Meet the world’s animals.

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• Congo Serpent Eagle Circaetus spectabilis

  

  The Congo Serpent Eagle is a forest raptor with rounded wings and a long tail. It watches from a perch for snakes and other prey.

• Little Green Woodpecker Campethera maculosa

  The pool's Little Green Woodpecker is treated in current eBird taxonomy as the Little Green group within Green-backed Woodpecker. Western birds have green backs, red on the head, and barred underparts.

• Violet Cuckoo Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus

  The Violet Cuckoo is notable for the male’s violet gloss and barred underside. It uses the canopy and lays its eggs in other birds’ nests.

• Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys

  The Shining-blue Kingfisher has blue upperparts and orange-chestnut underparts. It catches fish and other aquatic prey around tropical African waters.

• Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida

  A warbler of East African scrub and forest. Williams and Arlott's 1980 field guide describes a green bird with a grey, black-banded crown and a dark chestnut throat patch that skulks in dense thickets, often near water.

• Green-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon alice

  The male's crown and breast shine golden green, while the female has grayish-white underparts and a different tail pattern. This small hummingbird takes nectar at forest and cloud-forest edges, in second growth, and around plantations. It is partially migratory.

• Cameroon Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla montana

  This greenbul was recorded in a survey of the Tchabal Mbabo massif in Cameroon. It is uniformly yellow-olive and occurs in montane forest, secondary forest, and scrub.

• White-capped Tanager Sericossypha albocristata

  This tanager lives in humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. Its white cap and red throat and chest stand out, and family groups forage in the upper forest.

• Moss-backed Sparrow Arremon dorbignii

  The Moss-backed Sparrow ranges from the eastern Bolivian Andes foothills to northwestern Argentina. It uses the understory of second-growth and mature forest, usually alone or with its mate and sometimes in mixed flocks.

• Southern Yellowthroat Geothlypis velata

  The Southern Yellowthroat occurs in marshes, moist grassland, and edges of swampy forest. Southern breeding populations move north in winter, while birds in some parts of the range occur year-round.

• Caspian Snowcock Tetraogallus caspius

  The Caspian Snowcock is a grey-brown bird with white and rusty markings that lives on rocky mountains near the snow line.

• Australasian Shoveler Spatula rhynchotis

  The Australasian Shoveler strains small foods from the water with its broad bill. Breeding males are more brightly colored than females.

• Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica

  A tern with a thick black bill that takes prey from the air, ground, and water surface rather than plunge-diving.

• Caatinga Cacholote Pseudoseisura cristata

  The Caatinga Cacholote lives in the dry northeast of Brazil. It is bright reddish brown, with a prominent crest and yellow iris. Pairs forage on the ground for insects and plant matter in Caatinga woodland and scrub.

• Campina Thrush Turdus arthuri

  The Campina Thrush occurs in the Guianas and northern Amazonia, with records in savanna and at forest edges. A South American committee proposal summarizes why it is treated separately from Turdus ignobilis.

• Antillean Siskin Spinus dominicensis

  This small finch has strongly different male and female plumage. Males are conspicuously yellow, while females are mainly green. It lives in the mountains of Hispaniola.

• Yungas Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus spodiops

  This small bird lives in humid montane forest and dense second growth on the eastern Andes. Greenish-brown upperparts and two thin yellow-edged wing bars are distinctive.

• Casqued Cacique Cacicus oseryi

  This cacique uses the canopy of Amazonian forests. Its regional species page describes it as rare to uncommon in várzea and terra firme forest and reports small foraging flocks of the same species.

• White-speckled Laughingthrush Ianthocincla bieti

  Biet's Laughingthrush is endemic to China, but its distribution and population remain poorly documented. Two active nests found at Laojun Mountain in 2021 and 2024 were in mixed forest with bamboo.

• Hooded Wheatear Oenanthe monacha

  The Hooded Wheatear is a flycatcher relative of bare desert valleys and canyons. Males are black and white; females and young birds are paler.

• Grosbeak Starling Scissirostrum dubium

  This starling is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It lives mostly in tropical lowlands and lightly wooded forest and excavates nest cavities in rotting or dying trunks.

• Australian Raven Corvus coronoides

  The Australian Raven is a large black corvid with conspicuous white irises.

• Great-billed Munia Lonchura grandis

  A small bird of New Guinea's grasslands and wetlands, with a black head and underside set off by a yellow-orange rump.

• Helmeted Friarbird Philemon buceroides

  In northeastern Australia it uses lowland forest, forest edges, woodland, and mangroves. James Cook University records it as common on its Townsville campus.