Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey-throated Ibon Lophozosterops javanicus

  

  This white-eye relative inhabits the mountains of Java and Bali, with records up to about 1,500 m.

• Brown-banded Antpitta Grallaria milleri

  This ground-dwelling bird inhabits humid forests in Colombia's central Andes. It walks along the forest floor to forage and has a broad chestnut band across the breast.

• Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer

  Males have a black head, chestnut body and long tail streamers. The species lives in wooded parts of western, central and eastern Africa south of the Sahara, and eats insects.

• Manus Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx dispar

  A small kingfisher endemic to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Males and females differ in head coloration.

• Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis

  It is the largest cisticola in southern Africa. It lives in moist grasslands, where breeding males call from exposed perches and make display flights.

• Dot-eared Coquette Lophornis gouldii

  The Dot-eared Coquette is a small hummingbird recorded from northern Brazil and along the Amazon. Gould’s account extended its range to the upper Amazon in Peru.

• Brown-breasted Bulbul Pycnonotus xanthorrhous

  This bulbul occurs in China. It has a black slightly crested crown, brown upperparts, and a yellow vent. The strength of the breast band varies by subspecies. It frequents scrub and tangles, sometimes in noisy flocks.

• Rust-and-yellow Tanager Thlypopsis ruficeps

  A small tanager of humid Andean forest edges, secondary growth and shrub cover. Records span 1,200–3,600 m.

• Apurimac Brush Finch Atlapetes forbesi

  A Peruvian brush-finch with a grey body and rufous head. It forages in Andean scrub and Polylepis woodland.

• Citrine Warbler Myiothlypis luteoviridis

  The Citrine Warbler is a wood-warbler of the Andes, ranging from Venezuela and Colombia south to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It searches for insects in high-elevation forest and woodland.

• Palawan Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron napoleonis

  The Palawan Peacock Pheasant lives in the rainforests of Palawan Island in the Philippines. Males have iridescent blue plumage, while females are brown and blend into the forest floor.

• Paramo Pipit Anthus bogotensis

  The Paramo Pipit searches for food on the ground in high grasslands. The Bolivia account reports subspecies that differ in the color of the underside and in their flank markings.

• Falcated Duck Mareca falcata

  The male stands out with a green and copper sheen on its head and long, curved ornamental feathers.

• Kerguelen Tern Sterna virgata

  A tern of islands in the southern Indian Ocean. Observations on Kerguelen showed it feeding on fish and crustaceans at sea as well as small land invertebrates.

• Striped Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus obsoletus

  This woodcreeper lives in lowland forests of the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield. It searches for insects while climbing trunks and branches in forests near water and in flooded forests.

• Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus

  A forest thrush marked by spots on its breast. It breeds in North America and migrates to Central and South America for winter.

• Dwarf Vireo Vireo nelsoni

  The Dwarf Vireo is endemic to Mexico's highlands, from Guanajuato south to northern Oaxaca.

• Gyrfalcon Falco rusticolus

  Its plumage ranges from nearly white to dark gray-brown; gray birds are most common in North America. It breeds on tundra in Alaska and northern Canada.

• Plain-pouched Hornbill Rhyticeros subruficollis

  The Plain-pouched Hornbill lives in lowland forests from south-eastern Myanmar through Thailand to northern Peninsular Malaysia. Males and females differ in head and neck plumage.

• Black-eared Seedeater Crithagra mennelli

  The Black-eared Seedeater is a small, streaked finch marked by a broad black band through the eye and a white eyebrow. It feeds in miombo and mopane woodland.

• Small-headed Elaenia Elaenia sordida

  Elaenia sordida is a small-headed, crestless elaenia. A 2022 study in northeastern Argentina recorded foraging in scrub and secondary forest, including fruit feeding.

• Scarlet-rumped Cacique Cacicus microrhynchus

  This black cacique has a red lower back and rump. It inhabits lowlands from Central America to western Ecuador.

• Plum-throated Cotinga Cotinga maynana

  This cotinga is recorded as a resident in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. BirdLife lists swamp forest as a major habitat and moist lowland forest as another suitable habitat.

• Bugun Liocichla Liocichla bugunorum

  This liocichla was documented around Eaglenest in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Observations included sites from roadside scrub to primary forest.