Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus

  

  A black-and-white forest hornbill with a large bill, it feeds on fruit and changes its movements with the season

• Maui Alauahio Paroreomyza montana

  The Maui Alauahio is a small Hawaiian honeycreeper. Its surviving population lives in Maui's highlands and mainly eats small invertebrates.

• Melodious Babbler Malacopteron palawanense

  This babbler is endemic to Palawan and Balabac in the Philippines. It forages in the middle and lower forest layers of lowland evergreen forest.

• Lark-like Bunting Emberiza impetuani

  The Lark-like Bunting lives in dry areas of southern Africa. Both sexes have pale buff-brown streaked plumage, and the birds may move as conditions change.

• Eastern Olivaceous Flatbill Rhynchocyclus olivaceus

  This flatbill occurs in Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest. A 2022 taxonomic study examined several lineages formerly grouped under the same name and placed the subspecies R. o. olivaceus in forest from Pernambuco to Rio de Janeiro.

• Yellow Oriole Icterus nigrogularis

  This oriole ranges across northern South America. Males are yellow with black wings and face markings; females are duller. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Guianan Trogon Trogon violaceus

  Its violet-blue head and breast, green back, and yellow belly make this trogon easy to recognize. It perches high in the tropical forests of northern South America.

• Grey-tailed Piha Snowornis subalaris

  The species lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope, with records in Colombia and Ecuador at about 800–1,350 m. Its populations are disjunct.

• Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush Pterorhinus treacheri

  The Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush is endemic to Borneo, with a patchy distribution. The account describes three subspecies across the island's mountain regions.

• St. Helena Plover Charadrius sanctaehelenae

  This plover lives only on St Helena. It has thin, long legs and remains throughout the year in open grassland and other open parts of the island.

• Antarctic Prion Pachyptila desolata

  The Antarctic Prion is a small seabird with a blue-gray back and white belly. It gathers over the Southern Ocean and feeds on small crustaceans near the water's surface.

• Hume's Wheatear Oenanthe albonigra

  Hume's Wheatear is a wheatear with a black head and back and a white breast and belly. The sexes look alike.

• Black-headed Grosbeak Pheucticus melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Grosbeak is a songbird of western North America. Adult males are black, white, and cinnamon, and both parents care for the young.

• Blue Cuckooshrike Coracina azurea

  This cuckooshrike occurs in forests from West Africa into parts of Central Africa. Adult males are blue, while females are duller.

• Long-tailed Starling Aplonis magna

  This starling is active by day and eats fruit in forests and open areas on Biak and Numfor.

• Black Lark Melanocorypha yeltoniensis

  A lark of dry Central Asian steppe. Males are conspicuously black, and a study in Kazakhstan recorded nests on the ground.

• White-bellied Whistler Pachycephala leucogastra

  This whistler has a patchy range in New Guinea. The male has a black head and breast band, white throat, and brown-grey back.

• Long-billed Bush-Warbler Locustella major

  The Long-billed Bush-Warbler was described as a pale-brown bird with a monotonous song. In June 2022 it was observed along grassy terraces in Naltar Valley, northern Pakistan.

• Spotted Bamboowren Psilorhamphus guttatus

  This tapaculo lives in bamboo and secondary forest in southeastern Brazil. Males are bluish grey, females browner, and both have white spots.

• Curl-crested Jay Cyanocorax cristatellus

  The Curl-crested Jay is a social bird marked by blue wings and tail and a curled crest.

• Five-colored Munia Lonchura quinticolor

  The Five-colored Munia lives in grassland, farmland, and other open places in the Lesser Sunda Islands, where it eats plant seeds. Its head and throat differ in color from its underside.

• Pacific swift Apus pacificus

  A long-winged bird that catches insects in flight and visits Japan in summer.

• Crescent Honeyeater Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus

  This honeyeater occurs in the hilly, montane and coastal woodlands and forests of southeastern Australia. A regional account also describes birds moving to lower areas in winter.

• Rufous-bellied Chachalaca Ortalis wagleri

  A loud, long-tailed chachalaca of western Mexico. It occurs in tropical forest and forest edges, often in small groups, and forages on the ground and in trees for fruit.