Meet the world’s animals.

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• Southern Black Tit Melaniparus niger

  

  The Southern Black Tit lives in dry open woodland and scrub in southern Africa. It searches among branches and leaves for small invertebrates.

• Javan Pond Heron Ardeola speciosa

  This heron changes its head and breast plumage between breeding and nonbreeding seasons. Its white wings stand out in flight, and it moves within Southeast Asia.

• Simeulue Scops Owl Otus umbra

  The Simeulue Scops Owl is a small owl found on Simeulue Island off northwest Sumatra. Adults weigh about 95 g and hunt invertebrates at night.

• Purplish Jay Cyanocorax cyanomelas

  This jay is recognizable by its bluish-purple body and black facial mask. Family groups search for food in forests and along their edges.

• Dusky-green Oropendola Psarocolius atrovirens

  Adults are dark olive overall, with paler throat and ear-coverts and darker lores and wings. The species occurs in the Andes of southeastern Peru and northwestern Bolivia, using both dry and wet mountain forest as well as canyons.

• Bicolored Antpitta Grallaria rufocinerea

  This ground-dwelling antpitta inhabits montane cloud forest in the Colombian Andes and northeastern Ecuador. It searches for insects on the forest floor.

• Pale Spiderhunter Arachnothera dilutior

  The Pale Spiderhunter is recorded on Palawan in the Philippines. It uses forests and forest edges as well as cultivated banana areas. It feeds on nectar and insects and has a long curved bill.

• Tytler's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus tytleri

  Tytler's Leaf Warbler has a noticeable eyebrow, a long slender bill, and a short tail. It breeds in coniferous forest in the northwestern Himalayas and winters in Myanmar.

• Lemon-bellied White-eye Zosterops chloris

  This white-eye is centered on Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas in Indonesia. It has yellow underparts and a white eye-ring. A university reference lists open coastal forest, forest edges, plantations, and urban areas; a survey in south-east Sulawesi also recorded it at mangrove and riparian forest edges.

• Sooty Woodpecker Mulleripicus funebris

  The Northern Sooty Woodpecker is a large woodpecker of the northern Philippines. In the northern taxon, males have broader burgundy facial markings and smaller white spots on the neck than the related southern form.

• Bushy-crested Hornbill Anorrhinus galeritus

  A hornbill that lives in groups in Southeast Asian forests. Fruit is its main food, but it also searches the canopy for insects and small animals.

• Carruthers's Cisticola Cisticola carruthersi

  Males have a rich rusty head and nape, a dark softly mottled back with blackish edges, gray underparts, and a dark tail with white tips and bars. A 2006 survey recorded it as one of the most abundant species in three western Kenyan papyrus swamps.

• Pale thrush Turdus pallidus

  A thrush mainly seen in Japan in winter. It favors dim woodland with undergrowth and forages on the ground.

• Apapane Himatione sanguinea

  The Apapane is a Hawaiian honeycreeper that uses nectar as a major food source and also takes insects. It visits ʻōhiʻa blossoms and moves through the canopy as it feeds.

• 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.

• Meratus Blue-flycatcher Cyornis kadayangensis

  The Meratus Blue-flycatcher was described from the Meratus Mountains of southeast Borneo. The female has olive upperparts and a white belly; the study also recorded the species in montane forest and at lower sites in secondary woodland.

• Mangrove Vireo Vireo pallens

  This vireo occurs in coastal parts of Mexico and Central America and on Providencia Island, Colombia. It searches leaves and branches for small invertebrates in mangroves and scrub.

• Rufous-crowned Sparrow Aimophila ruficeps

  The Rufous-crowned Sparrow is marked by reddish upperparts and a gray underside. It walks beneath low shrubs and grasses on dry, rocky hillsides to forage.

• Asian Palm Swift Cypsiurus balasiensis

  The Asian Palm Swift is a slender, small swift that attaches its nest with saliva beneath palm leaves.

• Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus

  The Zone-tailed Hawk is a slender, dark raptor with pale tail bands that hunts around canyons and arid foothills in the U.S. Southwest.

• Sooty Myzomela Myzomela tristrami

  The Sooty Myzomela is a small honeyeater about 11–12 cm long. It is active in forest by day and feeds mainly on nectar, also taking small insects and fruit.

• Pied Monarch Arses kaupi

  Adults are black and white with a blue bare eye-ring. The male has a broad black breast band below the white throat; in the female the band is narrower and browner. It takes insects from trunks and vines in rainforests of north-eastern Queensland, Australia.

• Black-capped Swallow Atticora pileata

  This small swallow is mostly dark, with a large white belly patch. The cap is only slightly darker than the rest of the head. It occurs in the mountains of Central America.

• Brown-capped Whitestart Myioborus brunniceps

  The Brown-capped Whitestart is an Andean bird with a rufous crown and yellow underparts. It ranges from Bolivia to northwestern Argentina.