Meet the world’s animals.

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• Streaked Weaver Ploceus manyar

  

  A weaver of the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, the Streaked Weaver may gather in flocks in grassy habitats.

• Tawny-browed Owl Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana

  The Tawny-browed Owl hunts from trees at night in the Atlantic Forest region.

• Green Cochoa Cochoa viridis

  The Green Cochoa lives in moist forest, often near streams. Males combine green and blue plumage, while females have brown wings and a blue tail.

• Yungas Antwren Myrmotherula grisea

  This antwren is endemic to Bolivia. A 2003 reserve-bird paper records one female-plumaged bird found in the Pilón Lajas area in 1997. Its back was warm olive-brown, with slight rufous on the wings and tail.

• Olive-winged Bulbul Pycnonotus plumosus

  The Olive-winged Bulbul is marked by olive-toned wing feathers and a pale streak behind the eye. It occurs in forests and mangroves across Southeast Asia and is described as a common resident in Singapore.

• Thick-billed Euphonia Euphonia laniirostris

  The Thick-billed Euphonia is a small bird about 11 cm long. Males have a glossy blue back and yellow-orange underparts; females have an olive back and yellow-orange underparts. It feeds on fruit.

• Timneh Parrot Psittacus timneh

  A grey parrot of West African forests and adjoining habitats. It eats fruit and seeds and nests in high tree cavities.

• Bald-faced Rail Gymnocrex rosenbergii

  A forest-floor rail of Sulawesi and Peleng. It has a rich chestnut back, black underparts, and a patch of blue bare skin behind the eye.

• Fulvous Wren Cinnycerthia fulva

  The Fulvous Wren occurs in the eastern Andes of southeastern Peru and Bolivia. It is olive-rufous, with a pale eyebrow and throat and dark bars on the wings and tail.

• Bornean Black Magpie Platysmurus aterrimus

  This forest corvid is restricted to Borneo. The 2024 Clements treatment separates it from the Malay Black Magpie.

• Cuzco Warbler Myiothlypis chrysogaster

  This warbler lives in cloud forest on the eastern Andes. It has olive upperparts, a yellow belly, and an orange stripe down the center of the crown.

• White-thighed Swallow Atticora tibialis

  The White-thighed Swallow flies near the canopy above humid Amazonian forest. The appearance and range described here are those documented for subspecies griseiventris.

• Neergaard's sunbird Cinnyris neergaardi

  This sunbird occurs in southeastern Africa. Males have green upperparts with blue-violet and red bands, while females are gray-brown; it feeds on nectar and small invertebrates.

• Chirping Cisticola Cisticola pipiens

  The Chirping Cisticola is a small bird of wetlands and flooded grassland in south-central Africa. It has a greyish-brown back, brown head and grey throat.

• Glossy Swiftlet Collocalia esculenta

  The Glossy Swiftlet is a small swiftlet with a square tail and a blue sheen on its upperparts. It catches insects in flight and often uses low airspace over forests, streams, and clearings.

• Hispaniolan Nightjar Antrostomus ekmani

  A nocturnal nightjar recorded on Hispaniola. Information is limited, and most records are from pine forest.

• Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus

  A starling of African forests and parks. Adults have iridescent blue, green and purple plumage, form small canopy flocks and feed mainly on fruit.

• Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni

  Swainson’s Hawk breeds in western North America and migrates to South America for winter; it eats many insects outside the breeding season.

• Silver-eared Laughingthrush Trochalopteron melanostigma

  This laughingthrush occurs in northern mainland Southeast Asia. It uses evergreen forest understory and bamboo, and searches for food near the ground in pairs or small groups.

• Baer's Pochard Aythya baeri

  This duck breeds at lakes with rich vegetation and uses freshwater lakes and reservoirs in winter. Breeding males have a green gloss on the head.

• Veraguan Mango Anthracothorax veraguensis

  This hummingbird lives in the lowlands of Panama and southern Costa Rica. At one Costa Rican nest, a male-plumaged bird incubated eggs and fed nestlings.

• Ceara Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus atlanticus

  A Ceará state publication records the woodcreeper in humid mountain forest and says it climbs trunks to search bark for arthropods. It lists Ceará as well as the neighboring states of Paraíba and Pernambuco.

• Scaly Francolin Pternistis squamatus

  The Scaly Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird with dull-brown plumage, a red bill, and red legs. It stays in thick cover and can be hard to see.

• Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis

  A large shorebird that breeds in the Northern Hemisphere and passes through Japan during migration. It uses its long bill to search for food on tidal flats.