Meet the world’s animals.

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• Barking Boobook Ninox connivens

  

  This owl is active at night. Adults have a gray-brown back with white spots on the wings, and they hunt small to medium-sized animals.

• Golden-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia atricapilla

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

• Common Babbler Argya caudata

  A bird with fine streaks and dark eyes that moves over the ground and low scrub in small flocks.

• New Caledonian Friarbird Philemon diemenensis

  This large honeyeater is found only in New Caledonia. It eats flower nectar, fruit, and insects, and also uses open places where flowers grow.

• Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata

  This small bird darts from a perch to catch insects. It visits the UK in summer, and adult males and females look alike.

• Purplish Jay Cyanocorax cyanomelas

  This jay is recognizable by its bluish-purple body and black facial mask. Family groups search for food in forests and along their edges.

• Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus thura

  The Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch uses scrubby and semi-open habitats around the Himalaya. Males are lilac-pink, while females are brown and streaked, so the sexes look different.

• 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.

• Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus

  The Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo is a long-tailed forest cuckoo in Africa. It is secretive and may be detected by its call.

• Plum-headed Finch Neochmia modesta

  Both sexes have a plum-colored head spot, while only the male has a dark chin spot. The JCU page documents a local occurrence in Townsville.

• Northern Rosella Platycercus venustus

  This parrot lives in woodlands and savanna across northern Australia. Its black head and back contrast with yellow cheeks and underparts, while blue shows on the wings and tail.

• Marquesan Ground Dove Pampusana rubescens

  The Marquesan Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling pigeon with a gray head and breast and a reddish-purple back. It turns through leaf litter as it searches for seeds and ants.

• Egyptian vulture Neophron percnopterus

  A vulture known for a white body, yellow face and occasional use of stones as tools.

• Humblot's Sunbird Cinnyris humbloti

  Oiseaux.net lists two subspecies on Grand Comoro and Moheli in the Comoros. The species is about 11 cm long and also uses moist lowland forest, shrubland and rural gardens.

• White-browed Conebill Conirostrum ferrugineiventre

  This small bird occurs on the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It may forage in mixed-species flocks.

• Black-chested Tyrant Taeniotriccus andrei

  The Black-chested Tyrant is a small tyrant flycatcher of forests in northern South America. It moves through understory bamboo and secondary growth near rivers, taking small insects among the foliage.

• Scaly Thrush Zoothera dauma

  A forest-dwelling thrush with scale-like markings on its plumage, it searches among leaf litter for invertebrates.

• Steller's Eider Polysticta stelleri

  Steller's Eider is a small sea duck. Most breed in Arctic Russia, and populations molt or winter in shallow coastal waters of Alaska.

• Stub-tailed Antbird Sipia berlepschi

  This antbird occurs in lowlands of western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It uses densely vegetated lowland forest edges, light gaps, and second growth.

• Striated Bulbul Alcurus striatus

  This bulbul lives in broadleaf forests on hills and mountains. Its streaked plumage is distinctive, and it may move in noisy groups.

• White-fronted Amazon Amazona albifrons

  A small Amazon parrot marked by a white forehead and red face, it feeds on different plants as local and seasonal conditions change.

• Violet-bellied Hummingbird Chlorestes julie

  A small hummingbird whose male has a violet-glowing belly. It feeds mainly on nectar in humid lowland and foothill forests of northwestern Colombia.

• Golden-olive Woodpecker Colaptes rubiginosus

  This woodpecker ranges from southern Mexico through Central America into northwestern South America and the Andes. It has olive plumage with fine bars, and males show a red facial stripe.

• Light-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca albiceps

  This ovenbird-family species occurs in humid montane forest in southeastern Peru and Bolivia. Its pale crown and dark eyebrow are distinctive.