Meet the world’s animals.

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• Kerguelen Tern Sterna virgata

  

  A tern of islands in the southern Indian Ocean. Observations on Kerguelen showed it feeding on fish and crustaceans at sea as well as small land invertebrates.

• Striated Caracara Phalcoboenus australis

  The Striated Caracara is a raptor of southern South America and nearby islands. It uses coastal and grassland habitats, scavenges carcasses, and may turn stones while searching for food.

• Red-capped Flowerpecker Dicaeum geelvinkianum

  The Red-capped Flowerpecker is a small bird of New Guinea and adjacent islands. Males often show red on the crown and rump, and it eats fruit and seeds.

• Brant Branta bernicla

  A small, short-necked goose. The white markings on adult necks and the belly color vary among subspecies and populations.

• Rufous-vented Chachalaca Ortalis ruficauda

  The Rufous-vented Chachalaca has brown to olive plumage and a bare, reddish-brown throat. It moves in small flocks, active in the morning and evening, and eats fruit and leaves.

• Dusky-headed Parakeet Aratinga weddellii

  The Dusky-headed Parakeet is a green parrot with a grey head and white eye-ring. It uses forest edges and other partly open habitats in the western Amazon Basin.

• White-breasted Whistler Pachycephala lanioides

  The male has a black head and breast band, a rufous nape and white underparts. The female is grey-brown, with dark streaks below. The species occurs along northern Australia's coast and feeds in mangroves and nearby rainforest.

• Rwenzori Hill Babbler Sylvia atriceps

  This babbler lives in central African mountain forests. It was formerly included with the African Hill Babbler but is now treated as a separate species.

• White-cheeked Bullfinch Pyrrhula leucogenis

  The White-cheeked Bullfinch is endemic to the Philippine mountains and is marked by white cheek patches. It eats fruits and seeds, and also uses insects seasonally.

• Three-banded Warbler Basileuterus trifasciatus

  The Three-banded Warbler occurs on the western slope of the northern Andes in Peru and Ecuador. It uses the forest understory.

• Black-collared Starling Gracupica nigricollis

  The Black-collared Starling is a starling marked by a black-and-white collar and yellow skin around the eyes. It forages on the ground and also occurs in parks and farmland.

• Five-colored Munia Lonchura quinticolor

  The Five-colored Munia lives in grassland, farmland, and other open places in the Lesser Sunda Islands, where it eats plant seeds. Its head and throat differ in color from its underside.

• Bornean Banded Pitta Hydrornis schwaneri

  This pitta is endemic to Borneo. Adult males show a yellow eyebrow, blue rump and tail, and a blue belly patch. It is now treated separately from related forms once grouped with it.

• White-browed Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus schisticeps

  The White-browed Scimitar Babbler is a medium-sized bird with a slightly curved yellow bill, a white eyebrow, and a clean white breast.

• Olive-backed Sunbird Cinnyris jugularis

  The Olive-backed Sunbird is a small bird that uses its slender, curved bill to feed from flowers. In Queensland it also occurs in gardens and along forest edges, and males and females differ in throat color.

• Vilcabamba Tapaculo Scytalopus urubambae

  This tapaculo occurs in the highlands of Peru's Cuzco region. Adults are gray with rufous on the flanks and rump, but voice and range are especially useful for separating it from similar species.

• Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin Neopelma chrysolophum

  The Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin lives in montane Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. A 2023 paper describes its developed yellow crown patch and proposes the genus Protopelma.

• Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus

  A dove of dry savanna woodland and scrub that feeds on grass and other small seeds. It is also found near water.

• White-breasted Wood Wren Henicorhina leucosticta

  A small wren that forages in the understory of humid forests.

• 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.

• Black Fantail Rhipidura atra

  The Black Fantail lives in New Guinea's mountain forests. One pair was observed nesting and raising young in the Arfak Mountains.

• Creamy-bellied Antwren Herpsilochmus motacilloides

  This small antwren lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Males have a black cap and broad white eyebrow, and the species is reported at 900–2,100 m.

• Lesser Antillean Saltator Saltator albicollis

  The Lesser Antillean Saltator is recorded in the Dominica Botanic Gardens and forest at the base of Morne Bruce. It has dark green upperparts, a white eyebrow, and a white throat.

• White-gaped Honeyeater Stomiopera unicolor

  The White-gaped Honeyeater is recorded in northern Australia. A 1977 Northern Territory account says it is common in dense vegetation and mangroves in the far north, while farther south it is confined to waterside vegetation.