Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Ruddy Woodcreeper Dendrocincla homochroa

  This woodcreeper ranges from Mexico to northern Colombia and far northern Venezuela. It is mostly rufous and lives in humid forest, semi-open woodland, and clearings. It eats spiders and insects and may follow army-ant columns.

• Greater Striped Swallow Cecropis cucullata

  The Greater Striped Swallow stands out for its rufous forehead and rump and deeply forked tail. It breeds mainly in southern Africa, builds mud nests, and catches insects in flight.

• Gray-winged Francolin Scleroptila afra

  A finely patterned bird that blends into grassland, endemic to South Africa and Lesotho and found in mountains and rocky hills.

• Gray Noddy Anous albivitta

  A small seabird that breeds on tropical and subtropical Pacific islands. It flies in flocks close to the sea and takes small prey at the surface.

• Burrowing owl Athene cunicularia

  A small, long-legged owl that uses burrows in the ground for nesting and shelter.

• Society Kingfisher Todiramphus veneratus

  It occurs on Tahiti and Moorea in the Society Islands. The eBird account describes different male plumage forms on the two islands.

• Cassin's Sparrow Peucaea cassinii

  This grayish-brown sparrow has a faint eye-ring. It feeds on the ground in dry grasslands, and breeding males sing as they rise and float back down through the air.

• Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis

  This weaver lives in African highland forest. It moves along moss-covered branches while searching for insects and fruit.

• Tasmanian Native-hen Tribonyx mortierii

  A large flightless rail found in grassland near freshwater in Tasmania. It feeds on leaves and seeds and small animals on the ground.

• Hartlaub's Babbler Turdoides hartlaubii

  In parts of southern Africa, including Botswana’s Okavango region, Hartlaub’s Babbler moves through scrub in pairs or groups.

• Flame-eared Honeyeater Lichmera flavicans

  This honeyeater has greenish-olive upperparts and a bill that curves downward at the tip. In Timor woodlands it searches near flowers for insects and nectar.

• Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea

  An all-white seabird that breeds along the Antarctic coast and on nearby islands. It feeds on fish, squid, krill, and other prey in cold seas.

• Brown Scrub Robin Erythropygia signata

  This southern African robin occurs in forest and dense scrub. South Africa and Eswatini hold most of the global population, while it is uncommon in Mozambique and reported from few sites there.

• White-necked Crow Corvus leucognaphalus

  The White-necked Crow is a large corvid. Its present range is on Hispaniola and nearby islands.

• African Citril Crithagra citrinelloides

  A small yellow-green finch, with a dark facial pattern in males of the nominate subspecies. It occurs in highland grasslands and forest edges in East Africa.

• Variable Limestone Babbler Gypsophila crispifrons

  The Variable Limestone Babbler is a medium-sized bird of limestone hills. Its dark back and broad gray-brown streaks across the breast and belly are distinctive.

• Senegal Eremomela Eremomela pusilla

  The Senegal Eremomela is recorded in open woodland and savanna in northern Ghana. A field study described it searching foliage and the ground for insects.

• Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis

  The Connecticut Warbler has a gray hood and yellow belly and breeds mainly in southern Canada. It walks near the ground to find insects.

• Rufous-breasted Antpitta Grallaricula leymebambae

  A small antpitta of Andean forests. Its back is brown, with rufous coloring across the chest and sides.

• Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus

  The Blue-headed Coucal occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Its crown and nape are black with a blue sheen in good light, while the lower back and wings are chestnut.

• Sanderling Calidris alba

  A small shorebird that runs along the water’s edge, probing wet sand for tiny prey with a short black bill and black legs.

• Pin-tailed Parrot-Finch Erythrura prasina

  Males draw the eye with a green back, blue face, and red rump and tail. The species usually moves in small flocks, which can gather into larger groups when rice seeds ripen.

• Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus

  This tit lives in forests of eastern Africa. Its dark plumage and bright red eye stand out, and it searches branches and leaves for small invertebrates.