Meet the world’s animals.

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• Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus

  

  An eagle with a large head and broad wings. It hovers to search for snakes and lizards on the ground.

• Moluccan Island Thrush Turdus deningeri

  The Moluccan Island Thrush occurs on separate Moluccan islands. The 2024 Clements treatment includes the Seram population and tentatively includes the Taliabu form. Seram birds are black-bodied with an indistinct white hood.

• Band-tailed Sierra Finch Porphyrospiza alaudina

  The Band-tailed Sierra Finch forages on the ground in open Andean country. Males are gray with a white tail band, while females are brown and streaked.

• Streak-capped Antwren Terenura maculata

  A small antbird of the Atlantic Forest. It searches leafy middle and upper forest layers in pairs or family groups.

• Bubbling Cisticola Cisticola bulliens

  This small cisticola occurs along the Angolan coast and in parts of the Congo Basin. It is fairly pale and is often easier to detect by its song in grassland and savanna.

• Amazonian Scrub Flycatcher Sublegatus obscurior

  This small flycatcher is widespread in Amazonia. Its head, back and breast are grey, its belly yellowish, and it forages in secondary forest and scrub.

• Pied Cuckoo-Dove Reinwardtoena browni

  This large dove contrasts a silvery head, neck, and chest with a pale belly and dark wings and tail. It lives in forests on islands northeast of New Guinea.

• Mexican Duck Anas diazi

  The Mexican Duck is found mainly in Mexico. It uses temporary wetlands during the rainy season and agricultural areas around water in the dry season.

• Silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera

  A pheasant whose male has white-and-black patterned feathers on its back and long tail.

• Ashy-fronted Bulbul Pycnonotus cinereifrons

  The Ashy-fronted Bulbul occurs on Palawan and nearby islands in the western Philippines. It is treated here as the separate species Pycnonotus cinereifrons, rather than under older treatments that included it as a subspecies of the Olive-winged Bulbul. It eats fruit in forest edges and coastal scrub.

• Striped Woodpecker Veniliornis lignarius

  A bark-foraging woodpecker recorded in Argentina’s montane forests and forest edges in the regional account.

• Green Avadavat Amandava formosa

  The Green Avadavat has a restricted range in India. A study at Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary found it more often in higher areas with greater grass and shrub cover.

• Variegated Laughingthrush Trochalopteron variegatum

  This olive-and-buff laughingthrush has a black throat stripe and a broad gray band near the end of its tail. It searches for insects and fruit in Himalayan woodland and scrub.

• Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla rufosuperciliata

  This foliage-gleaner lives in moist mountain forest and tall secondary growth on the eastern Andes of Bolivia. Its buff eyebrow and streaked underside help identify it.

• Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis

  Its orange face, throat, belly, and tail contrast with a blue-gray back. It searches for insects in leaf litter, and most of its population is in southern Africa.

• Western Rosella Platycercus icterotis

  The Western Rosella is the smallest rosella and is marked by a yellow or cream cheek patch. It occurs in southwestern Australia.

• White-winged Grosbeak Mycerobas carnipes

  The White-winged Grosbeak is a highland bird with a dark head and a conspicuous white wing patch. In Yunnan, China, it uses coniferous and mixed forests and feeds mainly on plant seeds.

• Crimson-bellied Parakeet Pyrrhura perlata

  The Crimson-bellied Parakeet is green with a red belly and eats fruit and flowers. Wild birds may be seen in small flocks.

• Gray-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus largipennis

  This hummingbird occurs in humid lowland forest in eastern Colombia and in foothill forest east of the Andes. It feeds on nectar and also sallies from a perch to catch small insects.

• Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster

  The Black-throated Coucal is a large coucal with a black head and breast and a white belly. It hides in lowland forest edge and wetland thickets in western and central Africa.

• Fuscous Honeyeater Ptilotula fusca

  This olive-brown honeyeater has a yellow patch on the side of its neck and uses dry eucalypt forest and woodland in eastern Australia. Some birds move to lower elevations in winter.

• Arabian Scops Owl Otus pamelae

  The Arabian Scops Owl is a resident owl of the southern Arabian Peninsula that hunts invertebrates at night.

• Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda

  The male has long tail feathers and is longer than the female. This small bird feeds on nectar, small insects, and spiders.

• Rufous-crowned Sparrow Aimophila ruficeps

  The Rufous-crowned Sparrow is marked by reddish upperparts and a gray underside. It walks beneath low shrubs and grasses on dry, rocky hillsides to forage.