Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-faced Cotinga Conioptilon mcilhennyi

  

  A cotinga of southwestern Amazonian floodplain forest. Its dingy-white body contrasts with black wings, tail, mask, and throat.

• Vinaceous-breasted Amazon Amazona vinacea

  Adults are green with wine-red feathers on the head and breast. They feed on fruit and seeds in South America’s Atlantic Forest.

• Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla

  The Field Sparrow is marked by a rusty crown, white eye-ring, and pink bill. It uses grassland and scrub, and males sing from early spring into summer.

• White-crowned Cuckoo Caliechthrus leucolophus

  The White-crowned Cuckoo is a New Guinea bird with a glossy black body and a broad silvery-white crown band. It uses the forest canopy and feeds mainly on large insects and fruit.

• Pere David's Tit Poecile davidi

  Pere David's Tit is a tit of high-elevation forests in China. It has a black head and throat, white cheeks, and bright cinnamon underparts, and is reported from subalpine woodland.

• Great Xenops Megaxenops parnaguae

  This rufous arboreal furnariid has a large upturned bill and a white throat. Records from inland Brazil describe birds probing under bark for small insects in Caatinga woodland and other dry forests.

• Nava's Wren Hylorchilus navai

  This wren lives among limestone outcrops in lowland evergreen forest in Mexico. It searches for small invertebrates on rocks and in crevices.

• Indochinese Yuhina Yuhina torqueola

  This small flocking bird occurs from Indochina into southern China. It is rufous-brown with a short grey crest and white underparts; chestnut ear-coverts have white streaks. Flocks forage in mature closed-canopy forest while calling to one another.

• Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum

  This small songbird has a long, pointed bill and striped head. It searches for caterpillars and other insects in dense forest understory.

• Magnificent Riflebird Ptiloris magnificus

  Males have black plumage with a blue-green sheen, while females are brown. Males display from branches and the birds eat fruit, insects, and small animals.

• Neotropical Palm Swift Tachornis squamata

  The Neotropical Palm Swift has a deeply forked tail and uses palm groves for nesting and roosting.

• Common Smoky Honeyeater Melipotes fumigatus

  Orange-yellow skin around the eyes and on the ear-wattle contrasts with the smoky brown back. In New Guinea's highlands, it feeds on small fruits and insects in the canopy and middle storey.

• Godlewski's Bunting Emberiza godlewskii

  Godlewski’s Bunting is a bunting found on rocky slopes and forest edges. Males show a gray hood, chestnut crown stripe, and white wing bars.

• Orange Ground Thrush Geokichla gurneyi

  The Orange Ground Thrush lives in mountain forests of eastern and southeastern Africa. Its orange face and chest contrast with a white belly, and it searches for small animals and fruit in the lower forest.

• Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris

  A small sunbird with a narrow blue-purple band on the male's breast, seen in forests and gardens in eastern South Africa.

• Ant-eating Chat Myrmecocichla formicivora

  The Ant-eating Chat is a dark brown bird with striking white wing feathers in flight. It is found mainly inland in southern Africa and searches for ants and termites on the ground.

• Sooty Thicket Fantail Rhipidura threnothorax

  This 16–18 cm fantail uses lowland forest undergrowth and wet grasslands. It is active by day and eats invertebrates.

• Dusky-chested Flycatcher Myiozetetes luteiventris

  This flycatcher has a patchy distribution in Amazonia. Peru Aves marks its adult photographs sex unknown; they show a gray head and yellow chest, whose olive streaks can be faint.

• Red-throated Piping Guan Pipile cujubi

  The Red-throated Piping Guan is a large, 68–70 cm guan of Amazonian forests. It lives in the canopy and may gather in fruiting trees.

• Black Monarch Symposiachrus axillaris

  A long-tailed, mostly black flycatcher of New Guinea's lowland and mountain forests. Its diet is still poorly recorded.

• Pale-mandibled Aracari Pteroglossus erythropygius

  This aracari is recorded from southwest Ecuador and northwest Peru. PeruAves describes it as rare in deciduous forest in extreme northwest Peru, where records extend to 800 m along the Andean foothills.

• Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer

  The Yellow-crowned Bishop is a small bird of grasslands and wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa. It mainly eats seeds, and breeding males puff out yellow back feathers and call.

• Yellow-wattled Lapwing Vanellus malabaricus

  The Yellow-wattled Lapwing is a plover of dry, open country in the Indian subcontinent. It may make short movements in response to rain.

• Bare-cheeked Babbler Turdoides gymnogenys

  This babbler lives in dry savanna and woodland in southwestern Angola and north-central Namibia. It is always in a group.