Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red Goshawk Erythrotriorchis radiatus

  

  A large reddish-brown raptor, it usually hunts birds alone in northern Australian forest, savanna, and waterside habitats.

• Yellow-throated Flycatcher Conopias parvus

  It occurs east of the Andes in South America. Its black crown, white eyebrow, and yellow throat and belly are distinctive; it uses the canopy and edges of humid forest.

• Black-billed Kingfisher Pelargopsis melanorhyncha

  The Black-billed Kingfisher has a cream-colored head and underparts, dark greenish-brown wings, and a large bill. It hunts for crabs along rivers and coasts.

• Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea

  The Red-capped Lark is a small lark of African grasslands. Its reddish crown stands out, and plumage varies among subspecies.

• Large Wren-Babbler Turdinus macrodactylus

  This large babbler forages close to the forest floor in Southeast Asia. It has a streaked brown back and a white throat and upper breast bordered by a dark band, absent in the Javan subspecies.

• 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.

• White-throated Tapaculo Scelorchilus albicollis

  This ground-dwelling bird is endemic to central Chile. It lives in semi-arid shrubland, and the two described subspecies occupy different parts of its range.

• Hispaniolan Trogon Priotelus roseigaster

  The Hispaniolan Trogon is the only trogon on Hispaniola. It has metallic green upperparts, a gray breast, and a red belly.

• Pale-headed Munia Lonchura pallida

  The Pale-headed Munia has a pale head that contrasts with its darker body. It occurs in the lowlands of eastern Indonesia, including dry scrub, grassland, marshes, and farmland.

• Daurian Starling Agropsar sturninus

  Males have glossy purplish upperparts that contrast with a pale head and underside. The species uses forest edges and open plantations, moving to Southeast Asia for winter.

• Melanesian Cuckooshrike Coracina caledonica

  c. caledonica in forest and savanna. Its range and life-history details here refer to that local form.

• Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda

  The Eastern Cattle Egret is mostly white, but its head, neck, and breast turn orange during breeding. It uses open grassland, fields, and wetlands and moves seasonally.

• Evergreen Forest Warbler Bradypterus lopezi

  The Evergreen Forest Warbler is a small bird recorded in moist forests and wet shrubland across scattered African highlands. It is about 15 cm long and weighs 15–21 g.

• Golden-winged Sparrow Arremon schlegeli

  This sparrow lives in woodland and scrub in Colombia and Venezuela. Its black head and yellow bill are conspicuous, and it searches near the ground for seeds, fruit, and insects.

• Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta

  A mountain-breeding pipit whose gray head and pale pink chest stand out in breeding plumage.

• Band-tailed Seedeater Catamenia analis

  The Band-tailed Seedeater is a small bird whose male has blue-gray plumage and a white tail band. It feeds in dry montane scrub and other open habitats.

• Barau's Petrel Pterodroma baraui

  Barau’s Petrel spends most of its life at sea and breeds in the highlands of Réunion.

• Slaty-blue Flycatcher Ficedula tricolor

  This small flycatcher lives in the Himalayas and nearby foothills. It searches for insects in forest undergrowth and thickets; some birds move to lower elevations outside the breeding season.

• Red-lored Whistler Pachycephala rufogularis

  This whistler lives in Australian mallee shrubland. The New South Wales factsheet describes known populations around Round Hill and Nombinnie in central New South Wales.

• Bocage's Bushshrike Chlorophoneus bocagei

  Chlorophoneus bocagei inhabits lowland to mid-altitude forest in tropical Africa. Adults have grey upperparts, a white eyebrow, and white underparts with a buff wash on the breast. It gleans insects in the canopy.

• Summer Tanager Piranga rubra

  The Summer Tanager is a stout bird that searches for insects high in the forest canopy. Adult males are red, while females and young males are yellow to yellow-green.

• Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas

  Klaas's Cuckoo lives in forests and woodlands of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. It searches among leaves for caterpillars and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Atiu Swiftlet Aerodramus sawtelli

  The Atiu Swiftlet is a small swiftlet endemic to Atiu. It flies over forest, agricultural land and village gardens on the island.

• House Crow Corvus splendens

  A crow of South Asian settlements and farmland that feeds on a wide range of animal and plant foods, including human food scraps.