Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous-fronted Babbler Cyanoderma rufifrons

  

  The Rufous-fronted Babbler is a small babbler of Asian forests. It searches among vegetation for small invertebrates.

• Malabar Gray Hornbill Ocyceros griseus

  Male and female Malabar Gray Hornbills have different bill shapes. These gray hornbills mainly eat fruit in forests.

• Moustached Antpitta Grallaria alleni

  This ground-dwelling antpitta is recorded in the Andean foothills of Colombia and Ecuador, where it uses dense undergrowth in wet forest.

• Little owl Athene noctua

  A small owl with yellow eyes and brown plumage, found around farmland and open country.

• Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami

  This cisticola lives in African savanna. It has a rufous cap and bands near the tail tip, and gives a high, rising trill from a prominent perch.

• Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus

  A starling of African forests and parks. Adults have iridescent blue, green and purple plumage, form small canopy flocks and feed mainly on fruit.

• 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.

• Ash-throated Crake Mustelirallus albicollis

  This crake walks cautiously among wetland grasses and reeds while searching for insects and seeds. In Iberá, it is more often detected by its voice than seen.

• Yellow-crested Woodpecker Chloropicus xantholophus

  This woodpecker lives in lowland forests of western and central Africa. Its blackish crown has white specks and broad yellow tips, and it searches large trees for insects.

• Yellow-rumped Seedeater Crithagra xanthopygia

  This finch is reported as common in dry, open scrub in the highlands of Eritrea and Ethiopia. A 2020 expedition also recorded 12 birds in Djibouti and described their plumage.

• White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala

  Males have a white head and blue bill, while females have stripes on the cheeks. These ducks eat insect larvae and plant seeds underwater.

• Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti

  The Ruddy Ground Dove is a small dove widespread in Central and South America. Males are reddish brown, females are browner, and the birds forage for seeds on the ground.

• Bananal Antbird Cercomacra ferdinandi

  An antbird recorded along the Araguaia and Tocantins river corridors of central Brazil, using dense river-edge thickets in flood-prone areas.

• Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla

  Adults have black-and-white plumage. In the nominate subspecies, males have red to reddish-orange eyes and females orange to yellow-orange eyes. It searches for insects in the canopy.

• Taliabu Grasshopper-warbler Locustella portenta

  This warbler is restricted to the highlands of western Taliabu Island, Indonesia. Field observations in 2012 described a brown bird with a clear white eyebrow.

• Ground Cuckooshrike Coracina maxima

  This large cuckooshrike lives in inland Australia. Two birds followed in the western Kimberley in 2025 repeatedly used the same roost and foraged on the ground in a recently burnt area.

• Bokikokiko Acrocephalus aequinoctialis

  This Pacific island reed warbler was studied on Kiritimati, where it was more often found in places with taller Heliotropium and Scaevola plants.

• Moustached Babbler Malacopteron magnirostre

  The Moustached Babbler forages in small groups in the middle levels of Southeast Asian forest. It is brown above and whitish below, with a dark moustachial stripe.

• Striated Fieldwren Calamanthus fuliginosus

  This is the coastal Striated Fieldwren. It is streaked with black, and males have white eyebrows and throats while females have brown ones. It is treated as a separate species from the inland Rufous Fieldwren.

• Falkenstein's Greenbul Chlorocichla falkensteini

  Falkenstein's Greenbul is a bulbul ranging from southern Cameroon to western Angola. In Angola, the cited guide reports it along northern and central escarpments. That guide uses the English name Yellow-necked Greenbul.

• Tschudi's Tapaculo Scytalopus acutirostris

  Tschudi's Tapaculo lives in the humid montane understory of the eastern Peruvian Andes. Adults are mostly blackish with rufous on the flanks and forage in bamboo patches.

• Banded Kestrel Falco zoniventris

  The Banded Kestrel is a diurnal falcon found only in Madagascar. It has horizontal barring from the throat to the belly and hunts small reptiles and insects.

• Black-chested Fruiteater Pipreola lubomirskii

  This fruiteater occurs in Andean forest from southern Colombia through Ecuador to northern Peru. It eats mainly fruit and forages in the lower and middle forest levels.

• Hyacinth macaw Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus

  A large South American parrot with deep blue plumage and bright yellow skin around the eyes and lower bill.