Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis

  

  A North American diving duck. Males are mainly black and white, females are brown, and the back of the head has a small peak.

• Black Francolin Francolinus francolinus

  This ground-dwelling pheasant relative moves through grasslands and shrublands. Males are black and chestnut, while females are golden-brown with black and white spots, so the sexes look very different.

• White-crowned Starling Lamprotornis albicapillus

  The White-crowned Starling lives in open scrub and acacia woodland in East Africa. It has a white crown and is described feeding on the ground.

• Yellow-bellied Greenbul Chlorocichla flaviventris

  A bulbul of sub-Saharan Africa, it is marked by a yellow underside and reddish eyes. It feeds on fruit and insects in trees.

• Buff-necked Woodpecker Meiglyptes tukki

  The Buff-necked Woodpecker is a forest-dwelling woodpecker. The male has a buff patch on each side of the neck and a red cheek stripe; the female lacks the red stripe.

• White-rimmed Warbler Myiothlypis leucoblephara

  This warbler has a white eyebrow and white markings around the eye. In a diet study in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, ants and beetles made up more than 70% of the recorded food items.

• Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala

  Males have noticeable red plumage, while females are mostly brown. Their plumage differs by sex.

• Spot-breasted Laughingthrush Garrulax merulinus

  This laughingthrush uses forest understory and bamboo in parts of mainland Southeast Asia. It is dark brown, with black spots on a pale throat and breast and a white line behind the eye. It forages near the ground.

• Puna Miner Geositta punensis

  A ground-dwelling bird of high Andean grasslands in northwestern Argentina. It is brown above, greyish-white below, with cinnamon wings and tail marked by dark bands.

• White-winged Cliff Chat Monticola semirufus

  This chat occurs in rocky parts of the Ethiopian Highlands. Both sexes have a large white patch in the middle of the wing; males have a black hood and a red-orange belly.

• Blue-crowned Lorikeet Vini australis

  This 19 cm lorikeet is active by day and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Forest Canary Crithagra scotops

  The Forest Canary is a canary of southeastern Africa with a thick, conical bill and a yellow eyebrow stripe. Its upperparts are olive-yellow, with streaks on the breast and flanks.

• Barred Parakeet Bolborhynchus lineola

  This parakeet has a green body crossed by black bars. Subspecies differ in color intensity and range, and wild birds may form groups in trees.

• Long-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania watertonii

  The male has blue-violet and metallic green plumage, while the female has a green back and gray underside. In northeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest, it feeds on flower nectar and small arthropods.

• Little Cuckoo Coccycua minuta

  The Little Cuckoo is a small reddish-brown cuckoo spread across Amazonia. It is often found in vine-filled thickets along water, forest edges, and cleared forest.

• Plain Honeyeater Pycnopygius ixoides

  The Plain Honeyeater lives in New Guinea's forests and feeds on fruit and nectar. Plumage ranges from gray-green to brown among its subspecies.

• Stygian Owl Asio stygius

  A pale rim borders its dark facial disk, and it has long ear tufts. It uses semi-humid to wet woodland and forest edges and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Black Tern Chlidonias niger

  The North American subspecies of Black Tern flies over freshwater wetlands during breeding and catches small fish and insects.

• Mayotte Sunbird Cinnyris coquerellii

  This sunbird is endemic to Mayotte. It feeds on flower nectar and small insects, and the sexes differ markedly in color.

• Streak-backed Oriole Icterus pustulatus

  It ranges from western Mexico into western Central America, and its head and back patterns vary among subspecies groups.

• Black-capped Sparrow Arremon abeillei

  This sparrow occurs in the understory of humid Andean forests and tall scrub. Its black head and broad white eyebrow stand out, and mantle color varies between subspecies.

• African Rail Rallus caerulescens

  The African Rail has a long red bill and red legs; males have fine white barring on the belly.

• San Blas Jay Cyanocorax sanblasianus

  The San Blas Jay lives along Mexico's southwestern Pacific coast and uses dry woodland and scrub. A study near Acapulco recorded year-round groups in the southern population.

• Scaly Kingfisher Actenoides princeps

  A kingfisher of Sulawesi’s humid montane forests, it is striking for its blue-violet head and scaly-marked brown body.