Meet the world’s animals.

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• Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus

  

  The Speckled Piculet is a tiny woodpecker with fine black-and-white markings. It searches trunks and branches for insects and is also recorded in natural forests in Hong Kong.

• Sulawesi Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis virescens

  The Sulawesi Brush Cuckoo occurs in wooded habitats on Sulawesi and is often noticed by its calls. eBird's identification account notes buff underparts and a barred tail.

• Black-capped White-eye Zosterops atricapilla

  This white-eye lives in montane forest. In 2025, a pair was observed taking nectar from flowers near a nest at Kinabalu Park, Malaysia.

• Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana

  The Green Kingfisher is a small kingfisher that hunts fish near streams and canals.

• Cinnamon-breasted Warbler Euryptila subcinnamomea

  A small warbler of rocky, arid country. It searches rocks and shrubs for insects and is usually solitary.

• Black-chinned Hummingbird Archilochus alexandri

  The Black-chinned Hummingbird is a small hummingbird found across western North America into Mexico. A male's black chin can flash purple in the right light.

• Yellowish Bulbul Hypsipetes everetti

  A Philippine bulbul of forests and forest edges that feeds on fruit.

• Black-backed Tanager Stilpnia peruviana

  The Black-backed Tanager is about 14 cm long and endemic to Atlantic Forest along southeastern Brazil. It mainly occupies coastal sandbank forest and lowland forest.

• Oaxaca Sparrow Aimophila notosticta

  A sparrow of interior Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Its black bill and black facial markings around a broken white eyering are distinctive.

• Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia

  The Black-and-white Warbler is a small songbird with bold black-and-white stripes. It creeps along trunks and branches, searching bark for insects.

• Chinese Francolin Francolinus pintadeanus

  The Chinese Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird often found in cover. It searches for berries, insects and other food in the morning and evening.

• American Wigeon Mareca americana

  This duck feeds on plants in wetlands and fields. Breeding males have a green eye stripe and a white crown.

• Gray-backed Tern Onychoprion lunatus

  The Gray-backed Tern breeds on tropical Pacific islands and often stays at sea outside the breeding season. Its full range is not well known.

• Rufous-fronted Thornbird Phacellodomus rufifrons

  This thornbird is marked by a long tail and a rufous forehead. It occurs in open places with scattered trees.

• Slate-colored Solitaire Myadestes unicolor

  A gray-plumaged thrush of Central America. It keeps quietly to the understory of cloud forest and oak-pine woodland.

• Blyth's Rosefinch Carpodacus grandis

  Blyth's Rosefinch is a large rosefinch of high-elevation conifer forest and areas near the treeline. Males and females differ in plumage.

• Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis ecaudatus

  The Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant has a grey crown and a very short tail. In Amazonia it forages in the midstory and subcanopy of mature forest and tall second growth.

• Colombian Mountain Grackle Macroagelaius subalaris

  This grackle inhabits Andean forests in eastern Colombia. Cooperative breeding has been reported, with several members of a group helping to build nests and care for young.

• Blue-crowned Laughingthrush Pterorhinus courtoisi

  A 2022 study treats Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (then named Garrulax courtoisi in the paper) as breeding in low-elevation Wuyuan, the only confirmed population discussed there.

• 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.

• Hainan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hainanus

  The Hainan Blue Flycatcher occurs from southern China through mainland Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong, mature forest is its main recorded breeding habitat.

• Visayan Rhabdornis Rhabdornis rabori

  This bird is endemic to forest on Panay and Negros in the Philippines. It has a grey head and neck, a brown back, and dark tail and flight feathers, with a subtle facial mask and white streaks on the mantle. Field observations describe it high in the canopy or on exposed perches.

• Woodlark Lullula arborea

  The Woodlark is a lark of wooded heath, with an eyebrow stripe that meets behind the head. In Britain it may form small flocks in winter.

• Banggai Crow Corvus unicolor

  This black crow stands out for its pale eye and short tail. It lives in groups in the canopy of montane forest on Peleng Island, Indonesia.