Meet the world’s animals.

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• Vogelkop Lophorina Lophorina superba

  

  The male spreads black plumage around an iridescent blue-green breast shield. It eats fruit and arthropods and performs a courtship display.

• Andean Ibis Theristicus branickii

  The head is rufous, paling toward the neck, and the back is blue-grey. It has a long, downcurved bill and occurs in flocks in highland wetlands and open grassland.

• Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus

  A wader that probes mud with its long bill. Its plumage changes between breeding and winter, and it moves from northern North American wetlands to coastal wintering areas.

• American Black Duck Anas rubripes

  A duck of shallow wetlands in eastern North America. It is dark brown overall and can be hard to distinguish among Mallards.

• Red-rumped Cacique Cacicus haemorrhous

  This cacique is presented here through the affinis subspecies of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. It has a black body and red rump, and colonies build hanging nests high in trees.

• Taiwan Hill Partridge Arborophila crudigularis

  This pheasant-family bird is endemic to Taiwan's mountain forests. Its black-and-white face and red legs stand out as it forages on the forest floor.

• African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae

  The African Grey Woodpecker lives in wooded habitats across parts of western, eastern, and central Africa and feeds mainly on insects such as termites.

• Chatham Islands Parakeet Cyanoramphus forbesi

  Forbes' parakeet is a green parrot with a bright yellow forecrown and a red frontal band that stops before the eye. It is currently restricted to dense vegetation on Mangere and Little Mangere Islands.

• Eastern Yellow-bellied Hornbill Tockus flavirostris

  The Eastern Yellow-bellied Hornbill lives in eastern African savannas and open woodlands. Its large yellow bill is topped by a casque.

• Kalinowski’s Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix spodionota

  A chat-tyrant recorded in the central Peruvian Andes and Bolivia. It has cinnamon-colored wing bars.

• Basra Reed Warbler Acrocephalus griseldis

  The Basra Reed Warbler breeds in Iraqi wetlands and winters in eastern Africa. Its breeding sites include extensive reed beds in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys.

• Southern Martin Progne elegans

  The Southern Martin moves seasonally across a broad part of South America. In Patagonia, Argentina, it is seen near water during the Southern Hemisphere spring and summer.

• Cinereous Becard Pachyramphus rufus

  The male has a gray back and tail with a black crown; the female is cinnamon to rufous. In Peru, the species is recorded in second growth and river islands along the Amazon and Ucayali.

• Golden-naped Tanager Chalcothraupis ruficervix

  This tanager uses humid cloud forest and upper forest levels on the eastern Andes. It joins mixed flocks and searches for small animals and fruit.

• Olive-headed Greenbul Arizelocichla striifacies

  Arizelocichla striifacies is a bulbul of eastern African mountain forests, with an olive head and white cheek streaks. The IOC treatment includes birds formerly called A. olivaceiceps within this species.

• Amazonian Trogon Trogon ramonianus

  A trogon of mature Amazonian rainforest. Males are strongly blue and green, while females are mostly gray, so the sexes look different.

• Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos

  Adults are slim, long-tailed gray birds. In North American towns and grasslands, they forage for insects and eat more fruit in fall and winter.

• Short-billed Minivet Pericrocotus brevirostris

  This minivet uses open forest, forest edges and secondary growth. It is recorded in mountains at 900–2,450 m and gleans invertebrates from trees.

• Patagonian Tinamou Tinamotis ingoufi

  A ground-dwelling bird of Patagonia in Argentina and Chile. In southern Chile, a study described its nest and feeding ecology in dry steppe and shrubland.

• White-necked Crow Corvus leucognaphalus

  The White-necked Crow is a large corvid. Its present range is on Hispaniola and nearby islands.

• 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.

• Puff-throated Babbler Pellorneum ruficeps

  The Puff-throated Babbler forages on the ground. In the Indian nominate form, its rufous head, white throat, and dark breast streaks stand out.

• Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus thoracicus

  The male has a black head with a small red crown patch and a yellowish-green back. In peat-swamp and heath forests, at edges, and in coastal vegetation, it eats fruit, insects, and spiders.

• Kerguelen Shag Leucocarbo verrucosus

  This cormorant relative lives on the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. Breeding adults develop a forehead crest and yellow ornaments at the base of the bill. It feeds on fish and crustaceans in nearshore waters.