Meet the world’s animals.

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• Small Snowfinch Pyrgilauda davidiana

  

  A snowfinch of open high country, it walks on the ground in dry grassland and semi-desert while searching for seeds and insects.

• Paperbark Flycatcher Myiagra nana

  

  This flycatcher lives in northern Australia. Adult males have a blue sheen on dark upperparts, while females often show an orange-buff breast.

• Spangled Kookaburra Dacelo tyro

  

  This large kingfisher lives in woodland and forest on the Aru Islands and southern New Guinea. It watches for prey from low branches.

• Black-throated Apalis Apalis jacksoni

  

  A small apalis of African highlands and other parts of the continent. Its bright yellow underside and long, graduated tail are useful field marks.

• Fiery Topaz Topaza pyra

  

  The male has a copper-colored body and long tail feathers, and differs in color and tail shape from the female. It occurs in the canopy of northern Amazonian forest.

• Cameroon Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis

  

  A greenbul of the Cameroon Highlands. A field account near Bamenda describes it searching for insects and fruit among mosses, lichens, and peeling bark.

• Albertine Sooty Boubou Laniarius holomelas

  This bush-shrike occurs in montane forest of the Albertine Rift. This entry follows the catalogue treatment of Laniarius holomelas.

• Parodi's Hemispingus Kleinothraupis parodii

  This tanager occurs in the eastern Andes of southern Peru. It uses humid montane forest and bamboo near the treeline, where it forages in small groups.

• Cassin's Sparrow Peucaea cassinii

  This grayish-brown sparrow has a faint eye-ring. It feeds on the ground in dry grasslands, and breeding males sing as they rise and float back down through the air.

• Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina

  The Hooded Warbler is a small bird of low vegetation in eastern North American forests. Breeding males have a black hood.

• Tuamotu Reed Warbler Acrocephalus atyphus

  The Tuamotu Reed Warbler is a reed-warbler of the Tuamotu Islands. Plumage and body form vary among islands, and it feeds on small insects.

• Lady Amherst’s pheasant Chrysolophus amherstiae

  A secretive pheasant whose male displays its head and neck feathers in a courtship dance.

• Mekong Wagtail Motacilla samveasnae

  The Mekong Wagtail breeds along low-flow river channels with rocky or sandy bars and shrubs. Its 2001 description recorded a breeding range from Cambodia into southern Laos.

• Mexican Duck Anas diazi

  The Mexican Duck is found mainly in Mexico. It uses temporary wetlands during the rainy season and agricultural areas around water in the dry season.

• Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea

  A small gull that breeds in wet Arctic tundra; breeding adults show a pale pink wash and a black collar.

• Slender-billed Miner Geositta tenuirostris

  This miner walks over rocky high-altitude grasslands in the Andes, searching for food on the ground. It is recorded at 3,000–4,000 m in northwestern Argentina.

• Purple Cochoa Cochoa purpurea

  Males show violet and purplish-brown plumage, while females are more reddish and earthy brown. A study in northeast India recorded birds feeding on fruit in the canopy.

• Lemon-chested Greenlet Hylophilus thoracicus

  A greenlet with a visual record from forest fragments in southeastern Brazil. A 2024 survey recorded it near Estrela Dalva in Minas Gerais.

• Merlin Falco columbarius

  A small falcon that visits Japanese coasts and farmland in winter and pursues small birds.

• Narcondam Hornbill Rhyticeros narcondami

  This hornbill occurs only in the forests of Narcondam Island. Males and females differ in head color, and fruit is its main food.

• Hawaii Creeper Loxops mana

  The Hawaii Creeper searches for small invertebrates in wet ʻōhiʻa and koa forest. A 2015 state plan describes four separated populations above 1,500 m on Hawaiʻi Island.

• Puff-throated Babbler Pellorneum ruficeps

  The Puff-throated Babbler forages on the ground. In the Indian nominate form, its rufous head, white throat, and dark breast streaks stand out.

• Cinereous Bunting Emberiza cineracea

  The Cinereous Bunting uses rocky, scrub-covered slopes and nests on the ground. Its underparts range from whitish gray to yellowish between the western and eastern subspecies.

• Rufous-naped Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola rufivertex

  This ground-tyrant occurs in the Peruvian Andes. The Peru Aves account describes grayish upperparts, a whitish-gray underside, a white forehead, and a rusty patch on the nape; it forages in short dry grass and other dry habitats.