Meet the world’s animals.

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• Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli

  

  This small warbler has a pale head and underparts. It breeds around the western Mediterranean and winters south of the Sahara.

• Stripe-headed Antpitta Grallaria andicolus

  A terrestrial antpitta of the high Andes in Peru and Bolivia. It uses Polylepis woodland and nearby scrub, watching for insects from raised perches.

• Lazuli Bunting Passerina amoena

  Males have a blue head and back with an orange-red breast, while females are subdued brown. It breeds in western North America and winters in Mexico.

• Kirtland's Warbler Setophaga kirtlandii

  This small bird has gray-and-yellow plumage. It breeds in young jack-pine forests and winters in scrubby parts of the Bahamas.

• Black-eared Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius melanotis

  This small shrike-babbler has a white eye-ring and a black border behind its yellow ear-coverts. It searches for insects in the canopy.

• Black Bittern Botaurus flavicollis

  The Black Bittern is a dark bittern with a yellow patch on the neck. It roosts in tree-lined wetlands and mangroves, feeding on fish and amphibians.

• Striated Grassbird Megalurus palustris

  A large brown warbler marked with black streaks, it shows a long trailing tail and flushes from fields, scrubby edges, and dense thickets.

• Graceful Pitta Erythropitta venusta

  A pitta of Sumatra's forests. Adults have a dark head, blue-green eyebrow, and red belly, and search for food on the forest floor.

• Bismarck Kingfisher Ceyx websteri

  This rarely recorded kingfisher lives along lowland rivers and forest streams in the Bismarck Archipelago.

• Papuan Mountain Pigeon Gymnophaps albertisii

  The red bare skin around its eyes and gray head help identify this pigeon. It is active by day and eats fruit in New Guinea’s mountain forests.

• Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis

  The Blue Waxbill has a blue face, underside, and tail with a brown back and wings. In southeastern Africa it forages for seeds on the ground, often in flocks.

• Paradise Riflebird Ptiloris paradiseus

  The Paradise Riflebird lives in forests of eastern Australia. Males court by displaying glossy black plumage, while females are brown and patterned.

• Sao Tome Ibis Bostrychia bocagei

  An ibis of São Tomé's lowland forests, with a glossy sheen that combines bark-brown and leaf-green colors.

• Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata

  The Giant Snipe is a large wader with a disjunct South American range. It is 40–43.5 cm long, with a very long straight bill and broad, rounded wings.

• Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons

  A brown goose with a white patch at the bill. It occurs across the Northern Hemisphere and gathers in wetlands and fields in winter.

• Tawny-shouldered Blackbird Agelaius humeralis

  The Tawny-shouldered Blackbird is widespread in Cuba and is also recorded in northern and west-central Haiti. It occurs at forest edges and in open places, including gardens.

• Crested Partridge Rollulus rouloul

  The male has a striking red crest and differs greatly in color from the female; both forage on the forest floor.

• Buff-necked Woodpecker Meiglyptes tukki

  The Buff-necked Woodpecker is a forest-dwelling woodpecker. The male has a buff patch on each side of the neck and a red cheek stripe; the female lacks the red stripe.

• Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus

  This lorikeet is marked by yellow, scale-like feathers on its breast. It feeds on nectar and pollen in eastern Australian forests.

• Sulu Hornbill Anthracoceros montani

  A hornbill with a black body and white tail, living in forests of the Sulu Archipelago in the southern Philippines.

• Rufous-breasted Flycatcher Leptopogon rufipectus

  It has a slate-grey crown, a mottled rufous face and dark olive upperparts. The species occurs in the Andes; a study in western Napo, Ecuador, recorded birds searching for insects under leaves from perches in the forest's middle levels.

• Sykes's Warbler Iduna rama

  This small warbler breeds in Central Asia and winters mainly on the Indian peninsula. It prefers dry, open habitats with a sparse tree canopy.

• Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa

  The Red-breasted Swallow is a sub-Saharan African swallow with rufous underparts and long tail streamers. Females and juveniles differ in their streamers or plumage, and seasonal movements vary by region.

• Cinereous Mourner Laniocera hypopyrra

  This mourner occurs in Amazonian lowland forest and elsewhere. A nest was reported in mature floodplain forest in Peru, and a Brazilian study documented a distinctive juvenile plumage.