Meet the world’s animals.

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• Blackish Tapaculo Scytalopus latrans

  

  This small tapaculo lives in the understory of humid Andean forests. It is about 11.5 cm long and searches for food in bamboo, alone or in pairs.

• Spot-winged Pigeon Patagioenas maculosa

  The Spot-winged Pigeon is a medium-sized pigeon with pale spots across its wings.

• Asian Palm Swift Cypsiurus balasiensis

  The Asian Palm Swift is a slender, small swift that attaches its nest with saliva beneath palm leaves.

• Andean Goose Chloephaga melanoptera

  The Andean Goose has a white body set off by black wings and tail. It grazes near high-Andean wetlands on grasses and aquatic plants, moving to lower elevations in winter.

• White-tailed Ptarmigan Lagopus leucura

  This ptarmigan inhabits alpine areas of western North America. Its plumage changes with the seasons, and feathers cover its feet.

• Blue-throated Toucanet Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis

  The Blue-throated Toucanet is a toucan of humid Central American forests. Its blue throat and large bill stand out, and it eats fruit and small invertebrates.

• White-throated Caracara Phalcoboenus albogularis

  This caracara lives in Andean-Patagonian forests. Its white throat and belly contrast with a dark brown body; it may search for food while soaring alone.

• 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.

• Rufous-bellied Triller Lalage aurea

  This triller is endemic to the North Moluccas. It feeds on insects in lowland and mangrove forest.

• Slaty-backed Thornbill Acanthiza robustirostris

  This small bird has a gray head, dark gray tail, and cinnamon rump. It lives in Australia's dry inland scrub and builds a globular nest from grass stems and spider web.

• Moluccan Starling Aplonis mysolensis

  This starling has black plumage with green-purple gloss and a long tail. It occurs on the Moluccas and western Papuan islands and often feeds on fruit in flocks.

• Eastern Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus

  The Eastern Whip-poor-will is a nocturnal bird whose mottled gray-brown plumage blends into the forest floor. It hunts flying insects at dusk and night in open woods.

• White-hooded Babbler Gampsorhynchus rufulus

  The White-hooded Babbler lives along forest edges and in bamboo in the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China, moving in noisy groups.

• Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris

  The Slender-billed Greenbul needs to be described with its source limits in view. A Liberian subspecies record from 1899 notes a narrow, flattened bill, while a 2026 survey in the DRC caught it in primary forest sites.

• Greyish Piculet Picumnus granadensis

  This small woodpecker relative lives in forests and at forest edges in Colombia. The male has a black crown with white spots and yellow crown marks.

• Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera

  The Golden-winged Warbler is a small North American migrant, with golden markings that stand out against its gray body.

• Taliabu Grasshopper-warbler Locustella portenta

  This warbler is restricted to the highlands of western Taliabu Island, Indonesia. Field observations in 2012 described a brown bird with a clear white eyebrow.

• Black-capped Speirops Zosterops lugubris

  This white-eye occurs throughout São Tomé in forest and plantations. Cornell Lab's eBird account says it prefers highland forest above 900 m.

• Resplendent Quetzal Pharomachrus mocinno

  The Resplendent Quetzal lives in moist montane forest from southern Mexico to Panama. Males have iridescent green plumage, a red belly, and long tail plumes, and often eat fruits from the laurel family.

• Shelley's Oliveback Nesocharis shelleyi

  Shelley's Oliveback is a compact finch with a short tail and thick bluish bill. It lives in highland forests, forest edges, and farmland in parts of West-Central Africa.

• Red-headed Tanager Piranga erythrocephala

  This tanager inhabits mountain forests in western Mexico. Males have a red head and throat; females lack the red areas.

• Damara Hornbill Tockus damarensis

  This hornbill ranges from central and northeastern Namibia into southwestern Angola. It has black-and-white plumage and a long, slender red bill.

• Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis

  The Marsh Sandpiper is a slender wader with a needle-like bill and long yellowish legs. In Peninsular Malaysia it is recorded as a migrant and nonbreeding visitor.

• Western Olivaceous Warbler Iduna opaca

  The Western Olivaceous Warbler is migratory. It breeds in North Africa and southern Iberia and winters in western sub-Saharan Africa. It also uses dry scrub, orchards, and thickets along rivers.