Meet the world’s animals.

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• Marigold Lorikeet Trichoglossus capistratus

  

  The Marigold Lorikeet is about 26 cm long. It occurs on Timor and nearby islands of the Lesser Sundas and may move in search of flowering trees.

• Black-crested Bulbul Rubigula flaviventris

  A bulbul with a black crest and bright yellow underparts that searches forest for fruit and insects, sometimes in small groups.

• Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius

  A small sunbird with a broad range in western and central Africa. The sexes look very different, and birds often feed at low flowers.

• Rondonia Bushbird Clytoctantes atrogularis

  This poorly known antbird is recorded in the Brazilian Amazon. Its large, laterally flattened black bill has a sharply upturned tip. The female type specimen was chestnut with a black throat and upper breast; males seen in the field were described as entirely black.

• Black-spectacled Brush Finch Atlapetes melanopsis

  This brush-finch inhabits montane scrub and forest edges around Peru's upper Mantaro Valley. Adults have gray bodies, a rufous head, and black markings around the eyes.

• Eurasian Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria

  In breeding plumage, a golden-spangled back contrasts with a black breast and belly. It uses uplands in summer and lowlands in winter.

• Red-fan Parrot Deroptyus accipitrinus

  This green South American parrot can raise the feathers on the back of its head into a fan when scared or excited.

• Chestnut-capped Warbler Basileuterus delattrii

  The Chestnut-capped Warbler is associated with forest and second-growth habitat in Central America. A 2020 paper treated the delattrii group as a subspecies group of the Rufous-capped Warbler and compared its adult plumage and range.

• Black-vented Shearwater Puffinus opisthomelas

  The Black-vented Shearwater is a seabird with brown-black upperparts and pale underparts. It breeds off Baja California and also ranges in coastal waters of Mexico and California.

• Indian Nightjar Caprimulgus asiaticus

  The Indian Nightjar is a night bird with a complex mottled pattern.

• Golden-spangled Piculet Picumnus exilis

  The Golden-spangled Piculet is a tiny woodpecker ranging across northern and eastern Brazil, eastern Venezuela and Colombia, and Guyana. It lives in forest and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Sakalava Weaver Ploceus sakalava

  The Sakalava Weaver occurs in northern, western, and southern Madagascar. It is a roughly 15 cm granivore that forms groups and forages on the ground and in trees. It uses open disturbed areas, village and crop edges, sparse savanna, and dry spiny scrub.

• Tumbes Hummingbird Thaumasius baeri

  A small hummingbird of dry areas in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Its green back, gray underside and pale tail tips stand out.

• White-headed Wren Campylorhynchus albobrunneus

  The White-headed Wren is about 18 cm long. Records come from Panama and Colombia, where it searches foliage for small invertebrates in forest edges and secondary growth.

• Marquesan Swiftlet Aerodramus ocistus

  A swiftlet of the Marquesas Islands, it has dark-brown upperparts, a grey rump, grey-brown underparts and a long, forked tail.

• Dusky White-eye Zosterops finschii

  This small white-eye occurs in Palau. A Palau Important Bird Areas report describes it as a resident of the islands' forests that travels through the canopy in conspicuous flocks.

• Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus

  A tern that ranges widely over tropical oceans. It breeds on small islands and catches fish near the water surface while flying.

• Geelvink Imperial Pigeon Ducula geelvinkiana

  This large pigeon is resident on islands off western New Guinea in Indonesia. It has a pale gray head and breast, iridescent blue-green upperparts, and one mainland record is considered a vagrant.

• Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina

  A forest cuckooshrike of tropical Africa. Adult males have a glossy black body and a purple sheen on the throat.

• Chuuk Monarch Metabolus rugensis

  The Chuuk Monarch is endemic to the Chuuk Islands. Baker’s 1951 account describes a mostly white male with a black face and throat and a mostly sooty-black female. The species uses large patches of primary forest and mangroves.

• Japanese Snipe Gallinago hardwickii

  The Japanese Snipe breeds in northern Japan and migrates to southeastern Australia. Its long bill and brown stripes are distinctive.

• Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons

  A brown goose with a white patch at the bill. It occurs across the Northern Hemisphere and gathers in wetlands and fields in winter.

• Red Lark Calendulauda burra

  The Red Lark is endemic to South Africa's Northern Cape. A BirdLife South Africa account describes plumage forms associated with dune and clay shrubland habitats.

• Bare-shanked Screech Owl Megascops clarkii

  The facial disc is cinnamon to tawny brown and the eyes are pale yellow. Its brown upperparts are heavily marked with black, the shoulders show a white band, and the lower tarsi and toes are bare. It is nocturnal, roosting by day in dense foliage or among epiphytes. It hunts large insects and small rodents at dusk and at night, usually along forest edges and clearings. Family-sized groups may roost close together.