Meet the world’s animals.

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• Elegant Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus elegans

  

  This roughly 21 cm woodcreeper is recorded from Amazonian lowlands into foothill forest on the eastern Andes. The size and spread of its back spots vary among subspecies.

• Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides

  The Northern Black Flycatcher occurs across northern and eastern sub-Saharan Africa, using moist woodland, acacia savanna and plantations. The male is bluish slate-gray with a long tail and short wings.

• Blue-rumped Parrot Psittinus cyanurus

  The Blue-rumped Parrot lives in forests of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. Males and females differ in head and back colors.

• Green-crowned Warbler Seicercus burkii

  A migratory leaf warbler of the lower Himalayan belt. It searches evergreen forest and bamboo for small invertebrates and moves to lower elevations in winter.

• White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus

  The White-headed Barbet is an African bird whose black-and-white plumage varies geographically. It is often found near fig trees.

• 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.

• Black-headed Greenfinch Chloris ambigua

  The Black-headed Greenfinch is a small finch found in parts of the Indomalayan region. It feeds on plant seeds in open woodland, fields, and scrub.

• Orange-cheeked Parrot Pyrilia barrabandi

  An Amazonian parrot with orange cheeks against a black head and olive throat and breast.

• Mexican Hermit Phaethornis mexicanus

  A study of the western Mexican subspecies griseoventer describes males displaying at leks in the forest understory, where females visit and choose a mate.

• Oak Titmouse Baeolophus inornatus

  The Oak Titmouse is a small bird with a crest that lives in dry oak woods of the western United States. Pairs defend territories year-round.

• Red-billed Malkoha Zanclostomus javanicus

  The Red-billed Malkoha is a slender gray cuckoo with a red bill. It moves along branches near the canopy of lowland and foothill forests.

• Ayacucho Antpitta Grallaria ayacuchensis

  This antpitta is known from the eastern Andean slope of Ayacucho, Peru. A 2020 taxonomic paper described dark reddish-brown upperparts, a paler lower belly, and a male collected in a Chusquea thicket in secondary forest.

• Western Wattlebird Anthochaera lunulata

  Adult Western Wattlebirds have dark brown foreheads and crowns with white spots at feather tips. A 2021 study in Western Australia recorded the species among the more abundant nectarivorous birds visiting Banksia flowers.

• Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus

  This widespread Australian heron is nocturnal and searches for food in wetlands.

• Bare-legged Owl Margarobyas lawrencii

  This Cuban owl has large dark eyes and pale eyebrows. It hunts at night and rests in tree cavities or caves during the day.

• Black Noddy Anous minutus

  The Black Noddy is a seabird with sooty dark plumage and a white cap. It gathers on islands to breed, and courting pairs repeatedly nod to one another.

• Crimson Sunbird Aethopyga siparaja

  The Crimson Sunbird is a small bird that takes nectar, spiders, and insects. Males are red, while females are olive-colored, so the sexes look different.

• Bolivian Blackbird Oreopsar bolivianus

  This blackbird lives in dry scrub and open river-edge woodland in Bolivia's central Andes. Flocks forage on the ground and in fields, eating grains and fruit.

• Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus

  A sparrow of North American grasslands and fields. It often sings at twilight, and white tail feathers flash in flight.

• 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.

• Plumbeous Rail Pardirallus sanguinolentus

  The head and underparts are gray, the back is olive-brown, and the legs are red. It uses a variety of waterside habitats, from Peruvian coastal lowlands to Andean wetlands.

• Mountain Plover Charadrius montanus

  This plover breeds in western North America and searches for insects on grassland and semidesert ground.

• Iphis Monarch Pomarea iphis

  The Iphis Monarch occurs on Ua Huka in the Marquesas Islands. It lives in valley forests and eats insects. Its plumage differs by sex and age.

• Salvin's Prion Pachyptila salvini

  Salvin's Prion is a seabird that breeds in large colonies on southern Indian Ocean islands. It is blue-grey above and white below.