Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little owl Athene noctua

  

  A small owl with yellow eyes and brown plumage, found around farmland and open country.

• Himalayan Buzzard Buteo refectus

  The Himalayan Buzzard is polymorphic, with substantial variation in plumage. Some birds are resident in the Himalaya, while records document southward movement in winter to north-east India and the Indian Peninsula.

• Black-crested Finch Lophospingus pusillus

  This small finch occurs in South American Chaco woodland, woodland edges and grasslands. Its usual range extends from southern Bolivia through Paraguay to west-central Argentina. A bird recorded near Mendoza city in 2024 may have escaped or been released.

• White-flanked Antwren Myrmotherula axillaris

  A small antbird of humid lowland forests from Central America into South America, feeding among low branches.

• Golden-crowned Spadebill Platyrinchus coronatus

  This tiny flycatcher stays in the lower levels of Amazonian forest. Its broad bill, rufous crown, and black-edged cheek markings distinguish it from similar spadebills.

• Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia

  Bruce's Green Pigeon is a daytime fruit-eating pigeon of Afrotropical woodland, savanna, and riverine forest.

• Bamboo Woodpecker Gecinulus viridis

  The Bamboo Woodpecker is a subdued green woodpecker closely associated with bamboo. It probes stems and trunks slowly for small prey.

• Dark-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albigularis

  This small bird lives in grassy scrub and forest edges in Amazonia and forages in young second growth. Its rufous crown and dark throat are useful field marks.

• Nicobar Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias nicobaricus

  The Nicobar Jungle Flycatcher (Cyornis nicobaricus) is endemic to the southern Nicobar Islands. It is dark brown above, with a buff eye-ring; the whitish underside has a mottled breast-band. It lives in forest and feeds on invertebrates.

• Hispaniolan Euphonia Euphonia musica

  The Hispaniolan Euphonia (Chlorophonia musica) is resident on Hispaniola, including Gonâve Island. It uses forest and semi-open habitats and feeds on fruit.

• Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus

  This large hummingbird shows purple and green plumage. Males and females differ below, and it feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Mindanao Boobook Ninox spilocephala

  This boobook occurs on Mindanao. It has long ear-covert extensions, while breast barring and belly streaks vary among individuals. Researchers recorded long solo songs and shorter duets.

• Red Goshawk Erythrotriorchis radiatus

  A large reddish-brown raptor, it usually hunts birds alone in northern Australian forest, savanna, and waterside habitats.

• Slate-colored Grosbeak Saltator grossus

  The Slate-colored Grosbeak forages in the canopy and subcanopy of mature forests. Peru Aves shows an adult of unknown sex photographed in Pichincha, Ecuador.

• Black Antbird Cercomacroides serva

  The Black Antbird lives along edges and in the understory of humid evergreen forests in the western Amazon. The male is black to dark grey with a white patch between the shoulders.

• Sad Flycatcher Myiarchus barbirostris

  The Sad Flycatcher lives in Jamaican woodland and forest edges, catching insects in short flights from a perch.

• Sultan's Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia doreya

  A forest dove ranging from Sulawesi through the Moluccas to northwestern New Guinea. The account notes that some island populations may be treated as separate species.

• Greater Flameback Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus

  The Greater Flameback is a large woodpecker ranging across South and Southeast Asia. In part of its range, it is strongly associated with mangroves.

• Curve-billed Reedhaunter Limnornis curvirostris

  This bird occurs in wetlands of Argentina and Uruguay. An 1888 natural-history account describes it in dense reeds rising from water, where it remains concealed.

• White-crowned Forktail Enicurus leschenaulti

  This long-tailed thrush is marked in black and white and lives along forest streams. It searches near the water for small invertebrates.

• White-vented Euphonia Euphonia minuta

  The White-vented Euphonia lives in humid tropical forest and nearby vegetation. Males have a dark throat and yellow belly, while females are olive above; the birds mainly search for fruit in the canopy.

• Broad-billed Hummingbird Cynanthus latirostris

  Males have a striking blue head and throat. This hummingbird laps nectar with its tongue and also eats insects.

• Black-and-white Owl Strix nigrolineata

  The Black-and-white Owl is a nocturnal owl with bold black-and-white bars across its chest and neck.

• Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides

  A small eagle with a wingspan over one metre. In woodland and along rivers in the Australian Capital Territory, it watches for prey from above and then swoops down.