Birds > Machaerirhynchidae & Boatbills
The Black-breasted Boatbill (Machaerirhynchus nigripectus) is an eye-catching, highly specialized flycatching songbird endemic to the rugged highland mountain ranges of New Guinea. Classified within its own unique Australasian family Machaerirhynchidae, this...
Birds > Philepittidae & Asities
The Velvet Asity (Philepitta castanea) is an enchanting, suboscine passerine bird strictly endemic to the lush eastern rainforest belt of Madagascar. Belonging to the small endemic family Philepittidae, this compact understory dweller is renowned for the breeding...
Plants > Apocynaceae & Epiphytic Succulents
The String of Nickels (Dischidia nummularia), also known as the button orchid or coin plant, is a delightful epiphytic succulent vine native to the warm, humid tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia and Australasia. Belonging to the milkweed and dogbane family...
Fish > Trichiuridae & Cutlassfishes
The Silver Scabbardfish (Lepidopus caudatus), known across the Mediterranean and Atlantic as the frostfish or ribbonfish, is a magnificent, sword-like pelagic predator inhabiting the deep continental shelf slopes and submarine canyons of the world’s oceans....
Birds > Bucerotidae & Hornbills
Von der Decken’s Hornbill (Tockus deckeni) is an iconic, charismatic bird of the arid savannas and dry thornbush plains of East Africa. Named in honor of the 19th-century German explorer Baron Karl Klaus von der Decken, this striking small hornbill is famous for...
