Meet the world’s animals.

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• Olive-backed Woodpecker Gecinulus rafflesii

  

  The Olive-backed Woodpecker has an olive-green back and golden rump. It searches tree trunks and large branches for insects.

• White-lored Warbler Myiothlypis conspicillata

  This warbler is restricted to Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. It searches for insects in the lower vegetation of humid mountain forest.

• Wangi-wangi White-eye Zosterops paruhbesar

  This white-eye was described from Wangi-Wangi Island. A later field survey also recorded it on Simpora, about 450 m to the south.

• Jameson's Firefinch Lagonosticta rhodopareia

  This small firefinch has a pinkish body, blue-gray bill, and black under-tail markings. It is found at forest edges and near cultivation, often in pairs or small groups.

• Grey Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius

  It is reddish in breeding plumage and gray and white in winter. It breeds in the Arctic and spends winter on the open ocean.

• Northern Pied Babbler Turdoides hypoleuca

  A babbler found in central Kenya and eastern and northeastern Tanzania. It forages on the ground near cover and moves in family parties or larger groups.

• Greater Scythebill Drymotoxeres pucheranii

  An Andean treehunter of humid mountain forest, with a very long downcurved pale bill and a rufous body marked by pale streaks.

• Chapin's Flycatcher Muscicapa lendu

  This flycatcher lives in humid mountain forests and sallies from branches to catch flying insects.

• Rosy-faced lovebird Agapornis roseicollis

  A small parrot of southwestern Africa, with a mainly green body and a rosy face and throat.

• Lemon-breasted Canary Crithagra citrinipectus

  The male has a lemon-yellow breast patch over a white belly; the female's breast is buff. The species occurs locally in lowland southeastern Africa and uses palm savanna and grassland.

• Scaly-headed Parrot Pionus maximiliani

  This parrot occurs in central South America. Gray, finely edged feathers mark its head, and it uses forests and dry woodland while feeding on fruits and seeds.

• Blue-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon mellisugus

  The Blue-tailed Emerald is a small hummingbird that feeds mainly on nectar. By day it visits flowers in its territory and also takes flying insects or small arthropods from branches and spider webs.

• Violaceous Coucal Centropus violaceus

  The Violaceous Coucal is a large coucal found only on New Britain and New Ireland. It searches for insects and small animals in trees in humid lowland forest.

• Little Friarbird Philemon citreogularis

  This is the smallest friarbird, with a curved bill without a casque and a bare blue-gray face patch. It feeds on nectar and invertebrates in trees; some southeastern populations are seasonal visitors.

• Cinnamon Screech Owl Megascops petersoni

  This small owl lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its cinnamon-colored plumage has fine markings, and BirdLife describes it as highly dependent on forest.

• Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri

  A North American tern of wetlands and coasts whose head pattern changes between breeding and nonbreeding plumage.

• Carmelite Sunbird Chalcomitra fuliginosa

  A sunbird of West African coastal woodland, gardens and cultivated areas. It feeds on nectar and other foods; one field account describes the male crown as gray-buff.

• Saffron-cowled Blackbird Xanthopsar flavus

  Males are conspicuously yellow and black, while females have dark brown where males are black. Some breeding records report extra males feeding nestlings.

• Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris

  A local survey in Colombia recorded it on the forest floor and in the understory, at forest edges, and in bamboo and riverside thickets. Records at the study area reached 1,200 m.

• 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.

• White-necked Petrel Pterodroma cervicalis

  The White-necked Petrel is a large seabird marked by a white collar and black cap. It feeds mainly on squid at sea and migrates to the North Pacific.

• Tawny-headed Swallow Alopochelidon fucata

  This small swallow has a tawny head and pale underside. It is migratory and catches flying insects in the air.

• Taiwan Blue Magpie Urocissa caerulea

  The Taiwan Blue Magpie is a corvid of Taiwan's forests and mountains, notable for its long blue tail and red bill.

• Cerulean Kingfisher Alcedo coerulescens

  The Cerulean Kingfisher is a small bird with a blue back and white underside. It hunts from waterside branches and posts and eats small fish and aquatic insects.