Meet the world’s animals.

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• Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum

  

  An olive-colored small bird of wet thickets. It darts from branches to catch insects on leaves or in the air.

• Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica

  The Blue-breasted Kingfisher is a large blue kingfisher. In reserves in the Republic of the Congo it is described as a forest-interior bird, more often heard than seen.

• Ashy-throated Parrotbill Suthora alphonsiana

  The Ashy-throated Parrotbill ranges from west-central China south to northern Vietnam. Greyish and reddish-brown cheek types have been recorded; it is active by day in dense scrub and tall grass and eats invertebrates.

• Black-breasted Puffbird Notharchus pectoralis

  This puffbird lives in humid forest from eastern Panama to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It takes centipedes and scorpions among other prey and excavates a nest hole in an arboreal termite mound.

• Common Woodshrike Tephrodornis pondicerianus

  The Common Woodshrike lives in scrub and open woodland in southeastern India and feeds mainly on insects.

• Eastern Long-billed Lark Certhilauda semitorquata

  This lark inhabits grasslands in eastern South Africa, Lesotho, and western Eswatini. It searches the ground for arthropods, seeds, and corms. This entry follows the species split from the Long-billed Lark complex.

• Abbott's Babbler Malacocincla abbotti

  A babbler of forests in South and Southeast Asia, Abbott's Babbler forages for insects and other small invertebrates near the ground.

• Green-eared Barbet Psilopogon faiostrictus

  The Green-eared Barbet has green upperparts and paler underparts. In the source's male description, brown streaks mark the crown and nape, with green ear coverts. Its main food is fruit.

• Puerto Rican Vireo Vireo latimeri

  It has a gray head, white breast, pale yellow belly, and a white eye-ring. It moves slowly through foliage, searching for insects, spiders, and small fruits.

• Loja Tapaculo Scytalopus androstictus

  The Loja Tapaculo occurs in the Andes of southern Ecuador and northern Peru, in scrub near the tree line. A 2010 paper described this population under the subspecies name Scytalopus opacus androstictus.

• Red-naped Trogon Harpactes kasumba

  The Red-naped Trogon inhabits humid forests in Southeast Asia and darts from a perch to catch insects.

• Splendid Astrapia Astrapia splendidissima

  Adult males shimmer green, blue, and copper, while females are dark brown. This bird of paradise feeds mainly on fruit in New Guinea's mountain forests.

• Long-tailed Finch Poephila acuticauda

  This small finch has a gray head, black throat, and long black tail. Bill color differs by region: red in the Northern Territory and pale yellow in Western Australia. It inhabits grasslands and grassy woodlands of northwestern Australia.

• Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris

  Male Narrow-tailed Starlings are glossy blue-black, while females are grey with chestnut flight feathers. They feed mainly on fruit and flock in the canopy.

• Pied Triller Lalage nigra

  This triller lives in open woodland, including parks in Singapore. Males are black and white, females are gray and white, and it eats insects and small fruits.

• Pinnated Bittern Botaurus pinnatus

  This bittern has finely patterned buff-and-brown plumage on its crown and body. It hides in dense freshwater marshes and usually forages at night.

• Taliabu Grasshopper-warbler Locustella portenta

  This warbler is restricted to the highlands of western Taliabu Island, Indonesia. Field observations in 2012 described a brown bird with a clear white eyebrow.

• Cinnamon-tailed Sparrow Peucaea sumichrasti

  This sparrow is found on the Pacific slope of southern Mexico. It has a rufous crown and cinnamon-colored flanks and undertail.

• Abyssinian Longclaw Macronyx flavicollis

  The Abyssinian Longclaw often stays on the ground in Ethiopia's highland grasslands. Its orange throat and black breast necklace stand out.

• Capped Seedeater Sporophila bouvreuil

  This seedeater occurs in South America. A plumage study separates reddish-brown males as Sporophila bouvreuil and grey-to-white males as the distinct S. pileata.

• Common Diving Petrel Pelecanoides urinatrix

  This small diving seabird breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere. It forages in waters around its breeding islands and uses burrows on land at night.

• Dull-blue Flycatcher Eumyias sordidus

  This blue flycatcher is endemic to Sri Lanka and occurs in the central hills and humid wet-zone. A study in Horton Plains cloud forest found nests in tree holes and road-bank cavities; beetles were the main food recorded for nestlings.

• Green-backed Whistler Pachycephala albiventris

  This whistler inhabits forests on Luzon and Mindoro in the northern Philippines. The entry follows the pool’s Pachycephala albiventris; the source notes that some taxonomies group it with related whistlers.

• Graceful Pitta Erythropitta venusta

  A pitta of Sumatra's forests. Adults have a dark head, blue-green eyebrow, and red belly, and search for food on the forest floor.