Meet the world’s animals.

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• Patagonian Tyrant Colorhamphus parvirostris

  

  This small tyrant flycatcher is a permanent resident of northwest Patagonia. It uses wet forest and ecotonal woodland and catches flying insects from a perch.

• Black-and-gold Cotinga Lipaugus ater

  The Black-and-gold Cotinga lives in mountain forests of southeastern Brazil and feeds in the canopy. Males are black with yellow patches on the wings.

• White-shouldered Triller Lalage sueurii

  A small triller of open woodland and lowland forest in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

• Fasciated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma fasciatum

  This tiger-heron waits quietly beside fast forest streams, with pale bars across its neck and body

• Tristan Thrush Turdus eremita

  An island thrush endemic to the Tristan da Cunha group in the South Atlantic. On Tristan da Cunha it is mainly reported around the mountain base and gulches; on Nightingale and Inaccessible it occurs across all habitats described by the island account.

• Russet-naped Wren Campylorhynchus humilis

  The Russet-naped Wren inhabits dry lowlands on Mexico's Pacific slope. It uses scrub and open woodland, where it feeds on invertebrates near the ground.

• Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor

  A long-legged duck with fulvous and black plumage that feeds in shallow wetlands.

• Foothill Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla spodionota

  It forages in the upper understory of humid montane forest on the eastern Andes, often with mixed-species flocks. Records are from 700–1,500 m.

• Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia

  This plover occurs along coasts from the southern United States to South America. It searches beaches and tidal flats for crabs and other prey.

• Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea

  The Red-capped Lark is a small lark of African grasslands. Its reddish crown stands out, and plumage varies among subspecies.

• Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla kikuyuensis

  The Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul is a mountain-forest bulbul of eastern Africa. Clements separated it from Black-headed Mountain Greenbul in 2024 and treats it as ranging from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to central Kenya.

• Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris

  Male Narrow-tailed Starlings are glossy blue-black, while females are grey with chestnut flight feathers. They feed mainly on fruit and flock in the canopy.

• Yellow-eared Parrot Ognorhynchus icterotis

  Green plumage and a yellow patch beside the ears identify this parrot. It uses cloud forest and wax-palm habitat in the Colombian Andes.

• Empress Brilliant Heliodoxa imperatrix

  This large hummingbird occurs in humid mountain forests from western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. It feeds on nectar at flowers.

• Hispaniolan Woodpecker Melanerpes striatus

  This woodpecker is native only to Hispaniola. Its yellow-and-black barring, red crown, and groups around tree trunks make it conspicuous. During breeding, several pairs may nest near one another where trees offer many cavities.

• Orange-backed Troupial Icterus croconotus

  A striking black-and-orange oriole of the Amazon Basin, it also uses secondary growth and forest edges and may occur near water. It is not a true starling despite its English name ending in “troupial.”

• Sombre Nightjar Caprimulgus fraenatus

  The Sombre Nightjar catches flying insects on the wing and lives in open stony bushland, scrub and grassland.

• Scaly-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus guatemalensis

  This leaftosser ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to western Colombia and western Ecuador. It inhabits lowland and montane evergreen forest and forages for invertebrates on the ground.

• Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus

  This swift-flying martin catches insects in the air. It is recorded as a migrant in Singapore.

• Golden pheasant Chrysolophus pictus

  A pheasant whose colourful male displays its feathers to court females.

• Audouin's Gull Ichthyaetus audouinii

  A gull associated with the Mediterranean, Audouin's Gull has a pale gray body and red bill as an adult and feeds mainly on fish.

• White-browed Owl Athene superciliaris

  The White-browed Owl has a rounded brown head with white markings and is active at night. It is found only on Madagascar.

• Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica

  The Blue-breasted Kingfisher is a large blue kingfisher. In reserves in the Republic of the Congo it is described as a forest-interior bird, more often heard than seen.

• Worthen's Sparrow Spizella wortheni

  This small sparrow is restricted to dry upland grasslands in northeastern Mexico. It keeps low among short shrubs and feeds mostly on seeds in winter.