Meet the world’s animals.

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• Indian Scops Owl Otus bakkamoena

  

  This small owl lives in forests and wooded areas of South Asia. It has conspicuous ear tufts and hunts insects at night.

• Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena

  

  In North America, it breeds on shallow lakes in Canada and Alaska and winters mainly along the coast. It dives for fish and crustaceans.

• Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni

  

  A pratincole that catches insects in flight. It breeds in Eurasia and migrates to Africa.

• Dunnock Prunella modularis

  

  A small gray and brown bird that searches for food on the ground in gardens and shrubbery in the UK.

• Black-banded Crake Rufirallus fasciatus

  

  The Black-banded Crake forages in river-edge thickets and fallow fields near water. A Peru account reports it as common in the northeast and rare in the southeast.

• Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus

  

  This barbet inhabits forests in western and central Africa. The skin on its face and crown is bare, and groups use trees bearing fruit.

• Madagascar Blue Vanga Cyanolanius madagascarinus

  The Madagascar Blue Vanga lives in forests on Madagascar. Males have a blue head and back, a black stripe through the eye, and white throat and underparts. Females are duller. It searches among leaves for insects and sometimes eats berries.

• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus

  The Blue-cheeked Bee-eater is a green bee-eater with bright blue cheeks. In Middle Eastern breeding areas it uses semidesert near water and digs a nesting tunnel in sandy banks.

• Hooded Butcherbird Cracticus cassicus

  This butcherbird occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It searches for insects, fruit, and other food in the canopy of lowland forest and dense secondary growth.

• Chinstrap penguin Pygoscelis antarcticus

  A penguin with a narrow black line running beneath the chin like a strap. It breeds on the Antarctic Peninsula and islands in the South Atlantic.

• Blackish Antbird Cercomacroides nigrescens

  The male and female have very different plumage. The species searches for insects in dense vines and shrubs at forest edges and in floodplain forest.

• Negros Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus nigrorum

  A small leaf warbler widespread in the Philippines and associated with montane rainforest. eBird treats it as a species separate from Mountain Leaf Warbler.

• White-bellied Storm Petrel Fregetta grallaria

  The White-bellied Storm Petrel is a small seabird of the open ocean. It glides low over the sea and breeds on the Kermadec Islands and Lord Howe Island in the New Zealand region.

• Pygmy Bushtit Psaltria exilis

  This tiny bird occurs only in the mountains of western and central Java. It feeds on insects and moves actively through the lower forest in small flocks.

• Indian Black-lored Tit Machlolophus aplonotus

  The Indian Black-lored Tit inhabits wooded hills of peninsular India. It has a black face, yellow cheeks and eyebrow, yellow-green back and white-spotted wings.

• Brown-headed Barbet Psilopogon zeylanicus

  This barbet has a brown head and green body and feeds on fruit and insects. It uses forests as well as orchards, parks, and other green spaces near people.

• Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis

  This thick-knee has large yellow eyes and long legs. It uses dry, open ground in Africa, including places near water.

• Blue-rumped Manakin Lepidothrix isidorei

  This manakin lives in montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andean slope. The male’s rump color differs between subspecies, while the female is mainly green.

• Siberian crane Leucogeranus leucogeranus

  Adults are mainly white with a red face. Black outer wing feathers become conspicuous in flight.

• Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola

  A migratory sandpiper that uses shallow freshwater wetlands in Australia, walking through water as it searches for small prey.

• Pilotbird Pycnoptilus floccosus

  The Pilotbird forages among leaf litter in wet forests of southeastern Australia. It is reddish brown overall, with scaled-looking breast and belly feathers and a red eye. The source describes two subspecies whose back color and belly scalloping differ in brightness.

• Fiji Woodswallow Artamus mentalis

  The Fiji Woodswallow lives on islands in Fiji. An older paper recorded it as the subspecies A. leucorhynchus mentalis and described aerial insect hunting and cooperative care of young.

• Golden-fronted Leafbird Chloropsis aurifrons

  The Golden-fronted Leafbird lives in forests and wooded areas of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka, moving through foliage in the canopy.

• Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni

  Swainson’s Hawk breeds in western North America and migrates to South America for winter; it eats many insects outside the breeding season.