Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Greater Wagtail-Tyrant Stigmatura budytoides

  A flycatcher with a very long, white-tipped tail; it is also recorded in Argentine scrublands and protected areas.

• Black-headed Bulbul Brachypodius melanocephalos

  The common color morph has a glossy black head with olive and yellow body plumage. Small groups feed on fruit in forests and forest edges from northeastern India through Southeast Asia.

• Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava

  A small passerine with an orange-red breast, it feeds on grass seeds in wetlands and dry savannas of equatorial Africa.

• Gray-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus

  The Gray-cheeked Thrush has a grayish face and spotted breast. It breeds in far northern North America and migrates to South America for winter.

• Black-capped Hemispingus Kleinothraupis atropileus

  It occurs in northern Andean mountain forest, from south-western Venezuela through Colombia and Ecuador to far northern Peru. It is recorded at 2,300–3,200 m.

• 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.

• Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus

  A large woodpecker of North America that searches for ants and beetles on the ground as well as on tree trunks. In flight, its white rump and the color of its wing and tail shafts are visible.

• White-bearded Antshrike Biatas nigropectus

  The White-bearded Antshrike is associated with bamboo in the Atlantic Forest. Males have a black cap and white face, while females have a rufous crown.

• Chiloe Wigeon Mareca sibilatrix

  Males have a green, iridescent head while females are duller; they gather with other ducks in shallow water and rest on grassy banks.

• Silver-eared Mesia Leiothrix argentauris

  Chestnut and olive feathers, a dark face, and silvery ear patches mark this small bird. It forms flocks in woodland and eats fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Black-mantled Goshawk Tachyspiza melanochlamys

  The Black-mantled Goshawk is a raptor of New Guinea's mountain forests. Adults show a strong contrast between dark upperparts and rufous underparts.

• Tyrannine Woodcreeper Dendrocincla tyrannina

  This woodcreeper uses the lower and middle layers of humid montane forest. Its head, back, throat and breast are reddish olive, with beige scaling on the breast.

• Moss-backed Sparrow Arremon dorbignii

  The Moss-backed Sparrow ranges from the eastern Bolivian Andes foothills to northwestern Argentina. It uses the understory of second-growth and mature forest, usually alone or with its mate and sometimes in mixed flocks.

• Jandaya Parakeet Aratinga jandaya

  This parakeet occurs in northeastern Brazil. Adults have yellow heads and necks with orange breasts and bellies; it also uses forest edges and palm groves.

• Red-billed Francolin Pternistis adspersus

  The Red-billed Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird with yellow around the eyes and a red bill and legs. By day it uses dry savanna and thickets near water, eating plant and animal foods.

• Great Hanging Parrot Loriculus stigmatus

  The Great Hanging Parrot is a small parrot found mainly on Sulawesi in Indonesia. It is active by day and feeds on fruit and nectar.

• White-browed Scrub Robin Erythropygia leucophrys

  In southern African accounts, this small bird uses scrub and savanna woodland. It has a rufous rump and upper tail coverts, a streaked breast and white wing markings. Older sources retain the combination Erythropygia leucophrys.

• Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa

  The Malachite Sunbird occurs in separate parts of East and southern Africa. It feeds mainly on nectar and has a slender body and long tail.

• Long-tailed Cisticola Cisticola angusticauda

  This cisticola inhabits light woodland, savanna, and grassland. A 2023 survey in Kenya's Ruma National Park recorded two birds in non-breeding plumage.

• Ornate Honeyeater Melidectes torquatus

  The Ornate Melidectes is a honeyeater of New Guinea's mountains. A nominate-subspecies male has conspicuous yellow-orange bare skin around the eye and a white-scaled back, and searches for food in the canopy.

• Collared Grosbeak Mycerobas affinis

  The Collared Grosbeak is a large finch whose plumage differs between males and females. This account gives the Chinese part of its range described by the Kunming Institute of Zoology.

• Malayan Black Magpie Platysmurus leucopterus

  A corvid with an all-black body, a white wing band, and a long broad tail; it forages in the forest canopy and mid-story.

• Shining Sunbeam Aglaeactis cupripennis

  A high-Andean hummingbird with cinnamon-rufous plumage that varies by subspecies. Both sexes have an iridescent rump. Flower nectar was the main food recorded at study sites in Peru and Ecuador.