Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus

  

  The Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird is a tiny barbet marked by a yellow forehead. It eats mistletoe and other fruits in broadleaved woodland, and both sexes excavate a nest hole in a dead branch.

• Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa

  A small bird found in Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea and Pacific islands. It has a grey body, white eyebrow and throat patch, and a long tail that it often fans.

• Fan-tailed Warbler Basileuterus lachrymosus

  This warbler lives in the understory of woods in Mexico and Central America. It moves near the ground and flicks or fans its long tail to show the white tips.

• Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata

  This Australian robin lives in lightly timbered woodland. It uses exposed perches and drops to the ground or nearby to catch arthropods, mainly insects.

• White-spotted Woodpecker Veniliornis spilogaster

  This 16–20 cm woodpecker uses open forest and woodland and searches bark for invertebrates. Sound recordings include Ubatuba in São Paulo, Brazil.

• European Serin Serinus serinus

  A small finch that stays year-round in southern Europe and visits northern Europe in summer. It uses open landscapes with scattered trees.

• White-headed Bulbul Hypsipetes thompsoni

  The White-headed Bulbul is a bulbul with a grey body and a striking white head. It has a forked tail and feeds on fruit and berries.

• Red-faced Guan Penelope dabbenei

  The Red-faced Guan is a large bird of mountain forests in southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. It has red bare facial skin and a red throat wattle.

• Bare-faced Ibis Phimosus infuscatus

  The Bare-faced Ibis occurs in South America and feeds on small animals such as beetles in wetlands.

• Australian Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius

  A large cormorant found from Australia's coasts to inland wetlands. It dives for fish and often spreads its wings to dry after fishing.

• Socotra Sparrow Passer insularis

  The Socotra Sparrow is a sparrow of Yemen’s Socotra Archipelago. This entry follows BirdLife’s treatment of Passer insularis as a species.

• Caspian Snowcock Tetraogallus caspius

  The Caspian Snowcock is a grey-brown bird with white and rusty markings that lives on rocky mountains near the snow line.

• Rufous-necked Hornbill Aceros nipalensis

  A large hornbill of forested hills. Males have a rufous head and neck; females are black and differ in the colors of bare facial skin.

• Curve-billed Tinamou Nothoprocta curvirostris

  This ground-dwelling tinamou lives in high Andean grasslands. Its curved bill and rufous underparts are distinctive.

• Northern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus castanops

  This weaver lives in East African wetlands. The breeding male is bright yellow with a chestnut face.

• Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi

  The Long-tailed Fiscal ranges from southern Somalia through Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. It perches in open country and dives to the ground for prey.

• Tasmanian Scrubwren Sericornis humilis

  This small bird lives in forests around Tasmania. It has an olive-brown back and pale, gray-streaked underparts, and searches for insects near the ground in moist forest.

• Nilgiri Laughingthrush Montecincla cachinnans

  The Nilgiri Laughingthrush occurs in the Nilgiri Hills of southwestern India. The genus account notes a white eyebrow and olive-gray upperparts, with breast color differing among species.

• Northern Emerald-Toucanet Aulacorhynchus prasinus

  The Northern Emerald-Toucanet is a medium-sized green toucanet with cinnamon at the tail tips. Pairs and small groups move through the canopy of humid tropical hills and highlands.

• Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina

  A thrush that breeds in forests of eastern North America and winters in lowland forests of Central America.

• New Zealand Falcon Falco novaeseelandiae

  The New Zealand Falcon is endemic to New Zealand. Its regional forms differ in size and color, from a small dark forest form to a larger, paler form in dry open country.

• Madagascar Turtle Dove Nesoenas picturatus

  The Madagascar Turtle Dove varies among Indian Ocean islands. In Seychelles, a smaller native form with a purple head occurs alongside a larger, grey-headed form introduced from Madagascar.

• 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.

• Visayan Flowerpecker Dicaeum haematostictum

  This flowerpecker is endemic to the Philippine Visayan Islands. BirdLife's 2001 account lists Panay, Guimaras, and Negros, but records differ in age and the account notes uncertainty about status on some islands.