Meet the world’s animals.
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- Cinnamon-breasted Warbler Euryptila subcinnamomea
Photo: Alan Manson · CC BY-SA 2.0 A small warbler of rocky, arid country. It searches rocks and shrubs for insects and is usually solitary.
- Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet Ornithion semiflavum
This small tyrannulet uses moist lowland forest and its edges in Central America. Accounts also record it in plantations and gardens, where it feeds mainly on insects.
- Bolivian Tapaculo Scytalopus bolivianus
A small, secretive bird of humid mountain forests from southeastern Peru into Bolivia. It forages on or close to the ground and uses forest understory and edges.
- Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus occipitalis
The Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove lives in forests of the Philippines. It has green upperparts, a gray head, yellow breast, and maroon marks on the belly and behind the eye.
- Gray-rumped Swift Chaetura cinereiventris
The Gray-rumped Swift is a slender, dark swift that forages in flocks in Bolivia.
- Smew Mergellus albellus
A small diving duck. Males are black and white, while females have red-brown heads; some birds visit Britain in autumn and winter.
- Blue Grouse Dendragapus obscurus
The Dusky Grouse lives in western North American mountain forests. In spring, males display their neck sacs and red eye combs.
- Citron-throated Toucan Ramphastos citreolaemus
This toucan ranges from northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela. It feeds on fruit in the canopy of humid forest.
- Mauritius Kestrel Falco punctatus
A small falcon found only in the forests of Mauritius.
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
The Little Bunting is a small bunting that visits Britain from Russia. In Britain, most records are in autumn, and some birds are found in winter flocks of buntings.
- Grey Cuckooshrike Coracina caesia
A blue-gray cuckooshrike that forages in the upper branches of forests and woodlands.
- Striated Fieldwren Calamanthus fuliginosus
This is the coastal Striated Fieldwren. It is streaked with black, and males have white eyebrows and throats while females have brown ones. It is treated as a separate species from the inland Rufous Fieldwren.
- Purple-headed Starling Hylopsar purpureiceps
A forest starling with a glossy purple head and chest and a blue-green body.
- Anthony's Nightjar Nyctidromus anthonyi
The male has a white throat but no white wing or tail patches, even in flight. In dry Pacific lowlands from western Ecuador to Peru, it catches flying insects at night.
- Rufous-crowned Babbler Malacopteron magnum
The Rufous-crowned Babbler lives in humid lowland forests of Southeast Asia. It has a rufous crown and tail and, at Krau Wildlife Reserve in Peninsular Malaysia, foraged among foliage and suspended dead leaves 4–8 m above the ground.
- Streaked Bulbul Ixos malaccensis
Adults are olive above, with whitish streaks on the grayish throat and breast and a pale belly. They use broadleaf evergreen forests and edges, eating fruit and insects.
- Ochraceous Piculet Picumnus limae
The Ochraceous Piculet is a small woodpecker of northeastern Brazil. Its underside grades from pale in the north to brown farther south.
- Townsend's Warbler Setophaga townsendi
Townsend's Warbler searches for small insects high in conifers, where its yellow and black plumage stands out among the foliage. In winter it also occurs in Mexico, Central America, and along the Pacific coast of the United States.
- Little Grassbird Megalurus gramineus
It occurs in wetlands, swamps, mangroves, and marshes in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. It often stays hidden in dense vegetation while searching for insects and other invertebrates.
- Black-capped White-eye Zosterops atricapilla
This white-eye lives in montane forest. In 2025, a pair was observed taking nectar from flowers near a nest at Kinabalu Park, Malaysia.
- Ward's Trogon Harpactes wardi
Ward's Trogon is a mountain forest bird with strikingly different male and female plumage. It lives in evergreen forests of the eastern Himalayas.
- Mountain Firetail Oreostruthus fuliginosus
The Mountain Firetail is a chunky finch of the New Guinea highlands. It occurs along montane forest edges and where subalpine grassland meets shrubland.
- Sooty Ant Tanager Habia gutturalis
This tanager lives in humid forests of northwestern Colombia. Males have a red throat and crest, and the birds forage for arthropods.
- Black Hornbill Anthracoceros malayanus
The Black Hornbill has a black body with white tips on the outer tail feathers. It forages in the upper and middle canopy of lowland forests.