Meet the world’s animals.
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- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
Photo: PJTurgeon · CC0 A small warbler that breeds in northern North American forests and migrates south across the ocean in fall. Breeding males have a distinctive black cap.
- Madagascar Cuckooshrike Coracina cinerea
An endemic cuckooshrike of Madagascar. It uses dry forest, humid evergreen forest and gallery forest, and may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy.
- Lined Forest Falcon Micrastur gilvicollis
The Lined Forest Falcon is a forest-dwelling falcon of humid tropical woods. Adults have gray heads and backs, pale barred underparts, and conspicuously pale eyes.
- Golden Myna Mino anais
The Golden Myna has a black head and back with a broad orange-yellow collar along the sides of the neck. It forages for fruit in the canopy of New Guinea's lowland forests.
- Bell's Vireo Vireo bellii
This small songbird has a gray-to-green back and a pale ring around each eye. It breeds in North America and winters along western Mexico and the Pacific side of Central America.
- Rufous-breasted Antpitta Grallaricula leymebambae
A small antpitta of Andean forests. Its back is brown, with rufous coloring across the chest and sides.
- Sulphur-breasted Parakeet Aratinga maculata
The Sulphur-breasted Parakeet is recorded in northern Brazil. Its 2005 description used the name Aratinga pintoi; a later taxonomic paper explains that name as a synonym of Aratinga maculata.
- Black Monarch Symposiachrus axillaris
A long-tailed, mostly black flycatcher of New Guinea's lowland and mountain forests. Its diet is still poorly recorded.
- Buff-fronted Quail-Dove Zentrygon costaricensis
The Buff-fronted Quail-Dove has a rufous-brown back, green nape, and a black stripe on its mostly white face. It is found on the ground in montane cloud forest in Costa Rica and western Panama.
- Mountain Kingfisher Syma megarhyncha
The Mountain Kingfisher is a large kingfisher of New Guinea's mountain forests. It has a longer bill than its close relative, although the black marking on the upper bill is absent in the Huon Peninsula subspecies.
- Spotted Scrubwren Sericornis maculatus
The Spotted Scrubwren lives in south-western Australian forest and searches leaf litter for insects and seeds. The appearance and life details below are limited to the subspecies described in that region.
- African Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus nigricans
The African Red-eyed Bulbul is a southern African bulbul marked by a red eye wattle. It lives in dry woodland, savanna, and Karoo scrub.
- Rufous Wren Cinnycerthia unirufa
The Rufous Wren lives in humid montane forest in the northern Andes. It is rich rufous with black lores and faintly barred wings and tail, usually moving in pairs or family groups.
- Hellmayr’s Pipit Anthus hellmayri
Dark streaks on its ochre back mark this pipit. It uses grassy places near water and Patagonian grassland, moving close to the ground.
- Violaceous Coucal Centropus violaceus
The Violaceous Coucal is a large coucal found only on New Britain and New Ireland. It searches for insects and small animals in trees in humid lowland forest.
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
The world's largest tern, with a large red bill. It pursues fish along coasts and on inland lakes and rivers.
- Black-lored Waxbill Estrilda nigriloris
This waxbill is recorded in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A flock of eight was rediscovered by Lake Kabwe in Upemba National Park in 2023. Genetic work has not settled whether it is separate from the Common Waxbill.
- Rufous-faced Crake Rufirallus xenopterus
The Rufous-faced Crake is an elusive rail recorded in shallowly flooded grassland in South America. Its head and back are rufous, and its wings have bold black-and-white bars.
- Sulphur-bellied Warbler Phylloscopus griseolus
This small leaf warbler breeds in alpine scrub and moves from the mountains to lower elevations in winter.
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
The Blue Grosbeak is a bunting with a large, silvery bill. The breeding male is vivid blue, and the species uses scrubby habitats and old fields in the southern United States.
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
The African Goshawk is a widespread medium-sized African hawk. Its plumage varies by sex, age, and region.
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
A small North American songbird with a black cap and bib, white cheeks, and a familiar “chick-a-dee” call. It searches branches for insects and seeds.
- Cinnamon Bittern Botaurus cinnamomeus
The Cinnamon Bittern is a small heron with cinnamon-colored plumage. It has been recorded breeding in reedbeds in Hong Kong.
- Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura
The Pin-tailed Snipe is a wetland bird that moves between breeding and wintering grounds.
