Meet the world’s animals.

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• Torrent Flyrobin Monachella muelleriana

  

  This bird is recorded along rivers in New Guinea and New Britain. A survey on Fergusson Island documented the appearance and behaviour of 2 birds beside a fast-flowing stream.

• Chattering Cisticola Cisticola anonymus

  A 2007 paper treated a Sierra Leone population as Chattering Cisticola, while noting it might represent a distinct local form. It describes grey-brown birds with plain backs recorded around wet rice fields.

• Black-backed Wood Quail Odontophorus melanonotus

  The Black-backed Wood Quail has a dark brown back and a rufous throat and breast. It forages on the forest floor in montane forests spanning northwestern Ecuador and southwestern Colombia.

• White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides

  The White-fronted Bee-eater is strikingly marked with a white forehead, red throat, and orange and green plumage. It catches insects in flight, and helpers assist at nesting colonies.

• Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus

  The world's smallest gull. In breeding plumage it has a black head and dark underwings; it flies low over water to catch insects and small fish.

• Spotted Kestrel Falco moluccensis

  This small falcon hunts in open grassland and farmland in Indonesia. Its prey includes insects, small birds, lizards, and small mammals.

• Rwenzori Batis Batis diops

  This small bird inhabits montane forest in the Albertine Rift. It has contrasting black-blue and white plumage and searches the lower forest for insects.

• Fire-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum ignipectus

  The Fire-breasted Flowerpecker is a small bird whose male has a scarlet chest patch and a fine black stripe down the belly. In Taiwan it is one of the birds described as dispersing mistletoe seeds.

• American Wigeon Mareca americana

  This duck feeds on plants in wetlands and fields. Breeding males have a green eye stripe and a white crown.

• Red-throated Piping Guan Pipile cujubi

  The Red-throated Piping Guan is a large, 68–70 cm guan of Amazonian forests. It lives in the canopy and may gather in fruiting trees.

• Lilac-crowned Amazon Amazona finschi

  A large green parrot native to Mexico. Adults show blue to lilac tones across the crown.

• Mangrove Golden Whistler Pachycephala melanura

  Males have a black head and breast, a yellow nape band, and an olive back. Females are duller, and the yellow on their underparts varies among subspecies.

• Marmora's Warbler Curruca sarda

  This small warbler occurs on western Mediterranean islands. It moves through low scrub and catches insects and spiders.

• Nihoa Finch Telespiza ultima

  The Nihoa Finch is naturally found only on Nihoa in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Its stout bill is suited to eating seeds and other foods.

• Bahama Warbler Setophaga flavescens

  This warbler occurs on Grand Bahama and Abaco in the Bahamas. A 2018 survey on Grand Bahama recorded birds searching pine trunks and palm leaves for small invertebrates.

• Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster

  The male has a shining violet back while the female has brown plumage; the birds eat fruit and insects in trees.

• Mountain Firetail Oreostruthus fuliginosus

  The Mountain Firetail is a chunky finch of the New Guinea highlands. It occurs along montane forest edges and where subalpine grassland meets shrubland.

• Giant Pitta Hydrornis caeruleus

  The Giant Pitta is a large pitta of lowland forests in Southeast Asia. A Sabah bird guide describes males as blue and females as browner.

• Spot-necked Babbler Stachyris strialata

  The Spot-necked Babbler is a small babbler, 15–17 cm long. It searches forest cover for invertebrates, and a rare field report describes it preening a different babbler species.

• Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis

  The Green-headed Sunbird lives in African forests and wooded habitats. Males have an iridescent green head and breast, while females have a green crown.

• Giant Nuthatch Sitta magna

  The Giant Nuthatch is notable for a broad black eyestripe and rufous feathers under the tail. It occurs in southern China, Myanmar, and northwestern Thailand, using open hill forest with mature pines.

• Rufous-vented Tapaculo Scytalopus femoralis

  The Rufous-vented Tapaculo searches the understory of montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes, including bamboo. Similar species can be difficult to separate by sight in dim cover, so the account recommends their calls as a safer clue.

• Golden-collared Manakin Manacus vitellinus

  This manakin ranges from western Panama to western Colombia. At a Panamanian breeding site, males prepare small courts on the forest floor and court with wing snaps.

• Bare-eyed Pigeon Patagioenas corensis

  The Bare-eyed Pigeon has a gray body, a pale throat and chest, blue bare skin around the eyes, and a red bill. It uses dry scrub, acacia thickets, mangroves, and farmland.