Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sooty Swift Cypseloides fumigatus

  

  This swift catches insects in flight and nests on cliffs beside waterfalls. A study in northeastern Argentina recorded breeding at several waterfalls.

• Cryptic Honeyeater Microptilotis imitatrix

  This honeyeater occurs in the Wet Tropics of north-eastern Queensland, Australia. In a comparative study, the form called imitatrix looked darker and more olive-green than the other Graceful Honeyeater form.

• Common Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus

  This sunbird is seen from forest to savanna. Males show iridescent green plumage with maroon and blue breast bands; females are paler.

• El Oro Parakeet Pyrrhura orcesi

  The El Oro Parakeet lives on forested slopes of the western Andes in Ecuador. It feeds in social groups, and some breeding pairs are helped by other birds.

• Musk Lorikeet Glossopsitta concinna

  This lorikeet lives in eucalypt woodland in southeastern Australia. Red facial markings and a blue crown stand out against its green body.

• Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rosacea

  The Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon is an island pigeon with pale pink on its head and upper neck. It feeds on fruit in forests of the Lesser Sunda Islands.

• Sunda Owlet Taenioptynx sylvaticus

  The Sunda Owlet is a very small owl of hill and montane forest on Sumatra and Borneo. In 2021, the eBird taxonomy separated it from the widespread Collared Owlet based on voice and plumage.

• Nkulengu Rail Himantornis haematopus

  The Nkulengu Rail walks through dense vegetation beside streams in lowland rainforest.

• Southern White-fringed Antwren Formicivora grisea

  This antbird forages in scrub and hedgerows left among pastureland. In Peru, the Aves de Perú account reports records from Pampa del Heath and Pampa Juliaca in Puno.

• Rufous Crab Hawk Buteogallus aequinoctialis

  The Rufous Crab-hawk has a rufous belly and yellow feet. It searches for crabs in coastal mangroves and swoops down from a branch to catch them.

• Red-headed Flameback Chrysocolaptes erythrocephalus

  The Red-headed Flameback occurs around Palawan in the Philippines. It uses forest and woodland and is treated as a species distinct from the Greater Flameback group.

• Giant Coua Coua gigas

  This large ground-dwelling bird lives in forests of western and southern Madagascar. The bare blue skin around its eyes is conspicuous, and it forages on the forest floor.

• Abyssinian White-eye Zosterops abyssinicus

  The Abyssinian White-eye is marked by a white eye-ring and occurs in small groups in wooded highlands.

• Mangaia Kingfisher Todiramphus ruficollaris

  This kingfisher is endemic to Mangaia in the Cook Islands. An orange neck band is a field mark, and surveys have recorded it in primary and secondary forest and other island habitats.

• Cloud Cisticola Cisticola textrix

  This small cisticola lives in grasslands of southern Africa. The western Cape nominate form has streaking on the underside that can help identify it.

• Dusky-throated Hermit Phaethornis squalidus

  This small hermit hummingbird is endemic to southeastern Brazil, where it inhabits Atlantic Forest. It visits low flowers for nectar and also takes small insects on short flights.

• Bare-faced Bulbul Nok hualon

  The Bare-faced Bulbul is known from limestone country in Laos. Bare pale-blue skin surrounds the eyes and bill, and fine hair-like feathers run along the crown. It feeds on berries and is usually seen alone or in pairs.

• Golden-backed Mountain Tanager Cnemathraupis aureodorsalis

  This large tanager is recorded in humid montane forest of Peru's eastern Andes at about 3,000–3,600 m. Its blue crown and golden back and underparts stand out.

• Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni

  Nelson's Sparrow is a short-tailed bird with a yellow-orange face. It breeds in northern marshes and winters in coastal marshes of the southeastern United States.

• Pink-headed Warbler Cardellina versicolor

  This small bird is about 13 cm long and uses pine–oak and montane evergreen forest. The account describes gleaning invertebrates from vegetation. Sound recordings include Chiapas, Mexico.

• Greater Sage Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus

  The Greater Sage-Grouse lives in sagebrush plains of western North America. During the breeding season, males gather and display to females.

• Nēnē (Hawaiian Goose) Branta sandvicensis

  A goose from the Hawaiian Islands that spends much time on land and eats a varied plant diet.

• Elegant Tern Thalasseus elegans

  A long-billed tern that flies over the sea and catches fish.

• Bahia Spinetail Synallaxis cinerea

  The Bahia Spinetail is a small bird of a restricted area of eastern Brazil. It searches for insects in the forest understory, sometimes moving with mixed flocks in pairs or family groups.