Meet the world’s animals.

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• Unadorned Flycatcher Myiophobus inornatus

  

  A small flycatcher of the eastern Andes, from southeastern Peru to northern Bolivia.

• Brehm's Tiger Parrot Psittacella brehmii

  Brehm's Tiger Parrot is a green parrot of New Guinea's mountain forests. Barred back feathers and the male's yellow facial crescent are useful field marks.

• Little Green Woodpecker Campethera maculosa

  The pool's Little Green Woodpecker is treated in current eBird taxonomy as the Little Green group within Green-backed Woodpecker. Western birds have green backs, red on the head, and barred underparts.

• Rota bridled white-eye Zosterops rotensis

  The current wild population is known from Rota in the Mariana Islands. It forms small flocks in the forest canopy and searches leaves and branchlets for food.

• White-cheeked Hill Partridge Arborophila atrogularis

  A forest-dwelling partridge with conspicuous white cheeks, it lives in dense evergreen forest and uses the forest floor and grassy edges.

• Canyon Towhee Melozone fusca

  A large warm-brown sparrow of dry scrub and yards in the Desert Southwest, it often searches through leaf litter on the ground.

• Pygmy Swiftlet Collocalia troglodytes

  This small swiftlet is endemic to the Philippines. It has a white rump band and forages near the forest canopy in Palawan.

• Morepork Ninox novaeseelandiae

  The Morepork has dark brown, lightly spotted plumage and large yellow eyes. It is active at night and catches insects and small animals.

• Ratchet-tailed Treepie Temnurus temnurus

  The Ratchet-tailed Treepie is a crow-family bird of Southeast Asian forests. Its long tail has deep notches at the tips.

• Malabar Lark Galerida malabarica

  This lark lives in western India. It has reddish-brown plumage with dark streaks and a white belly, and uses open country, farms, and scrub to find seeds and insects.

• Flat-billed Kingfisher Todiramphus recurvirostris

  The Flat-billed Kingfisher lives on Samoa. It uses dry and moist tropical forest, coasts, farmland, and urban areas, searching for food on the ground and in forests and eating invertebrates and lizards.

• Rufous-sided Crake Laterallus melanophaius

  The Rufous-sided Crake is a small rail of South American wetlands. It is brown above, rufous on the sides of the head, breast, and flanks, with a white throat and belly and barred flanks.

• Red-vented Malimbe Malimbus scutatus

  The male is black with vivid red on the head and breast. In West African forest it searches trees for insects and also eats oil-palm nut husks. Both mates weave a pouch-like nest in palms. The species is sedentary.

• Ecuadorian Cacique Cacicus sclateri

  A black cacique recorded in the northwestern Amazon. Its blue iris and pale yellow bill stand out against its dark plumage.

• Mascarene Petrel Pseudobulweria aterrima

  The Mascarene Petrel is an all-dark seabird. It breeds on Réunion and ranges widely across the Indian Ocean at different times of year.

• Blue-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron squamatum

  The Blue-winged Laughingthrush uses forest undergrowth and bamboo in the Himalayas, from Nepal to southern China and nearby areas. Records are mainly from 900–2,440 m.

• Pale-blue Monarch Hypothymis puella

  The Pale-blue Monarch lives in forest on Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. Males are pale blue with darker wings, while females are duller and grey-brown. It eats insects and also uses forest edges and second growth.

• Lemon-rumped Warbler Phylloscopus chloronotus

  The Lemon-rumped Warbler changes elevation through the year in the Himalayas. It breeds in high forests in summer and descends to lower wooded foothills in winter.

• African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis

  This cuckoo lives in open woodland and savanna across parts of sub-Saharan Africa. In southern Africa it lays its eggs in Fork-tailed Drongo nests.

• Band-tailed Nighthawk Nyctiprogne leucopyga

  The Band-tailed Nighthawk is a brown, nocturnal bird with a white band on its tail. In Loreto, northern Peru, it catches insects while flying over rivers and lakes at night.

• Purple Martin Progne subis

  This large swallow breeds in North America and catches flying insects. In the East it uses nest boxes, while in the West it uses woodpecker holes in dead trees, then migrates to South America after breeding.

• Sooty Robin Turdus nigrescens

  A thrush of the mountains of Costa Rica and far western Panama. Males are dark brown, with yellow bill and eye-ring, and search among leaf litter for prey.

• Lowland Masked Apalis Apalis binotata

  This apalis inhabits lowland forest in central Africa. Reichenow's 1896 description records a male with a black throat and white throat tufts; a separate species account describes its forest habitat and branch gleaning.

• Saunders's Gull Chroicocephalus saundersi

  It breeds in Yellow Sea coastal saltmarshes, mainly in eastern China and occasionally on the southwestern coast of South Korea. Outside the breeding season it moves to coasts of eastern China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.