Meet the world’s animals.

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• Socotra Warbler Incana incana

  

  Endemic to Socotra, this small bird occurs widely in habitats with trees and shrubs. The museum description of an adult male records ashy-brown upperparts, pale underparts, and white tips and dark bands on the tail.

• Blue-capped Hummingbird Eupherusa cyanophrys

  The Blue-capped Hummingbird is a mountain species in southern Mexico; the male has a vivid blue-violet forecrown.

• Buff-vented Bulbul Iole crypta

  The Buff-vented Bulbul is Iole crypta. A field record from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, places it at a lowland primary-forest edge, attracted to ripe Bridelia tomentosa fruit.

• Black-throated Grosbeak Saltator fuliginosus

  The Black-throated Grosbeak lives in Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest and nearby regions. It searches for fruit and seeds in the middle forest layer, sometimes in mixed-species flocks.

• Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus

  The Eastern Towhee is a sparrow-sized bird of woodland undergrowth and thickets. Males are black and reddish-brown; females replace the black with brown, and their leaf-litter scratching is often heard.

• Swainson's Francolin Pternistis swainsonii

  Swainson's Francolin is a southern African bird that uses grasslands, woodland edges, farmland, and watersides. It searches on the ground for seeds and insects.

• Spectacled Eider Somateria fischeri

  The Spectacled Eider is a sea duck whose breeding-plumage male has a green head and round white patches around the eyes. It breeds along Arctic coasts and gathers in openings in Bering Sea ice in winter.

• Yellow-chinned Spinetail Certhiaxis cinnamomeus

  This spinetail has chestnut-brown upperparts and head, with white underparts. Its pale yellow chin can be hard to see.

• Kurrichane Thrush Turdus libonyana

  This thrush occurs in woodlands and gardens in south-central Africa. Photographs from South Africa in 2007 show grey-brown upperparts, a reddish belly, and an orange bill. It forages mainly on the ground, searching leaf litter for insects and fruit.

• European Serin Serinus serinus

  A small finch that stays year-round in southern Europe and visits northern Europe in summer. It uses open landscapes with scattered trees.

• Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus orbitatus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in lowland forest in southeastern Brazil. It is about 11 cm long, with a white ring around each eye.

• Banasura Laughingthrush Montecincla jerdoni

  A laughingthrush endemic to India's southwestern Western Ghats. A 2026 mountain survey recorded it in shola forest at the sites studied.

• Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea

  A red-orange crest runs over the head. In western Uganda’s Budongo Forest, observers reported birds following people and searching disturbed leaf litter.

• Spotted Nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes

  A mountain forest corvid with conspicuous white spots on its dark brown feathers.

• Scarlet Myzomela Myzomela sanguinolenta

  This small honeyeater occurs in eastern Australia. Males are red and black, while females and immature birds are mainly brown. It often visits flowers for nectar.

• Anchieta's Sunbird Anthreptes anchietae

  Anchieta's Sunbird is 10–12 cm long. It uses open Brachystegia woodland and shrubs associated with Tacoma and Protea, and feeds on invertebrates. The page lists sound recordings from Zambia.

• Rufous-fronted Parakeet Bolborhynchus ferrugineifrons

  This small green parakeet lives in a restricted high-altitude range in central Colombia.

• Mindanao Montane Racquet-tail Prioniturus waterstradti

  This parrot lives in montane forest on Mindanao. It has a green body, a bluish face, and racket-shaped tips on its tail feathers.

• Rufescent Imperial Pigeon Ducula chalconota

  The Rufescent Imperial Pigeon has glossy green upperparts and a chestnut-red belly. It feeds on fruit in the mountain forests of New Guinea.

• Rufous-banded Owl Strix albitarsis

  The Rufous-banded Owl has separate field records from Ecuador and Colombia. An Ecuadorian report describes a pale-down juvenile; a Colombian study suggests foraging in secondary forest and plantations.

• Variable Antshrike Thamnophilus caerulescens

  The Variable Antshrike is about 13–14 cm long, and male plumage differs markedly among regions. In Bolivia it is recorded from the eastern Andean Yungas to southeastern lowlands.

• Black-shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris

  A small raptor with a white and grey body and a black shoulder patch. It hovers over open ground while searching for rodents.

• Red-collared Woodpecker Picus rabieri

  Adult males show a red head and upper breast, green upperparts, and pale bars on the belly; females have a black crown. The species uses forest and bamboo-rich woodland and searches low branches or the ground for ants.

• Common Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx varius

  The Common Hawk-Cuckoo uses forest and farmland edges. It feeds on invertebrates in trees and moves seasonally.