Meet the world’s animals.

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• Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa

  

  This African barbet is marked by a yellow eye and spotted flanks. In damp highland woodland of eastern Africa, it feeds on figs, berries, and insects.

• White-browed Fantail Rhipidura aureola

  The White-browed Fantail is a small bird with a white brow and a fan-shaped tail. It catches small flying insects in woodland and open places.

• Pygmy Drongo Chaetorhynchus papuensis

  The Pygmy Drongo is a sedentary small bird of New Guinea's mountain forests. Adults have dark plumage, a blue-violet crest, and a blue sheen.

• Riverbank Warbler Myiothlypis rivularis

  The Riverbank Warbler lives in lowland forests and wet places along South American rivers. It has a dark crown, white eyebrow, green upperparts, and a pale underside.

• Mangrove Robin Peneoenanthe pulverulenta

  The Mangrove Robin is a grey robin known from coastal forests of New Guinea and northern Australia. A study in Australia's Northern Territory also reported a breeding population in wetland vegetation away from mangroves.

• Checkered Woodpecker Veniliornis mixtus

  The Checkered Woodpecker's specimen account describes a dark, white-streaked head and red on the male's hind-crown. In 2022 a pair was recorded nesting in a tamarisk and feeding young in Chubut, Argentina.

• Eurasian siskin Spinus spinus

  A yellow-and-brown bird that feeds on seeds of trees and grasses.

• Yellow-bellied Greenbul Chlorocichla flaviventris

  A bulbul of sub-Saharan Africa, it is marked by a yellow underside and reddish eyes. It feeds on fruit and insects in trees.

• Sickle-winged Guan Chamaepetes goudotii

  This large bird stands out for its rufous breast and belly and blue bare skin on the face. In Peruvian mountain forest it searches for food in the mid-canopy and on the ground.

• American White Ibis Eudocimus albus

  This wading bird has a white body, long red bill, and red legs. It probes shallow water and mud for small animals.

• Antarctic Shag Leucocarbo bransfieldensis

  This seabird breeds on the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, and Elephant Island. Its upperparts are glossy black and its throat and belly white; it feeds on fish and benthic animals near coasts and pack ice.

• Grey-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita arnaudi

  An adult of the nominate subspecies has a pale gray crown and sandy body, with a white eye-ring and black bill.

• Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena

  This francolin walks through shrubland and semi-open areas in southern Africa, searching for seeds and insects. It may raise its tail when excited.

• Knobbed Hornbill Rhyticeros cassidix

  The Knobbed Hornbill lives in forests on Sulawesi and nearby islands. A large casque rises above its bill.

• 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.

• Yellow-legged Tinamou Crypturellus noctivagus

  A 2016 taxonomic reassessment separated two Brazilian forms previously grouped together as Yellow-legged Tinamou: Crypturellus noctivagus and C. zabele. This entry follows the Atlantic Forest form, C. noctivagus. A 2019 distribution study used the broader earlier concept, so its map should not be read as the range of C. noctivagus alone under the later treatment.

• Fox's Weaver Ploceus spekeoides

  This weaver has been recorded in northeastern Uganda. Males show a black facial mask and yellow rump, and records link the bird with Whistling-thorn Acacia grasslands.

• Northern Shrike Lanius borealis

  The Northern Shrike is a large shrike that catches small birds and animals with its hooked bill. It breeds in far northern North America, with some birds moving south for winter.

• Yellow-throated Scrubwren Neosericornis citreogularis

  The Yellow-throated Scrubwren is a ground-dwelling bird of rainforest and wet, densely vegetated gullies along Australia's east coast.

• Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii

  This social African bird inhabits woodland and savanna. White arrow-shaped marks across the breast and belly are its distinctive feature.

• Hooded Mountain Toucan Andigena cucullata

  The Hooded Mountain Toucan is a large toucan about half a metre long. It eats fruit in humid Andean forest.

• Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis

  The male Eastern Bluebird has a blue back and rusty chest and searches for insects in open grassland.

• Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis

  The Bat Falcon hunts in forests and at forest edges in Central and South America. Despite its name, it eats bats but mainly preys on small birds and large insects.

• Mindanao Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba crinigera

  A Philippine forest pigeon with a striking red breast that searches for food on the ground.