Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mao Gymnomyza samoensis

  

  The Mao is a large honeyeater with a long, curved black bill. It forages for nectar, fruit, and insects in the canopy and upper parts of Samoan forests.

• Golden-bellied White-eye Zosterops uropygialis

  Its yellow-green upperparts and bright yellow throat and belly stand out, and it has no white eye-ring. This white-eye is found only on Kai Kecil Island, Indonesia.

• Cinnamon Flycatcher Pyrrhomyias cinnamomeus

  In northwestern Argentina, the nominate subspecies is listed from Jujuy, Salta, and Tucumán. It has a dark chestnut head, with cinnamon-colored upper tail coverts and underparts.

• Abyssinian Crimsonwing Cryptospiza salvadorii

  The Abyssinian Crimsonwing is a small bird of the wet montane forests of the Ethiopian Highlands.

• Slaty-backed Flycatcher Ficedula erithacus

  The Slaty-backed Flycatcher lives in hilly and montane forest, and males and females have different plumage.

• Mountain Kingfisher Syma megarhyncha

  The Mountain Kingfisher is a large kingfisher of New Guinea's mountain forests. It has a longer bill than its close relative, although the black marking on the upper bill is absent in the Huon Peninsula subspecies.

• Satanic Nightjar Eurostopodus diabolicus

  The Satanic Nightjar is a nocturnal bird of Sulawesi. Males have a white throat band and females a pale buff band.

• Black-tipped Cotinga Carpodectes hopkei

  The Black-tipped Cotinga occurs from southeastern Panama through western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador, mainly in humid forest canopy. Males are almost white and females mostly gray above. It eats fruit, but details are sparse and seasonal movement is only suspected.

• Peruvian Screech Owl Megascops roboratus

  This owl ranges from southern Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It uses mostly dry woodland and semi-open landscapes with old trees that have cavities; both grey and red morphs occur.

• White-rumped Triller Lalage leucopygialis

  The White-rumped Triller has records from Sulawesi and other parts of Indonesia. Males are black and white with a conspicuous white rump and eyebrow; females have gray backs and faint breast barring. It occurs singly or in pairs at forest edges, in cultivated areas, and in mangroves.

• Canada Jay Perisoreus canadensis

  The Canada Jay lives year-round in northern North American forests and stores food in trees for colder periods. Its round head, long tail, and gray-and-white plumage make it distinctive.

• Rufous-faced Crake Rufirallus xenopterus

  The Rufous-faced Crake is an elusive rail recorded in shallowly flooded grassland in South America. Its head and back are rufous, and its wings have bold black-and-white bars.

• Stripe-headed Rhabdornis Rhabdornis mystacalis

  This bird lives in Philippine forest and woodland. The male has white streaks on the head and back, a white throat and central underparts, and black-striped flanks.

• Yellow Weaver Ploceus subaureus

  A yellow weaver that nests among reeds near water. Males and females differ in eye and bill color, and it eats seeds, insects, and nectar.

• Amami Woodcock Scolopax mira

  The Amami Woodcock is a large ground-dwelling shorebird of broadleaf forests in the Amami Islands and northern Okinawa Island. Its dark plumage and long legs blend into the forest floor.

• St. Lucia Oriole Icterus laudabilis

  An oriole endemic to St. Lucia. Black plumage is sharply set off by russet-orange patches, and it has a long, slender bill.

• Japanese Night Heron Gorsachius goisagi

  A heron of dim lowland forests that walks the forest floor in search of earthworms and other small animals.

• African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus

  The African Pipit is a ground-dwelling bird with streaked brown plumage and a pale eyebrow. It walks through grassland in search of small invertebrates.

• Hill Swallow Hirundo domicola

  This small swallow has a green-glossed back. It catches insects in flight over the hills of southern India and Sri Lanka.

• Shelley's Sunbird Cinnyris shelleyi

  This African sunbird visits flowering trees in damp highland forest. A historical account records metallic green breeding plumage and a vivid red breast band in the adult male.

• Perija Brush Finch Arremon perijanus

  This finch occurs in the forests of the Serranía de Perijá. A survey recorded solitary birds or pairs searching low secondary-forest undergrowth and forest edges.

• Streak-capped Spinetail Cranioleuca hellmayri

  It has a long pointed tail, a rufous crown with pale streaks, and a whitish eyebrow and throat. It occurs in Colombia's mountain forests and searches for small invertebrates at forest edges and in mixed flocks.

• Sclater's Lark Spizocorys sclateri

  A lark of dry, open landscapes in western southern Africa. In its core range it is mostly sedentary or moves only locally.

• Versicolored Emerald Chrysuronia versicolor

  The Versicolored Emerald is a hummingbird of central and eastern South America, using forest edges, gallery woodland, and other open habitats. It feeds on nectar and small insects. Plumage varies substantially, so tail pattern is useful alongside throat and forehead color.