Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bronze-green Euphonia Euphonia mesochrysa

  

  This small bird inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andes from Colombia through Bolivia. It feeds mainly on fruit, including mistletoe berries.

• Amur Falcon Falco amurensis

  This small falcon breeds in East Asia and migrates to southern Africa. Plumage differs among adult males, females, and juveniles.

• Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus lanceolatus

  The Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle is a large raptor of Indonesian forest, centered on Sulawesi. Adults have a rufous, streaked breast and a densely barred belly.

• African Gray Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus

  The African Gray Hornbill is a hornbill of woodland and savanna in sub-Saharan Africa. It feeds in trees and shrubs on insects, fruit, and other foods.

• Rufous-throated Honeyeater Conopophila rufogularis

  The Rufous-throated Honeyeater is recorded in waterside woodland and semi-arid riverine forest in northern Australia. Its diet is mainly invertebrates but broader than that.

• Solitary Cacique Cacicus solitarius

  The Solitary Cacique has a black body and pale bill. It searches the dense forest understory alone or in pairs in the Amazon region.

• Band-tailed Guan Penelope argyrotis

  This large guan lives in humid forests of Colombia and Venezuela. It has a dark rufous back and an olive-brown breast.

• Araucaria Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura setaria

  A furnariid of southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina, associated with Araucaria woodland and plantations.

• Rufous-crowned Babbler Malacopteron magnum

  The Rufous-crowned Babbler lives in humid lowland forests of Southeast Asia. It has a rufous crown and tail and, at Krau Wildlife Reserve in Peninsular Malaysia, foraged among foliage and suspended dead leaves 4–8 m above the ground.

• Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni

  This account focuses on the seasonal movements of the Japanese subspecies of Olive-backed Pipit. It breeds in open woodland and grassland from Shikoku and Honshu northward, then moves to lowlands with little persistent snow in autumn and winter.

• Rusty-belted Tapaculo Liosceles thoracicus

  The Rusty-belted Tapaculo is a South American bird with a rusty back and breast band. It walks on the forest floor in search of small insects.

• Cerulean Kingfisher Alcedo coerulescens

  The Cerulean Kingfisher is a small bird with a blue back and white underside. It hunts from waterside branches and posts and eats small fish and aquatic insects.

• Black-legged Dacnis Dacnis nigripes

  This small bird lives in moist forests of south-eastern Brazil, and males and females have very different plumage.

• Red-throated Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla

  The Taiga Flycatcher is a small flycatcher marked by a blackish tail and white undertail-coverts. It migrates from breeding areas in northeast Asia to wintering areas farther south.

• Madagascar Rail Rallus madagascariensis

  The Madagascar Rail is endemic to Madagascar’s eastern wetlands. It stays hidden in dense wetland vegetation and is often heard before it is seen.

• Southern Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus eximius

  The Southern Bristle Tyrant is a small forest flycatcher. A regional account from Misiones, northeastern Argentina, records an adult feeding recently fledged young.

• Bornean Treepie Dendrocitta cinerascens

  The Bornean Treepie is a long-tailed corvid with a pale grey nape and reddish-brown underparts. It moves through the canopy in small groups in Bornean forests.

• Scaled Antpitta Grallaria guatimalensis

  This antpitta has dark rufous-brown plumage, a gray head, and a scaled pattern on its back. In Peru, it is recorded foraging on the forest floor.

• Chinese Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus yunnanensis

  This small leaf warbler breeds in Chinese mountains. Its upperparts are gray-green, its underparts are whitish, and it gives a long, mechanical song.

• Red Lory Eos bornea

  The Red Lory is mainly red, with black on parts of the wings and blue feathers beneath the tail. It has also been recorded in lowland forest on Buru Island.

• Yellow-wattled Bulbul Poliolophus urostictus

  This Philippine bulbul forages for fruit along forest edges and in young woodland.

• 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.

• Shining Sunbird Cinnyris habessinicus

  The male has a purple forecrown and iridescent green head and upperparts. It eats nectar, fruit, insects, and spiders.

• Band-tailed Antshrike Thamnophilus melanothorax

  Male Band-tailed Antshrikes are black, with white shoulder and wing spots and a broad white band near the end of the tail. The species occurs in the northeastern Amazon and uses forest undergrowth with vines.