpie Cissa hypoleuca
The Indochinese Green Magpie is a jay that lives in evergreen forests from southern China into Southeast Asia.
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
A small North American bird whose plumage varies from grey to brown by region, with white outer tail feathers that flash in flight.
- Martinique Thrasher Ramphocinclus brachyurus
In the population studied on Martinique's Caravelle Peninsula, the brown back and sides contrast with a white breast. Researchers also recorded foraging among fallen leaves.
- Orinoco Piculet Picumnus pumilus
This small woodpecker lives in humid forest in eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela and northwestern Brazil. It forages from low levels up to the canopy.
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
This African ibis probes the soil for small prey with its long, downcurved bill. It is also known for its loud calls.
- Bare-faced Curassow Crax fasciolata
The bare-faced curassow has a bare black area on its face and a curled crest. It forages on the ground for fruit and seeds.
- Everett's Scops Owl Otus everetti
This small scops owl inhabits lower montane forest in the Philippines. It has a dark brown crown and ear-tufts, pale forehead, and orange-red eye rims.
- Sao Tome Fiscal Lanius newtoni
The Sao Tome Fiscal is endemic to the forests of São Tomé Island. Adults have a contrasting black back and pale underparts, and hunt for prey on the ground from a perch.
- Pied Water Tyrant Fluvicola pica
The Pied Water Tyrant has black-and-white upperparts, white underparts, and a black bill and legs. In Peru it has been recorded in Ucayali and southern Loreto, where it uses open scrub near water.
- Javan Whistling Thrush Myophonus glaucinus
Myophonus glaucinus is now called the Javan Whistling Thrush. A 2004 species-limits study describes glossy dark blue on the male’s head and upperparts, and reports birds mostly on the ground and ridges at Gunung Gede, Java.
- Black-throated Parrotbill Suthora nipalensis
An orange parrotbill with a black eyebrow and throat that forms flocks in bamboo-rich mountain forest.
- Antillean Palm Swift Tachornis phoenicobia
The Antillean Palm-Swift is a small bird that flies over lowlands with palms. Small colonies nest in mats of dead palm fronds.
- West African Batis Batis occulta
The West African Batis uses humid forest and edges, catching small invertebrates from a perch. Plumage and range here are limited to the occulta population in an older broad-species account.
- Brown-banded Puffbird Notharchus ordii
It is black and white, with a dark brown-black band between the white throat and belly. It is patchily distributed in Amazonian lowlands and is described as generally rare in forest on poor soils such as sandy patches.
- Grauer's Swamp Warbler Bradypterus graueri
This warbler is recorded in highland swamps of the Albertine Rift. It is dark brown with white spots and gives a fast, trilling song. A survey report says detailed feeding and breeding information is limited.
- Channel-billed Toucan Ramphastos vitellinus
The Channel-billed Toucan lives in the canopy of lowland forests in South America. It may be seen alone, in pairs, or in small flocks around fruiting trees.
- Black-crowned Fulvetta Schoeniparus klossi
This fulvetta occurs on the Dalat Plateau in the southern Annamite Mountains of Vietnam and is reported only at higher elevations in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park.
- Tuamotu Reed Warbler Acrocephalus atyphus
The Tuamotu Reed Warbler is a reed-warbler of the Tuamotu Islands. Plumage and body form vary among islands, and it feeds on small insects.
- Clarke's Weaver Ploceus golandi
Clarke's Weaver is a weaver found in southeastern Kenya. Males show black and yellow plumage, while females are olive and yellow.
- Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa
The Malachite Sunbird occurs in separate parts of East and southern Africa. It feeds mainly on nectar and has a slender body and long tail.
- Rufous Sibia Heterophasia capistrata
The Rufous Sibia is a rufous-colored bird of Himalayan forests. It forages mainly in the canopy and may move to different elevations with the seasons.