Meet the world’s animals.

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• Alta Floresta Antpitta Hylopezus whittakeri

  

  This antpitta was described from population B around Alta Floresta in Brazil. Study specimens show pale streaks on the back, a white belly, and ochre spots across the breast and flanks.

• Sulphur-bellied Warbler Phylloscopus griseolus

  This small leaf warbler breeds in alpine scrub and moves from the mountains to lower elevations in winter.

• Sangihe Hanging Parrot Loriculus catamene

  This small parrot lives on Sangihe Island, Indonesia. The male is green with red markings and feeds on nectar from coconut and other flowers. Females are also known to carry dry leaves to line their nests.

• Visayan Bulbul Hypsipetes guimarasensis

  A bulbul of the Visayan Islands in the central Philippines. It uses dense forest and eats fruit.

• Scarlet-tufted Sunbird Nectarinia johnstoni

  A sunbird of East Africa’s high mountains, it feeds on Lobelia nectar in Kenya’s alpine moorlands. Males have iridescent green plumage and scarlet pectoral tufts.

• Rufous-tailed Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla erythrura

  The Rufous-tailed Stipplethroat lives in lowland and foothill evergreen forest in western Amazonia. Males have a gray face, whitish streaked throat, and rufous rump and tail; females are more ochre below. It gleans insects and spiders from dead leaves. Breeding biology is poorly known.

• Le Conte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii

  This small sparrow breeds in damp northern meadows and shallow marsh edges, then winters in the southeastern United States. It often stays hidden in dense low growth.

• Javan Plover Charadrius javanicus

  It is a small plover recorded in Indonesia and Timor-Leste, with an incomplete white hindneck collar and pale, long legs.

• Cliff Parakeet Myiopsitta luchsi

  This parakeet lives in the dry inter-Andean valleys of central Bolivia. It moves in flocks and builds large stick nests on cliff faces.

• Cassin's Vireo Vireo cassinii

  This small bird breeds in dry, open forests of western North America. Its white eye-ring is conspicuous, and it forages slowly through the lower and middle parts of trees. In winter it may join mixed flocks of woodland birds.

• White-rimmed Warbler Myiothlypis leucoblephara

  This warbler has a white eyebrow and white markings around the eye. In a diet study in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, ants and beetles made up more than 70% of the recorded food items.

• Cook's Petrel Pterodroma cookii

  Cook’s Petrel breeds on islands off New Zealand and ranges widely over the open ocean outside the breeding season.

• Salvadori's Nightjar Caprimulgus pulchellus

  Salvadori's Nightjar has dark plumage and a short tail. It is active at night in forests of Sumatra and Java, catching insects in flight; the wing patch differs between the sexes.

• Checker-throated Woodpecker Chrysophlegma mentale

  The Checker-throated Woodpecker is green, with a checkered pattern on its throat. It searches trunks and branches in lowland and hill forests in Borneo and nearby regions.

• Heuglin's Masked Weaver Ploceus heuglini

  This weaver ranges from the Sahel to western East Africa. It uses dry savanna woodland, thickets, scrub, and areas around farms and villages, and is thought to feed mostly on arthropods.

• Oak Titmouse Baeolophus inornatus

  The Oak Titmouse is a small bird with a crest that lives in dry oak woods of the western United States. Pairs defend territories year-round.

• Magenta-throated Woodstar Calliphlox bryantae

  This small hummingbird occurs in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Adult males have a magenta throat, white collar, and long forked tail. The species uses forest edges, secondary growth, and scrub, and is described as solitary. Some checklists place it in Philodice rather than Calliphlox.

• Bar-winged Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucoptera

  The Bar-winged Wood-Wren is a small bird with rufous upperparts and two white wing bars. It forages alone or in pairs in scrub on mountain ridges and is often heard before it is seen.

• White-throated Swift Aeronautes saxatalis

  The White-throated Swift is a slender, aerial bird associated with cliffs and canyons in western North America.

• Seychelles White-eye Zosterops modestus

  The Seychelles White-eye is a small bird on Mahé. A survey report covering November 2022 to February 2023 describes a dull olive-brown body with a white eye-ring.

• Short-billed Gull Larus brachyrhynchus

  A small gull with a thin bill, it breeds in Alaska and northern Canada. Outside the breeding season it uses Pacific coastal waters and fields, feeding on fish, insects, grain, and other available food.

• White-eared Brown Dove Phapitreron leucotis

  The White-eared Brown Dove is a small dove endemic to the Philippines. It has a gray crown, green or violet iridescence, a brown breast, and a pale belly.

• Black-bibbed Cicadabird Coracina mindanensis

  The Black-bibbed Cicadabird occurs in the Philippines and uses the canopy and middle storey of moist lowland secondary forest and montane forest. The male plumage description here is limited to the Mindanao subspecies mindanense.

• Malagasy Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone mutata

  On Madagascar, this flycatcher hunts insects and spiders in forests, edges, and gardens. Males change from a red immature plumage to a white adult morph, and their central tail feathers lengthen during breeding.