Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea

  

  A small gull that breeds in wet Arctic tundra; breeding adults show a pale pink wash and a black collar.

• Spectacled Imperial Pigeon Ducula perspicillata

  The Spectacled Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon recorded in North Maluku, Indonesia.

• Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca

  A small duck with a peaked crest and gray bill, also seen in wetlands in Cyprus.

• Speckled Boobook Ninox punctulata

  The Speckled Boobook occurs on Sulawesi and nearby islands. It is active at night and is mainly associated with forest.

• Green-billed Coucal Centropus chlororhynchos

  This coucal lives in lowland wet forest in southwestern Sri Lanka. Its black plumage has a blue-purple sheen, and its wings are chestnut.

• Black-collared Apalis Oreolais pulcher

  The species account separates two subspecies, and Kenya is one part of its range. It lives low in dense lowland-forest undergrowth and eats insects and other small invertebrates.

• Spectacled Barwing Actinodura ramsayi

  This barwing lives in mountain regions from Southeast Asia to southern China. It has a bold white eye-ring and barred wings and tail; the crown and mantle colors differ among described subspecies.

• Karoo Thrush Turdus smithi

  The Karoo Thrush is a thrush of dry southern African country. A research paper describes it as darker than forest-dwelling relatives, with a dusky-brown rather than white throat. It uses arid shrubland and riverine Acacia and feeds on the ground.

• White-collared Oliveback Nesocharis ansorgei

  The male has a white collar between its throat and breast, with olive upperparts and grey underparts. It takes small seeds in wet thickets and along streams.

• Swamp Francolin Ortygornis gularis

  This ground-dwelling bird forages in wet grass and along wetland edges. It eats plants and seeds as well as invertebrates from the ground.

• Black-bellied Starling Notopholia corusca

  The Black-bellied Starling is a slim, dark starling with a black belly and little gloss. It is common in coastal East African woodland; a male's eye can turn red briefly during the breeding season.

• Papyrus Canary Crithagra koliensis

  The Papyrus Canary uses papyrus swamps and nearby habitats. The sexes look similar, though the male has more strongly marked facial patterning.

• Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla

  This small woodland raptor is marked by a white rump. It darts among trees while hunting small birds and other small animals.

• Black-eared Miner Manorina melanotis

  This stocky honeyeater has a dark face and orange-yellow bill and legs. During breeding, helpers, mostly males, may join a pair to raise the chicks.

• Baudo Oropendola Psarocolius cassini

  This large oropendola lives in the lowlands of Chocó, northwestern Colombia. Records place it in humid forest and forest edge up to about 365 m.

• Cocoa Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus susurrans

  This woodcreeper occurs in Central and South America, where it uses humid forests. It searches trunks for ants, spiders, and other small arthropods.

• Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata

  The ringed kingfisher has a large bill and catches fish by rivers and lakes. It ranges through Central and South America and reaches southern Texas.

• Pale-throated Pampa-Finch Embernagra longicauda

  A highland grassland bird of eastern Brazil that searches among rocks and shrubs for food.

• Himalayan Bush-robin Tarsiger rufilatus

  This flycatcher breeds in the high Himalaya and moves to lower elevations in winter. eBird and other references also call it the Himalayan Bluetail.

• Striped Crake Aenigmatolimnas marginalis

  The Striped Crake is a rail with white streaks on its back and reddish underparts. It searches among seasonally flooded grassland and marsh edges, including shallow water and mud.

• Yellow-winged Flatbill Tolmomyias flavotectus

  Its type description records yellow-edged wing feathers and a grey crown mixed with green. It ranges from southern Nicaragua to western Colombia and Ecuador west of the Andes, in lowland evergreen and secondary forest.

• Long-billed Crow Corvus validus

  The Long-billed Crow is black with blue and purple gloss and has an exceptionally long bill.

• Yellow-bibbed Lory Lorius chlorocercus

  The Yellow-bibbed Lory is a parrot with a red body, black crown, yellow chest band, and green wings. In the wild it lives in forests of the eastern Solomon Islands and eats flowers, fruit, and other foods.

• Northern Brownbul Phyllastrephus strepitans

  This bulbul occurs in eastern Africa. It is mostly brown and uses semi-arid scrub, dry-forest edges, and other wooded habitats; it eats insects and fruit.