Meet the world’s animals.

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• Tawny-breasted Parrot-Finch Erythrura hyperythra

  

  The Tawny-breasted Parrotfinch is a small finch of mountain bamboo and forest edges.

• Volcano Swiftlet Aerodramus vulcanorum

  The Volcano Swiftlet is a swiftlet of Java's high mountains. It is seen over volcanic craters and the surrounding montane forest.

• Gibber Chat Ashbyia lovensis

  This small bird occurs in the arid interior of Australia. It has yellow cheeks, throat, and underparts, with a sandy-brown crown and upperparts.

• Baudo Guan Penelope ortoni

  The Baudó Guan is a large bird of the humid forests of western Colombia and Ecuador. Its dark brown body has small white patches, and a red wattle hangs from its throat.

• Strange Weaver Ploceus alienus

  The Strange Weaver lives in montane forest of the Albertine Rift and searches among branches and leaves for small invertebrates. Natural-history details are sparse, so nest construction and social behavior are not described here.

• Puerto Rican Nightjar Antrostomus noctitherus

  The Puerto Rican Nightjar is endemic to Puerto Rico and lives in dry forests in the southwest. Its mottled brown plumage helps it blend into leaf litter.

• Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis

  The Scarlet-chested Sunbird is notable for the red chest and iridescent head of the male in nuptial plumage. It feeds on nectar and small animals.

• Red-crowned Amazon Amazona viridigenalis

  The Red-crowned Amazon is a green parrot with a striking red forehead. It can be seen flying to and from roosts in the morning and evening.

• Papuan King-Parrot Alisterus chloropterus

  The Papuan King-Parrot is a long-tailed parrot of New Guinea’s forests and clearings. Males show vivid red, blue, and green, while female plumage differs between eastern and western parts of the island.

• African Collared Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea

  The African Collared Dove has a pale rosy-grey head and neck and a narrow dark half-collar on the nape. It searches for seeds on the ground.

• Mountain Wren Troglodytes solstitialis

  A broad buff eyebrow and rufous-brown upperparts mark this wren. It forages in humid montane forest and scrub in the Peruvian Andes, often with mixed-species flocks.

• Andean Swallow Orochelidon andecola

  An Andean swallow that searches for food over high grasslands. Its dark blue back, gray rump, and pale underside are useful marks.

• Vermiculated Fishing Owl Scotopelia bouvieri

  The Vermiculated Fishing Owl is a large owl that hunts fish, crabs, and frogs along rivers at night. Its brown back is finely vermiculated, and its pale belly is streaked.

• Buff-banded Rail Hypotaenidia philippensis

  The Buff-banded Rail is marked by a chestnut-buff breast band and black-and-white barring. In Australia it keeps to cover around wetlands and crops while probing for food in mud.

• Black-headed Antbird Percnostola rufifrons

  The Black-headed Antbird differs in plumage by sex: males are mainly dark gray with a black head and throat, while females have gray-brown upperparts and rufous around the face and throat. Reports describe army-ant following north of the Amazon and territorial singing by pairs near Manaus.

• Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli

  This small warbler has a pale head and underparts. It breeds around the western Mediterranean and winters south of the Sahara.

• Red-throated Tit Melaniparus fringillinus

  The Red-throated Tit is a small tit of acacia woodland and savanna in Kenya and Tanzania, with records from about 100 to 1,600 m.

• 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.

• Chatham Islands Snipe Coenocorypha pusilla

  The Chatham Island Snipe is a small shorebird with finely patterned upperparts. It now lives on a small group of Chatham Islands and probes soil for food.

• Mangrove Gerygone Gerygone levigaster

  This small Australasian warbler occurs along Australian coasts. The Australian banding account covers two subspecies; a Darwin study found it using tidal-creek mangroves and shrubs around bare salt flats.

• Jerdon's Baza Aviceda jerdoni

  A crested hawk that waits on a perch for prey, it breeds in scattered areas from India to Southeast Asia.

• White-spotted Woodpecker Veniliornis spilogaster

  This 16–20 cm woodpecker uses open forest and woodland and searches bark for invertebrates. Sound recordings include Ubatuba in São Paulo, Brazil.

• Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo Coccyzus pluvialis

  The Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo is a large Jamaican cuckoo with a chestnut belly and long, white-spotted tail. It runs along branches while searching for food.

• Great-billed Heron Ardea sumatrana

  The Great-billed Heron is a large heron with a massive bill. It lives around coastal rocks and shallow water near mangroves.