Meet the world’s animals.

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• Luzon Boobook Ninox philippensis

  

  The Luzon Boobook is a small owl of lowland and foothill forests on Luzon. Its yellow eyes and long facial whiskers stand out.

• North Philippine Dwarf-kingfisher Ceyx melanurus

  This small kingfisher lives in the northern Philippines. It is difficult to see in forest understory and feeds on insects, spiders, and other small invertebrates.

• Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni

  Nelson's Sparrow is a short-tailed bird with a yellow-orange face. It breeds in northern marshes and winters in coastal marshes of the southeastern United States.

• Southern Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps

  The Southern Red-headed Weaver is a bird whose breeding male has a striking red head and chest. It searches for insects in trees.

• African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis

  This wetland bird has long legs, a red bill and frontal shield, and a blue-violet body. It feeds on plant material in slow-moving waters with tall aquatic vegetation.

• Variegated Laughingthrush Trochalopteron variegatum

  This olive-and-buff laughingthrush has a black throat stripe and a broad gray band near the end of its tail. It searches for insects and fruit in Himalayan woodland and scrub.

• White-lined Honeyeater Territornis albilineata

  A 1967 Northern Territory list records it on the Arnhem Land Plateau and in sandstone ranges and canyons, especially near fruiting trees such as figs. A separate banding guide says adult males and females do not differ in plumage.

• Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli

  This seabird breeds in the Hawaiian Islands. It has a dark back and white underparts, nests in the island highlands, and catches squid and fish at sea.

• European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

  The European Pied Flycatcher is a woodland migrant. In British breeding areas, males are black and white with two white marks on the forehead; females are more subdued brown and white.

• Scarlet-collared Flowerpecker Dicaeum retrocinctum

  A flowerpecker distributed in the Philippines. The account’s photograph is from near Sablayan on Mindoro.

• Large-billed crow Corvus macrorhynchos

  A crow with a thick bill and a raised forehead. In Japan it occurs in forests, towns and other habitats.

• Bornean Whistler Pachycephala hypoxantha

  The Bornean Whistler searches montane forest for insects and sometimes seeds. It has yellow underparts and olive-yellow upperparts.

• House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus

  Adult males can show red or orange plumage. House Finches also often live near people.

• White-chested Babbler Pellorneum rostratum

  A babbler of the peninsula and islands’ wet forests. It searches the forest floor for small invertebrates.

• Dambo Cisticola Cisticola dambo

  The Dambo Cisticola has a very long black tail, and the breeding male gives a distinctive song and aerial display. In a 1931 survey along the Congo–Zambezi divide, birds bred in open flats with short grass; records extended from Nasondoye to eastern Angola.

• Yellow-crowned Whitestart Myioborus flavivertex

  This warbler is endemic to Colombia's Santa Marta Mountains. It uses middle and upper levels of cloud forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Cundinamarca Antpitta Grallaria kaestneri

  This antpitta occurs in cloud forest in Colombia’s eastern Andes. The account lists records from the departments of Cundinamarca and Meta.

• Guianan Trogon Trogon violaceus

  Its violet-blue head and breast, green back, and yellow belly make this trogon easy to recognize. It perches high in the tropical forests of northern South America.

• Black-bellied Cuckoo Piaya melanogaster

  This reddish cuckoo has a long tail. In Peru it is found in the canopy of tropical forest.

• Little Curlew Numenius minutus

  A small wader with mottled brown and white plumage. It breeds in northern Eurasia and migrates to northern Australia for winter.

• Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula

  The Black-crowned Waxbill is mostly gray, black, and white, with a noticeable red rump. It lives in pairs or flocks in grassland and along woodland edges.

• Pygmy Cormorant Microcarbo pygmaeus

  The Pygmy Cormorant is a small cormorant that uses freshwater wetlands and river deltas.

• Ground Tit Pseudopodoces humilis

  A small bird that walks across the high grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau. It spends much of its time on the ground and nests in burrows.

• Blue Bird-of-paradise Paradisornis rudolphi

  The male has blue wings and long ornamental plumes, while the female has brown underparts. It lives in montane forest of central and eastern New Guinea and feeds mostly on fruit.