Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ochraceous Bulbul Alophoixus ochraceus

  

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

• Green Parakeet Psittacara holochlorus

  The Green Parakeet is mostly green and has a long, pointed tail. Within its natural range it uses tropical and subtropical woodlands, farmland, and plantations.

• Oaxaca Sparrow Aimophila notosticta

  A sparrow of interior Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Its black bill and black facial markings around a broken white eyering are distinctive.

• Lesser cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus

  A cuckoo visiting Japanese mountain forests, where the male’s loud call carries through the trees.

• Hudson's Canastero Asthenes hudsoni

  This canastero is concentrated in the humid Pampas and has black streaking on its back. A research review describes partial seasonal movement; Brazilian records include tall grass and sedges on a coastal plain.

• Streak-breasted Honeyeater Territornis reticulata

  This honeyeater is endemic to Timor and Semau islands. Accounts record it in habitats from forest to gardens and mangroves, with more records in lowlands near the coast.

• Russet Nightingale-Thrush Catharus occidentalis

  A thrush of montane forests in Mexico. Its reported body length is 15–18 cm; it forages on the ground by day and takes food including invertebrates.

• Neergaard's sunbird Cinnyris neergaardi

  This sunbird occurs in southeastern Africa. Males have green upperparts with blue-violet and red bands, while females are gray-brown; it feeds on nectar and small invertebrates.

• Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina

  A pale, sandy-colored wheatear of Kazakhstan’s steppe and semi-desert. It nests in disused mammal burrows.

• Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens

  Its olive back, white eye-ring, and pale wing bars are useful clues. In mature forests of the eastern United States, it darts out to catch insects.

• Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush Pterorhinus mitratus

  A laughingthrush of forests from southern Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. It searches for food in montane and secondary forest.

• Chihuahuan Raven Corvus cryptoleucus

  The Chihuahuan Raven lives in dry grasslands and desert scrub. It forms flocks year-round and searches widely for food.

• Olive-spotted Hummingbird Talaphorus chlorocercus

  The Olive-spotted Hummingbird is recorded in scrub and secondary vegetation on islands along Amazonian rivers. It has green upperparts, gray underparts, and olive spots on the throat and chest.

• Cardinal Lory Pseudeos cardinalis

  The Cardinal Lory is a nectar-feeding parrot with conspicuous red plumage. It ranges from New Ireland to Bougainville and the Solomon Islands, using coastal lowlands and upland forest.

• Gray-headed Tanager Eucometis penicillata

  This tanager has a gray head and yellow-orange underparts. Peruvian accounts place it in the middle levels of floodplain forest.

• Indian Vulture Gyps indicus

  Adult Indian Vultures have a heavy pale bill and a rounded head covered with fine pale feathers.

• Sunda Owlet Taenioptynx sylvaticus

  The Sunda Owlet is a very small owl of hill and montane forest on Sumatra and Borneo. In 2021, the eBird taxonomy separated it from the widespread Collared Owlet based on voice and plumage.

• Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea

  This small African bird occurs in eastern Africa, including Kenya, and parts of western Africa. It uses montane forest, woodland, and thickets.

• Red Spurfowl Galloperdix spadicea

  This spurfowl lives on the forest floor in India. The male is mainly rufous, while the female has more dark mottling, and both search among leaf litter for seeds, fruit, and insects.

• Olive-backed Woodpecker Gecinulus rafflesii

  The Olive-backed Woodpecker has an olive-green back and golden rump. It searches tree trunks and large branches for insects.

• Black-faced Canary Crithagra capistrata

  A small canary of central African woodland and savanna, ranging from the Congo region toward Angola and Zambia.

• Mandarin duck Aix galericulata

  A duck of wooded ponds and streams. Males in breeding plumage have ornamental feathers raised like sails above the back.

• Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis

  A small, long-tailed dove with a reddish-brown breast and belly. In southern Africa it is often seen in pairs or small groups, feeding on seeds on the ground.

• Rio Madeira Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla amazonica

  This antbird forages in the lower and middle forest layers of Amazonia and may join mixed-species flocks. Males and females differ in throat and wing markings.