Meet the world’s animals.

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• Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus

  

  This tyrant flycatcher has streaking on its head and back. It makes short sallies from high perches in the canopy to catch insects and other food.

• Moluccan Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles crinifrons

  

  The Moluccan Owlet-nightjar is a nocturnal bird of forest in the northern Moluccas.

• Noisy Scrubbird Atrichornis clamosus

  

  The Noisy Scrub-bird has short wings and strong legs and moves along the ground and through low shrubs. It occurs on the mainland of southwestern Western Australia.

• Guinea turaco Tauraco persa

  

  A green bird with a tall crest and a long tail.

• Nubian Bustard Neotis nuba

  

  The Nubian Bustard is a large bustard of dry country along the southern Sahara. It is active by day and eats both animal and plant foods.

• Asian Fairy-bluebird Irena puella

  

  The Asian fairy-bluebird is a blue-and-black bird seen alone or in pairs in the tree canopy and middle storey.

• Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus

  Male Brewer's Blackbirds are glossy black with yellow eyes, while females are brown. The species uses open habitats from grasslands to parks and city streets.

• Yellow-headed Warbler Teretistris fernandinae

  This warbler occurs in western Cuba and on the Isle of Pines and nearby islands. Its gray body and yellow hood are distinctive, and it searches for food in lower and middle forest layers.

• Baird's Trogon Trogon bairdii

  A trogon of forests from Costa Rica's Pacific slope to western Panama, the male stands out with a red belly and blue facial skin.

• Ituri Batis Batis ituriensis

  Males have a gray head, black band, and white underparts. Females are paler gray with a white eyebrow. It uses lowland rainforest canopy in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda.

• Black-faced Sheathbill Chionis minor

  Black-faced Sheathbills are terrestrial birds that forage in seabird colonies and along island shores.

• Scarlet-breasted Fruiteater Pipreola frontalis

  This fruiteater occurs in two separated parts of the eastern Andes. Males have red on the throat and breast, while females have green upperparts and scaled underparts; birds forage in humid montane forest.

• Bay Owl Phodilus badius

  The Bay Owl is a nocturnal owl with a heart-shaped facial disc and chestnut plumage. It hunts small animals from a perch in forest.

• Varied Sittella Daphoenositta chrysoptera

  This bird searches for insects by working down trunks and branches, often moving among trees in flocks. Adults are grey above and white below, while their wing pattern varies across Australia.

• Prong-billed Barbet Semnornis frantzii

  Its warm ochre face and neck and thick silver bill stand out. It occurs in montane forest in Costa Rica and western Panama, foraging from the midstory to the canopy, often in pairs.

• Lesser Rhea Rhea pennata

  The Lesser Rhea is a large, flightless bird of South American plains. Adult feather tips are white, and it uses its wings to steer while running.

• Madagascan Buttonquail Turnix nigricollis

  This small ground bird resembles a quail, and females are more colorful than males. The male incubates the eggs and cares for the chicks.

• Andean condor Vultur gryphus

  A large soaring bird that searches for carrion in the Andes and nearby open country.

• Southern Screamer Chauna torquata

  The Southern Screamer is a large South American wetland bird with a black-and-white neck band and long red legs. It feeds on grasses and aquatic plants near shallow water.

• Comb-crested Jacana Irediparra gallinacea

  This waterbird walks on floating plants with its long legs and exceptionally long toes. Its red forehead comb and black, white, and olive-brown pattern are also distinctive.

• Vulturine Guineafowl Acryllium vulturinum

  The Vulturine Guineafowl is a large bird of eastern Africa's dry grasslands and scrub. It walks on the ground in groups and is striking for its blue head and long black plumes.

• Mountain Fulvetta Alcippe peracensis

  A grey head and a dark line running from above the eye toward the nape help identify this bird. It eats insects in evergreen forest and may occur in small groups.

• Killdeer Charadrius vociferus

  A North American plover of open ground. It runs, pauses, and searches the ground for insects.

• Yellow-bellied Warbler Abroscopus superciliaris

  The Yellow-bellied Warbler is a small bird of Southeast Asian forest and bamboo. Its yellow belly and white eyebrow are distinctive.