Meet the world’s animals.
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- Yellowish White-eye Zosterops nigrorum
Photo: Francesco Veronesi · CC BY-SA 2.0 This white-eye inhabits forests and wooded areas in northern and central Philippines. Its yellowish belly helps identify it, and it feeds on tiny invertebrates and fruit.
- Gray-necked Bunting Emberiza buchanani
The Grey-necked Bunting is a migrant of dry, rocky country. The male has a blue-gray head and neck, and the species breeds from eastern Turkey into Central Asia.
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
The Glaucous Gull is a large gull with pale wing tips. Young birds have different plumage from adults.
- Thrush-like Antpitta Myrmothera campanisona
This ground antbird lives near the forest floor. In eastern Ecuador, adults were observed incubating two eggs in a nest built low among grasses.
- Emperor Goose Anser canagicus
A goose with a striking white head and gray body. It feeds on coastal plants and shellfish; Alaska’s Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta is one part of its breeding range.
- Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Male Yellow-headed Blackbirds stand out with a yellow head, black body, and white wing patch. They breed in wetlands and gather in large flocks on farmland in winter.
- Dusky Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne concolor
The Dusky Crag Martin is a small swallow with a dark brown back and paler underside. It catches insects in flight around cliffs and buildings.
- Speckle-breasted Wren Pheugopedius sclateri
This wren has plain rufous-brown upperparts and a gray, black-barred tail. It forages low and midway in forests in Ecuador and Peru.
- Ashy Prinia Prinia socialis
The Ashy Prinia is a small prinia recorded widely across the Indian subcontinent. It uses open habitats such as gardens, farmland, thorn scrub, and grassland, feeding on invertebrates.
- Javan Sunbird Aethopyga mystacalis
A sunbird of forests and secondary growth on Java. Males are red, while females are duller grey-olive; both feed on nectar and small arthropods.
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
The Hairy-breasted Barbet lives in African lowland forest. Males have yellow spots on the black upperparts and yellow edges to the wing feathers.
- Natewa Silktail Lamprolia klinesmithi
This bird is known only from the Natewa Peninsula on Vanua Levu, Fiji. It searches for small invertebrates on the forest floor and in low vegetation.
- Olive-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis semiflava
An adult male is marked by a black facial mask extending from the forehead toward the sides of the neck and by bright yellow underparts. In Costa Rica, the bird uses wet grassy places and marsh cover and is usually in pairs.
- Black Robin Petroica traversi
Endemic to the Chatham Islands, the Black Robin is black in both sexes and active in the lower forest strata. It relies on continuous forest interior and is reluctant to venture into open areas.
- Pale-headed Woodpecker Gecinulus grantia
The Pale-headed Woodpecker lives in bamboo and forest habitats. Males have chestnut upperparts and a reddish patch on the forecrown that females lack.
- Purple-throated Euphonia Euphonia chlorotica
This 9–10 cm bird is active by day and feeds on fruit.
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
This brownish African bird also visits orchards and gardens. It eats many kinds of fruit, and pairs or small groups call noisily.
- White-browed Guan Penelope jacucaca
This forest bird occurs in the Caatinga region of northeastern Brazil. Juveniles observed at one reserve had yellowish skin around the face and a yellowish throat.
- Red-naped Ibis Pseudibis papillosa
The Red-naped Ibis has a red crown and dark body. In South Asia it may forage in dry grassland or farmland away from wetlands.
- Pygmy Cormorant Microcarbo pygmaeus
The Pygmy Cormorant is a small cormorant that uses freshwater wetlands and river deltas.
- White-winged Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis
The White-winged Snowfinch lives in cold mountain habitats and moves to lower elevations seasonally.
- Chinese Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola thoracicus
A rounded partridge with a short tail that lives in thickets and grassy places.
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
The crowned hornbill has a white eyebrow and belly and a red-orange bill. In moist evergreen forest it lives in pairs or small family groups and eats fruit and insects.
- Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens
The Blue-billed Malimbe has a blue bill and a scarlet patch across the throat and upper breast. In lowland forest undergrowth, it climbs branches while searching for arthropods.