Meet the world’s animals.

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• Jet Manakin Chloropipo unicolor

  

  It inhabits the understory of humid montane forest on the eastern Andes of Ecuador and Peru. Records span 900–2,200 m.

• Bornean Black Magpie Platysmurus aterrimus

  This forest corvid is restricted to Borneo. The 2024 Clements treatment separates it from the Malay Black Magpie.

• Green-and-rufous Kingfisher Chloroceryle inda

  The Green-and-rufous Kingfisher is a small kingfisher of waterways in the Neotropics. It often perches alone close to the water and waits for prey.

• Sand Lark Alaudala raytal

  The Sand Lark is a small lark found on riverbanks, salt-lake margins, and sandy coasts. Its sandy plumage blends with open ground.

• Bare-necked Umbrellabird Cephalopterus glabricollis

  Male Bare-necked Umbrellabirds have a black body, umbrella-shaped crest, and red bare throat. They use humid highland forest during breeding and lowland forest at other times, in Costa Rica and western Panama.

• Philippine Honey Buzzard Pernis steerei

  This honey-buzzard occurs on the main Philippine islands, excluding Palawan. In 2004 on Panay, observers recorded a bird flying above primary-forest canopy and performing a wing-quivering display flight.

• Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii

  Bewick's Wren is a small bird that flicks its long tail as it moves from branch to branch. Its bold white eyebrow stands out, and its song strings together short whistles, warbles, and trills.

• Bicknell's Thrush Catharus bicknelli

  Bicknell's Thrush is a small thrush that breeds in mountain forests of northeastern North America and spends the nonbreeding season in wet montane forests of the Greater Antilles.

• Bay-chested Warbling Finch Castanozoster thoracicus

  It has a bluish-gray head and back with a broad rufous band along the flanks. It lives along high-elevation forest edges in southeastern Brazil.

• Mauritius Fody Foudia rubra

  The Mauritius Fody is endemic to Mauritius. Males develop a red head and neck during the breeding season, while females remain olive-coloured throughout the year.

• Dusky-capped Greenlet Hylophilus hypoxanthus

  This small bird forages in the canopy and subcanopy of Amazonian forest, often with mixed-species flocks. Its range spans several countries.

• Sooty Antbird Hafferia fortis

  The Sooty Antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory and sometimes forages near columns of army ants.

• Hunter's Cisticola Cisticola hunteri

  Hunter’s Cisticola occurs locally in the highlands of Kenya, at Mount Elgon in Uganda and in northern Tanzania. Two or more birds may sing together.

• Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus ophthalmicus

  This flycatcher lives in humid Andean montane forest. It has a gray crown and greenish-olive back, while the breast is gray in the southern subspecies ottonis and olive-yellow in northern nominate birds.

• Cream-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus merrilli

  This medium-sized dove lives in forests around Luzon. A field study recorded it feeding on fruit in the forest canopy.

• African Black Swift Apus barbatus

  The African Black Swift catches insects in flight. The nominate subspecies in South Africa is described as partly migratory.

• White-cheeked Pintail Anas bahamensis

  The White-cheeked Pintail is a duck with conspicuous white cheeks and orange at the base of its bill. It uses coastal lagoons and mangroves.

• Jackson's Francolin Pternistis jacksoni

  Jackson's Francolin occurs in the highlands of western and central Kenya, using montane forest, moorland, and bamboo patches.

• African Pygmy Falcon Polihierax semitorquatus

  The African Pygmy Falcon lives in dry and semi-dry parts of Africa and hunts ground prey from a perch. It uses spacious communal weaver nests for roosting and nesting.

• Black-browed Triller Lalage atrovirens

  The Black-browed Triller occurs in northern New Guinea and nearby islands. Males are boldly black and white; females are duller, and the species uses forest edges and middle to upper canopy.

• Buff-faced Scrubwren Aethomyias perspicillatus

  A field guide to the Mimika region of Papua records this species under its older name, Sericornis perspicillatus. The account describes olive upperparts and a pale buff-orange face, and records it in shrubs and the midstory at montane forest edges.

• Bali Myna Leucopsar rothschildi

  The Bali Myna is a white starling native to Bali, recognizable by its blue facial skin and white crest.

• Bonaparte's Nightjar Caprimulgus concretus

  Bonaparte's Nightjar is a small nightjar of lowland forests in Southeast Asia. It catches insects in flight after dusk and rests among dense foliage by day.

• Mountain Wren-Babbler Gypsophila crassa

  The Mountain Wren-Babbler is a small bird of montane forest on Borneo. Its brown body is set off by pale eyebrows and throat, and it can be hard to see in dark gullies.