Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-chested Puffbird Malacoptila fusca

  

  This puffbird inhabits lowland evergreen forest in northwestern Amazonia and nearby regions. Its streaked plumage, small white collar, and orange bill base stand out; it feeds on spiders and caterpillars in the understory.

• White-shouldered Triller Lalage sueurii

  A small triller of open woodland and lowland forest in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

• Brown-capped Vireo Vireo leucophrys

  A small vireo found from Central America into northwestern South America. In Colombia, it is recorded in forest from 1,000 to 2,800 m, feeding in middle and upper vegetation layers, alone or in mixed flocks.

• Flavescent Bulbul Pycnonotus flavescens

  The Flavescent Bulbul is a 21–22 cm bulbul. Its species account lists forest and semi-open habitat at 800–2,100 m.

• Patagonian Forest Earthcreeper Upucerthia saturatior

  This earthcreeper inhabits Patagonian forest. A primary study distinguishes it from the related open-country species by traits including its short black bill and breeding habitat.

• Chinese Barbet Psilopogon faber

  This barbet is endemic to southern China. It lives in evergreen broadleaf and mixed conifer-broadleaf forests in middle and lower mountains, and also occurs at forest edges and in more open woodland.

• Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus

  The Spotted Redshank is a slim wader with a long bill. Adults are black with white spots in summer and grey above with white underparts in winter.

• Gray-faced buzzard Butastur indicus

  A slender-winged migratory hawk seen around woodland and farmland in Japan.

• Philippine Magpie-Robin Copsychus mindanensis

  The Philippine Magpie-Robin is endemic to the Philippines. It has a white belly and all-black tail and also lives in open forest, second growth, farmland, gardens, and scrub.

• Blue-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia hoffmanni

  A 2010 adult photograph notes blue tones on the lower body and tail as an identifying feature. At one Costa Rican study site in 2022, birds visited flowers; this is a local record.

• Russet-winged Spadebill Platyrinchus leucoryphus

  The Russet-winged Spadebill is a small bird with a broad, flat bill. It lives in the Atlantic Forest.

• Guaiabero Bolbopsittacus lunulatus

  This small parrot is found on Philippine islands. The male is mainly green, with blue on the face and chin and a thin pale-blue band across the upper back. Natural-history information is scarce; on Samar it was observed in fruiting trees near forest edges and cultivated areas.

• Swamp Grass Babbler Laticilla cinerascens

  The Swamp Grass Babbler lives in wet grasslands from northeastern India to northern Bangladesh and searches for insects in pairs or family parties. It has a long tail, a pale spot in front of the eye, and a narrow pale eye-ring.

• Acorn Woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus

  The Acorn Woodpecker stores acorns in holes and raises young with other members of its group.

• Atherton Scrubwren Sericornis keri

  The Atherton Scrubwren lives in upland rainforest in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It searches for insects on the forest floor and in the lower canopy.

• Lowland White-eye Zosterops meyeni

  A white-eye recorded in the Philippines. An old museum catalogue describes the color of Luzon specimens, while Philippine Museum field notes describe small groups on Calayan Island.

• Gray Junglefowl Gallus sonneratii

  The Gray Junglefowl is a pheasant relative of forests and scrub in peninsular India. The sexes differ in plumage and leg colour, and males also have a seasonal plumage change.

• Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator

  A large hornbill of forests from Kenya and Angola to eastern southern Africa. It feeds mainly on fruit and nests in tree cavities, which the female seals during breeding.

• Bokikokiko Acrocephalus aequinoctialis

  This Pacific island reed warbler was studied on Kiritimati, where it was more often found in places with taller Heliotropium and Scaevola plants.

• Harris' Sparrow Zonotrichia querula

  A sparrow that breeds in northern Canada and winters in the central United States, it has a pink bill and seasonally changing head markings.

• Watkins's Antpitta Grallaria watkinsi

  Watkins's Antpitta lives in forests of south-western Ecuador and north-western Peru. It calls in greener, shaded ravines, especially around dawn and dusk.

• 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.

• Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba

  The Alpine Swift is a large swift with a pale belly. In a tracking study, one individual was reported to remain almost continuously in flight for more than 200 days.

• Foothill Screech Owl Megascops roraimae

  The Foothill Screech Owl is a small owl of Andean foothill forests and adjacent western Amazonian forest. A Peru species account gives a length of about 21 cm and distinguishes gray and rufous color forms.