Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cameroon Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis

  

  A greenbul of the Cameroon Highlands. A field account near Bamenda describes it searching for insects and fruit among mosses, lichens, and peeling bark.

• Yellow-faced Siskin Spinus yarrellii

  The Yellow-faced Siskin is a small finch about 10 cm long. Adult males have a black crown and bright yellow face and underparts, while females are more yellowish olive.

• Archbold's Newtonia Newtonia archboldi

  Archbold's Newtonia is a small bird of dry spiny forest and shrubland in southern Madagascar. It searches for spiders and insects on low branches.

• Pileated Parrot Pionopsitta pileata

  The Pileated Parrot lives in humid forests of southeastern Brazil and nearby areas. Males have red on the head; females do not.

• White-throated Rail Dryolimnas cuvieri

  The White-throated Rail has a white throat and chestnut breast. The Aldabra subspecies has short wings and is flightless.

• Cobb's Wren Troglodytes cobbi

  This wren is now confined to small offshore islands in the Falklands. It searches for small animals in grassland near the tide line and on rocky shores.

• Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps

  The Red-headed Bunting breeds in Central Asia and winters in India. In Hong Kong it is a rare winter visitor; females and young can be difficult to identify because they resemble Black-headed Buntings.

• Ethiopian Boubou Laniarius aethiopicus

  This bushshrike has glossy blue-black upperparts and tail, with white spots on the rump. It eats insects and spiders as well as small vertebrates.

• Sri Lanka Blue Magpie Urocissa ornata

  The Sri Lanka blue magpie is a blue-and-chestnut bird that lives in small groups in Sri Lanka's wet forests.

• Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea

  This warbler has rich red-brown and creamy buff in summer, then becomes mostly green and white in fall. It searches lower branches of conifers on its breeding grounds.

• Chilean Swallow Tachycineta leucopyga

  The Chilean Swallow is a small swallow with a metallic blue back, white underparts, and a forked tail. It breeds in Chile and moves north for the winter.

• Choco Toucan Ramphastos brevis

  This toucan lives in humid forests from western Colombia into Ecuador. Males and females differ in bill length.

• Legge's Flowerpecker Dicaeum vincens

  This small flowerpecker is endemic to Sri Lanka. It is common in wet lowland forest, moves through the treetops and descends to feed on nectar, fruit, berries, and seeds.

• Black-banded Plover Charadrius thoracicus

  This plover is restricted to Madagascar. A bold black band crosses its breast, and it searches for food on coastal mud and around saline lagoons.

• Tacazze Sunbird Nectarinia tacazze

  This large sunbird lives in the highlands of eastern Africa. It feeds mainly on nectar, and its elongated central tail feathers are conspicuous.

• Blue-black Grosbeak Cyanocompsa cyanoides

  The AOS classification treats the Blue-black Grosbeak as Cyanoloxia cyanoides. A report from northwestern Peru documents the subspecies C. c. cyanoides in scrub that differs from its usual humid-forest setting.

• Red-winged Grey Warbler Drymocichla incana

  This small warbler has a grey head and back with a red wing patch. It searches for small insects in savanna, riparian woodland and thickets.

• White-rumped Swift Apus caffer

  A swift that catches insects in flight. In southern Africa, it may breed in nests taken over from other birds.

• Black-and-cinnamon Fantail Rhipidura nigrocinnamomea

  This fantail is endemic to Mindanao in the Philippines. It has a black head with a white eyebrow and cinnamon-colored back and rump. It lives in montane forest, feeds mostly on insects, and sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.

• Chestnut-naped Antpitta Grallaria nuchalis

  This antpitta lives in humid Andean forest. In the account of its northeastern Peruvian form, it is also associated with bamboo thickets.

• European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus

  The European Nightjar rests on the ground by day, blending in with mottled plumage, then catches moths and other insects in flight at dusk.

• Helmeted Manakin Chiroxiphia galeata

  The Helmeted Manakin is a small manakin with different male and female plumage. A study in southeastern Brazil documented nests low in the forest undergrowth.

• Stuhlmann's Starling Poeoptera stuhlmanni

  This starling lives in East African montane forest. Males have a blue-black sheen, while females are greyer. It eats fruit.

• Meyer's Goshawk Astur meyerianus

  Meyer's Goshawk is a forest hawk with black upperparts, a white underside, and fine bars on its flanks. Its legs and the base of its bill are yellow.