Meet the world’s animals.

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• Zapata Sparrow Torreornis inexpectata

  

  This sparrow has separated populations in Cuba. The nominate form at Zapata Swamp lives in sawgrass marsh; adults have a chestnut crown and white throat, and its diet changes with the seasons.

• Yellow-billed Tit-Tyrant Anairetes flavirostris

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the Peruvian Andes and forages alone or in pairs in dry scrub.

• Echo Parakeet Psittacula eques

  This green parrot lives on Mauritius. It eats flowers, leaves, and fruit, and nests in cavities in large trees.

• Sombre Pigeon Cryptophaps poecilorrhoa

  The Sombre Pigeon inhabits hill and mountain forests on Sulawesi, moving quietly in the interior understory alone or in pairs.

• Black Honeyeater Sugomel niger

  A bird of open woodland and shrubland in dry parts of Australia. Males are black and white, females are mainly brown, and it feeds on nectar and insects.

• Cape Robin-Chat Cossypha caffra

  Male and female Cape Robin-Chats look alike, with a pale orange breast and a white eyebrow-like marking. In South Africa they use thickets, stream edges, forest margins, gardens, and parks, and feed near the ground on insects and other invertebrates.

• Fulvous Shrike-Tanager Lanio fulvus

  A tanager of humid lowland forests in northern Amazonia. It acts as a sentinel near the center of mixed-species flocks and catches insects flushed by other birds.

• Hispaniolan Lizard Cuckoo Coccyzus longirostris

  A cuckoo of Hispaniola and nearby islands, it uses its long tail as it searches among branches for lizards and large insects.

• Rufous Piculet Sasia abnormis

  The Rufous Piculet is a tiny, short-tailed woodpecker with warm rufous plumage. It searches low branches, vines, and bamboo for small insects.

• Barred Owl Strix varia

  A forest owl of North America, with brown-and-white barred plumage. Its calls may reveal it at night.

• Amami Thrush Zoothera major

  A large thrush found on Amami-Oshima, with records also from nearby Kakeroma Island. It searches for animal prey and fruit in mature evergreen forest around humid valleys.

• Glossy Antshrike Sakesphorus luctuosus

  This antshrike occurs in Amazonian Brazil. The white tips of its tail feathers vary geographically, tending to be more extensive in northern populations.

• Shelley's Greenbul Arizelocichla masukuensis

  A study in Ndundulu Forest, Tanzania, recorded seasonal changes in the feeding observations of Shelley's Greenbul. An older description of the nominate form has a green crown close in color to the back and pale yellowish-olive underparts.

• Red-mantled Rosefinch Carpodacus rhodochlamys

  In Gilgit-Baltistan, this rosefinch uses high scrub in summer and lower brush in winter.

• Yellow-faced Amazon Alipiopsitta xanthops

  This parrot is marked by a yellow face and orange flanks or belly. In northern Bolivia it is usually seen in pairs and may form flocks in the austral winter.

• Ratchet-tailed Treepie Temnurus temnurus

  The Ratchet-tailed Treepie is a crow-family bird of Southeast Asian forests. Its long tail has deep notches at the tips.

• Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis

  The Green-headed Sunbird lives in African forests and wooded habitats. Males have an iridescent green head and breast, while females have a green crown.

• Long-tailed Cisticola Cisticola angusticauda

  This cisticola inhabits light woodland, savanna, and grassland. A 2023 survey in Kenya's Ruma National Park recorded two birds in non-breeding plumage.

• Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus

  The Short-tailed Hawk circles above forests, looking for birds and diving to catch them.

• White-whiskered Laughingthrush Trochalopteron morrisonianum

  This large laughingthrush lives in Taiwan's central mountains, using scrub, bamboo and forest edges. Winter records occur at lower elevations.

• Ruddy-headed Goose Chloephaga rubidiceps

  The Ruddy-headed Goose occurs at the southern end of South America and on the Falkland Islands. The mainland population breeds in the south and winters in south-western Buenos Aires Province.

• Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis

  This hummingbird is described in a species account for Cundinamarca, Colombia. The account notes bronze-green upperparts, a rufous rump, and pale streaks on the throat.

• Greater Scythebill Drymotoxeres pucheranii

  An Andean treehunter of humid mountain forest, with a very long downcurved pale bill and a rufous body marked by pale streaks.

• Cape Francolin Pternistis capensis

  This southern African spurfowl has pale cheeks and a dark cap, and searches for food on the ground.