Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chestnut-bellied Mountain Tanager Dubusia castaneoventris

  

  This tanager ranges in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Its blue upperparts contrast with a chestnut belly, and it forages in the canopy of mountain forest.

• Black-headed Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla nigriceps

  The Black-headed Mountain Greenbul lives in mountain forests from southern Kenya to northern Tanzania. In the October 2024 Clements treatment, separated from the Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul, it has a blacker head and mainly gray underparts.

• Daurian Jackdaw Coloeus dauuricus

  A jackdaw with contrasting pale and dark adult plumage and a darker immature stage.

• Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus aurantiirostris

  The small Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush is notable for its orange bill.

• White-bellied Shortwing Myiomela major

  This shortwing occurs in the hills of southern India. Its account describes a slaty-blue back and breast, white belly, and rufous-brown flanks; birds are met singly or in pairs among undergrowth and small trees.

• Montane Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia striaticollis

  The Montane Foliage-gleaner forages in the middle and upper levels of humid montane forest, often with mixed-species flocks.

• Red-throated Parakeet Psittacara rubritorquis

  This parakeet ranges through hilly and mountainous parts of Central America. During the breeding season it is associated with semiarid to semideciduous forest, including pine forest.

• Gray-browed Brushfinch Arremon assimilis

  This roughly 20 cm bird lives in humid Andean montane forest. Yellow-olive upperparts, a striped gray-and-black head, and a white throat are distinctive.

• New Caledonian Myzomela Myzomela caledonica

  This small honeyeater weighs about 7 g. It is active by day and uses forest, mangroves, and woodland, feeding mainly on nectar.

• Humaita Antbird Myrmelastes humaythae

  This antbird lives in upper Amazon forests, including southeastern Peru. Males are gray, females reddish brown, and the birds move through low forest cover.

• Buffy Hummingbird Leucippus fallax

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and Venezuela. It uses dry scrub and mangroves and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Great Swallow-tailed Swift Panyptila sanctihieronymi

  This swift has long, narrow wings and a deeply forked tail. It catches insects on the wing over highlands and builds a long, hanging tubular nest.

• Kilombero Cisticola Cisticola bakerorum

  This cisticola is restricted to reedbeds in Tanzania's Kilombero Swamp. Its rufous cap and tail-tip bands help identify it.

• Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus

  This nightjar is active after dark. Its grey and brown mottled plumage blends into open grassland and savanna.

• Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus

  This large eagle has a crest and a barred tail. Studies in South Africa report that it feeds mainly on mammals.

• Yellow Weaver Ploceus subaureus

  A yellow weaver that nests among reeds near water. Males and females differ in eye and bill color, and it eats seeds, insects, and nectar.

• Coquerel's Coua Coua coquereli

  This cuckoo has a long tail and legs, blue bare skin around the eye, and a rufous belly. It inhabits dry deciduous forest in western and northern Madagascar.

• Rusty Laughingthrush Pterorhinus poecilorhynchus

  This laughingthrush is endemic to Taiwan's mid-elevation forests. Mainland birds once included within the same species are now treated as Buffy Laughingthrush, Pterorhinus berthemyi.

• Peruvian Tern Sternula lorata

  The Peruvian Tern occurs along the Humboldt Current, from southern Ecuador to northern Chile. It is a small tern whose breeding sites also include dry plains inland from the coast.

• Sulawesi Scops Owl Otus manadensis

  This nocturnal owl varies from brown to rufous and hunts moths and other insects.

• Sao Tome White-eye Zosterops feae

  The Sao Tome White-eye lives in forest and dense cover on Sao Tome Island. Its plumage description is limited to the island form formerly named as a subspecies.

• Gillett's Lark Calendulauda gilletti

  This lark occurs in eastern Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya. It has brown streaking and a rufous crown and searches for prey on the ground in semi-arid savanna. The source's treatment includes the former Degodi Lark.

• Long-billed Sunbird Cinnyris notatus

  A sunbird of Madagascar's forests. Males are larger and darker than females and use a long, strong bill to feed on nectar; they also take spiders and insects from flowers.

• White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus

  The White-breasted Waterhen also lives around freshwater wetlands and park waters in Singapore. Adults have a white face and breast against a dark body.