Meet the world’s animals.

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• Plain Wren Cantorchilus modestus

  

  The Plain Wren lives along the Pacific side of Central America, from southern Mexico to Panama. It often uses forest edges and other open or modified habitats.

• Green pheasant Phasianus versicolor

  A long-tailed bird of open woods, grassland and farmland in Japan. Males and females differ markedly in colour.

• Chinese Crested Tern Thalasseus bernsteini

  The Chinese Crested Tern is a seabird with a black cap and yellow bill that gathers with other terns.

• Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus

  This bulbul was described in field notes for the Upper Guinea forest zone. It has olive-brown upperparts, sulfur-yellow underparts and a rufous tail, and may be seen near columns of ants.

• Andean Parakeet Bolborhynchus orbygnesius

  This small parakeet lives in the Andes of Peru and western Bolivia. It is green with a yellowish forehead, and blue shows on the wings in flight.

• Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus cyanomelas

  This flycatcher ranges across eastern and southern Africa. Males have a glossy blue-black crest, throat, and upper breast, with a white lower breast and belly; females have a shorter crest and a mottled gray-and-white breast.

• Gabon Woodpecker Dendropicos gabonensis

  It has a green back and pale yellow underparts with dark spots. Males have red on the head, while females lack red on the head.

• Cloven-feathered Dove Drepanoptila holosericea

  This green dove lives in New Caledonia. Males have a yellow belly and white wing bars, and the birds feed on fruit in trees.

• Saffron Siskin Spinus siemiradzkii

  The male has a black head, an unstreaked yellow mantle, bright yellow underparts, and a broad yellow wing band. The female lacks the black head and is yellow-olive overall. The species uses open habitats and farmland.

• Helmeted Friarbird Philemon buceroides

  In northeastern Australia it uses lowland forest, forest edges, woodland, and mangroves. James Cook University records it as common on its Townsville campus.

• Indochinese Yuhina Yuhina torqueola

  This small flocking bird occurs from Indochina into southern China. It is rufous-brown with a short grey crest and white underparts; chestnut ear-coverts have white streaks. Flocks forage in mature closed-canopy forest while calling to one another.

• Lemon-browed Flycatcher Conopias cinchoneti

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andean slope. The Peru account gives an elevational range of 800–1,950 m and notes that it also occurs in Colombia and Ecuador.

• White-collared Oliveback Nesocharis ansorgei

  The male has a white collar between its throat and breast, with olive upperparts and grey underparts. It takes small seeds in wet thickets and along streams.

• Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea

  A red-orange crest runs over the head. In western Uganda’s Budongo Forest, observers reported birds following people and searching disturbed leaf litter.

• Biak Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera riedelii

  The Biak Paradise Kingfisher is found only on Biak Island, Indonesia. It has blue plumage and a long tail, and takes insects and spiders from the forest floor.

• Red-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis

  This nocturnal bird has a rusty band across the throat and chest. It catches flying insects at dusk and during the night.

• Mayotte Scops Owl Otus mayottensis

  The Mayotte Scops Owl is found only on Mayotte. It occurs in grey, brown, and rufous plumage morphs and has yellow eyes.

• Sunda Cuckooshrike Coracina larvata

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

• Unicolored Jay Aphelocoma unicolor

  This jay inhabits montane forests in northwestern Central America. It uses pine and oak forests and feeds on invertebrates, including insects.

• Henderson Crake Zapornia atra

  The Henderson Crake is a small rail of Henderson Island's forest floor. A 1992 study recorded it searching for small land animals by moving leaf litter.

• Sulawesi Myna Basilornis celebensis

  The Sulawesi Myna is a starling with a rounded crest and pale patches on its glossy black plumage. It occurs on Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands.

• Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus

  The Crested Malimbe has a red head and glossy black body and lives in forests of western and central Africa.

• Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus

  A large shorebird of North American grasslands, the Long-billed Curlew is notable for its very long, strongly down-curved bill.

• Puerto Rican Oriole Icterus portoricensis

  The Puerto Rican Oriole is an oriole endemic to the island of Puerto Rico.