Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Malayan Night Heron Gorsachius melanolophus

  A forest-dwelling heron that breeds in India from May to August.

• Oriental scops owl Otus sunia

  A small owl that breeds in deep forest and hunts insects from dusk into the night.

• Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana

  The Western Tanager is a small bird that breeds in western North American forests. Males stand out with an orange-red head and yellow body.

• 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.

• Baudo Oropendola Psarocolius cassini

  This large oropendola lives in the lowlands of Chocó, northwestern Colombia. Records place it in humid forest and forest edge up to about 365 m.

• White-bellied Antpitta Grallaria hypoleuca

  This antpitta occurs on the eastern side of the northern Peruvian Andes. It has reddish-brown upperparts, a gray breast, and a white central belly. A regional survey recorded it in dense forest, including bamboo-rich areas.

• Dusky Sunbird Cinnyris fuscus

  A breeding male has a glossy black head, back, and chest with a white belly. The orange pectoral tufts may show when he is excited or displaying. The species feeds mainly on nectar.

• Phylloscopus sibillatrix

  The Wood Warbler breeds in woodland in Britain and Ireland. Its yellow throat and silvery-white underside stand out; the BTO describes oak woods in western Britain.

• Rusty-crowned Babbler Sterrhoptilus capitalis

  Rusty-crowned Babbler is about 14–15 cm long. It uses forest, forest edges, and secondary growth, and gleans invertebrates in trees. Oiseaux.net lists call recordings from near PICOP on Mindanao, Philippines.

• Pale-crested Woodpecker Celeus lugubris

  The Pale-crested Woodpecker lives in dry forest and open woodland of south-central South America. Its pale crest stands out, and males and females differ in their red facial markings.

• Black-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata

  A hornbill with a large black casque that moves through forest trees in search of fruit.

• Ruwenzori Apalis Oreolais ruwenzorii

  A small bird with a slate-grey back, rufous-buff throat and a narrow breast band. It lives in central African montane forest, where pairs duet.

• Forest Thrush Turdus lherminieri

  The Forest Thrush has russet upperparts, a yellow bill and legs, and a scaly-looking breast. It searches leaf litter for small prey and also eats fruit.

• Akepa Loxops coccineus

  A small Hawaiian honeycreeper, it uses its crossed bill to find insects and spiders in ʻōhiʻa buds and is now believed to remain only on Hawaiʻi Island.

• Black-faced Cuckooshrike Coracina novaehollandiae

  The Black-faced Cuckooshrike occurs in wooded places other than rainforests, including suburbs. It eats insects and other foods, and is also called the Shufflewing for its wing-shuffling movement on landing.

• Ashy-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa randi

  This flycatcher occurs in moist lowland forest on Luzon and Negros in the Philippines. The account places it mainly below 1,000 m.

• Yucatan Vireo Vireo magister

  This vireo occurs on the Yucatan Peninsula and nearby islands. It has a white eyebrow and dark eye-stripe and feeds in lowland forest and mangroves.

• Ashy-throated Bush Tanager Chlorospingus canigularis

  The species account describes olive-yellow upperparts and tail, a grey head and throat, and a yellow breast band. It notes that a white supercilium occurs only in subspecies signatus.

• Many-colored Bushshrike Chlorophoneus multicolor

  This bushshrike lives in forests of western and central Africa. It has several plumage forms, including birds with orange or red underparts.

• Costa Rican Swift Chaetura fumosa

  The Costa Rican Swift is sooty black with a pale gray rump band and lighter throat. On Costa Rica’s southern Pacific side, pairs are seen over forest and open country.

• Rock Tapaculo Scytalopus petrophilus

  This tapaculo occurs in the mountains of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. Its 2010 description reports habitat ranging from open rocky shrubland to forest on steep slopes.

• Black-breasted Buzzard Hamirostra melanosternon

  This large raptor lives mainly in inland Australia. It takes prey on the ground and eats carrion; it is known for dropping stones to break eggs.

• Grey-throated Babbler Stachyris nigriceps

  The Grey-throated Babbler lives in the lower growth of Southeast Asian forests. White streaks mark its dark crown, and throat color varies among regional subspecies.