Meet the world’s animals.
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- Tiny Tyrant-Manakin Tyranneutes virescens
Photo: Hector Bottai · CC BY-SA 4.0 This small manakin lives in moist lowland forest on the Guianan Shield. It has dull grey-green upperparts, yellowish underparts, and fine grey streaks on the throat and upper breast.
- Flame-colored Tanager Piranga bidentata
This tanager lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Panama. Adult males are orange-red and females are yellow, and the birds search for food in the canopy.
- Bicolored Babbler Cyanoderma bicolor
This small forest bird is also called Gray-hooded Babbler in the source. It has gray-brown plumage with a chestnut wing patch and moves in small groups in the forest understory.
- Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni
Von der Decken’s Hornbill lives in dry scrub and savanna in East Africa. Males have red and cream bills, while females have black bills.
- Stripe-headed Antpitta Grallaria andicolus
A terrestrial antpitta of the high Andes in Peru and Bolivia. It uses Polylepis woodland and nearby scrub, watching for insects from raised perches.
- Mayotte Scops Owl Otus mayottensis
The Mayotte Scops Owl is found only on Mayotte. It occurs in grey, brown, and rufous plumage morphs and has yellow eyes.
- Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens
Two birds were recorded foraging in open hillside woodland at Akagera National Park, Rwanda. The reported birds had green backs and wings, white throats, yellow breasts and bellies, and a dark band through the eye.
- Black-bellied Starling Notopholia corusca
The Black-bellied Starling is a slim, dark starling with a black belly and little gloss. It is common in coastal East African woodland; a male's eye can turn red briefly during the breeding season.
- Koklass Pheasant Pucrasia macrolopha
The Koklass Pheasant is a large forest bird with a silvery male and a streaked brown female.
- Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata
The Red-legged Crake is a rail of wet forests and wetlands. In Singapore it has been recorded in a limited part of the country.
- Little Woodpecker Veniliornis passerinus
This small woodpecker is widespread across northern and eastern South America. It favors forest edges and regenerating woodland over dense forest interior and searches bark for insects.
- Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis
The Black-throated Canary has a yellow rump and a black throat mark that varies in prominence and can be absent. It forages in small flocks on grass and weed seeds.
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
A duck that tips forward to find food in ponds and wetlands. A male’s bright appearance changes with the season to a browner, female-like plumage.
- Socorro Dove Zenaida graysoni
This dove is extinct in the wild but survives under expert care. Its last wild record was in 1972; a return to Socorro Island is planned after invasive species are removed.
- Black-headed Antbird Percnostola rufifrons
The Black-headed Antbird differs in plumage by sex: males are mainly dark gray with a black head and throat, while females have gray-brown upperparts and rufous around the face and throat. Reports describe army-ant following north of the Amazon and territorial singing by pairs near Manaus.
- Ja River Scrub Warbler Bradypterus grandis
This large scrub warbler was described from Cameroon. The adult male has dark-brown upperparts with dark spots from throat to chest. A field record from eastern Cameroon documents a male calling beside a wet grassy opening.
- Pale-shouldered Cicadabird Coracina dohertyi
The Pale-shouldered Cicadabird occurs in moist forest on Sumbawa, Flores and Sumba in Indonesia’s western Lesser Sunda Islands. It forages for insects in the middle and lower canopy. The account has only a June record of breeding condition.
- Mountain Yellow Warbler Iduna similis
This leaf-warbler occurs in the East African highlands. It has olive upperparts, yellow underparts, a long tail, and a slender bill. It moves through low vegetation in montane forest and high-altitude scrub.
- Sooty-capped Babbler Malacopteron affine
The Sooty-capped Babbler has a dark cap that contrasts with its brown body. It moves close to the forest floor in Bornean lowland forest while searching for insects.
- Banded Whiteface Aphelocephala nigricincta
This small bird inhabits Australia's dry interior. Its brown back and white underparts are divided by a black breast band.
- Pale-olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus fulviventris
This greenbul has Gabon forest records. In two, a pale eyebrow and dark eye-line were conspicuous.
- Slaty Bristlefront Merulaxis ater
This bird lives in the Atlantic Forest of south-eastern Brazil. Males are slate-grey and females brown, with fine bristles at the base of the bill. It searches for insects among leaf litter close to the forest floor.
- Brown Falcon Falco berigora
This Australian falcon varies widely in the darkness of its plumage. It scans from a perch in grassland or farmland, then dives on prey when it spots an opportunity.
- Long-wattled Umbrellabird Cephalopterus penduliger
A large black bird whose male has a long chest wattle and an overhanging crest. Females are smaller, with a reduced or absent wattle.