Meet the world’s animals.

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• Antarctic Tern Sterna vittata

  

  The Antarctic Tern occurs on southern subantarctic islands and exposed rocky areas of Antarctica. New Zealand birds belong to subspecies bethunei.

• White-throated Screech Owl Megascops albogularis

  This nocturnal owl is marked by a white throat and a streaked belly. It lives in high-elevation temperate forest and pairs may duet.

• Chestnut-faced Babbler Zosterornis whiteheadi

  This babbler is endemic to Luzon in the Philippines. It is recorded in mountain forest as well as open forest, secondary growth, and scrub.

• Lovely Sunbird Aethopyga shelleyi

  This sunbird lives in forests on Palawan and nearby islands. Males show iridescent purple and crimson, while females have more subdued olive coloring.

• Lord Howe Rail Hypotaenidia sylvestris

  The Lord Howe Island Woodhen is a flightless olive-brown rail with a down-curving bill and red eyes. It feeds on forest-floor invertebrates, and adults pair for life.

• Plain Mountain Finch Leucosticte nemoricola

  This finch lives in high mountains from the Himalayas across the Tibetan Plateau into central China. It forages for seeds on the ground and may form flocks outside the breeding season.

• Samoan Starling Aplonis atrifusca

  The Samoan Starling is endemic to the Samoan Archipelago. A National Park of American Samoa survey recorded it in native forest and human-dominated forest, including fruiting trees.

• Hermit Warbler Setophaga occidentalis

  This small warbler breeds in western North America and winters in Central America. Its yellow face stands out as it searches for insects high in conifers.

• Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata

  The Half-collared Kingfisher is small, with a blue back, pale orange underparts and a white throat.

• Gray-fronted Quail-Dove Geotrygon caniceps

  The Gray-fronted Quail-Dove is a secretive dove from Cuba. Its pale forehead area is diffuse rather than a crisp white patch like that of a related species.

• African Silverbill Euodice cantans

  This small bird lives in dry savanna and forages on the ground for grass and weed seeds, sometimes in large flocks.

• Redhead Aythya americana

  The Redhead is a diving duck of North America. In breeding plumage the male has a reddish-brown head and blue-gray bill; the female is brown with a paler face.

• Red-breasted Meadowlark Leistes militaris

  A breeding-plumaged male shows a red throat and chest against dark plumage; the breeding female is more buff and streaked, with a duller red breast. The species searches for food on the ground.

• Chestnut-bellied Hill Partridge Arborophila javanica

  The Chestnut-bellied Hill Partridge is a ground-dwelling pheasant of Java’s mountain forests. A study in fragmented forest found it more often inside natural high-elevation forest than near the edges.

• Spot-breasted Woodpecker Colaptes punctigula

  This woodpecker is marked by a spotted black breast and red nape. In the Amazon it uses flooded and riverside forests.

• Goldie's Lorikeet Glossoptilus goldiei

  Goldie's Lorikeet is a New Guinea parrot with a red crown, blue nape, and green body. It gathers at flowering trees and moves in flocks.

• Maroon-belted Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca thoracica

  This chat-tyrant lives in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Along forest streams, it catches insects from a perch.

• Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis

  A retiring lowland saltator from Mexico through Central America. It uses forest edges and thickets while searching for food, including flowers and fruit.

• Grey-headed Bristlebill Bleda canicapillus

  The Grey-headed Bristlebill occurs in West African forest, thickets, and lightly wooded savanna. Its slate-gray head and bill bristles are distinctive.

• Grey Treepie Dendrocitta formosae

  The Grey Treepie is a crow-family bird with gray, black, and chestnut plumage and a pale underside. Its appearance and Taiwan behavior here refer to the endemic subspecies D. f. formosae; the range describes the species as a whole.

• Izu Thrush Turdus celaenops

  The Izu Thrush is a thrush found on the Izu Islands and other Japanese islands. Males stand out with a black head and breast and orange belly and flanks.

• White-throated Bush Chat Saxicola insignis

  The White-throated Bushchat breeds in Mongolia and Central Asian Russia, then winters in India and Nepal. Bhutan and China are recorded during passage.

• Pacific Hornero Furnarius cinnamomeus

  This hornero ranges from western Ecuador to southwestern Colombia and northwestern Peru. It is cinnamon-colored, with a grey-brown crown and white eyebrow and throat. It searches on the ground for arthropods and snails, and builds an oven-shaped mud nest.

• Red-tailed Amazon Amazona brasiliensis

  The Red-tailed Amazon is a green parrot of coastal forest and mangroves in southeastern Brazil. It eats fruits and flowers and nests in tree cavities in flooded forest.