Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous-rumped Lark Pinarocorys erythropygia

  

  This lark of tropical Africa lives in open, often dry country and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• Yellow-bellied Whistler Pachycephala philippinensis

  

  The Yellow-bellied Whistler lives in Philippine forests. It has several island subspecies with regional plumage differences, and usually searches for insects in the forest understory.

• Brown Songlark Megalurus cruralis

  

  This bird occurs widely across mainland Australia in open country such as pastures, short crops, and grassy scrub. Males are larger than females and sing during display flights. The Australian Museum page uses the scientific name Cincloramphus cruralis.

• Large-footed Tapaculo Scytalopus macropus

  

  This tapaculo lives in streamside forest in the central Peruvian Andes. Adults are uniformly blackish gray and are often encountered on the ground.

• Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus

  

  The Fish Crow is an all-black crow found near estuaries, rivers, and lakes. It eats fish and crabs as well as eggs, fruit, and other foods.

• Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala

  

  Males have noticeable red plumage, while females are mostly brown. Their plumage differs by sex.

• Costa Rican Swift Chaetura fumosa

  The Costa Rican Swift is sooty black with a pale gray rump band and lighter throat. On Costa Rica’s southern Pacific side, pairs are seen over forest and open country.

• Gray Honeyeater Conopophila whitei

  The Gray Honeyeater is an inconspicuous bird of arid inland Australia. It has also been observed spreading its wings while foraging.

• Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum

  A dark cormorant with a long neck and a tail longer than those of many other cormorants. It dives underwater to catch fish.

• Cauca Guan Penelope perspicax

  The Cauca Guan has dark brown to greenish plumage and a red throat patch. It is found in humid tropical forest remnants in Colombia's Cauca and Magdalena valleys.

• Red-eyed Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys imberbis

  Erythrogenys imberbis is a scimitar babbler of Myanmar and Thailand. Clements' 2024 checklist treats it as a species split from the Himalayan E. erythrogenys.

• Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis

  The Speckle-fronted Weaver is a small bird marked by a black, white-speckled crown and a chestnut nape. It feeds mainly on seeds on the ground, living in pairs during breeding and in flocks at other times.

• Tawny-collared Nightjar Antrostomus salvini

  A nightjar of the lowlands of northeastern Mexico, inhabiting dry scrub and open areas with scattered bushes.

• Regal Sunbird Cinnyris regius

  This sunbird is found in and around mountain forest in the Albertine Rift. Males have green, yellow, and red plumage, while females are dull brown; the species also uses high-elevation scrub.

• Black-headed Parrot Pionites melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Parrot lives in humid forests and forest edges of northern South America and eats plant foods such as fruit.

• Rosy-faced lovebird Agapornis roseicollis

  A small parrot of southwestern Africa, with a mainly green body and a rosy face and throat.

• Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer

  The Blue-spotted Wood Dove is a small dove with blue spots on its wings. It lives along forest edges and streams, searching for seeds on the ground.

• Antioquia Wren Thryophilus sernai

  This wren is known from the dry Cauca River canyon in northwestern Colombia. Its description paper records small patches of semideciduous forest and dry scrub, often along watercourses, and calls it uncommon within its range.

• Glossy-mantled Manucode Manucodia ater

  A bird-of-paradise of New Guinea's lowlands and nearby islands. It feeds mainly on fruit, especially figs, and the sexes have similar plumage.

• Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis

  The Southern Rough-winged Swallow catches insects in flight over open country and near water in Central and South America.

• Himalayan Owl Strix nivicolum

  The Himalayan Owl is a medium-sized owl of mountain forests from the Himalayas across East Asia. It has no ear tufts and a pale X-shaped mark across the face.

• Little Crake Zapornia parva

  The Little Crake is a small, secretive wetland bird. In Bulgaria its breeding sites are scattered, mainly in marshes along the Danube and the Black Sea coast.

• Grey-throated Barbet Gymnobucco bonapartei

  This social barbet feeds on fruit in groups; adult males have a grey throat and brown plumage.

• Archbold's Newtonia Newtonia archboldi

  Archbold's Newtonia is a small bird of dry spiny forest and shrubland in southern Madagascar. It searches for spiders and insects on low branches.