Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-billed Crow Corvus woodfordi

  

  The White-billed Crow has a large pale bill with a dark tip and glossy black plumage with a green sheen. It moves through rainforest singly, in pairs, or in small groups.

• Arrowhead Warbler Setophaga pharetra

  This warbler is endemic to Jamaica. Adults have its namesake arrowhead-like streaking, while first-year birds have a different plumage and lack that pattern.

• Red-throated Crag-Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula

  The Red-throated Crag-Martin is a small swallow found widely in western and eastern Africa. It is dull brown, uses rocky and arid habitats, and attaches mud nests to cliffs or buildings.

• Many-banded Aracari Pteroglossus pluricinctus

  This toucan has a long bill and a banded chest. In northwestern South America it feeds mainly on fruit and nuts, sometimes taking insects, and roosts communally in tree cavities.

• Yellow-rumped Flowerpecker Prionochilus xanthopygius

  This small flowerpecker inhabits lowland forest on Borneo. Males are strongly blue and yellow, while females are mainly gray and olive.

• Wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis

  A small plover endemic to New Zealand, with a bill that bends to the right and breeding grounds on South Island braided rivers.

• Crimson-fronted Barbet Psilopogon rubricapillus

  The Crimson-fronted Barbet is a small forest barbet in Sri Lanka. A male of the nominate subspecies has a red forehead and orange-golden throat, and visits fruiting trees.

• Moustached Puffbird Malacoptila mystacalis

  This puffbird inhabits humid forests from Venezuela into Colombia. It searches for invertebrates in the forest understory and near edges.

• Ruby-cheeked Sunbird Chalcoparia singalensis

  The Ruby-cheeked Sunbird has different male and female plumage. It forages high in trees, taking nectar from flowers and sometimes insects from spider webs.

• Lemon-bellied Flyrobin Microeca flavigaster

  This small bird occurs in northern Australia. Its belly is pale lemon except in the Kimberley subspecies, and it often calls from high perches.

• Black-headed Grosbeak Pheucticus melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Grosbeak is a songbird of western North America. Adult males are black, white, and cinnamon, and both parents care for the young.

• Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida

  A warbler of East African scrub and forest. Williams and Arlott's 1980 field guide describes a green bird with a grey, black-banded crown and a dark chestnut throat patch that skulks in dense thickets, often near water.

• House Swift Apus nipalensis

  The House Swift is a swift with a dark body, a white throat patch, and a broad white rump band. It catches insects in flight and forages over forests and towns.

• Rusty-bellied Fantail Rhipidura teysmanni

  This fantail lives on Sulawesi. An old specimen account describes one unsexed individual with a cinnamon-brown forehead, back, rump, and basal tail, and an olive-brown head and neck. It searches for invertebrates in forest and thickets.

• Rusty-tinged Antpitta Grallaria przewalskii

  This antpitta is endemic to Peru and searches for food near the ground in montane forest. It has a brown back, with rusty coloring on the sides of the head and neck.

• Jerdon's Nightjar Caprimulgus atripennis

  Jerdon's Nightjar is a nocturnal bird of southern India and Sri Lanka that catches insects in flight.

• Cerulean-capped Manakin Lepidothrix coeruleocapilla

  This manakin occurs on Peru’s eastern Andean slopes. The male is black with a blue crown, back, and rump; the female is green with a yellowish belly. Both forage in the understory of montane forest.

• White-necked Myna Streptocitta albicollis

  The White-necked Myna is a Sulawesi forest starling marked by a white collar and a long tail.

• Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi

  Wahlberg's Eagle is a small African eagle, most often dark brown. It breeds in the south and moves within Africa seasonally, hunting across woodland and savanna habitats.

• Claudia's Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus claudiae

  It breeds in forests of central and southwestern China, then winters from southern Yunnan through India and Southeast Asia. It searches for small insects at different forest levels.

• Red-tailed Minla Minla ignotincta

  The Red-tailed Minla lives in forest canopies, often joining small or mixed flocks. Its red tail is distinctive, and the sexes differ in plumage.

• Heard Island Shag Leucocarbo nivalis

  This shag lives on Heard Island. Museum specimens of adults show white cheek plumage extending above the gape. A diet study found that benthic animals, especially polychaetes, were common prey for much of the island population. Clements 2025 includes nivalis as a subspecies of Imperial Shag.

• Andaman Teal Anas albogularis

  Endemic to the Andaman Islands, this teal is greyish-brown with a white eye-ring and throat. It has been observed in coastal wetlands near Port Blair.

• Violet-capped Hummingbird Goldmania violiceps

  The Violet-capped Hummingbird occurs in tropical forest from eastern Panama to northwestern Colombia. The male has a violet crown and forked chestnut tail, and visits flowers low in the forest.