Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,673 · Stories: 19,540

• Somali Crow Corvus edithae

  

  This crow lives in dry parts of northeastern Africa. Its black plumage has green and purple gloss, with brown on the nape and neck.

• Dusky Twinspot Euschistospiza cinereovinacea

  This African mountain bird has red on the rump and flanks, with white spots providing useful identification clues. The sources also describe a difference in tone between males and females.

• Yellow Chat Epthianura crocea

  This account concerns the Alligator Rivers subspecies, restricted to floodplains between the Mary and East Alligator rivers in the Northern Territory, Australia. It uses grassy wetlands and samphire shrubland, foraging on the ground or low in the vegetation.

• Grey-breasted Spiderhunter Arachnothera modesta

  The Grey-breasted Spiderhunter lives in Southeast Asian woodland. Its olive back and fine streaks on the throat and chest are useful field marks.

• Maroon-fronted Parrot Rhynchopsitta terrisi

  This large parrot inhabits mountains of northeastern Mexico. It has a green body with a dark maroon forehead and wing edges, feeds mainly on pine seeds, and roosts in groups outside the breeding season. It may fly long distances to feeding areas.

• Yellow-streaked Lory Chalcopsitta scintillata

  The Yellow-streaked Lory is a lowland parrot from the New Guinea region. Yellow streaks mark its darker plumage, while the color of the forehead and other details vary among subspecies.

• Christmas Imperial Pigeon Ducula whartoni

  The Christmas Island Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon found only on Christmas Island. Flocks feed on ripe fruit in the rainforest canopy.

• Spotted Owlet Athene brama

  A small owl with gray-brown plumage marked by white spots. It is active at night and hunts insects and small vertebrates.

• Rusty-flanked Crake Laterallus levraudi

  The Rusty-flanked Crake is a small rail of northwestern Venezuela. Adults have an olive-brown back and rusty sides and stay concealed in dense vegetation.

• Dusky Antbird Cercomacroides tyrannina

  This antbird occurs from Central America into northern South America. Males are dark gray with white tips on the wings and tail; females are olive-brown above and rufous below. Pairs forage for insects along lowland forest edges and in secondary growth.

• Andaman Serpent Eagle Spilornis elgini

  The Andaman Serpent Eagle is a dark brown eagle with small white spots. It uses forest clearings in the interior of the Andaman Islands and eats snakes and other animals.

• Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus

  A large woodpecker of North America that searches for ants and beetles on the ground as well as on tree trunks. In flight, its white rump and the color of its wing and tail shafts are visible.

• Pied Coucal Centropus ateralbus

  The Pied Coucal occurs in the Bismarck Archipelago. Its plumage varies from mostly black birds to individuals with much more white or pearly grey.

• Melanesian Kingfisher Todiramphus tristrami

  This kingfisher occurs on islands around New Guinea, New Ireland, New Britain, and the Solomon Islands. It uses secondary forest and inland openings, and also eats small animals.

• Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida

  A warbler of East African scrub and forest. Williams and Arlott's 1980 field guide describes a green bird with a grey, black-banded crown and a dark chestnut throat patch that skulks in dense thickets, often near water.

• Green-throated Carib Eulampis holosericeus

  The Green-throated Carib is a Caribbean hummingbird with an iridescent green throat and chest, a blue band beneath them, and black underparts. It uses flower nectar.

• Andaman Bulbul Brachypodius fuscoflavescens

  The Andaman Bulbul is restricted to the Andaman Islands of India. The account uses both Brachypodius and Microtarsus for the genus and notes that the bird was formerly treated as a subspecies of Black-headed Bulbul.

• Rusty-browed Warbling Finch Microspingus erythrophrys

  This small finch occurs along montane forest edges and in alder groves in Bolivia and Argentina. The male is marked by a blue-gray face and a long rusty eyebrow.

• Yellow-throated Bush Tanager Chlorospingus flavigularis

  This tanager is recorded in humid eastern Andean forests of Peru and Ecuador. The source describes the nominate subspecies.

• Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus

  This yellowish warbler searches among pine needles high in pine forests. It eats insects and also takes seeds, especially pine seeds, in colder months.

• Mountain Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola fytchii

  The Mountain Bamboo Partridge has a brown head and olive-toned back, with chestnut spots across its breast. It uses forest, scrub, grassland, and bamboo cover.

• Chestnut Teal Anas castanea

  In breeding plumage, the male has a chestnut head and neck with a green sheen on the crown, while the female is mottled brown. The species searches shallow water in Australian wetlands and estuaries.

• White-fronted Tern Sterna striata

  A medium-sized tern common along New Zealand’s coast. It catches small fish around the sea, lagoons, and river mouths, and nests in colonies on open coastal ground.

• Stout-billed Cinclodes Cinclodes excelsior

  The Stout-billed Cinclodes is a ground-dwelling bird of the high Andes. Its thick, down-curved bill and scaled pattern across the throat and upper chest are distinctive.