Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus

  

  This large grey bird lives in open woodland and acacia scrub in eastern Africa. Its face is bare of feathers, and the two subspecies differ in facial and body coloration.

• Asian Houbara Chlamydotis macqueenii

  

  A large bustard of arid regions across Asia. Birds breeding in northeast Asia migrate south, while some southern populations are resident.

• Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula

  

  The Common Grackle is a North American bird with a long tail and glossy plumage. It searches for food on lawns and fields and sometimes gathers high in trees.

• Eared Quetzal Euptilotis neoxenus

  

  The Eared Quetzal lives in mountain forests of northwestern Mexico. Males have black ear tufts and a red belly, while females have grey-brown heads and breasts and a paler pink belly.

• Pale Batis Batis soror

  

  The Pale Batis is a small bird of miombo woodland and coastal forest.

• Palkachupa Cotinga Phibalura boliviana

  

  The Palkachupa Cotinga is endemic to Bolivia. It has deep yellow plumage with green streaks and bluish-black feather tips.

• Western barn owl Tyto alba

  An owl with a heart-shaped face, seen over farmland and grassland in Britain.

• Red-chested Buttonquail Turnix pyrrhothorax

  The Red-chested Buttonquail walks through grassland to eat seeds and small insects. Females are larger than males and have richer chestnut coloring on the breast.

• Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus

  The Brown Babbler's pale lores and chin stand out against its brown plumage. It searches the ground for insects and other invertebrates in scrub and acacia thickets.

• New Zealand Plover Charadrius obscurus

  The northern form of this plover lives on New Zealand’s North Island. Its underside changes color with the season, and males tend to be more richly colored than females.

• Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler Cettia major

  The Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler is marked by its rufous crown. It breeds in mountain scrub, then moves downslope after breeding.

• Malaysian Honeyguide Indicator archipelagicus

  The Malaysian Honeyguide has dark olive-brown upperparts. A Thai account records it in evergreen forest and notes that females lack a yellow shoulder patch.

• Red-winged Fairywren Malurus elegans

  A fairywren of southwestern Australia that lives in small groups in scrub and mainly eats insects.

• Scopoli's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea

  A seabird that glides low over the sea on long wings. It breeds on Mediterranean islands; around Malta, birds gather offshore in the evening during the breeding season and return to their colony after dark.

• Salmon-crested cockatoo Cacatua moluccensis

  A cockatoo of Indonesia’s Moluccan islands, with a salmon-coloured crest raised when excited or threatened.

• Indian Nuthatch Sitta castanea

  The Indian Nuthatch has a gray back and chestnut underparts and lives in forests and woodland across parts of India. It is sometimes seen in pairs or family groups.

• Red-throated Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla

  The Taiga Flycatcher is a small flycatcher marked by a blackish tail and white undertail-coverts. It migrates from breeding areas in northeast Asia to wintering areas farther south.

• Pied Fantail Rhipidura javanica

  This fantail has black-and-white plumage and fans its tail as it moves. It is found in mangroves, coastal scrub, and riverside habitats.

• Black-cheeked Ant Tanager Habia atrimaxillaris

  Oiseaux.net lists a length of 19 cm and a mass of 48.9 g, and gives lowland evergreen, streamside, and secondary forest as habitats. A 2023 study reports use of secondary forest for foraging and nesting on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula and nearby forests.

• Grey-chinned Minivet Pericrocotus solaris

  The Grey-chinned Minivet differs in its red or yellow plumage by sex. In Hong Kong it is recorded almost exclusively in closed-canopy woodland, and some birds appear to move to lower areas in winter.

• Sulawesi Myna Basilornis celebensis

  The Sulawesi Myna is a starling with a rounded crest and pale patches on its glossy black plumage. It occurs on Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands.

• Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis

  The Saddle-billed Stork is a large African stork of wetlands. It catches fish and small animals in shallow water.

• Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum

  A fox-brown bird with dark streaks, bright yellow eyes, and a long bill.

• Mongolian Short-toed Lark Calandrella dukhunensis

  The Mongolian Short-toed Lark is a small lark that breeds in dry sandy steppe in eastern Mongolia. It has brown upperparts and warm rufous-buff on the sides of the breast.