Meet the world’s animals.
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- Dark-brown Honeyeater Lichmera incana
Photo: Shelomi Doyle · (c) Shelomi Doyle, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 This honeyeater is recorded in New Caledonia’s Grand Sud Ramsar area. It searches for nectar and insects in low scrub and open ground.
- Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus
The Southern Giant Petrel occurs in brown and rarer white phases. It breeds on Southern Ocean islands and the Antarctic Continent and is a distinct species from the related Northern Giant Petrel.
- Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva
A small flycatcher with white patches on both sides of the tail base. Breeding males have orange-red on the throat and breast, but females and young birds look different.
- Alpine Chough Pyrrhocorax graculus
Glossy black plumage, a yellow bill, and red legs distinguish this mountain corvid. In Triglav National Park it lives above the treeline and descends to valley settlements in winter.
- Lorentz's Whistler Pachycephala lorentzi
Lorentz's Whistler is a small whistler of the central New Guinea highlands. Its grey breast band and mottled white throat are distinctive, and it searches for insects in damp highland scrub.
- Blanford's Rosefinch Agraphospiza rubescens
This rosefinch lives in mountain areas from south-eastern Tibet and north-western Yunnan to parts of central China. Males are crimson, while females are mainly brown.
- Rufous-vented Grass Babbler Laticilla burnesii
The Rufous-vented Grass Babbler lives in wetlands and reedbeds. It is brown above, with fine streaks below and rich rufous feathers under the tail.
- Taita Apalis Apalis fuscigularis
This apalis occurs in forest fragments in the Taita Hills of southeastern Kenya. It has sooty-gray upperparts, a black throat and breast, and gleans small invertebrates from low vegetation.
- Fan-tailed Warbler Basileuterus lachrymosus
This warbler lives in the understory of woods in Mexico and Central America. It moves near the ground and flicks or fans its long tail to show the white tips.
- Santa Marta Antpitta Grallaria bangsi
The Santa Marta Antpitta occurs only in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northern Colombia. It is a ground-dwelling bird recorded in humid montane forest and forest edges.
- Elegant Trogon Trogon elegans
The Elegant Trogon lives in Central American forests. Males have bronzy-green upperparts and a red belly, while females are gray-brown and differ in color.
- Raffles's Malkoha Rhinortha chlorophaea
Males are rufous while females are gray and rufous, giving the species a strong difference in appearance by sex. It searches dense vegetation for food.
- Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura
The Pin-tailed Snipe is a wetland bird that moves between breeding and wintering grounds.
- Dusky Crimsonwing Cryptospiza jacksoni
This small finch lives in high mountain forests. It feeds on seeds on the ground by day and is common in Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park.
- Boreal Chickadee Poecile hudsonicus
A small bird of conifer forests in Alaska and northern Canada. It has a brown cap and hides food in autumn for winter.
- Olive-headed Lorikeet Trichoglossus euteles
The Olive-headed Lorikeet has a green body and yellow-green head and feeds on nectar, pollen, and fruit. It lives in forests and open woodland in the Lesser Sunda Islands.
- Sumatran Green Pigeon Treron oxyurus
The Sumatran Green Pigeon lives in evergreen forest on Sumatra and western Java. It eats fruit, especially figs, and may form groups while feeding.
- Bearded vulture Gypaetus barbatus
A mountain vulture with beard-like feathers below the beak and a diet centered on bone.
- Grey-bellied Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis reptatus
Males have a white throat that extends to the center of the belly, while females are more rufous. The species inhabits montane forest from northeastern India through Myanmar and western Thailand to Yunnan, China, where it searches for insects in dense undergrowth.
- Javan White-eye Zosterops flavus
A small white-eye of coastal Java and Madura, it also has an isolated coastal population in southern Borneo. It uses habitats such as wetlands, mangroves and coastal scrub.
- Black-throated Sunbird Aethopyga saturata
Male Black-throated Sunbirds have a black throat and breast, a maroon back, and a purple iridescent head. They use forests and forest edges and feed mainly on nectar.
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
This bush-shrike lives in woodland, forest edges, savanna woodland, and thickets. It eats insects and small animals, and wing markings vary by region.
- Grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea
A slender waterside bird with a yellow belly and a long tail.
- Black-naped Monarch Hypothymis azurea
In the Singapore population, males have a blue body and conspicuous black nape; females are duller.