Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cinnamon Ibon Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus

  

  This sparrow-family bird lives in the cloud-forest canopy of Mindanao. Its skull has a feature also found in seed-eating sparrows.

• Palau Broadbill Myiagra erythrops

  This forest bird is endemic to Palau. It occurs across the islands' forests and is especially numerous in mangroves in the cited field guide.

• Scaly Kingfisher Actenoides princeps

  A kingfisher of Sulawesi’s humid montane forests, it is striking for its blue-violet head and scaly-marked brown body.

• Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura

  The Green-backed Camaroptera is a small, rounded bird of thickets, with red eyes. The eastern coastal group is green-backed, while birds elsewhere are gray-backed; some authorities treat the groups as separate species.

• Straight-billed Hermit Phaethornis bourcieri

  A hummingbird of the Amazon lowlands that uses forest undergrowth and feeds on nectar.

• Ruby-throated Bulbul Rubigula dispar

  This bulbul occurs on Sumatra, Java, and Bali. In forest and dense scrub, it uses the lower and middle storeys and gathers in small parties at fruiting trees.

• Brubru Nilaus afer

  The Brubru is a bush-shrike found widely across sub-Saharan Africa. A southern African atlas account records it in savanna and acacia woodland, where it feeds in the canopy.

• Brassy-breasted Tanager Tangara desmaresti

  The green plumage has black streaks, a turquoise forehead and eye area, a brassy ochre breast, and a yellow line down the belly.

• Tepui Brush Finch Atlapetes personatus

  This brushfinch lives in wet tepui forest in the Guiana Highlands; the male has a cinnamon-rufous nape and yellow underparts and forages near the ground.

• Goldman's Warbler Setophaga goldmani

  A highland warbler of Guatemala. The Auk study uses IOC taxonomy and distinguishes it from other members of the Yellow-rumped Warbler complex.

• Madagascar Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus newtoni

  The Madagascar Swamp Warbler feeds on insects while moving among wetland plants. It is widespread on Madagascar, absent from the far north, and less common in the dry south.

• Erckel's Francolin Pternistis erckelii

  Erckel's Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird of the highlands of Eritrea, Ethiopia, and northeastern Sudan. Pale markings show on its body.

• Green-breasted Pitta Pitta reichenowi

  This large pitta has a green breast. It searches for invertebrates on the ground and lives in tropical forests and related habitats.

• Fülleborn's Longclaw Macronyx fuelleborni

  Fülleborn's Longclaw is a grassland bird with a yellow eyebrow and throat, a black breast band, and a buff-colored belly. Pairs use upland grassland and other grassy habitats, especially near water.

• Flightless Steamer-Duck Tachyeres pteneres

  The Flightless Steamer-Duck is a large duck that cannot fly and lives along coasts and channels. It is mostly gray, with a white belly and orange bill and legs.

• Pacific Gull Larus pacificus

  A large gull seen along the coast of South Australia. It searches the intertidal zone for shellfish and crustaceans; shell-dropping has also been recorded there.

• Caribbean Hornero Furnarius longirostris

  A hornero of Colombia and Venezuela. A grayish crown is described as a useful clue for distinguishing it from closely related horneros.

• White-eyed Thrush Turdus jamaicensis

  The White-eyed Thrush inhabits Jamaican forests and is marked by a white ring around the eye.

• Grey-eyed Greenlet Hylophilus amaurocephalus

  This vireo relative lives in forest and scrub in eastern Brazil. Its gray iris and rufous crown stand out, and it searches for insects in trees.

• Australian Hobby Falco longipennis

  The Australian Hobby catches small birds and large flying insects in the air. Its plumage varies somewhat by sex and region.

• Monteiro's Hornbill Tockus monteiri

  This hornbill lives in dry areas from Namibia into southwestern Angola. It hops along the ground to find insects, and males and females differ in bill and throat color.

• Yellow-bellied Siskin Spinus xanthogastrus

  The Yellow-bellied Siskin is a small finch whose male has a black head, yellow belly, and yellow wing patch. It lives near forests and forest edges from Central America into the Andes.

• Streaked Wren-Babbler Gypsophila brevicaudata

  A small bird of evergreen forests from mainland Southeast Asia to southern China and nearby regions. It stays near the forest floor and has fine streaks on its brown body.

• Japanese Reed Bunting Emberiza yessoensis

  The Japanese Reed Bunting uses grassland, farmland, and dry riverbeds. This account focuses on the form that breeds in Honshu and Kyushu.