Meet the world’s animals.

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• Roadside Hawk Rupornis magnirostris

  

  The Roadside Hawk is a small raptor of forests and open areas in Central and South America.

• Syrian Woodpecker Dendrocopos syriacus

  The Syrian Woodpecker is a black-and-white woodpecker with pale red feathers under its tail, and it also uses trees in gardens and parks.

• Moluccan Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis aeruginosus

  The Moluccan Brush Cuckoo has a dark gray head and throat, with chestnut underparts extending onto the breast. It is recorded in hill forest on the Maluku Islands.

• Little Heron Butorides atricapilla

  A small heron found around wetlands from Africa through Asia to Australia. Plumage varies, though many birds appear mostly gray.

• Taiwan Yuhina Yuhina brunneiceps

  The Taiwan Yuhina is endemic to Taiwan. It lives in mountain areas at 1,000–3,000 m and often uses the middle and upper levels of broadleaf and mixed forest.

• Rufous-faced Antpitta Grallaria erythrotis

  This antpitta occurs in humid mountain forest in Bolivia. It has a dark crown, orange face and white throat, and searches for small prey close to the ground.

• White-rumped Snowfinch Onychostruthus taczanowskii

  This bird lives in high mountains around the Tibetan Plateau. Its dark-mottled back contrasts with a white rump that stands out in flight. In the breeding season it is found near pika colonies.

• Yap Monarch Monarcha godeffroyi

  The Yap Monarch is a monarch flycatcher endemic to Yap in Micronesia. It uses lowland forest, mangroves, and coastal scrub, moving slowly as it searches leaves and branches for food.

• Rufous-lored Kingfisher Todiramphus winchelli

  The Rufous-lored Kingfisher is a kingfisher of Philippine forests. It combines a blue back and white belly with a reddish-brown head.

• Yellow-bellied Prinia Prinia flaviventris

  This small bird searches for insects in Hong Kong grassland and reedbeds; adult plumage changes by season.

• Purple-throated Carib Eulampis jugularis

  The Purple-throated Carib is a hummingbird with a dark body, green wings, and a throat and breast that can look purplish red as the light changes. The sexes share the same colors, but females have longer, more curved bills.

• Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus

  This bulbul occurs in forests of western and central Africa. It has white spotting on the wings and tail, and also eats fruit and nectar.

• Genovesa Cactus Finch Geospiza propinqua

  The Genovesa Cactus Finch is restricted to Genovesa Island in the Galápagos. Its long, narrow bill is compressed from side to side, and the bird uses dry lowland scrub where prickly-pear cactus grows.

• Pale-headed Brush Finch Atlapetes pallidiceps

  A 2003 paper described this brush-finch as confined to one valley in southern Ecuador and reported variation in adult head markings.

• Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas

  The Common Yellowthroat is a small bird that searches low vegetation for insects and spiders. Adult males and females have different facial markings.

• Upcher's Warbler Hippolais languida

  Upcher's Warbler breeds in dry scrub from the Middle East into Central Asia and winters in parts of East Africa. It is thought to feed mainly on invertebrates.

• White-throated Francolin Campocolinus albogularis

  This ground-dwelling bird walks through savanna with patches of grass. Males and females have different breast patterns.

• Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis

  The Tree Pipit is a small, streaked brown bird. In the breeding season, a male rises high from a tree, sings, and then descends slowly in a display flight.

• Red-breasted Goose Branta ruficollis

  This goose breeds in the Siberian Arctic and winters around the Black Sea. Its plumage has bold chestnut, white, and black markings.

• Hartlaub's Gull Chroicocephalus hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Gull is a small coastal gull of southern Africa. Its head and bill colors change as it matures.

• Atlantic Plain Xenops Xenops minutus

  Xenops minutus lives in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. It has an upturned bill, a long white eyebrow, and a white throat. An older regional account from southeastern Brazil uses the pre-split name Plain Xenops.

• Glossy-black Thrush Turdus serranus

  The Glossy-black Thrush lives in humid Andean mountain forests. Adult males are glossy black, while females are brownish, making the sexes look quite different.

• Slaty Vireo Vireo brevipennis

  This vireo occurs in Mexico. It has slate-gray plumage and a long tail, with green edges on the wing and tail feathers. In 1998, a nesting pair was observed in dry subtropical woodland in Oaxaca.

• Nankeen Kestrel Falco cenchroides

  The Nankeen Kestrel is a small falcon with a rufous back and pale, dark-streaked underparts. It hunts in open country such as grassland and farmland.