Meet the world’s animals.

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• Northern Grosbeak-Canary Crithagra donaldsoni

  

  A bird of dry northeastern African savanna that feeds on seeds on the ground.

• Lidth's Jay Garrulus lidthi

  This jay, endemic to the Amami Islands, has a blue head and rusty body. Its calls carry through the forest, and it may be seen in small flocks.

• Golden-bellied Starfrontlet Coeligena bonapartei

  The Golden-bellied Starfrontlet is a hummingbird of cloud forests and other wooded openings in Colombia's eastern Andes. It has a black head and a long, straight black bill, and feeds on nectar.

• Burmese Collared Dove Streptopelia xanthocycla

  This dove is recorded in central Myanmar. A yellow ring of bare skin around the eye is a useful field mark. ITIS lists the name as valid and cites the 2025 IOC World Bird List.

• Striped Owl Asio clamator

  This owl has long ear tufts and vertical streaks on its body. It is active at dusk and night, hunting small animals in open country and along woodland edges.

• Black-capped Flycatcher Empidonax atriceps

  The Black-capped Flycatcher is a small flycatcher of Central American highlands. Its black cap and white eye-ring stand out, and it is found at open forest edges.

• Crested Finchbill Spizixos canifrons

  The Crested Finchbill ranges across Bangladesh, mainland China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its thick pale bill and upright black nape crest are distinctive.

• Pale thrush Turdus pallidus

  A thrush mainly seen in Japan in winter. It favors dim woodland with undergrowth and forages on the ground.

• Chestnut-throated Seedeater Sporophila telasco

  This small seedeater ranges along the Pacific slope from southern Colombia to northern Chile. In Chile it uses dry valleys and farmland, mainly below 1,000 m.

• Scale-feathered Malkoha Dasylophus cumingi

  This Philippine cuckoo lives in forest and searches for insects in trees.

• Ecuadorian Piculet Picumnus sclateri

  This small woodpecker inhabits drier forest and scrub in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It is recorded along the Andean foothills up to 1,800 m.

• Alagoas Antwren Myrmotherula snowi

  This small antwren is recorded in humid forest in northeastern Brazil. Males are gray and females are rufous-brown; a 2005 survey documented one male in a forested valley with a stream and dense lianas.

• Barrow’s Goldeneye Bucephala islandica

  This diving duck has an adult male with a purplish head and long white crescent, while females have brown heads.

• Rusty Laughingthrush Pterorhinus poecilorhynchus

  This laughingthrush is endemic to Taiwan's mid-elevation forests. Mainland birds once included within the same species are now treated as Buffy Laughingthrush, Pterorhinus berthemyi.

• Lesser Fish Eagle Icthyophaga humilis

  A small eagle seen around rivers and lakes. Adults are marked by a white belly and yellow eyes, and the species often uses fast-flowing foothill streams.

• Perija Thistletail Asthenes perijana

  This thistletail is restricted to the Sierra de Perijá on the Colombia–Venezuela border. Its long tail and rufous-brown back stand out; it searches for small prey in high-elevation scrub.

• Yungas Sparrow Rhynchospiza dabbenei

  This large sparrow occurs in the Austral Yungas of northwestern Argentina. It uses high-elevation montane scrub, separated from the lowland Chaco scrub used by the related Chaco Sparrow.

• Yellow-naped Amazon Amazona auropalliata

  The Yellow-naped Amazon is a parrot whose green feathers blend into forest foliage as it flies and feeds in flocks.

• Chinese Francolin Francolinus pintadeanus

  The Chinese Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird often found in cover. It searches for berries, insects and other food in the morning and evening.

• Goldie's Lorikeet Glossoptilus goldiei

  Goldie's Lorikeet is a New Guinea parrot with a red crown, blue nape, and green body. It gathers at flowering trees and moves in flocks.

• Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush Cichladusa ruficauda

  The Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush is about 18 cm long. It uses palm-dominated woodland, riverine forest, and gardens, where it forages on the ground for invertebrates.

• Handsome Sunbird Aethopyga bella

  The Handsome Sunbird is a Philippine sunbird. Males have iridescent green on the head, while females have a yellow rump. A field study on Cebu recorded it taking nectar from forest mistletoe flowers.

• Ruwenzori Apalis Oreolais ruwenzorii

  A small bird with a slate-grey back, rufous-buff throat and a narrow breast band. It lives in central African montane forest, where pairs duet.

• White-lined Honeyeater Territornis albilineata

  A 1967 Northern Territory list records it on the Arnhem Land Plateau and in sandstone ranges and canyons, especially near fruiting trees such as figs. A separate banding guide says adult males and females do not differ in plumage.