Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hooded Monarch Symposiachrus manadensis

  

  The Hooded Monarch occurs on New Guinea. A regional account from Mimika describes it in lowland forest and records different plumage in adults and immatures.

• Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea

  This flycatcher ranges widely from West to East Africa. It searches for insects in forest and woodland, along rivers and in farmland, and builds a low nest.

• Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus

  A large owl widespread in North America, recognized by its earlike feather tufts and yellow eyes. It uses forests, wetlands, grasslands, and even green spaces in towns.

• Black-banded Plover Charadrius thoracicus

  This plover is restricted to Madagascar. A bold black band crosses its breast, and it searches for food on coastal mud and around saline lagoons.

• Screaming Piha Lipaugus vociferans

  The Screaming Piha inhabits humid Amazonian forest and searches the canopy for fruit and small prey. In eastern Ecuador it is recorded in lowlands and locally into the foothills.

• Lorentz's Whistler Pachycephala lorentzi

  Lorentz's Whistler is a small whistler of the central New Guinea highlands. Its grey breast band and mottled white throat are distinctive, and it searches for insects in damp highland scrub.

• Eastern Olivaceous Flatbill Rhynchocyclus olivaceus

  This flatbill occurs in Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest. A 2022 taxonomic study examined several lineages formerly grouped under the same name and placed the subspecies R. o. olivaceus in forest from Pernambuco to Rio de Janeiro.

• Yellow-bellied Tit Pardaliparus venustulus

  The Yellow-bellied Tit is a small tit that forms flocks in mountain forests. Males have black-and-white heads and yellow underparts; females are duller greenish grey.

• Singing Quail Dactylortyx thoracicus

  A quail of forest floors in Mexico and northern Central America, with gray-brown, white-streaked plumage that runs rather than taking flight when alarmed.

• Raja Ampat Pitohui Pitohui cerviniventris

  This bird lives in lowland forest on Indonesia's Raja Ampat Islands. Its island forms differ in the color of the underparts, and the species account reports fruit and insects in its diet.

• Bushveld Pipit Anthus caffer

  The Bushveld Pipit is a small pipit that forages on the ground in grassland and open woodland. Its plumage is subdued, and records in southern Africa show a patchy distribution.

• White-bellied Chachalaca Ortalis leucogastra

  This bird is recorded on the Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala. It uses swamp and dry forest, mangroves, and plantation edges, and eats fruit, leaves, flowers, and some invertebrates.

• Western Yellow Robin Eopsaltria griseogularis

  The Western Yellow Robin lives in woodland and forest in southwestern Australia. It is gray with a white throat and yellow rump, and drops from low branches to the ground to catch invertebrates.

• Hook-billed Bulbul Setornis criniger

  This bulbul is active by day in humid lowland forest and swamp forest, and is notable for its hooked bill.

• Thick-billed Grasswren Amytornis modestus

  This profile focuses on the Grey Range subspecies, A. m. obscurior, in New South Wales. The state government page describes it in bluebush shrubland in arid and semi-arid country.

• Gray Gull Leucophaeus modestus

  The Gray Gull changes head color by season. In Chile it feeds along the coast and breeds inland in the Atacama Desert.

• Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis

  This weaver uses woodland edges, scrub, and moist savanna. Male plumage varies by region, from black in the east to brown-black in central Africa.

• Jerdon's Nightjar Caprimulgus atripennis

  Jerdon's Nightjar is a nocturnal bird of southern India and Sri Lanka that catches insects in flight.

• Pied Fantail Rhipidura javanica

  This fantail has black-and-white plumage and fans its tail as it moves. It is found in mangroves, coastal scrub, and riverside habitats.

• Buff-necked Ibis Theristicus caudatus

  The Buff-necked Ibis is a South American ibis with a long downcurved bill and a pale buff neck. It forages in open grassland; in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, arthropods including insects formed much of its diet.

• Socorro Mockingbird Mimus graysoni

  A mockingbird of Socorro Island, Mexico, that searches for fruit and small animals in the island highlands.

• Asian Desert Warbler Curruca nana

  The Asian Desert Warbler is a small, sandy-brown warbler. In the UAE it is seen mainly in winter or while passing through, in dry places with sparse plants.

• Star Finch Neochmia ruficauda

  This small bird occurs in northern Australia. It has a red face, olive upperparts, a yellowish underside, and tiny white star-like spots.

• Usambara Thrush Turdus roehli

  The Usambara Thrush occurs in the Usambara and North Pare Mountains of northeastern Tanzania. Its reported habitat includes forest with a closed canopy, a more open lower layer, and many tall shrubs.