Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-and-gold Cotinga Lipaugus ater

  

  The Black-and-gold Cotinga lives in mountain forests of southeastern Brazil and feeds in the canopy. Males are black with yellow patches on the wings.

• Orange-cheeked Parrot Pyrilia barrabandi

  An Amazonian parrot with orange cheeks against a black head and olive throat and breast.

• Cassin's Sparrow Peucaea cassinii

  This grayish-brown sparrow has a faint eye-ring. It feeds on the ground in dry grasslands, and breeding males sing as they rise and float back down through the air.

• Pied Coucal Centropus ateralbus

  The Pied Coucal occurs in the Bismarck Archipelago. Its plumage varies from mostly black birds to individuals with much more white or pearly grey.

• Sichuan Tit Poecile weigoldicus

  The Sichuan Tit inhabits high elevations in southwestern China, in coniferous forest and near the tree line at 2,200–4,310 m.

• Tepui Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla roraimae

  This ovenbird lives in forests around the tepuis. Adults are unstreaked, with a pale throat and eyebrow contrasting with the darker body. It probes arboreal bromeliads and bamboo node sheaths and gleans branches and vines.

• Rufous-browed Wren Troglodytes rufociliatus

  This wren has a rich rufous eyebrow and uses humid montane pine-oak and evergreen forest, moving among epiphytes, branches, and fallen logs.

• Mauritius Olive White-eye Zosterops chloronothos

  A small white-eye found only on Mauritius, where nectar is its main food.

• Long-tailed Mockingbird Mimus longicaudatus

  The Long-tailed Mockingbird is notable for its long tail and the way it raises it while walking. It occurs in open dry country and also in town parks.

• Tropical Parula Setophaga pitiayumi

  The Tropical Parula is a small bird widespread across the Americas. Blue-grey and yellow plumage is distinctive, and males have a black facial mask.

• Wilson's Bird-of-paradise Diphyllodes respublica

  Wilson's Bird-of-paradise is a bird whose adult male has vivid colors and curved central tail feathers. It lives in hill forest on Waigeo and Batanta in Indonesia.

• Gray-rumped Swift Chaetura cinereiventris

  The Gray-rumped Swift is a slender, dark swift that forages in flocks in Bolivia.

• White-cheeked Honeyeater Phylidonyris niger

  The White-cheeked Honeyeater inhabits eastern Australian heath and woodland. Adults show a white cheek patch and yellow tail and wing panels, and feed mainly on nectar.

• Gray-necked Bunting Emberiza buchanani

  The Grey-necked Bunting is a migrant of dry, rocky country. The male has a blue-gray head and neck, and the species breeds from eastern Turkey into Central Asia.

• Pale thrush Turdus pallidus

  A thrush mainly seen in Japan in winter. It favors dim woodland with undergrowth and forages on the ground.

• Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens

  The adult male has a green crown and a black band across the forehead. The species uses forest edges and clearings, farms, plantations and village gardens, feeding on nectar as well as small insects and fruit. Cameroon is one country listed in the profile's range.

• Sunda Blue Robin Myiomela diana

  This robin lives in Java’s mountains. In a 2020 specimen study, males were glossy dark blue while females had mainly chestnut plumage.

• Dimorphic Fantail Rhipidura brachyrhyncha

  This fantail inhabits montane forest and subalpine scrub in the New Guinea highlands. It has two tail-color forms, and mixed-form pairs may occur.

• Sao Paulo Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus paulista

  This small flycatcher has a slender tail. In humid lowland forest in São Paulo state, it moves through the lower and middle levels and forages in mixed-species flocks.

• Black-browed Barbet Psilopogon oorti

  The Black-browed Barbet has red, blue, and yellow markings on the head and a black brow-like stripe. It forages in the canopy and mid-level branches, and accounts differ on the details of its diet.

• Helmeted Curassow Pauxi pauxi

  This large black bird bears a blue-gray helmet-like casque on its forehead. Pairs and small groups walk the floor of mature mountain forest in search of fruit and seeds.

• Island Monarch Monarcha cinerascens

  This monarch ranges across islands from Indonesia to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It inhabits open island forests, and plumage tones vary among island subspecies.

• Wagler's Toucanet Aulacorhynchus wagleri

  This toucanet occurs in Mexico. Its yellowish-white forehead meets an olive crown, and the underparts are pale blue-green. Species accounts report fruit eating in montane forest and related wooded habitats.

• Cassin's Malimbe Malimbus cassini

  This weaver occurs in forests from the Gulf of Guinea toward the Congo Basin. In north-eastern Gabon, small groups were seen in the canopy of wet and flooded forest, sometimes feeding with other bird species.