Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera

  

  This small finch uses wooded savanna and grassland from West into Central Africa. Adults are gray overall, with red areas on the wings and tail.

• Galapagos Petrel Pterodroma phaeopygia

  The Galapagos Petrel breeds in the humid highlands of the Galapagos Islands and ranges widely over the sea to find food.

• Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens

  The Brown Illadopsis is a brown-toned bird that searches for insects and other invertebrates in the forest undergrowth of western and central Africa. It is often seen in pairs or small family groups.

• Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis

  The Bengal Florican lives in grasslands and has strongly different adult male and female plumage.

• Black-headed Ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus

  An ibis whose adult head and neck have bare black skin, while most body feathers are white. It probes for food in shallows and rice fields.

• Andaman Coucal Centropus andamanensis

  Its head and underside are gray-brown, while the back, wings, and tail show reddish-violet to bronze tones. It uses forest edges and farmland, and the species account notes it searching for food while walking through mangrove mud.

• Mackinnon's Shrike Lanius mackinnoni

  This black-and-white shrike has a long tail; males have a black band extending from the lores to the ear coverts.

• Banded Wattle-eye Platysteira laticincta

  This small bird lives in the montane forests of western Cameroon. The male has a broad blue-black band across its white belly and a red bare wattle above the eye.

• Jungle Babbler Argya striata

  The Jungle Babbler is a social bird of the Indian subcontinent, often found foraging in cultivated areas and gardens.

• Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum

  A dark waterbird widespread around lakes and coasts in North America. It dives for fish and is often seen spreading its wings to dry them.

• Barred Fruiteater Pipreola arcuata

  The Barred Fruiteater is an Andean bird with a black head and a yellow, barred belly. It feeds in the canopy and middle levels of humid montane forest.

• Bates's Nightjar Caprimulgus batesi

  Bates's Nightjar is a forest bird of western and central Africa. Its dark mottled plumage blends into its surroundings, and it hunts insects in dim light.

• American Pipit Anthus rubescens

  The American Pipit is a small bird that breeds in Arctic and alpine meadows. It walks quickly while feeding and uses open areas such as shores and fields in winter.

• Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus

  This oriole ranges through western and central Africa and into parts of eastern Africa, including Uganda and Kenya. It feeds mostly on invertebrates, especially caterpillars.

• Orange-breasted Falcon Falco deiroleucus

  This falcon is marked by a black back, white throat and orange upper breast. In forested parts of Central and South America, it hunts above the canopy and around rocky outcrops.

• Variegated Fairywren Malurus lamberti

  This small bird is widespread across mainland Australia. Breeding males have blue heads and chestnut shoulders, while non-breeding males, females, and young birds are generally brownish gray.

• Rüppell's Weaver Ploceus galbula

  Rüppell's Weaver lives in dry parts of the Horn of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula and often searches for food in groups.

• Red-crowned Amazon Amazona viridigenalis

  The Red-crowned Amazon is a green parrot with a striking red forehead. It can be seen flying to and from roosts in the morning and evening.

• Opal-rumped Tanager Tangara velia

  This tanager lives in lowland tropical forest in northern and central South America. Its vivid blue-green body and iridescent rump give it its name.

• Gray-necked Bunting Emberiza buchanani

  The Grey-necked Bunting is a migrant of dry, rocky country. The male has a blue-gray head and neck, and the species breeds from eastern Turkey into Central Asia.

• Purple-crowned Lorikeet Parvipsitta porphyrocephala

  The Purple-crowned Lorikeet has a purple crown as an adult and often feeds on nectar and pollen from eucalypts.

• Wire-tailed Manakin Pipra filicauda

  Males court with long, wire-like tail feathers. Male breeding behavior has been studied in lowland Amazonian forest in southern Venezuela.

• Black Sicklebill Epimachus fastosus

  The Black Sicklebill is a large bird of New Guinea's mountain forests. Males have a long curved bill and tail plumes, and their dark feathers can gleam green, blue, and purple.

• Rufous Sabrewing Pampa rufa

  A large hummingbird of the Pacific slope from southern Mexico to El Salvador. It is green above and rufous below and on the tail, and is recorded in forests and coffee plantations.