Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eastern yellow robin Eopsaltria australis

  

  A bird of eastern and southeastern mainland Australia. It pounces from low perches onto insects on the ground.

• Cabanis's Greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisi

  Cabanis's Greenbul is about 16–19 cm long. The account lists primary and secondary forest, gallery forest, riverine scrub, and ravine vegetation among its habitats. It also lists a sound record from Kakamega Forest Reserve in Kenya.

• Eyrean Grasswren Amytornis goyderi

  This grasswren occurs in Australia's inland dune country. A 2021–2022 study reported records outside its previously known range and persistence at sites without Sandhill Canegrass.

• Red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris

  The Red-legged Kittiwake breeds on islands in the Bering Sea and is recognizable by its red legs and yellow bill.

• Jackson's Widowbird Euplectes jacksoni

  Jackson's Widowbird inhabits grasslands in Kenya and northeastern Tanzania. In the breeding season, the male displays its black plumage and long tail.

• Short-tailed Nighthawk Lurocalis semitorquatus

  In Argentina, the Short-tailed Nighthawk is recorded flying above forest canopy and nearby open areas. The national account covers only a regional part of the species' range.

• Chestnut-bellied Fantail Rhipidura hyperythra

  The Chestnut-bellied Fantail is widespread in hill and lower montane forest on New Guinea. It is active by day, searching in forest and along edges and sallying out to catch airborne prey.

• Roseate spoonbill Platalea ajaja

  A pink waterbird with a large spoon-shaped bill.

• Brown-backed Mockingbird Mimus dorsalis

  The Brown-backed Mockingbird inhabits grasslands and shrub-filled ravines in Argentina’s puna and pre-puna. It has a brown back, white eyebrow, and white markings on the wings.

• Barred Warbler Curruca nisoria

  A large gray warbler that breeds in open country from eastern Europe into Asia, it is a rare visitor to Britain, mainly in autumn.

• Black-lored Waxbill Estrilda nigriloris

  This waxbill is recorded in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A flock of eight was rediscovered by Lake Kabwe in Upemba National Park in 2023. Genetic work has not settled whether it is separate from the Common Waxbill.

• Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica

  A thrush with different male and female plumage that breeds in mountain forests north of central Honshu.

• Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates

  The Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater occurs in open places in East African highlands and forests. Adults are about 21 cm long and catch insects in flight.

• Varzea Schiffornis Schiffornis major

  This Schiffornis occurs in lowland Amazonia. Its plumage is cinnamon-rufous; a 2024 study reported that head-color variation was not geographically structured. In 2015, one bird was trapped in várzea forest in Bolivia.

• Green-eared Barbet Psilopogon faiostrictus

  The Green-eared Barbet has green upperparts and paler underparts. In the source's male description, brown streaks mark the crown and nape, with green ear coverts. Its main food is fruit.

• Chestnut-vented Conebill Conirostrum speciosum

  The male has a gray-blue back and chestnut vent and is found in forest canopy and along forest edges. Females have different brown and olive tones.

• Violet Cuckoo Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus

  The Violet Cuckoo is notable for the male’s violet gloss and barred underside. It uses the canopy and lays its eggs in other birds’ nests.

• Black-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher Ceyx erithaca

  The Black-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher is a small kingfisher found from India to Southeast Asia. Northern populations move south for winter.

• Yellow-browed Woodpecker Piculus aurulentus

  The Yellow-browed Woodpecker has a yellow line above the eye. At one nest in southeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest, both parents took turns excavating the cavity and caring for the young.

• Trilling Tapaculo Scytalopus parvirostris

  This tapaculo forages in the understory of humid Andean forest and bamboo patches. Adult males are dark gray; females have rufous-brown and black bars on the lower back, rump, and vent.

• Pelagic Cormorant Urile pelagicus

  A coastal cormorant smaller than the Japanese Cormorant, with crests and white patches in breeding season.

• Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus

  Males and females have different plumage: males are black-and-pale-grey barred, while females are rufous. Pairs move through low trees in search of small arthropods.

• Siamese Pied Myna Gracupica floweri

  A starling found mainly in Thailand. It uses open grassland, farmland, and towns, and has distinctive forehead and eye-area features.

• Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill Tockus leucomelas

  A slender pied hornbill with a long yellow bill. It searches for small animals on the ground and in low bushes.