Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mexican Duck Anas diazi

  

  The Mexican Duck is found mainly in Mexico. It uses temporary wetlands during the rainy season and agricultural areas around water in the dry season.

• Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea

  A small gull that breeds in wet Arctic tundra; breeding adults show a pale pink wash and a black collar.

• Slender-billed Miner Geositta tenuirostris

  This miner walks over rocky high-altitude grasslands in the Andes, searching for food on the ground. It is recorded at 3,000–4,000 m in northwestern Argentina.

• Purple Cochoa Cochoa purpurea

  Males show violet and purplish-brown plumage, while females are more reddish and earthy brown. A study in northeast India recorded birds feeding on fruit in the canopy.

• Lemon-chested Greenlet Hylophilus thoracicus

  A greenlet with a visual record from forest fragments in southeastern Brazil. A 2024 survey recorded it near Estrela Dalva in Minas Gerais.

• Merlin Falco columbarius

  A small falcon that visits Japanese coasts and farmland in winter and pursues small birds.

• Narcondam Hornbill Rhyticeros narcondami

  This hornbill occurs only in the forests of Narcondam Island. Males and females differ in head color, and fruit is its main food.

• Hawaii Creeper Loxops mana

  The Hawaii Creeper searches for small invertebrates in wet ʻōhiʻa and koa forest. A 2015 state plan describes four separated populations above 1,500 m on Hawaiʻi Island.

• Puff-throated Babbler Pellorneum ruficeps

  The Puff-throated Babbler forages on the ground. In the Indian nominate form, its rufous head, white throat, and dark breast streaks stand out.

• Cinereous Bunting Emberiza cineracea

  The Cinereous Bunting uses rocky, scrub-covered slopes and nests on the ground. Its underparts range from whitish gray to yellowish between the western and eastern subspecies.

• Rufous-naped Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola rufivertex

  This ground-tyrant occurs in the Peruvian Andes. The Peru Aves account describes grayish upperparts, a whitish-gray underside, a white forehead, and a rusty patch on the nape; it forages in short dry grass and other dry habitats.

• Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus

  Male Yellow-headed Blackbirds stand out with a yellow head, black body, and white wing patch. They breed in wetlands and gather in large flocks on farmland in winter.

• Cuban Trogon Priotelus temnurus

  This trogon is endemic to Cuba. Along with blue, white, and red plumage, its tail shifts through violet-blue, green, and golden-copper tones.

• Rose-collared Piha Lipaugus streptophorus

  This cotinga occurs locally on the tepuis of southeastern Venezuela and adjacent northern Brazil and Guyana. It feeds mainly on fruit and also takes insects.

• Giant Babax Pterorhinus waddelli

  The Giant Babax lives in the highlands of the Tibetan Plateau. It eats insects and berries during the breeding season; outside that season, reports also list crop seeds and plant rhizomes.

• Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii

  Greater Sand Plovers breed in inland parts of Eurasia and move to southern coasts for the non-breeding season.

• Fulmar Prion Pachyptila crassirostris

  It is blue-gray above, with a black M-shaped wing marking, a black tail tip, and a mostly white underside. It spends much of its life at sea, and its two subspecies nest on different island groups.

• European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola

  In Britain, European Stonechats are small birds that perch on low bushes. Males and females differ in head and breast color.

• Red Tanager Piranga flava

  The Red Tanager occurs in open woodland and forest edges across eastern and southern South America, with a northern population in southern Guyana and adjacent far northern Brazil. In Bolivia, lowland forms are recorded south of the Cochabamba basin and in the Santa Cruz lowlands.

• Melanesian Cuckooshrike Coracina caledonica

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

• Southern Hill Myna Gracula indica

  Adults have glossy black plumage, a white wing patch, yellow skin wattles behind the eyes, and an orange-to-red bill. They feed mainly on fruit and nectar and are usually seen in pairs or small groups.

• Sun Lark Galerida modesta

  This lark lives in grassland and dry savanna south of the Sahel and across the Sudan region. It has pale brown plumage with dark streaks.

• Little Shrikethrush Colluricincla megarhyncha

  It occurs on New Guinea and in northern and eastern Australia. Checklists differ over which populations belong in this species, and plumage varies across its subspecies. It gleans insects from leaves in forests and wooded habitats.

• River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis

  The River Warbler is a small bird with fine streaks on its breast and flanks. It stays hidden in waterside vegetation and searches for insects and other small invertebrates.