Meet the world’s animals.

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• Samoan Starling Aplonis atrifusca

  

  The Samoan Starling is endemic to the Samoan Archipelago. A National Park of American Samoa survey recorded it in native forest and human-dominated forest, including fruiting trees.

• Ruvu Weaver Ploceus holoxanthus

  The Ruvu Weaver is recorded along rivers in eastern Tanzania. A 2021 study treats it as distinct from the African Golden Weaver and reports adult plumage features and nests documented in riverside vegetation.

• Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla

  The Semipalmated Sandpiper is a small shorebird with a short bill. It breeds on Arctic tundra and winters along coasts farther south in the Americas.

• Red-breasted Meadowlark Leistes militaris

  A breeding-plumaged male shows a red throat and chest against dark plumage; the breeding female is more buff and streaked, with a duller red breast. The species searches for food on the ground.

• Lava Heron Butorides sundevalli

  Endemic to the Galápagos Islands, this small heron lives on rocky shores, in mangroves, and at salt lagoons. Plumage varies, and bill and leg colors change with season.

• Pechora Pipit Anthus gustavi

  The Pechora Pipit is marked by bold white stripes on its back and fine streaks on the chest. It hides in dense grass and flushes only at close range.

• Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica

  A small swallow with a reddish forehead, dark-blue upperparts and a deeply forked tail. It catches flying insects; its two subspecies occupy separate parts of Africa.

• Elegant Sunbird Aethopyga duyvenbodei

  The male has maroon and iridescent blue-green plumage, while the female is olive above. The species lives on Sangihe Island.

• Chaco Sparrow Rhynchospiza strigiceps

  This sparrow uses dry grassland and scrub in South America. It breeds in north-central Argentina, and some birds move seasonally into Bolivia and Paraguay.

• Great Xenops Megaxenops parnaguae

  This rufous arboreal furnariid has a large upturned bill and a white throat. Records from inland Brazil describe birds probing under bark for small insects in Caatinga woodland and other dry forests.

• Dusky Lark Pinarocorys nigricans

  This lark migrates from breeding areas in central Africa to southern Africa. It forages on the ground in open savanna and woodland, eating insects and some seeds.

• Green-crowned Brilliant Heliodoxa jacula

  This hummingbird inhabits wet montane forest from Central America into Colombia and Ecuador. Its green plumage differs between sexes, and it takes nectar from long flower bracts.

• Mountain Trogon Trogon mexicanus

  This trogon lives in highlands from Mexico into Central America. The checklist lists pine, pine-oak, and montane evergreen forests as its habitats.

• Western Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus occipitalis

  The Western Crowned Warbler breeds in the mountains of Central Asia and winters in forests on the Indian peninsula. It moves restlessly from branch to branch, searching among leaves for insects.

• Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia

  This plover occurs along coasts from the southern United States to South America. It searches beaches and tidal flats for crabs and other prey.

• Cabanis's Bunting Emberiza cabanisi

  Cabanis's Bunting occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Males have a dark crown, white eyebrow, and yellow underparts.

• Abyssinian Ground Thrush Geokichla piaggiae

  This ground thrush is marked by an orange head and breast, olive-brown upperparts, and a white eye-ring. It searches for fruit and small prey in the lower parts of mountain forest.

• Chatham Islands Gerygone Gerygone albofrontata

  This small forest bird is endemic to the Chatham Islands. It gleans small invertebrates from leaves and crevices in branches and trunks, and sometimes feeds on the ground.

• Speckled Chachalaca Ortalis guttata

  The Speckled Chachalaca has reddish-brown plumage with pale spots on the front of its neck and chest. It eats fruit and uses both trees and the ground.

• White-lored Warbler Myiothlypis conspicillata

  This warbler is restricted to Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. It searches for insects in the lower vegetation of humid mountain forest.

• Black-throated Babbler Stachyris nigricollis

  The Black-throated Babbler lives in lowland evergreen and swamp forest. It searches dense vegetation for small invertebrates.

• Saffron Toucanet Pteroglossus bailloni

  The Saffron Toucanet is a small toucan with a yellow head and breast and an olive back. It eats fruit and other food in the trees of southeastern South American forests.

• Blue Manakin Chiroxiphia caudata

  Males have blue bodies, black heads and wings, red crowns, and long central tail feathers. Females are green, and the species lives in humid forests.

• Cherrie's Antwren Myrmotherula cherriei

  This antwren forages in waterside thickets along streams and lakes in northwestern Amazonia. Males are strongly black-and-white striped; females have rufous and black stripes.