Meet the world’s animals.

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• Montezuma Oropendola Psarocolius montezuma

  

  This oropendola ranges through lowlands from Mexico into Central America. Males are about 50 cm and females about 37.5 cm; birds breed in colonies that suspend long, pouch-like nests from branches.

• Cinnamon-rumped Trogon Harpactes orrhophaeus

  The male has a black head and cinnamon back, while the female has a brown-toned head and pale underparts. This trogon uses forest understory and feeds mainly on insects.

• Purple-breasted Cotinga Cotinga cotinga

  This cotinga occurs in the Amazon region of South America and searches for fruit in the canopy of humid lowland forest.

• White-cheeked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus vassali

  This laughingthrush occurs in southern Laos and Vietnam and adjacent eastern Cambodia. It uses moist forest and often forages near the ground in flocks.

• 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.

• Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus

  This seabird breeds in the western Mediterranean and spreads from the western Mediterranean into the eastern Atlantic after breeding. It takes fish and squid at sea.

• Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata

  About the size of a House Sparrow, it searches for food in leaf litter and thickets by day. It eats insects and plant parts and builds its nest in palm trees.

• Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys

  The Willie Wagtail has a white eyebrow and chest, a black head and back, and a long tail. It wags its tail while searching for insects on the ground or in grassland.

• Varied Bunting Passerina versicolor

  The Varied Bunting lives mainly in Mexico, in scrub and streamside thickets. Males are reddish violet, while females and young birds are brown; it searches low in dense vegetation for insects.

• Golden Cuckooshrike Campochaera sloetii

  This cuckooshrike is described from the canopy of tall forest in New Guinea. It has an orange-yellow body and black wings with white bars.

• Vinous-breasted Myna Acridotheres leucocephalus

  This bird is native to Southeast Asia. Birds that escaped or were released from captivity have been recorded in towns and parks in central Israel.

• Rufous-rumped Lark Pinarocorys erythropygia

  This lark of tropical Africa lives in open, often dry country and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• Yellow-bellied Whistler Pachycephala philippinensis

  The Yellow-bellied Whistler lives in Philippine forests. It has several island subspecies with regional plumage differences, and usually searches for insects in the forest understory.

• Brown Songlark Megalurus cruralis

  This bird occurs widely across mainland Australia in open country such as pastures, short crops, and grassy scrub. Males are larger than females and sing during display flights. The Australian Museum page uses the scientific name Cincloramphus cruralis.

• Large-footed Tapaculo Scytalopus macropus

  This tapaculo lives in streamside forest in the central Peruvian Andes. Adults are uniformly blackish gray and are often encountered on the ground.

• Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus

  The Fish Crow is an all-black crow found near estuaries, rivers, and lakes. It eats fish and crabs as well as eggs, fruit, and other foods.

• Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala

  Males have noticeable red plumage, while females are mostly brown. Their plumage differs by sex.

• Costa Rican Swift Chaetura fumosa

  The Costa Rican Swift is sooty black with a pale gray rump band and lighter throat. On Costa Rica’s southern Pacific side, pairs are seen over forest and open country.

• Gray Honeyeater Conopophila whitei

  The Gray Honeyeater is an inconspicuous bird of arid inland Australia. It has also been observed spreading its wings while foraging.

• Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum

  A dark cormorant with a long neck and a tail longer than those of many other cormorants. It dives underwater to catch fish.

• Cauca Guan Penelope perspicax

  The Cauca Guan has dark brown to greenish plumage and a red throat patch. It is found in humid tropical forest remnants in Colombia's Cauca and Magdalena valleys.

• Red-eyed Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys imberbis

  Erythrogenys imberbis is a scimitar babbler of Myanmar and Thailand. Clements' 2024 checklist treats it as a species split from the Himalayan E. erythrogenys.

• Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis

  The Speckle-fronted Weaver is a small bird marked by a black, white-speckled crown and a chestnut nape. It feeds mainly on seeds on the ground, living in pairs during breeding and in flocks at other times.

• Tawny-collared Nightjar Antrostomus salvini

  A nightjar of the lowlands of northeastern Mexico, inhabiting dry scrub and open areas with scattered bushes.