Meet the world’s animals.

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• European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur

  

  A small dove seen in Britain in spring and summer. Its chestnut-and-black mottled back and ground-feeding habits make it distinctive.

• Brown Songlark Megalurus cruralis

  This bird occurs widely across mainland Australia in open country such as pastures, short crops, and grassy scrub. Males are larger than females and sing during display flights. The Australian Museum page uses the scientific name Cincloramphus cruralis.

• Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus

  This tit lives in forests of eastern Africa. Its dark plumage and bright red eye stand out, and it searches branches and leaves for small invertebrates.

• Brown-capped Fantail Rhipidura diluta

  A 1996 report of a 1993 field project lists Sumbawa, Flores and Lomblen (now Lembata), in forest habitats other than dry thorn-scrub. These historical island records are not a current exhaustive range map.

• Snowy Egret Egretta thula

  A slender white heron with black legs and bright yellow feet that searches shallow water for small aquatic animals.

• Long-tufted Screech Owl Megascops sanctaecatarinae

  This owl is recorded in southern Brazil, northern Uruguay and northeastern Argentina. In Corrientes, Argentina, the first documented provincial records were reported in 2022.

• Red-hooded Tanager Piranga rubriceps

  The Red-hooded Tanager contrasts a red head and breast with a yellow body in the Andes. Females have less red than males, and the birds forage in pairs or small groups.

• Lidth's Jay Garrulus lidthi

  This jay, endemic to the Amami Islands, has a blue head and rusty body. Its calls carry through the forest, and it may be seen in small flocks.

• Venezuelan Troupial Icterus icterus

  The Venezuelan Troupial is a large bird with black and bright orange plumage and a long wedge-shaped tail. It lives mainly in Venezuela and northern Colombia, in dry woodland and savanna.

• Santa Marta Antpitta Grallaria bangsi

  The Santa Marta Antpitta occurs only in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northern Colombia. It is a ground-dwelling bird recorded in humid montane forest and forest edges.

• Mrs. Gould's Sunbird Aethopyga gouldiae

  Mrs. Gould’s Sunbird differs in size between sexes: males have a long tail, and nominate males have a violet crown.

• Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli

  This small warbler has a pale head and underparts. It breeds around the western Mediterranean and winters south of the Sahara.

• Flame-fronted Barbet Psilopogon armillaris

  The Flame-fronted Barbet lives in humid forests on Java and Bali. Its green body contrasts with blue and reddish colors on the head.

• Pearl-bellied White-eye Zosterops grayi

  This small bird has yellowish plumage, a white belly, and a broad white eye-ring. It is found only on Kai Besar Island in Indonesia.

• Williamson's Sapsucker Sphyrapicus thyroideus

  Williamson's Sapsucker is a woodpecker of western North American mountains. Males and females look very different, and the birds eat conifer sap and insects.

• Helmeted Hornbill Rhinoplax vigil

  The Helmeted Hornbill is a large hornbill of Sundaic rainforest. Its casque is solid, and it feeds heavily on fruit such as figs.

• Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota

  An East African bird guide places the Olive-green Camaroptera in forest undergrowth in Uganda and western Kenya. Its upperparts are dull olive-green; the underparts are grayish-white, with dusky buff on the chest and flanks.

• White's Thrush Zoothera aurea

  A thrush that breeds in mountain woods in Japan; a white band shows beneath its wings in flight.

• Oahu Amakihi Chlorodrepanis flava

  This Hawaiian honeycreeper occurs only on Oahu. It uses native and non-native forest as well as lowland yards and parks, and feeds on nectar, insects, and fruit.

• Black-winged Cuckooshrike Coracina melaschistos

  In Hong Kong this species is mainly a winter visitor and passage migrant in wooded habitats. Males are slate-grey; females are paler and can show weak barring below.

• Güldenstädt's Redstart Phoenicurus erythrogastrus

  This redstart lives on rocky high mountains. An adult male stands out for its white crown, black throat and chest, and reddish-brown belly and tail.

• Eye-ringed Parrotbill Suthora ricketti

  The Eye-ringed Parrotbill is a small mountain bird of Yunnan, China. It has a dark eye-ring bordered by pale skin and is treated as a species separate from the Brown-winged Parrotbill.

• Grey-eyed Greenlet Hylophilus amaurocephalus

  This vireo relative lives in forest and scrub in eastern Brazil. Its gray iris and rufous crown stand out, and it searches for insects in trees.

• Black-striped Sparrow Arremonops conirostris

  The Black-striped Sparrow has a gray head marked with black stripes and yellow edging on the shoulder. In Costa Rica it uses shrubs and forest edges in humid lowlands, forming pairs or family groups.