Meet the world’s animals.

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• Comb Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos

  

  The male Comb Duck develops a large knob at the base of its bill. It feeds mainly on aquatic plants and seeds and nests in tree hollows near water.

• Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus

  A dove of dry savanna woodland and scrub that feeds on grass and other small seeds. It is also found near water.

• Black-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus melanonotus

  This antshrike is recorded from Colombia north toward northwestern Venezuela. It uses forest understorey and mid-storey, as well as scrub beside shallow streams, and forages close to the ground.

• White-headed Bulbul Hypsipetes thompsoni

  The White-headed Bulbul is a bulbul with a grey body and a striking white head. It has a forked tail and feeds on fruit and berries.

• Ochre-marked Parakeet Pyrrhura cruentata

  The Ochre-marked Parakeet is mainly green, with red feathers on parts of its face, belly, and tail. It has a fragmented range in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil.

• Volcano Junco Junco vulcani

  The Volcano Junco lives near volcanic summits in Costa Rica and western Panama. Adults have grey underparts and a black eye mask, and search for seeds and insects on the ground.

• Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus dicruroides

  The Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo is about 25 cm long and resembles a drongo. It occurs on the Indian Subcontinent, including Sri Lanka.

• Rusty-fronted Canastero Asthenes ottonis

  The Rusty-fronted Canastero is endemic to Peru and lives in dry scrub of the high Andes.

• Stripe-throated Yuhina Yuhina gularis

  The historical account places the nominate subspecies Y. gularis gularis from Nepal to eastern Assam. It describes a brown crest and a throat marked with black streaks.

• Spectacled Whitestart Myioborus melanocephalus

  The center of its crown is black, and it has yellow spectacles and underparts. It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes, from south and east of the Marañón in northern Peru to central Bolivia.

• Antillean Palm Swift Tachornis phoenicobia

  The Antillean Palm-Swift is a small bird that flies over lowlands with palms. Small colonies nest in mats of dead palm fronds.

• Micronesian Myzomela Myzomela rubratra

  The Micronesian Myzomela is a red-and-black nectar-feeding bird that moves as flowers come into bloom. In the Mariana subspecies, the Guam population was gone by 1986; populations remain on Rota, Saipan, and Tinian.

• Red-backed Thrush Geokichla erythronota

  The adult male is a thrush with a chestnut back and striking black-and-white markings on the face and breast. On Buton Island it searches for food in shaded lower forest and on the ground.

• Naked-faced Spiderhunter Arachnothera clarae

  The Naked-faced Spiderhunter has a long, curved bill and orange bare skin at its base. It inhabits forest and scrub in the Philippines and favors plantain flowers.

• Black-banded Flycatcher Ficedula timorensis

  A forest flycatcher of Timor. It searches dense undergrowth for insects, usually alone or in pairs.

• Amazonian Black Tyrant Knipolegus poecilocercus

  Males are black, while females are olive-brown. The bird forages inconspicuously in dense understory in flooded or seasonally flooded forest.

• Bannerman's Weaver Ploceus bannermani

  Bannerman's Weaver lives in mountains of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon, using forest edges and shrubby openings.

• Orange-breasted Laughingthrush Garrulax annamensis

  This laughingthrush is restricted to a small area of southern Vietnam. It has a dark throat and an orange breast marked with dark spots, and forages near the ground.

• Azure Jay Cyanocorax caeruleus

  This jay inhabits forests in southern Brazil. Its blue body contrasts with a black head and fore-neck, and groups cache pine seeds.

• Manus Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx dispar

  A small kingfisher endemic to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Males and females differ in head coloration.

• Star Finch Neochmia ruficauda

  This small bird occurs in northern Australia. It has a red face, olive upperparts, a yellowish underside, and tiny white star-like spots.

• Black-crested Coquette Lophornis helenae

  The male's dark crest plumes and golden-green throat stand out on this small hummingbird. It visits flowers and gleans tiny arthropods along humid forest edges and coffee farms.

• Mongolian Lark Melanocorypha mongolica

  This lark breeds in Mongolia and northern China, and moves as far as central China in winter.

• Black Parrot Coracopsis nigra

  A fairly large black parrot found in and around forests. Its loud calls are musical whistles.