Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,824 · Stories: 19,540

• Black-nest Swiftlet Aerodramus maximus

  

  The Black-nest Swiftlet is a small swift that feeds on flying insects and roosts communally in caves.

• Black-chested Prinia Prinia flavicans

  A black chest band marks the breeding plumage of this small prinia. In Namibia it searches for insects among branches and leaves in dry acacia scrub and other shrublands.

• Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma

  The Freckled Nightjar is a nocturnal bird of rocky slopes and ravines. It catches insects in flight around dusk and dawn and lays eggs in natural rock cavities.

• Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon

  The Northern House Wren is a small brown bird found even around homes and parks in North America. It searches for insects in low branches and shrubs and often gives a lively, bubbling song.

• Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla

  This small woodland raptor is marked by a white rump. It darts among trees while hunting small birds and other small animals.

• Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops

  The Red-headed Quelea lives around wetlands and damp grassland; breeding males stand out with red heads.

• Red-capped Coua Coua ruficeps

  A ground-walking cuckoo of northwestern Madagascar, it is recognizable by its red crown and searches the forest floor for insects and fruit.

• Blue-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron squamatum

  The Blue-winged Laughingthrush uses forest undergrowth and bamboo in the Himalayas, from Nepal to southern China and nearby areas. Records are mainly from 900–2,440 m.

• Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans

  The Caspian Gull is a gull with a white head, long pale bill and long wings. In Britain, some arrive in late summer or autumn and spend the winter.

• Chinese Barbet Psilopogon faber

  This barbet is endemic to southern China. It lives in evergreen broadleaf and mixed conifer-broadleaf forests in middle and lower mountains, and also occurs at forest edges and in more open woodland.

• Chestnut-winged Babbler Cyanoderma erythropterum

  The Chestnut-winged Babbler ranges from southern Myanmar and Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. It forages in small groups in the middle storey of evergreen forests.

• Fearful Owl Asio solomonensis

  The Fearful Owl is a medium-sized owl without ear-tufts. White markings form an X across its face, and it has yellow eyes and streaked brown plumage.

• Rusty-crowned Babbler Sterrhoptilus capitalis

  Rusty-crowned Babbler is about 14–15 cm long. It uses forest, forest edges, and secondary growth, and gleans invertebrates in trees. Oiseaux.net lists call recordings from near PICOP on Mindanao, Philippines.

• Dupont's Lark Chersophilus duponti

  Dupont's Lark has a pale eyebrow and a short, white-edged tail. It feeds on seeds and insects on the ground in dry grassland.

• Spotted Puffbird Bucco tamatia

  Its face has fine rufous and dark markings, with long white bristles on the chin. It waits motionless on a shaded branch, then darts from the foliage to catch insects.

• Shelley's Sunbird Cinnyris shelleyi

  This African sunbird visits flowering trees in damp highland forest. A historical account records metallic green breeding plumage and a vivid red breast band in the adult male.

• Tasmanian Native-hen Tribonyx mortierii

  A large flightless rail found in grassland near freshwater in Tasmania. It feeds on leaves and seeds and small animals on the ground.

• Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus

  This seabird breeds in the western Mediterranean and spreads from the western Mediterranean into the eastern Atlantic after breeding. It takes fish and squid at sea.

• Crimson-browed Finch Carpodacus subhimachalus

  This finch lives at high elevations in southwestern China. Males have red markings around the brow and cheeks, while females are olive or yellow-green. It may move to lower elevations in winter.

• Yellow Thornbill Acanthiza nana

  A small bird of eastern Australia, often in open woodland and shrubland. Its yellowish underside and white cheek streaks stand out as it forages among leaves.

• Yellow-headed Caracara Milvago chimachima

  The Yellow-headed Caracara has a pale head and chest with dark brown back and wings. It searches for food around pastures and roadsides.

• Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus

  The Isabelline Shrike breeds in Mongolia and nearby parts of Central Asia, then winters on the Arabian Peninsula and in northeastern Africa. It hunts from shrubs in dry open country and may impale spare prey on thorns for later.

• New Caledonian Whistler Pachycephala caledonica

  In the nominate subspecies described by Province Sud, the male has a dark gray head, white throat, black collar, and yellow belly. The female is brown, with a white throat and pale brown belly.

• Fischer's Starling Lamprotornis fischeri

  This starling lives in wooded savanna and dry open thornveld in East Africa. It forages on the ground for insects and berries, in pairs or small flocks.