Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little Ground Tyrant Syrtidicola fluviatilis

  

  The Little Ground Tyrant is a small flycatcher of broad river beaches and mudflats. In 2014, one bird was recorded on a sandbar of the Napo River in Ecuador; the paper considered it a non-breeding visitor.

• Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus

  The Fish Crow is an all-black crow found near estuaries, rivers, and lakes. It eats fish and crabs as well as eggs, fruit, and other foods.

• Red-capped Parrot Purpureicephalus spurius

  This parrot from extreme southwestern Australia has a red head and purple-blue underparts in the male. Its elongated upper bill helps dislodge large marri seeds.

• Ochraceous Bulbul Alophoixus ochraceus

  A white throat and wispy crest identify this bulbul. It searches among branches and leaves in lowland and foothill forest.

• Loveridge's Sunbird Cinnyris loveridgei

  Loveridge’s Sunbird is restricted to the mountains of Tanzania. Males have a golden-green head, a narrow violet breast band, and an orange-red breast; they visit flowers in montane forest.

• Scalloped Antbird Myrmoderus ruficauda

  The Scalloped Antbird inhabits forest in Brazil and often stays close to the ground. Males have a dark rufous rump and tail; females have a white breast with black scalloping.

• Cinnamon-tailed Sparrow Peucaea sumichrasti

  This sparrow is found on the Pacific slope of southern Mexico. It has a rufous crown and cinnamon-colored flanks and undertail.

• Orange-winged Amazon Amazona amazonica

  Mostly green, it has blue and yellow head markings and orange on the wings. It feeds on fruit and seeds in tropical northern South America.

• Orinoco Piculet Picumnus pumilus

  This small woodpecker lives in humid forest in eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela and northwestern Brazil. It forages from low levels up to the canopy.

• Fiery-throated Hummingbird Panterpe insignis

  This hummingbird lives in the highlands of Costa Rica and extends south into Panama. Its throat and breast can flash orange-copper and blue-violet as the viewing angle changes.

• Barred Dove Geopelia maugeus

  The Barred Dove is a small dove marked by a yellow bare eye-ring and strong bars from throat to breast. It eats seeds on islands of southeastern Indonesia.

• Flying Steamer Duck Tachyeres patachonicus

  A grey duck with a white wing patch, it lives around Patagonian lakes and rivers, with different head and bill colors by sex

• Chaco Owl Strix chacoensis

  The Chaco Owl has a white facial disk edged in dark, a white crown with a brown center stripe, and dense brown barring below. It is active at dusk and night in the dry Chaco region of South America.

• Sahul Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis variolosus

  The Sahul Brush Cuckoo often waits quietly on a branch for hairy caterpillars and other insects. It lays eggs in other birds’ nests, leaving the hosts to raise its young.

• White-eared Tailorbird Orthotomus cinereiceps

  This resident bird occurs in the Philippines. BirdLife lists moist lowland forest as its main habitat and records it up to 1,000 m.

• Grey-sided Laughingthrush Pterorhinus caerulatus

  This laughingthrush lives in forests of the eastern Himalayas. It has a brown crown and back, a white throat and breast, and broad gray flanks.

• Chinese Blackbird Turdus mandarinus

  A 2024 study examined male Chinese Blackbirds in Nanjing and analyzed songs that mimicked cuckoo calls. The study population belonged to the urban subspecies T. m. mandarinus in eastern China.

• Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus

  The Yellow-necked Spurfowl lives in eastern African scrub and bushed grassland, often near water. Males have sharp spurs behind the legs and forage on foot along the ground.

• Scarlet Finch Carpodacus sipahi

  Adult males are bright scarlet from head to belly, while females are mainly olive and look very different. The finch feeds on plant matter in Himalayan mountain forests.

• Jackal Buzzard Buteo rufofuscus

  The Jackal Buzzard is a large raptor of southern African hills and mountains. Its plumage varies, and it searches for prey from the air or a perch.

• Common Smoky Honeyeater Melipotes fumigatus

  Orange-yellow skin around the eyes and on the ear-wattle contrasts with the smoky brown back. In New Guinea's highlands, it feeds on small fruits and insects in the canopy and middle storey.

• Cipo Canastero Asthenes luizae

  This canastero is endemic to the Espinhaço Range in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. It is restricted to rocky campos rupestres, where researchers have studied scattered populations.

• Red Pileated Finch Coryphospingus cucullatus

  This tanager-family bird is recorded as native in Argentina. Males have a red crest, rump, and underparts; females have a brown head, back, and wings, with a red rump and pinkish underparts. It occurs alone, in pairs, or in groups among shrubs or on the ground.

• Indian Blue Robin Luscinia brunnea

  This robin occurs in Himalayan forest. Males have blue upperparts and orange underparts; females are brown above with paler underparts.