Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-edged Oriole Icterus graceannae

  

  This icterid ranges from western Ecuador into northwestern Peru. Adults are yellow-orange with a black bib, back, wings, and tail; white edging on the outer tail feathers is a useful mark.

• Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum

  

  The Bar-tailed Trogon lives in humid African mountain forest. By day it searches for caterpillars and other insects.

• Black-necked Wattle-eye Platysteira chalybea

  

  This forest bird occurs in west-central Africa. Males are glossy greenish black, while females are duller and have a smaller blue-green eye wattle.

• White-tailed Cotinga Xipholena lamellipennis

  

  This cotinga occurs in lower Amazonian Brazil south of the Amazon River. The male is purplish black, with white on most of the tail and wings. The species is poorly known and is reported as apparently nowhere common.

• Eastern Barn Owl Tyto javanica

  

  This nocturnal owl lives in open country in eastern Australia. Its white heart-shaped face and sandy plumage with black spots help identify it. At night it searches for small animals on the ground.

• Black-breasted Buttonquail Turnix melanogaster

  

  The Black-breasted Buttonquail is a ground bird with white spots across its black breast. It forages through forest floors where a deep, moist layer of leaf litter is available.

• Black Vulture Coragyps atratus

  A black New World vulture found from North to South America. It feeds on carrion and may share food with relatives.

• Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus

  A wetland bird that walks on floating plants with long toes; its central tail feathers grow long in breeding plumage.

• 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.

• Black-winged Lapwing Vanellus melanopterus

  This lapwing occurs in separated areas of the East African highlands and southern Africa, where it forages on open ground.

• Rufous-faced Warbler Abroscopus albogularis

  The Rufous-faced Warbler is a small bird of forests from the eastern Himalayas to southern China and northern Indochina. It quietly searches for insects in the middle and lower canopy.

• Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus

  The Spotted Honeyguide is an African bird with an olive back and a spotted breast. It searches forest canopies for beeswax and insects.

• Carpentarian Grasswren Amytornis dorotheae

  This bird inhabits spinifex grassland and rocky areas in northern Australia, around the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.

• Bonin Petrel Pterodroma hypoleuca

  The Bonin Petrel is a seabird that catches fish and squid offshore. It breeds in winter and lays one egg in a sandy burrow.

• Glossy Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami

  The south-eastern form often feeds on she-oak seeds and raises its young in hollows in old eucalypts.

• Chestnut-vented Nuthatch Sitta nagaensis

  This small nuthatch searches bark for insects in forests and scrub.

• Firethroat Luscinia pectardens

  This small bird breeds in the mountains of southern China and winters in northeastern India. Males show a bright orange throat and breast; females are brown.

• White-spotted Fantail Rhipidura albogularis

  Rhipidura albogularis is listed from southern India and the northern Eastern Ghats. A 2021–2023 breeding study followed 15 nests in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

• Hepatic Tanager Piranga hepatica

  This tanager ranges from the United States to Nicaragua. The Texas atlas distinguishes P. hepatica from the older broad treatment as P. flava and describes its Texas breeding habitat in dry juniper-pinyon or pine-oak woodland.

• Black-faced Cuckooshrike Coracina novaehollandiae

  The Black-faced Cuckooshrike occurs in wooded places other than rainforests, including suburbs. It eats insects and other foods, and is also called the Shufflewing for its wing-shuffling movement on landing.

• Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera

  This starling inhabits grassland and scrub in eastern Africa. Adults have glossy blue-green and purple plumage with a long tail, and feed on fruit, insects, and other available food.

• Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala

  A large stork of wetlands on the Indian subcontinent. It has a white body with a pink tinge and searches shallow water for small fish.

• Blue Mockingbird Melanotis caerulescens

  This mockingbird occurs mainly in Mexico. In a study of three riparian sites in Jalisco, abundance was higher where shrub cover was greater, and breeding took place from April to August.

• Red Lark Calendulauda burra

  The Red Lark is endemic to South Africa's Northern Cape. A BirdLife South Africa account describes plumage forms associated with dune and clay shrubland habitats.