Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sprague's Pipit Anthus spragueii

  

  Sprague's Pipit has subdued buff plumage that blends into grassland. On its North American breeding grounds, a male sings from the air above its territory, fluttering and gliding.

• 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.

• Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii

  A large tern with a shaggy black crest and cap. It feeds mainly on small fish, searching from above the water and diving head-first to catch them.

• Beautiful Firetail Stagonopleura bella

  The Beautiful Firetail has an olive-brown body, a white-barred breast, and a red bill and rump. It searches the ground for seeds and lives in pairs.

• Slaty-legged Crake Rallina eurizonoides

  The slaty-legged crake hides near the ground in dense forest and gives its loud calls at night.

• Ashy-throated Warbler Phylloscopus maculipennis

  The Ashy-throated Warbler has a yellow rump and underparts. It uses the canopy of high mountain forests and moves to lower elevations in winter in some areas.

• Ultramarine Grosbeak Cyanocompsa brissonii

  The Ultramarine Grosbeak occurs in South America. In Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, a paper reports it in native grassland, areas with trees and shrubs, and along agricultural edges. Females are pale sandy brown above and paler below.

• Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus

  The sexes look different: males are gray, while females are brown with a white rump.

• Sichuan Tit Poecile weigoldicus

  The Sichuan Tit inhabits high elevations in southwestern China, in coniferous forest and near the tree line at 2,200–4,310 m.

• Plumed Egret Ardea plumifera

  A medium-sized all-white egret of Australasia. It grows long breeding plumes on breast and shoulders and forages in shallow freshwater for fish, frogs and insects.

• Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus

  A large shorebird of North American grasslands, the Long-billed Curlew is notable for its very long, strongly down-curved bill.

• Stark's Lark Spizocorys starki

  This small lark inhabits dry country and is nomadic, moving after rain. Outside the breeding season it may gather in large flocks.

• Festive Coquette Lophornis chalybeus

  This small hummingbird inhabits forests and cerrado in southeastern Brazil. The male has green cheek tufts with white spots; the female lacks these tufts.

• Predicted Antwren Herpsilochmus praedictus

  The Predicted Antwren occurs mainly between the Purus and Madeira rivers in the western Brazilian Amazon; its western limit is provisional.

• Ayacucho Thistletail Asthenes ayacuchensis

  The Ayacucho Thistletail is recorded from a few small valleys in eastern Ayacucho, southern Peru. It inhabits elfin forest and has a long tail with olive-brown upperparts.

• Sri Lanka Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus melanurus

  This scimitar babbler is endemic to Sri Lanka. It has a long yellow bill, white eyebrow, black face, and reddish-brown upperparts, and forages in forest undergrowth and on the ground.

• Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui

  The Coqui Francolin lives on the ground in woodland and savanna. When alarmed it may freeze in cover, and it is often found in pairs.

• Bluebonnet Northiella haematogaster

  This Australian parrot has a blue face and throat and a gray-brown body. Its wing colors vary among subspecies.

• Silvery-throated Jay Cyanolyca argentigula

  This blue-violet jay is marked by a silvery throat and upper breast and a white band on the forehead. It lives in humid mountain forest from Costa Rica to western Panama and eats fruit and small animals.

• Sao Francisco Sparrow Arremon franciscanus

  This sparrow inhabits dry forest and gallery forest in central Brazil. It often forages as a pair in the lower vegetation and on the ground.

• 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.

• Chaco Chachalaca Ortalis canicollis

  The Chaco Chachalaca is a large guan recorded in northern Argentina's woods and forests. Argentina's SIB species page describes pairs or small flocks moving quickly through tree branches.

• Sunda Owlet Taenioptynx sylvaticus

  The Sunda Owlet is a very small owl of hill and montane forest on Sumatra and Borneo. In 2021, the eBird taxonomy separated it from the widespread Collared Owlet based on voice and plumage.

• Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis

  The Western Kingbird has a gray back, yellow belly, and white edges on the tail. From an exposed perch in open country, it sallies after flying insects.