Meet the world’s animals.

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• Kelp Goose Chloephaga hybrida

  

  Male Kelp Geese are white, while females are dark with bold white bars. They live on rocky marine shores and feed mainly on seaweed.

• Black-browed Fulvetta Alcippe grotei

  This small bird has a gray head and shoulders, a black eyebrow, rufescent back, and pale underparts. It searches for insects in evergreen and secondary forest, sometimes joining mixed flocks.

• Eastern Imperial Eagle Aquila heliaca

  A large eagle of open country from eastern Europe across parts of central Asia.

• Amazonian Barred Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes certhia

  A large woodcreeper with reddish-brown plumage and fine barring. It forages in mature forest and may appear near army-ant swarms.

• Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii

  Lincoln's Sparrow often stays low and hidden in grass or brush. During the breeding season it uses moist mountain meadows.

• Burrowing Parakeet Cyanoliseus patagonus

  The Burrowing Parakeet lives in open country in Chile and Argentina. Its white eye ring and yellow-red belly are distinctive, and it nests in burrows in banks and cliffs.

• Arabian Partridge Alectoris melanocephala

  The Arabian Partridge is native to the Arabian Peninsula and has been reported around Abha and Tanomah in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

• Rosy-faced lovebird Agapornis roseicollis

  A small parrot of southwestern Africa, with a mainly green body and a rosy face and throat.

• Black-cheeked Warbler Basileuterus melanogenys

  A small greyish warbler with a black face, bold white eyebrow, and rufous crown.

• White-browed Forest Flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens

  This flycatcher lives in moist forests and wet areas of West and Central Africa. It has dark slate-gray upperparts and a white eyebrow, and feeds mainly on small invertebrates.

• Black-tailed Crake Zapornia bicolor

  The Black-tailed Crake lives around wetlands and water from the eastern Himalayas to southwestern China and Indochina. It has a gray head, reddish-brown back, and black tail.

• Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes neglectus

  Males have an iridescent violet back, while females are brown above. This small sunbird lives in forests and woodland in eastern Africa.

• Carruthers's Cisticola Cisticola carruthersi

  Males have a rich rusty head and nape, a dark softly mottled back with blackish edges, gray underparts, and a dark tail with white tips and bars. A 2006 survey recorded it as one of the most abundant species in three western Kenyan papyrus swamps.

• Black-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus affinis

  This honeyeater is endemic to Tasmania. It moves through the canopy of wet and dry sclerophyll forest while looking for food.

• Black-capped Siskin Spinus atriceps

  A siskin with a black cap and yellow-green body. It occurs in highlands from southern Mexico to Guatemala.

• Piapiac Ptilostomus afer

  This corvid has a long graduated tail and a stout, curved bill. Its black plumage has a blue-purple sheen, and its eyes are purple.

• Blue-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon mellisugus

  The Blue-tailed Emerald is a small hummingbird that feeds mainly on nectar. By day it visits flowers in its territory and also takes flying insects or small arthropods from branches and spider webs.

• Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea

  The Speckled Pigeon is an African pigeon with rows of white spots on its closed wings. It lives in savannas, open woodlands and gardens, and mainly eats seeds and grain.

• Luzon Lowand Scops Owl Otus megalotis

  The Luzon Lowland Scops Owl is a small owl on Luzon and nearby islands. It has large ear tufts and hunts insects at night.

• Chocolate-vented Tyrant Neoxolmis rufiventris

  This tyrant flycatcher breeds in Patagonian grasslands and moves to the Pampas for winter. It walks through open grass or scrub and searches for food on the ground.

• Palawan Bulbul Alophoixus frater

  This bulbul is recorded only on the Palawan and Calamian islands of the Philippines. It uses forests and forest edges and feeds on insects and fruit.

• Angola Waxbill Coccopygia bocagei

  The Angola Waxbill is a small finch occurring in Angola. A field guide describes a grey head, green back, red rump, and black tail; the male has a black face. It forages on the ground for seeds in shrubland and semi-open country.

• Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus

  The Hermit Thrush is a forest bird with a brown back, spotted breast and reddish tail. It searches for insects on the ground and eats more fruit in winter.

• Golden-collared Tanager Iridosornis jelskii

  This tanager occurs in the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. A yellow band around the head and a dark facial mask stand out; it feeds on fruit and insects in the lower levels of humid montane forest.