Meet the world’s animals.

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• Buru Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx cajeli

  

  A small kingfisher endemic to Buru Island, Indonesia. Wallace's original description notes a black upper surface with pale-blue spots and feather edges, rufous-yellow underparts, a white throat, and coral-red bill and feet. A later nineteenth-century letter describes feeding in swamp thickets.

• Razor-billed Curassow Mitu tuberosum

  It has a bluish-black body, a chestnut lower belly, white tail tips, a red bill and legs, and a crest. It searches for fallen fruit on the forest floor.

• Brown-capped Babbler Pellorneum fuscocapillus

  This babbler is endemic to Sri Lanka. It inhabits forest, well-wooded areas, and thick undergrowth, and is absent from the extremely dry north and southeast according to the local species account.

• Willow tit Poecile montanus

  In Japan it occurs in mountain woodland from Kyushu northward. A black cap on the head is conspicuous.

• Green-backed Gerygone Gerygone chloronota

  This small bird occurs in Indonesia, New Guinea, and northern Australia, using riverine forest, mangroves, and thickets. It has a grayish head and eats insects and spiders.

• Black-and-chestnut Warbling Finch Poospiza whitii

  The Black-and-chestnut Warbling Finch ranges from Bolivia to northwestern Argentina. It has a black head, a white eyebrow that turns dark chestnut toward the rear, chestnut breast and flanks, and a pale belly. It uses scrub and wooded places and is recorded as an omnivore.

• Purple-throated Cotinga Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema

  This cotinga has a purple throat. Adult males are black and white, while females are brown and barred, so the sexes look very different.

• Snowy-crowned Tern Sterna trudeaui

  This medium-sized tern has a white head and body with a gray back. It catches fish and lives around marshes and shallow waters in South America.

• New Caledonian Cuckooshrike Coracina analis

  The New Caledonian Cuckooshrike lives in forests on New Caledonia. A local island guide records it eating insects and small fruits in forest.

• Black Laughingthrush Melanocichla lugubris

  A dark-plumaged bird with blue-gray skin behind the eye and an orange-red bill. It uses foothill broadleaf forest and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Thick-billed Cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti

  The Thick-billed Cuckoo has a heavy bill and pale underparts. It is patchily distributed across sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar and feeds mainly on caterpillars.

• Striated Caracara Phalcoboenus australis

  The Striated Caracara is a raptor of southern South America and nearby islands. It uses coastal and grassland habitats, scavenges carcasses, and may turn stones while searching for food.

• Gray-breasted Woodpecker Melanerpes hypopolius

  The Gray-breasted Woodpecker lives in interior southwestern Mexico, using montane scrub and gallery forest.

• Chestnut-throated Flycatcher Myiagra castaneigularis

  The Chestnut-throated Flycatcher was described from Vanua Levu, Fiji. Its 1876 original account records forest observations, insect feeding, and differences in throat and back color between males and females.

• Angola Lark Amirafra angolensis

  This lark occurs mainly in Angola. Its rufous crown and pale tail are useful identification marks, while the pattern on its back changes seasonally.

• Long-tailed Widowbird Euplectes progne

  This bird lives in moist grassland. The breeding male has a long tail, while females and males outside the breeding season are brown and streaked.

• Sao Tome Scops Owl Otus hartlaubi

  This small owl is endemic to São Tomé. Its rufous-brown plumage, white brows and chin, and dark belly streaks are distinctive.

• Stiles's Tapaculo Scytalopus stilesi

  Stiles's Tapaculo lives in humid montane forest in Colombia's Central Cordillera. It has dark plumage and searches for food in undergrowth and near the forest floor.

• Pale-eyed Thrush Turdus leucops

  The Birds of Bolivia account describes males with a white iris and black plumage, while females are warmer brown with a dark bill. It places the species at the edges of cloud forest on the eastern Andes.

• Brown-capped Vireo Vireo leucophrys

  A small vireo found from Central America into northwestern South America. In Colombia, it is recorded in forest from 1,000 to 2,800 m, feeding in middle and upper vegetation layers, alone or in mixed flocks.

• Blackish-grey Antshrike Thamnophilus nigrocinereus

  Males are dark gray with a pale belly, while females have a dark crown and otherwise brown plumage. The cinereoniger subspecies in northeastern Colombia uses seasonally flooded savanna woodland and gallery forest.

• Yellowish Bulbul Hypsipetes everetti

  A Philippine bulbul of forests and forest edges that feeds on fruit.

• Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Leucosticte tephrocotis

  A pink-and-brown songbird of high North American mountains and Alaskan islands. In winter it moves lower to avoid heavy snow and may visit feeders.

• Grey parrot Psittacus erithacus

  An African forest parrot with grey plumage and a striking bright red tail.