Meet the world’s animals.

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• Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus

  

  The Dead Sea Sparrow is a small bird with a gray head and brown body. It is found around waterside vegetation, and at some breeding sites it nests in loose colonies.

• Northern Rufous Hornbill Buceros hydrocorax

  The Northern Rufous Hornbill is a large hornbill with a red bill and casque. It searches the forest canopy for fruit and seeds.

• Scaled Quail Callipepla squamata

  The Scaled Quail walks in groups through the dry grasslands of the southwestern United States. Its pale-tipped crest and scaly-looking breast and belly stand out.

• Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio

  The male has a chestnut back and black eye mask, and watches for prey from exposed perches.

• Chinese Nuthatch Sitta villosa

  The Chinese Nuthatch is a small nuthatch with a blue-grey back and white brow. It lives in temperate forests, mostly in hills, and also eats pine seeds in winter.

• Golden-naped Barbet Psilopogon pulcherrimus

  This Bornean endemic has mostly green plumage and a golden-yellow patch on the nape. It eats fruit in the canopy of hill and montane forest.

• Laggar Falcon Falco jugger

  A falcon of open, dry country in South Asia. It catches small birds and other prey in flight and sometimes hunts cooperatively with its mate.

• Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan

  A gull that breeds in large groups in North American prairie wetlands and winters along the coasts of Peru and Chile. Breeding adults may have a pale pink wash on the chest.

• Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris

  The Slender-billed Greenbul needs to be described with its source limits in view. A Liberian subspecies record from 1899 notes a narrow, flattened bill, while a 2026 survey in the DRC caught it in primary forest sites.

• Grey parrot Psittacus erithacus

  An African forest parrot with grey plumage and a striking bright red tail.

• 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.

• Scaly-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis albipectus

  This babbler searches for food in forest undergrowth and near the ground. Its whitish breast has a scaly pattern, but the pattern varies and is not always a clear identification mark.

• Eurasian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus

  The Eurasian Reed Warbler is a small bird that sings from reedbeds. It eats insects in summer and berries in autumn; many birds that breed in Britain migrate to Africa.

• Western Grasswren Amytornis textilis

  In the Shark Bay area of Western Australia, this grasswren uses shrublands and is recorded foraging on the ground in pairs or family groups.

• Orinoco Piculet Picumnus pumilus

  This small woodpecker lives in humid forest in eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela and northwestern Brazil. It forages from low levels up to the canopy.

• Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata

  The Red-eyed Dove has red eyes and a pink breast. It is resident in southern Africa, where it lives from riverine forest to suburban areas.

• Akohekohe Palmeria dolei

  The Akohekohe is a forest bird now found on Maui in Hawaii. It has a white crest that curls forward over the bill and feeds on nectar and small arthropods.

• Chaplin's Barbet Lybius chaplini

  This Zambian barbet has a mostly white body, yellow-edged wings, and red skin around the eyes.

• White-bellied Whistler Pachycephala leucogastra

  This whistler has a patchy range in New Guinea. The male has a black head and breast band, white throat, and brown-grey back.

• White-throated Fantail Rhipidura albicollis

  The White-throated Fantail is a forest-dwelling fantail that feeds on small invertebrates.

• Black Honeyeater Sugomel niger

  A bird of open woodland and shrubland in dry parts of Australia. Males are black and white, females are mainly brown, and it feeds on nectar and insects.

• Rufous-naped Greenlet Hylophilus semibrunneus

  This small greenlet occurs in forests of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Its nape is rusty brown and its back is greenish.

• Sri Lanka White-eye Zosterops ceylonensis

  The Sri Lanka White-eye is endemic to the island's hills. It has a white eye-ring and moves in small groups through woodland and orchards.

• Northern Tufted Flycatcher Mitrephanes phaeocercus

  This 12–14 cm flycatcher is active by day in mountain forest and pine-oak woodland. It catches insects in the air by darting out from a perch. It does not migrate.