Meet the world’s animals.

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• Taita Falcon Falco fasciinucha

  

  A small, compact falcon with white cheeks and rufous underparts. It hunts small birds around wooded mountains and deep valleys with cliffs.

• Black Noddy Anous minutus

  The Black Noddy is a seabird with sooty dark plumage and a white cap. It gathers on islands to breed, and courting pairs repeatedly nod to one another.

• Yellow-bellied Bulbul Alophoixus phaeocephalus

  The Yellow-bellied Bulbul has olive-brown upperparts and a bright yellow belly. It forms small groups in the middle storey of forests and eats fruit and insects.

• Slender-billed Parakeet Enicognathus leptorhynchus

  The Choroy is a gregarious, noisy parakeet. Groups feed in trees or on the ground while a sentinel watches; alarm calls can send the flock into flight.

• Broad-billed Flycatcher Myiagra ruficollis

  It has a bluish-grey head and back with an orange-rufous throat and chest. Birds in northern Australia use wet tropical forest and mangroves.

• Mourning Babbler Pellorneum malaccense

  The Mourning Babbler occurs in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and nearby islands. At Krau in Pahang, a study often recorded it taking food from aerial dead leaves at heights above ground up to 2 m.

• Pitcairn Reed Warbler Acrocephalus vaughani

  This small warbler has gray-brown upperparts and yellowish-buff underparts. It uses tall, wooded patches on Pitcairn Island and is reported to avoid open areas.

• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius

  A woodpecker that drills rows of shallow holes in bark to lick sap. It breeds in eastern North American forests and migrates south for winter.

• Ruddy Pigeon Patagioenas subvinacea

  The Ruddy Pigeon is usually found in the canopy or subcanopy of mature forest. In Peru it is recorded in Andean foothill forest and humid forest in far northwestern Tumbes.

• Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera

  The Two-barred Crossbill uses its crossed bill to open conifer cones and take their seeds.

• White-eared Barbet Stactolaema leucotis

  The White-eared Barbet ranges from Tanzania and Kenya south to Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, and KwaZulu-Natal, using moist woodland and forest.

• Bower's Shrikethrush Colluricincla boweri

  A northeastern Australian forest bird that is usually solitary and territorial.

• Blue-headed Fantail Rhipidura cyaniceps

  A fantail of forest understory on Luzon and Catanduanes in the Philippines. It catches insects in the forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Mimic Honeyeater Microptilotis analogus

  A New Guinea honeyeater with a yellow ear patch and mostly unmarked underparts.

• White-bellied Yuhina Erpornis zantholeuca

  A small forest bird that often joins mixed-species flocks. eBird currently displays it as White-bellied Erpornis, while the pool name is retained here.

• Sao Tome White-eye Zosterops feae

  The Sao Tome White-eye lives in forest and dense cover on Sao Tome Island. Its plumage description is limited to the island form formerly named as a subspecies.

• Tumbesian Tyrannulet Nesotriccus tumbezanus

  This small flycatcher ranges from southwestern Ecuador to northwestern Peru and uses dry scrub and open woodland.

• Arabian Waxbill Estrilda rufibarba

  The Arabian Waxbill is a small bird with a noticeable red eyebrow. It feeds on grass seeds by day and is recorded in vegetated highlands near water in Saudi Arabia.

• Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher Ficedula strophiata

  The Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher has two subspecies. A male of F. s. strophiata is grayish with a white band above the eyes and a rufous breast patch, and searches for small invertebrates in forest undergrowth.

• Bar-bellied Pitta Hydrornis elliotii

  The Bar-bellied Pitta lives in lowland forest in Indochina and searches for food on the ground. It turns leaf litter while feeding on insects and earthworms.

• Tepui Antpitta Myrmothera simplex

  An antpitta of the tepui region. It is dark brown above and white on the throat and belly; the breast band and flanks vary from cinnamon to gray among subspecies.

• Bokmakierie Telophorus zeylonus

  This bushshrike lives mainly in southern Africa, especially South Africa. Its black throat band contrasts with bright yellow on the throat and face, and it forages in open places with scattered shrubs and trees.

• Collared Puffbird Bucco capensis

  A forest bird with a cinnamon head, large bill, and a black collar across the neck and chest, it waits to ambush sizable prey.

• Gray-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala

  The Grey-headed Kingfisher is a migratory kingfisher that hunts insects in woodland south of the Sahara, diving to the ground from a perch.