Meet the world’s animals.
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- Purple-throated Sunbird Leptocoma sperata
Photo: Casey Clark Sumalinog · CC BY 4.0 This sunbird occurs in the Philippines. Males have a purple throat and red belly, and feed on nectar and small insects.
- Orange-billed Babbler Argya rufescens
The Orange-billed Babbler lives in flocks in Sri Lanka's wet-zone forests. Its reddish-brown body contrasts with a bright orange bill and legs.
- Chestnut Teal Anas castanea
In breeding plumage, the male has a chestnut head and neck with a green sheen on the crown, while the female is mottled brown. The species searches shallow water in Australian wetlands and estuaries.
- Miombo Wren-Warbler Calamonastes undosus
This small bird occurs in savannas and miombo woodland in central and eastern Africa. It has a dark gray head, barred underparts, and orange eyes.
- Rufous-collared Robin Turdus rufitorques
The Rufous-collared Robin is a large thrush of Central American highlands, including forest edges near farmland and villages.
- Dark-breasted Rosefinch Procarduelis nipalensis
The Dark-breasted Rosefinch has dark pink males with a pale throat and eyebrow. In Thimphu Valley it searches the ground for food in mountain forests and rocky sites.
- Large-billed Seed Finch Sporophila crassirostris
It has a large, thick bill for its body size. The male is almost entirely black with a white wing patch and ivory bill; the female is brown above and buffier below. In Colombia it forages mainly for grass seeds in tall grass near water.
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater Caligavis chrysops
It is widespread in eastern Australian forest and woodland. It probes flowers for nectar and searches leaves and branches for insects.
- 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.
- Grey-chested Dove Leptotila cassinii
Grey-chested Doves have muted gray-brown upperparts with a slight purplish cast and pale underparts. They usually forage on foot, alone or in pairs, in forests from southern Mexico through Central America to northern Colombia.
- Western Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla tephrolaema
This bulbul occurs in the Cameroonian highlands and on Bioko. Records include montane forest, secondary and gallery forest, clearings, and bamboo.
- Large Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides
The Large Hawk-Cuckoo is a migratory cuckoo found at forest edges and in secondary growth. It breeds farther north, including around the Himalayas, and moves south into Southeast Asia for winter.
- White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
A kite with a white body and tail and gray wings. It hovers over grassland while searching for small mammals.
- Snowy-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia edward
Its glossy green plumage and white belly are distinctive. The distribution entry here is one 2021 observation in Panama.
- Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
Males and females have different plumage: males are black-and-pale-grey barred, while females are rufous. Pairs move through low trees in search of small arthropods.
- Blackish Cinclodes Cinclodes antarcticus
The Falkland Islands nominate form of the Blackish Cinclodes is dark brown with a paler, speckled throat. On rat-free islands it forages along the coast and may follow people.
- Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus
The world’s largest grouse lives mainly in pine woodland. In Britain, it remains in northern Scotland.
- Rosy-faced lovebird Agapornis roseicollis
A small parrot of southwestern Africa, with a mainly green body and a rosy face and throat.
- Little Crow Corvus bennetti
This crow lives in dry woodland and shrubland in Australia. It is active by day and eats a varied diet.
- Guadalupe Junco Junco insularis
This junco is endemic to Guadalupe Island. It has a grayish head, white underparts and white outer tail sides, and forages in trees and on the ground.
- Cream-backed Woodpecker Campephilus leucopogon
The Cream-backed Woodpecker inhabits open woodland and savanna in South America. It is marked by a black body, red head and pale triangular patch on the back.
- Flammulated Owl Psiloscops flammeolus
The Flammulated Owl is a small owl that breeds in mountain conifer forests of western North America and winters in Mexico and Central America.
- Venezuelan Flycatcher Myiarchus venezuelensis
A Myiarchus flycatcher found in Colombia and Venezuela. It has a gray-brown back and pale yellow underparts and is recorded in forests and at woodland edges.
- Rüppell's Black Chat Myrmecocichla melaena
Rüppell's Black Chat is entirely black, with a large white wing patch that becomes conspicuous in flight. It lives in rocky northern Abyssinian highlands and feeds on invertebrates on the ground.