Meet the world’s animals.

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• Western Thornbill Acanthiza inornata

  

  The Western Thornbill is a small bird of southwestern Western Australia that searches for insects in the undergrowth. It has an olive-gray back and creamy-buff underparts.

• 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.

• Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus

  This yellowish warbler searches among pine needles high in pine forests. It eats insects and also takes seeds, especially pine seeds, in colder months.

• 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.

• Velvety Manakin Lepidothrix velutina

  This manakin ranges from Central America to western South America. Males court in the forest understory; a 2025 study in northwestern Ecuador found all six sampled display sites in primary forest.

• Fasciated Antshrike Cymbilaimus lineatus

  A lowland Neotropical forest antshrike. In a study in Panama, pairs foraged in the canopy, often among large liana tangles.

• Mouse-colored Tapaculo Scytalopus speluncae

  This small tapaculo lives in dense understory of mountain forest in southeastern Brazil. Its dark gray plumage is paler below, with a lighter center to the throat and breast.

• Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis

  A long-legged waterbird with a pink bill that feeds on plants near shallow water and fields.

• Australian Ringneck Barnardius zonarius

  The Australian Ringneck occurs in Australia. Its plumage varies by region, but much of the body is green with a yellow band on the hind-neck.

• Lesser Roadrunner Geococcyx velox

  This ground-dwelling cuckoo has a long tail and crest. It ranges from Mexico into Central America and eats grasshoppers and caterpillars in dry scrub and open country.

• Rufous-crowned Laughingthrush Pterorhinus ruficeps

  This laughingthrush is endemic to Taiwan. It occurs in forest, secondary growth, and scrub, and forages mainly on the ground.

• Crested Ant Tanager Habia cristata

  This ant-tanager has a long, vivid red crest. A 1966 paper based on field observations in 1962 describes its life in stream ravines of Colombia's Western Andes.

• Gray-rumped Swift Chaetura cinereiventris

  The Gray-rumped Swift is a slender, dark swift that forages in flocks in Bolivia.

• Ashy Tit Melaniparus cinerascens

  A gray tit with a black-and-white head pattern and black bib. Pairs and small groups forage for insects in arid savanna and other woodland.

• Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus

  A small, long-tailed eagle with both light and dark plumage forms.

• Black-goggled Tanager Trichothraupis melanops

  This tanager uses humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Males have black markings through the eye and a bright yellow crown patch.

• Tahiti Petrel Pseudobulweria rostrata

  This seabird has a dark upper surface and a white belly. Outside the breeding season it spends time at sea, feeding on squid and other prey near the surface. Breeding areas differ between subspecies.

• Grey-backed Cisticola Cisticola subruficapilla

  This small cisticola occurs in southern Africa. It searches for insects among low grass and shrubs, from dry scrub to coastal vegetation.

• Nightingale Wren Microcerculus philomela

  This wren lives on the forest floor in wet evergreen forests from southeastern Mexico to Costa Rica. It is hard to see in dense cover, but its song can reveal its presence.

• Black Grouse Lyrurus tetrix

  In spring, male Black Grouse gather at traditional display grounds to court. Females are smaller and brownish.

• Italian Sparrow Passer italiae

  The Italian Sparrow occurs in towns and rural areas in Italy and uses places close to people. Males and females differ in head markings, and the birds nest in gaps in buildings and similar sites.

• Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus

  The crowned hornbill has a white eyebrow and belly and a red-orange bill. In moist evergreen forest it lives in pairs or small family groups and eats fruit and insects.

• Black Falcon Falco subniger

  The Black Falcon is a large falcon spread across much of mainland Australia. It uses open habitats in arid and semi-arid areas, including wooded watercourses.

• Sabine's Gull Xema sabini

  Breeding adults show triangular black, white, and gray wing patches, a dark head, and a red eye ring; they feed in Arctic wetlands.