Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cuban Bullfinch Melopyrrha nigra

  

  This black bird inhabits Cuba and nearby islands and has white on the shoulders and outer flight feathers. Males have a blue-violet gloss, while females are duller black.

• Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia

  The Striped Cuckoo ranges from southern Mexico into a broad part of South America. It is brown with a crest and lays its eggs in the nests of other birds.

• Yellow-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Woodpecker is a woodpecker with striking yellow and red on the head. It probes bark crevices and eats mainly plant foods, as well as insects.

• Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli

  Pel's Fishing Owl lives near rivers and lakes south of the Sahara in Africa and catches fish. It uses waterside trees for roosting and nesting.

• Chinese Blackbird Turdus mandarinus

  A 2024 study examined male Chinese Blackbirds in Nanjing and analyzed songs that mimicked cuckoo calls. The study population belonged to the urban subspecies T. m. mandarinus in eastern China.

• Dusky-throated Antshrike Thamnomanes ardesiacus

  This bird lives in humid lowland forest of northern Amazonia. The female has a whitish chin, and in transitional forest it can join mixed flocks with another antshrike.

• Charlotte's Bulbul Iole charlottae

  This bulbul occurs in the Sundaic lowlands. BirdLife lists the same scientific taxon as the Buff-vented Bulbul. A 2017 paper describes it as slightly larger, with a longer, heavier bill and paler undertail coverts than Indochinese Iole taxa.

• Streaky-headed Seedeater Crithagra gularis

  The Streaky-headed Seedeater lives in woodland and scrub in southern Africa. Fine streaks on the crown and a white eyebrow help identify it, and it eats flowers, buds, seeds, and fruit.

• Dusky Parrot Pionus fuscus

  The Dusky Parrot is a northern South American parrot with a slate-blue head and purple-tinged plumage that lives in humid forests.

• Rusty-flanked Crake Laterallus levraudi

  The Rusty-flanked Crake is a small rail of northwestern Venezuela. Adults have an olive-brown back and rusty sides and stay concealed in dense vegetation.

• Grey Crow Corvus tristis

  This crow has bare pink facial skin and pale blue eyes. It is often seen in noisy groups in forests around New Guinea.

• Tboli Sunbird Aethopyga tibolii

  This sunbird occurs in southern Mindanao. A 2021–2023 study in the montane forest of Mt. Melibengoy recorded visits to flowers of nine plant species and described plumage differences between males and females.

• Stout Cisticola Cisticola robustus

  An East African bird guide describes a rufous crown and nape, a finely streaked crown, a brown blotched back and wings, and a black tail with white tips. It uses grassland and scattered bushes and sings from grass clumps or bush tops. A field survey also recorded it in south-east Angola.

• Griffon vulture Gyps fulvus

  A large, pale-brown vulture that feeds on animal carcasses.

• Hoary-throated Barwing Actinodura nipalensis

  This barwing occurs in the Eastern Himalaya, including Nepal. A pale throat and faint arcs around the eye are distinctive; winter records may occur at lower elevations.

• Greylag goose Anser anser

  A large goose with grey-brown plumage. In Europe it lives in vegetated wetlands and surrounding grassland.

• Brown Inca Coeligena wilsoni

  This hummingbird inhabits the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. It has brown plumage and a white spot behind the eye, and uses humid montane forest and cloud forest.

• Sulphur-bearded Reedhaunter Limnoctites sulphuriferus

  This reedhaunter is recorded in Argentine wet grassland. Accounts describe a yellow throat patch and a local association with sedge marshes and pampas grassland.

• Gray Junglefowl Gallus sonneratii

  The Gray Junglefowl is a pheasant relative of forests and scrub in peninsular India. The sexes differ in plumage and leg colour, and males also have a seasonal plumage change.

• Yellow-rumped Mannikin Lonchura flaviprymna

  A finch of northwestern Australia. Adults have a pale gray head and yellow-brown rump, unlike the brown head and rump of juveniles.

• Perija Brush Finch Arremon perijanus

  This finch occurs in the forests of the Serranía de Perijá. A survey recorded solitary birds or pairs searching low secondary-forest undergrowth and forest edges.

• Bran-colored Flycatcher Myiophobus fasciatus

  This small flycatcher has a strongly streaked breast and variable brown, rufous, and intermediate plumages.

• Citrine Lorikeet Saudareos flavoviridis

  The Citrine Lorikeet has a green back and yellow, dark-scaled underparts. Small flocks gather at flowering trees along forest edges.

• Violaceous Quail-Dove Geotrygon violacea

  This quail-dove often uses trees, but it also visits the ground to eat fallen fruit. The Cotinga paper reports records from humid lowland forest in Peru.