Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brown Noddy Anous stolidus

  

  A tern that breeds in colonies on small islands in tropical and subtropical seas. Adults are dark brown, with a white forehead fading to grey at the nape, and take fish and squid near the ocean surface.

• Philippine Falconet Microhierax erythrogenys

  The Philippine Falconet is a small raptor of the Philippine forests. It perches on exposed branches in foothill forest, where it can watch its surroundings.

• Olive-crowned Flowerpecker Dicaeum pectorale

  This small flowerpecker lives in the forest canopy and secondary growth of western New Guinea. Males have a bright red breast, and it uses fruit and nectar.

• Hawaiian Duck Anas wyvilliana

  The Hawaiian Duck is a brown-speckled native duck of Hawaiʻi. It forages in shallow freshwater wetlands; this description excludes birds hybridized with Mallards.

• Bearded Guan Penelope barbata

  The Bearded Guan is a large forest bird with a small red throat wattle and gray speckles. It lives in montane forests of southern Ecuador and northwestern Peru and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Scaly-headed Parrot Pionus maximiliani

  This parrot occurs in central South America. Gray, finely edged feathers mark its head, and it uses forests and dry woodland while feeding on fruits and seeds.

• Eastern Shrike-tit Falcunculus frontatus

  The Eastern Shrike-tit uses its thick, hooked bill to probe bark for insects in eastern Australia. Its short crest and boldly striped head are distinctive.

• Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria

  The Lesser Goldfinch is a small finch with yellow, green, and black plumage. Flocks gather in trees and yards for seeds, and the species ranges from the western United States to the Peruvian Andes.

• Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus

  This yellowish warbler searches among pine needles high in pine forests. It eats insects and also takes seeds, especially pine seeds, in colder months.

• Yellow-eyed Starling Aplonis mystacea

  In one observation from Central Province, Papua New Guinea, a flock of dark adult birds with very pale irises fed on fruit in lowland forest.

• Grey-headed Oliveback Nesocharis capistrata

  This small African bird uses savanna, shrubland and inland wetlands. The current IUCN assessment places it in the genus Delacourella.

• Rusty-naped Pitta Hydrornis oatesi

  In Yunnan, this elusive pitta lives near the forest floor in moist forests, often beside streams.

• Rufous-fronted Babbler Cyanoderma rufifrons

  The Rufous-fronted Babbler is a small babbler of Asian forests. It searches among vegetation for small invertebrates.

• Eastern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris mediocris

  This sunbird lives in the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania. The entry follows current Cinnyris mediocris after the related Forest Sunbird and Usambara Double-collared Sunbird were separated.

• Ancash Tapaculo Scytalopus affinis

  It is endemic to Peru and recorded on the western Andean slope at 3,000–4,600 m. It feeds at or near the ground, but is difficult to distinguish from similar tapaculos; range and voice are useful identification clues.

• Tiny Tyrant-Manakin Tyranneutes virescens

  This small manakin lives in moist lowland forest on the Guianan Shield. It has dull grey-green upperparts, yellowish underparts, and fine grey streaks on the throat and upper breast.

• Jambu Fruit Dove Ptilinopus jambu

  Male Jambu Fruit Doves have a crimson face and white chest; females have a purplish face and green chest. They eat fruit and live in Southeast Asian evergreen and mangrove forests.

• Veracruz Wren Campylorhynchus rufinucha

  The Veracruz Wren is found locally in a small area on Mexico's Gulf Coast.

• Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris

  The Little Black Cormorant is slim and black, with a green sheen on its back. It dives to catch fish and other prey.

• White-throated Fantail Rhipidura albicollis

  The White-throated Fantail is a forest-dwelling fantail that feeds on small invertebrates.

• Black Antshrike Thamnophilus nigriceps

  The Black Antshrike occurs in eastern Panama and northern Colombia. The AOS checklist places it at lowland evergreen-forest edges and in secondary forest from 0–600 m; a species account lists its length as 16 cm.

• Opal-crowned Tanager Tangara callophrys

  This tanager forages in the canopy of mature Amazonian forests, often with mixed-species flocks. The Peru Aves account records it up to 1,000 m along the Andean foothills.

• Pied Honeyeater Certhionyx variegatus

  This Australian honeyeater moves in search of flowering shrubs in dry country. Males are black and white; females are grey-brown and white.

• Fiery Minivet Pericrocotus igneus

  This long-tailed cuckooshrike lives in forests of the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. Males show connected red-orange wing patches, while females have a red-orange rump.