Meet the world’s animals.

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• Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum

  

  This small songbird has a long, pointed bill and striped head. It searches for caterpillars and other insects in dense forest understory.

• Scaled Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus squamiger

  This rare, terrestrial cuckoo inhabits rainforest between the Xingu and Tapajós rivers in Brazil. Its behavior is still poorly known.

• Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta

  The Long-toed Stint is a small shorebird with long toes. It breeds in northern Asia and migrates south for winter, using shallow wetlands and similar habitats.

• White-bellied Munia Lonchura leucogastra

  The White-bellied Munia has a dark chestnut head and back that contrast sharply with its white belly. The Borneo field guide describes it moving and feeding in small flocks.

• Crimson Shining Parrot Prosopeia splendens

  The Crimson Shining Parrot lives in forests and farmland on Fiji's islands. It has a red head and belly, with a broad blue band around the neck.

• Socorro Dove Zenaida graysoni

  This dove is extinct in the wild but survives under expert care. Its last wild record was in 1972; a return to Socorro Island is planned after invasive species are removed.

• Gundlach's Hawk Astur gundlachi

  Gundlach's Hawk is a forest-associated hawk endemic to Cuba that preys on birds.

• Mount Cameroon Speirops Zosterops melanocephalus

  It has a pale grey-white forehead and eye area, with a dark brown head and nape. It occurs in open forest edges and mountain scrub on Mount Cameroon.

• Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris

  The current eBird name for this taxon is Yellow-chinned Sunbird. It ranges from Sierra Leone to Ghana in West Africa; the related gray-chinned taxon is now listed separately.

• Tahiti Monarch Pomarea nigra

  This forest monarch occurs on Tahiti. Young birds have orange plumage; black feathers increase as they mature, and birds are fully black at about four years old.

• Spot-fronted Swift Cypseloides cherriei

  The Spot-fronted Swift occurs in Costa Rica and scattered areas of northern South America. It has a short, square tail and a distinctive pale pattern around the eyes.

• Peruvian Sierra Finch Phrygilus punensis

  This finch occurs in the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It forages on the ground in sparse, dry scrub and may be seen in family groups or mixed flocks.

• Rusty-backed Monjita Neoxolmis rubetra

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in Argentina’s dry shrub-steppe. It uses low shrubs and the ground, and the account also describes winter movement from breeding areas toward central Argentina.

• Sunda Cuckooshrike Coracina larvata

  This dark gray bird lives in highland forest and sometimes moves through the upper forest with mixed-species flocks.

• Alpine Thrush Zoothera mollissima

  The Alpine Thrush is about 25–27 cm long. It breeds on rocky ground above the tree line and moves to lower elevations outside the breeding season.

• White-bellied Wren Uropsila leucogastra

  A resident wren of Mexico and Central America, it searches forest thickets for insects and spiders.

• Chiloe Wigeon Mareca sibilatrix

  Males have a green, iridescent head while females are duller; they gather with other ducks in shallow water and rest on grassy banks.

• Variable Antshrike Thamnophilus caerulescens

  The Variable Antshrike is about 13–14 cm long, and male plumage differs markedly among regions. In Bolivia it is recorded from the eastern Andean Yungas to southeastern lowlands.

• Karoo Long-billed Lark Certhilauda subcoronata

  The Karoo Long-billed Lark lives in dry shrubland in southern Africa. It searches the ground with its long, slightly decurved bill; plumage tone and streaking vary by region.

• Camiguin Bulbul Hypsipetes catarmanensis

  This bulbul is found only on Camiguin Island in the Philippines. It is brown with a relatively large bill and eats fruit and insects.

• Common Myna Acridotheres tristis

  A brown bird with a black head and a yellow bare patch behind the eye. In Singapore, it is an introduced resident of urban areas.

• Turquoise-fronted Amazon Amazona aestiva

  This large parrot has a green body, blue forehead, and yellow face. It lives in South American forests and savannas, eating nuts and other plant foods.

• Geoffroy's Wedgebill Schistes geoffroyi

  This hummingbird inhabits moist Andean forests. It has a sharply pointed bill and is reported to pierce flowers near their base to take nectar through the opening.

• Scaled Piculet Picumnus squamulatus

  A small woodpecker of Colombia and Venezuela, found in forest edges, secondary growth, and gallery forest.