Meet the world’s animals.

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• Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans

  

  The Laughing Falcon has a pale head with a black mask around the eyes. It feeds mainly on snakes, and pairs may exchange laughter-like calls at dawn and dusk.

• Black Manakin Xenopipo atronitens

  This manakin uses low forest on nutrient-poor soils. Males are glossy black and females dark olive; the account reports it in Peru and also in Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia.

• Helmeted Hornbill Rhinoplax vigil

  The Helmeted Hornbill is a large hornbill of Sundaic rainforest. Its casque is solid, and it feeds heavily on fruit such as figs.

• Bolivian Warbling Finch Poospiza boliviana

  This finch occurs in the west-central Bolivian Andes. A research paper gives an elevational range of about 1,600–3,000 m and describes its plumage as gray, white, and rufous.

• Ochre-naped Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola flavinucha

  It spends the austral summer in northwestern Patagonia and is reported in Peru from March to October. Adults have an ochre patch on the back of the head; Peruvian records are at 3,800–4,900 m.

• Chestnut-breasted Whiteface Aphelocephala pectoralis

  A small bird of elevated gibber plains in central to eastern South Australia. It uses dry shrubland and stony hills and plains.

• Chestnut-bellied Cotinga Doliornis remseni

  The Chestnut-bellied Cotinga is recorded in the high Andes of Ecuador and Colombia. A 2008 paper reported one male observed in 2006 at Llanganates National Park, Ecuador, and described its habitat.

• Desert Sparrow Passer simplex

  The Desert Sparrow is a small, sandy-colored sparrow. Males have a black bib and black lores, and the species occurs in desert scrub and around oases.

• Chestnut-headed Chachalaca Ortalis ruficeps

  This chachalaca occurs south of the Amazon River in Brazil. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of O. motmot, O. m. ruficeps; a 2020 paper presents evidence for species status. It is found mostly in riverine habitats.

• Sulawesi Cicadabird Coracina morio

  It occurs in forests on Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. The male is dark slate-blue, with a darker head and black face, throat, and upper breast.

• Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis

  Western Reef Herons occur in pale and dark plumage forms; the dark form is marked by a white throat. They hunt along coasts and estuaries.

• Ecuadorian Thrush Turdus maculirostris

  The Ecuadorian Thrush is a forest bird recorded from coastal and foothill western Ecuador to northwestern Peru.

• Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris

  This small brown bird searches for food among wetland grasses and cattail stems. Males may build several nest-like structures during the breeding season.

• Salvadori's Teal Salvadorina waigiuensis

  Salvadori's Teal is a small duck of the New Guinea highlands. It lives along mountain streams and fast-flowing rivers.

• Junin Tapaculo Scytalopus gettyae

  This tapaculo lives in humid mountain forest and nearby scrub in Peru's Junín region. It forages near the ground and is often easier to identify by voice than by sight.

• Ash-winged Antwren Euchrepomis spodioptila

  The Ash-winged Antwren forages with mixed-species flocks in the canopy of mature Amazonian forest. Adult males are gray with a black cap and white wingbars; the reddish back and rump can be hidden by folded wings.

• Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops

  This small plover lives around fresh water in Australasia. It has a black face pattern and breast band with chestnut shoulder feathers. It walks along the water's edge looking for insects and small molluscs.

• Rose-throated Tanager Piranga roseogularis

  This tanager occurs at edges of dry forest in the Yucatán region. Adult males have a rose-colored throat; females have yellow there instead.

• Cape Long-billed Lark Certhilauda curvirostris

  The Cape Long-billed Lark is about 20–24 cm long. It lives among coastal dunes and nearby low vegetation on South Africa's southwestern coast.

• Sjöstedt's Greenbul Baeopogon clamans

  At about 19 cm long, Sjöstedt's Greenbul is active by day and eats fruit in forest and riverside habitats.

• Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina

  The Icterine Warbler is a migrant that searches leafy branches for insects. Its greenish-brown back and yellow underside are useful field marks.

• White-billed Starling Onychognathus albirostris

  Its glossy blue-black plumage and pale bill stand out. In the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands it uses cliffs, gorges, moorland, and towns, eating fruit and insects.

• Puerto Rican Vireo Vireo latimeri

  It has a gray head, white breast, pale yellow belly, and a white eye-ring. It moves slowly through foliage, searching for insects, spiders, and small fruits.

• Burrowing Parakeet Cyanoliseus patagonus

  The Burrowing Parakeet lives in open country in Chile and Argentina. Its white eye ring and yellow-red belly are distinctive, and it nests in burrows in banks and cliffs.