Meet the world’s animals.

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• Golden-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia atricapilla

  

  A sparrow of western North America, it breeds in the north during summer and winters along the Pacific Coast.

• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus

  The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is a gray and salmon-pink bird with a long, forked tail. It catches insects in the air and gathers to migrate to Mexico and Central America in late summer and fall.

• Red-cheeked Parrot Geoffroyus geoffroyi

  Geoffroy's Parrot is a medium-sized parrot that eats fruit and flower buds. It feeds in pairs or small groups in the treetops and calls noisily around dawn and dusk.

• Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rosacea

  The Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon is an island pigeon with pale pink on its head and upper neck. It feeds on fruit in forests of the Lesser Sunda Islands.

• Bridled Honeyeater Bolemoreus frenatus

  This honeyeater occurs in the upland rainforests of northern Queensland. Its overall plumage is sooty grey, with a bright yellow base to the bill.

• Yellow-tailed Oriole Icterus mesomelas

  The Yellow-tailed Oriole is marked by a black face and throat and yellow shoulders and tail. In tropical lowlands near woodland and wetlands, pairs search for insects and fruit.

• Angola Cave Chat Xenocopsychus ansorgei

  This flycatcher occurs in localized rocky mountains in Angola and Namibia. In Namibia, its range is restricted to the northern Zebra Mountains.

• Pardusco Nephelornis oneilli

  This bird lives in the high eastern-central Andes of Peru. It has darker upperparts, a paler underside, and pale wing-bars. It forages in humid montane scrub and grassland and may occur in family or mixed-species flocks.

• Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus

  The Oriental Cuckoo is a migratory cuckoo that breeds in forests. Females include both grey and rufous plumage forms.

• Williamson's Sapsucker Sphyrapicus thyroideus

  Williamson's Sapsucker is a woodpecker of western North American mountains. Males and females look very different, and the birds eat conifer sap and insects.

• Tasmanian Boobook Ninox leucopsis

  A small owl centred on Tasmania, with dark eye markings and white spots. It is active at night and uses wooded habitats; some occur in southern Victoria in winter.

• White-necked Thrush Turdus albicollis

  This thrush is described from Trinidad and Tobago. It searches among leaf litter for small prey and also eats fruit.

• Creamy-bellied Antwren Herpsilochmus motacilloides

  This small antwren lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Males have a black cap and broad white eyebrow, and the species is reported at 900–2,100 m.

• Western Bearded Greenbul Criniger barbatus

  The Western Bearded Greenbul has conspicuous yellow throat feathers. In West African forest it moves in pairs or small groups and attends ant columns.

• Yellow-browed Seedeater Crithagra whytii

  This canary occurs from Tanzania west to Zambia and northern Malawi. It has a long, slightly notched tail and feeds on small seeds and other foods along woodland edges and in open country.

• Painted Parakeet Pyrrhura picta

  The Painted Parakeet is a South American parrot with a mostly green body, reddish-brown areas on the rump and tail, and blue outer wing feathers. It eats fruits, flowers, and seeds in humid forest.

• Azure Gallinule Porphyrio flavirostris

  The Azure Gallinule is a small wetland rail with a yellowish frontal shield and bill, blue-green wings, and a white belly. It searches for seeds and small animals in floating vegetation in northern South America.

• Cayenne Jay Cyanocorax cayanus

  The Cayenne Jay is marked by blue upperparts and a white nape and belly. It may travel in flocks.

• Olive-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis semiflava

  An adult male is marked by a black facial mask extending from the forehead toward the sides of the neck and by bright yellow underparts. In Costa Rica, the bird uses wet grassy places and marsh cover and is usually in pairs.

• grey sunbird Cyanomitra veroxii

  The Grey Sunbird is about12–14cm long and lives in coastal and riverside forest. It is active by day.

• White-tailed Warbler Poliolais lopezi

  This cisticolid lives in the forest understory of western equatorial Africa and also uses dense cover at forest edges and clearings.

• Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus

  A large hawk of African forests and woodlands. It mainly takes birds, and in some areas also eats fish or carrion.

• Striated Babbler Argya earlei

  In northern India's lowlands, this social babbler is usually found in reedbeds, wet grass, and scrub. Fine streaking on crown and back and bright yellow eyes stand out.

• Bernier's Teal Anas bernieri

  Bernier’s Teal is a duck of brackish lakes and wetlands in western Madagascar. It forms pairs in the breeding season and small groups at other times.