Meet the world’s animals.

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• Growling Riflebird Ptiloris intercedens

  

  The male has black plumage with blue-green iridescence, while the female is brown. This bird-of-paradise eats fruit and small animals in forests of eastern New Guinea.

• Yellow-throated Miner Manorina flavigula

  This honeyeater lives in dry woodland and scrub on mainland Australia and searches for food on the ground and in trees.

• Gray-collared Becard Pachyramphus major

  The Gray-collared Becard is described from semi-open forests in Mexico and Guatemala. Males have a black cap and back with a pale grey nape and underside; females have a brown crown and back.

• Fulmar Prion Pachyptila crassirostris

  It is blue-gray above, with a black M-shaped wing marking, a black tail tip, and a mostly white underside. It spends much of its life at sea, and its two subspecies nest on different island groups.

• Melodious Blackbird Dives dives

  This icterid occurs in Central America. Adult males are glossy black with a blue sheen, while females and young birds are duller. In Costa Rica it is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Palau Greater White-eye Megazosterops palauensis

  This white-eye is endemic to Palau. It lives in limestone forest and vine thickets, feeding in the upper canopy on insects, fruit, and nectar.

• Arabian Golden Sparrow Passer euchlorus

  Male Arabian Golden Sparrows are golden, while females are sandy brown. They search for seeds in small flocks and may gather in large groups outside the breeding season.

• Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus

  The Red-rumped Tinkerbird lives in forest from southern Senegal to the western Congo Basin and western Uganda. It uses humid forest and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus

  This widespread Australian heron is nocturnal and searches for food in wetlands.

• Rufous-necked Hornbill Aceros nipalensis

  A large hornbill of forested hills. Males have a rufous head and neck; females are black and differ in the colors of bare facial skin.

• Golden Parrotbill Suthora verreauxi

  The Golden Parrotbill is a small bird, about 11 cm long, with a distinctive head and neck. It uses bamboo patches in pairs or small groups and eats insect larvae, small beetles and seeds.

• Small Niltava Niltava macgrigoriae

  The Small Niltava has blue-purple plumage in males and mainly brown and rufous plumage in females. In Hong Kong it is a rare autumn migrant and a scarce winter visitor to wooded areas.

• Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta

  A mountain-breeding pipit whose gray head and pale pink chest stand out in breeding plumage.

• Green-backed Kingfisher Actenoides monachus

  The Green-backed Kingfisher is a large forest kingfisher of northern Sulawesi and nearby islands. It is marked by a blue head, white throat, green back, and rufous breast.

• Yellow-knobbed Curassow Crax daubentoni

  This large curassow ranges through northern Venezuela and adjacent parts of Colombia. The male is black with an erect crest and a yellow knob on its bill; both sexes have a crest. It feeds on the ground and in trees on plant matter and small animals.

• Scaly-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis albipectus

  This babbler searches for food in forest undergrowth and near the ground. Its whitish breast has a scaly pattern, but the pattern varies and is not always a clear identification mark.

• Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis

  The Carolina Chickadee is a small bird with a black cap and bib, gray back, and whitish underside. In winter it may forage in flocks with other small birds.

• Undulated Tinamou Crypturellus undulatus

  The Undulated Tinamou lives in Amazonian lowlands, and its brown plumage varies among regional forms. It uses floodplain forest, seasonally flooded várzea forest, and secondary growth, and is known for its distinctive call.

• Chatham Islands Gerygone Gerygone albofrontata

  This small forest bird is endemic to the Chatham Islands. It gleans small invertebrates from leaves and crevices in branches and trunks, and sometimes feeds on the ground.

• Cherry-throated Tanager Nemosia rourei

  This tanager lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Adults have a red throat and yellow eyes, and small groups forage on moss- and lichen-covered branches in the canopy.

• Turquoise Cotinga Cotinga ridgwayi

  Males are turquoise, with violet on the chin, throat, upper chest, and center of the belly. Females are dusky with white spots and buff patterning below.

• Large-billed Tern Phaetusa simplex

  Its long yellow bill and black cap stand out. It lives mainly along rivers and lakes in South America.

• Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike Coracina striata

  This cuckooshrike lives in the humid forests and mangroves of parts of Southeast Asia. Males are grey, while females show bars on the underparts.

• Mangrove Pitta Pitta megarhyncha

  This pitta walks on mangrove floors and searches for small prey with its long bill. Its crown is a uniform buff-brown.