Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus

  

  A North American bird: adult males are black and white with a red breast, while females and young birds are brown and streaked.

• White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus

  The White-throated Needletail is a large swift with long wings and needle-like tail feathers. It catches insects and drinks while flying, and moves seasonally between northeast Asia and eastern Australia.

• Fire-capped Tit Cephalopyrus flammiceps

  The Fire-capped Tit is a small bird whose breeding male has a conspicuous red forehead and throat. Females and the different subspecies are less uniform in color.

• Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii

  Ayres's Hawk-Eagle is a small, stocky eagle with a crest it can raise and lower. It mainly catches birds in flight and hunts over wooded savanna and forest patches in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Blue Finch Porphyrospiza caerulescens

  The Blue Finch is a grassland tanager. Adult males are bright blue with a yellow bill, and a field study found the species strongly associated with natural grasslands, especially upland grasslands.

• Peruvian Diving Petrel Pelecanoides garnotii

  This small seabird has a dark back and white underside and dives for food along the Humboldt Current coast.

• Lazy Cisticola Cisticola aberrans

  The Lazy Cisticola is a small bird that searches for insects on rocky slopes and woodland edges. Its reddish head and long tail stand out.

• Sepia-brown Wren Cinnycerthia olivascens

  In Peru's eastern Andes, this wren forages in the understory of humid montane forest, in pairs or family groups. Its reddish-brown plumage has olive tones.

• Hartlaub's Francolin Pternistis hartlaubi

  This francolin lives on rocky hillsides in Namibia and Angola. Males and females differ in their underpart pattern and the feathers beneath the tail.

• Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill Tockus leucomelas

  A slender pied hornbill with a long yellow bill. It searches for small animals on the ground and in low bushes.

• New Zealand Falcon Falco novaeseelandiae

  The New Zealand Falcon is endemic to New Zealand. Its regional forms differ in size and color, from a small dark forest form to a larger, paler form in dry open country.

• Olrog's Gull Larus atlanticus

  Olrog’s Gull feeds mainly on crabs and breeds along the Argentine coast. In winter it disperses north to Uruguay and southern Brazil.

• White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis

  A 1994 field-identification paper reports occurrence west to Sierra Leone in Upper Guinea, with an apparently isolated population in southern Senegal. It is encountered more often in gallery forest.

• Scaly-naped Amazon Amazona mercenarius

  The Scaly-naped Amazon lives in Andean forests. This account separates the appearance and range of subspecies A. m. mercenarius from behavior reported for the species as a whole.

• Biak Black Flycatcher Myiagra atra

  This island flycatcher has glossy black males and gray females. Its range includes islands off northwestern New Guinea.

• Spotted Thrush-Babbler Illadopsis turdina

  A babbler of damp African woodland and streamside thickets, foraging close to the ground. Its white breast is spotted rufous.

• Mountain Yellow Warbler Iduna similis

  This leaf-warbler occurs in the East African highlands. It has olive upperparts, yellow underparts, a long tail, and a slender bill. It moves through low vegetation in montane forest and high-altitude scrub.

• Red-cockaded Woodpecker Leuconotopicus borealis

  This woodpecker lives in pine forests of the southeastern United States. A breeding pair may receive help from other family members.

• Silver-tipped Imperial Pigeon Ducula luctuosa

  The Silver-tipped Imperial Pigeon is a large, mostly white pigeon with silvery-gray flight feathers edged in dark markings. It occurs on Sulawesi and nearby islands, using forests and mangroves.

• Streaky-headed Seedeater Crithagra gularis

  The Streaky-headed Seedeater lives in woodland and scrub in southern Africa. Fine streaks on the crown and a white eyebrow help identify it, and it eats flowers, buds, seeds, and fruit.

• Regent Honeyeater Anthochaera phrygia

  The Regent Honeyeater has a black head and chest set against pale yellow plumage and yellow wing markings. It moves through southeastern Australia in search of flowering eucalypt woodland.

• Yellow-browed Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius eximius

  This shrike-vireo occurs from eastern Panama through northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela. It uses humid lowland forest and tall second-growth woodland, gleaning food in the canopy.

• Golden Honeyeater Cleptornis marchei

  The Golden Honeyeater is a yellow bird endemic to the Mariana Islands. It breeds in a range of wooded and semi-open habitats.

• Smoky-fronted Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus fumifrons

  A tiny, roughly 9 cm tyrant flycatcher. It forages inconspicuously in low bushes, and pendant pouch-like nests have been recorded in French Guiana.