Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-billed Cardinal Paroaria capitata

  

  The Yellow-billed Cardinal is a small South American bird with a red head and yellow bill. It forages on the ground near wetlands for seeds, berries, and insects.

• Canyon Towhee Melozone fusca

  A large warm-brown sparrow of dry scrub and yards in the Desert Southwest, it often searches through leaf litter on the ground.

• Przevalski's Partridge Alectoris magna

  This partridge lives on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in China. A narrow, almost broken tawny-brown neck band helps distinguish it.

• Andaman Teal Anas albogularis

  Endemic to the Andaman Islands, this teal is greyish-brown with a white eye-ring and throat. It has been observed in coastal wetlands near Port Blair.

• Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura fuliginiceps

  This small ovenbird-family species occurs in Bolivia and northern Argentina. It has been observed on open hillsides.

• Lawrence's Thrush Turdus lawrencii

  This thrush lives in the canopy of lowland Amazonian forest. It has dark brown upperparts, a rufous-brown belly, and a yellow bill and eye-ring skin.

• Black-chinned Siskin Spinus barbatus

  A small finch of the Andean-Patagonian forest region, it has a black head and throat in males and olive coloring in females.

• Buff-banded Tyrannulet Mecocerculus hellmayri

  This tyrannulet occurs on the eastern Andean slope in south-eastern Peru and Bolivia. It uses the canopy and subcanopy of humid mountain forest, alone, in pairs, or in mixed flocks.

• 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.

• Finsch's Wheatear Oenanthe finschii

  In Kazakhstan, Finsch's Wheatear is a breeding migrant. It inhabits shrub-covered sandy hills and rocky or clay slopes, nesting among stones or in ground holes.

• Turkestan Ground Jay Podoces panderi

  A ground jay of sandy deserts dotted with saxaul and shrubs. The Kazakhstan account describes differences in size and color between 2 subspecies.

• Puff-backed Honeyeater Meliphaga aruensis

  This honeyeater has an olive back and yellow ear patches. A fluffy white patch sits above the tail, and it feeds on fruit and other foods in forest.

• Green-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga nipalensis

  This sunbird has a long, curved bill and a long tail and lives in montane forest. Its diet is reported to include nectar and small arthropods.

• Great Green Macaw Ara ambiguus

  The Great Green Macaw has a yellow-green body, a red forehead, and a blue-tipped red-orange tail. Pairs and small groups forage in the canopy for seeds, nuts, and other plant foods.

• Rock Parrot Neophema petrophila

  The Rock Parrot is a small parrot of coastal and offshore-island habitats along southern Australia. It searches for seeds and fruit in coastal grassland and scrub.

• Yungas Dove Leptotila megalura

  The Yungas Dove is a dove of the Andean regions of Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. It is usually seen alone or in small, loose groups.

• Everett's Scops Owl Otus everetti

  This small scops owl inhabits lower montane forest in the Philippines. It has a dark brown crown and ear-tufts, pale forehead, and orange-red eye rims.

• Sclater's Antwren Myrmotherula sclateri

  This small antwren occurs in lowland Amazonian forest. It searches among dense leaves and vines and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Yellow-billed Kite Milvus aegyptius

  The Yellow-billed Kite ranges across sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and the Comoros, extending to Egypt and southwestern Arabia.

• Yellow-eared Woodpecker Veniliornis maculifrons

  A small, short-billed woodpecker associated with humid forest, forest edges, and second growth.

• Black-billed Coucal Centropus bernsteini

  This medium-sized coucal skulks along lowland forest edges and grasslands, usually keeping to cover. It may perch in the open after rain.

• Ruwenzori Apalis Oreolais ruwenzorii

  A small bird with a slate-grey back, rufous-buff throat and a narrow breast band. It lives in central African montane forest, where pairs duet.

• Blue-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia hoffmanni

  A 2010 adult photograph notes blue tones on the lower body and tail as an identifying feature. At one Costa Rican study site in 2022, birds visited flowers; this is a local record.

• Cream-striped Bulbul Ixos leucogrammicus

  The Cream-striped Bulbul lives in the foothills and lower mountains of western Sumatra. It searches for food in the middle and upper levels of forest and visits fruiting trees.