Meet the world’s animals.

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• Apricot-breasted Sunbird Cinnyris buettikoferi

  

  Males have dark metallic blue-violet patches on the throat and chest, including an orange chest patch. A Sumba survey recorded the species more often at forest edges than in forest interiors.

• White-throated Rail Dryolimnas cuvieri

  The White-throated Rail has a white throat and chestnut breast. The Aldabra subspecies has short wings and is flightless.

• Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli

  This seabird breeds in the Hawaiian Islands. It has a dark back and white underparts, nests in the island highlands, and catches squid and fish at sea.

• Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex

  This canary ranges through mountain areas from Eritrea to northern Malawi and western Angola. Adult males of the nominate form show conspicuous yellow on the head and underparts, and forage for seeds among the ground and vegetation.

• Shy Heathwren Hylacola cauta

  This small bird lives in southern Australian mallee scrub and similar habitats. Its warm brown back, chestnut rump, and white wing patch help identify it.

• Taita Falcon Falco fasciinucha

  A small, compact falcon with white cheeks and rufous underparts. It hunts small birds around wooded mountains and deep valleys with cliffs.

• Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus

  The Lesser Blue-eared Starling has glossy blue-green plumage and violet-blue areas on the flanks and belly. It searches in trees and on the ground for fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Rufous-vented Tit Periparus rubidiventris

  The Rufous-vented Tit is a small bird of mountain forests around the Himalayas. Fresh plumage shows a black crest and a pale patch on the nape.

• Green Warbler Phylloscopus nitidus

  The Green Warbler breeds in forests of the Caucasus and winters mainly in southern India. Its greenish back and pale wing bars help distinguish it.

• Amazonian Antpitta Myrmothera berlepschi

  The Amazonian Antpitta is a lowland-forest bird. In the Peru account, olive upperparts contrast with rusty sides of the head, breast and flanks.

• Black-cheeked Ant Tanager Habia atrimaxillaris

  Oiseaux.net lists a length of 19 cm and a mass of 48.9 g, and gives lowland evergreen, streamside, and secondary forest as habitats. A 2023 study reports use of secondary forest for foraging and nesting on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula and nearby forests.

• Black-lored Yellowthroat Geothlypis auricularis

  A small bird of the Tumbesian region of Ecuador and Peru. Males have black around the eye; females show a yellow brow and eyering. It occurs in low thickets and open-woodland edges.

• Cuban Vireo Vireo gundlachii

  The Cuban Vireo is a small, slow-moving bird of shrubby forest edges. It has a yellow spot in front of the eye and a white crescent behind it; a Macaulay Library record documents it at Viñales, Cuba.

• Least Bittern Botaurus exilis

  A small heron of freshwater and brackish marshes with tall aquatic plants. It may wait motionless among reeds and watch for small prey.

• Dimorphic Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx margarethae

  The Dimorphic Dwarf Kingfisher has dark and pale colour morphs, with a large red bill, blue upperparts, and orange underparts. It lives in forest and dense secondary growth in the central and southern Philippines, including away from water.

• Squatter Pigeon Geophaps scripta

  This Australian pigeon has bold black-and-white facial and throat markings. It picks up seeds among sparse grass and may run rather than fly when disturbed.

• Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta

  The Bar-breasted Firefinch has pink markings on the face and belly. It ranges from western Africa to parts of eastern Africa and forages in grassland and savanna near rivers.

• Buff-breasted Sandpiper Calidris subruficollis

  The Buff-breasted Sandpiper is a shorebird with buff plumage and a short bill. It walks through dry grass to find insects, and males display with raised wings on the breeding grounds.

• Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata

  The Surf Scoter is a sea duck that nests in northern North America and spends the rest of its annual cycle mostly near ocean coasts.

• Bar-winged Oriole Icterus maculialatus

  This oriole occurs from southern Mexico through Guatemala and El Salvador to Honduras. Its listed habitats include oak-pine scrub, moist montane areas, coffee plantations, and open places.

• Djibouti Francolin Pternistis ochropectus

  The Djibouti francolin is a spurfowl that lives in the remaining highland forests of Djibouti. Its belly feathers have a pale streak, and males have two spurs on each leg.

• Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens

  The Cardinal Woodpecker is a small woodpecker; males have a red area on the head. It uses wooded habitats.

• Black-cheeked Lovebird Agapornis nigrigenis

  The Black-cheeked Lovebird is a small green parrot. In the wild it lives in flocks that visit water and feeds mainly on grass seeds.

• 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.