Meet the world’s animals.

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• Beck's Petrel Pseudobulweria becki

  

  Beck's Petrel is a small seabird with contrasting dark-brown and white plumage. It has been recorded at sea, but its breeding grounds have not been found.

• Yellow-breasted Tailorbird Orthotomus samarensis

  The Yellow-breasted Tailorbird is a small bird with a black head and yellow underparts. It searches for small invertebrates in dense undergrowth in the Philippines' moist lowland forests.

• Rufous-browed Wren Troglodytes rufociliatus

  This wren has a rich rufous eyebrow and uses humid montane pine-oak and evergreen forest, moving among epiphytes, branches, and fallen logs.

• Hainan Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron katsumatae

  The Hainan Peacock Pheasant is restricted to mountain forests on Hainan Island. Males have metallic blue-green bars and eye-like spots on the wings and tail, and the birds forage for insects and worms on the ground.

• Pitt Shag Phalacrocorax featherstoni

  The Pitt Shag is a gray cormorant of the Chatham Islands, with yellow feet. It dives for fish and marine invertebrates.

• Bush Petronia Gymnoris dentata

  The Bush Petronia is a small bird whose male has a gray crown and a russet brow stripe. It feeds on seeds on the ground in dry savanna and scrub.

• Luzon Hornbill Penelopides manillae

  The Luzon Hornbill is a small hornbill of the northern Philippines. The male has a cream-colored head and underside with dark cheeks and throat; the female is mostly dark brown to black. It lives in tropical moist lowland forest and eats figs and other fruit.

• Coppersmith Barbet Psilopogon haemacephalus

  A barbet that lives in Singapore’s parks and residential areas. Adults are mostly green with red and yellow markings, and feed largely on figs and other fruit.

• Carunculated Caracara Phalcoboenus carunculatus

  The Carunculated Caracara is a raptor of open Andean highlands, notable for its orange face and white streaks on a dark chest.

• Hartlaub's Gull Chroicocephalus hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Gull is a small coastal gull of southern Africa. Its head and bill colors change as it matures.

• Green-tailed Bristlebill Bleda eximius

  This bulbul is recorded in forests of Sierra Leone. It has a yellow-tipped green tail and pale yellow underparts, and searches for insects in dense understory.

• Bonaparte's Parakeet Pyrrhura lucianii

  Bonaparte's Parakeet is mostly green, with dark red on the forehead, around the eyes, and on the abdomen. It inhabits lowland humid and semi-humid forest and nests in abandoned woodpecker holes. Older classifications included it within the Pyrrhura picta complex.

• Frill-necked Monarch Arses lorealis

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in rainforest, vine forest, and gallery forest on eastern Cape York. Its white neck frill and blue skin around the eye are striking, and males and females differ in the face and back.

• Indian Grassbird Graminicola bengalensis

  The Indian Grassbird is a ground-dwelling bird of freshwater wetlands and tall grass. It has a reddish-brown back and rump and a long tail with a white tip.

• Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris

  A widespread reed warbler of sub-Saharan wetlands, it moves through reeds while feeding on insects and spiders.

• Golden-collared Woodpecker Veniliornis cassini

  This small woodpecker occurs in northern Amazonia and nearby forest regions. The male's red crown and yellow wing spots, along with barred underparts in both sexes, help identify it.

• Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura

  A slim-bodied dove with a pointed tail and a habit of feeding on seeds on the ground.

• Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus

  The Red-fronted Serin is a small finch of mountain slopes and meadows that feeds mainly on seeds. In winter it may descend to lower valleys.

• Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus

  The Black-collared Barbet has a red head, dark collar, and gray body. It eats fruit in southern African woodlands and gardens.

• Sandstone Shrikethrush Colluricincla woodwardi

  The Sandstone Shrike-thrush lives among sandstone rocks in northern Australia. It walks between rocks while searching for small lizards, grasshoppers, and spiders.

• White-spotted Fantail Rhipidura albogularis

  Rhipidura albogularis is listed from southern India and the northern Eastern Ghats. A 2021–2023 breeding study followed 15 nests in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

• Brown-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus brevirostris

  This small honeyeater lives in open eucalypt forest and woodland in Australia. Small flocks glean mainly insects from bark, branches, leaves, and flowers, and also take nectar.

• Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus

  The Red-eyed Vireo is a woodland songbird that searches leaves in the canopy for caterpillars and also eats fruit in its South American wintering areas.

• Warbling white-eye Zosterops japonicus

  A small yellow-green bird of Japanese woods and gardens. A white ring around the eye gives it its name.