Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey Thornbill Acanthiza cinerea

  

  A small thornbill with grey upperparts and a white underside, active in the canopy of montane forest.

• Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos

  This large vulture occurs in dry parts of Africa south of the Sahara. It has a dark body, white down on the belly and thighs, and a bare head with prominent folds of skin.

• White-throated Woodpecker Piculus leucolaemus

  The White-throated Woodpecker is recorded in foothill forest of western Amazonia. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Pallid Cuckoo Heteroscenes pallidus

  The Pallid Cuckoo occurs across Australia and is a brood parasite. Its plumage varies among individuals and between sexes, and it leaves its eggs in host nests.

• Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha

  This egret occurs in a range of South African wetlands. It catches fish, amphibians, and aquatic invertebrates by standing still or walking slowly through shallow water.

• Wangi-wangi White-eye Zosterops paruhbesar

  This white-eye was described from Wangi-Wangi Island. A later field survey also recorded it on Simpora, about 450 m to the south.

• Chachapoyas Antpitta Grallaria gravesi

  Birds of the World describes the Chachapoyas Antpitta as a recently recognized Peruvian endemic that remains little studied.

• Frill-necked Monarch Arses lorealis

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in rainforest, vine forest, and gallery forest on eastern Cape York. Its white neck frill and blue skin around the eye are striking, and males and females differ in the face and back.

• White-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis

  The White-breasted Kingfisher is a kingfisher with a red bill, blue back and tail, brown head and belly, and a white throat and breast. It eats fish and shrimp as well as crabs and lizards.

• Rufous-winged Cisticola Cisticola galactotes

  The Rufous-winged Cisticola is a small cisticola of grassland and wetland edges in southeastern Africa. Its rufous back feathers help identify it.

• Mountain Velvetbreast Lafresnaya lafresnayi

  This hummingbird is recorded around Cuenca, Ecuador. It occurs in montane scrub, riverside vegetation, and forest edges, where its curved bill helps it feed on flower nectar.

• Western Bearded Greenbul Criniger barbatus

  The Western Bearded Greenbul has conspicuous yellow throat feathers. In West African forest it moves in pairs or small groups and attends ant columns.

• Golden-eared Tanager Tangara chrysotis

  The Golden-eared Tanager is a small tanager about 11.5 cm long. In Bolivia it is recorded in humid cloud forest of the lower Yungas and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Large-billed Fox Sparrow Passerella megarhyncha

  This is the thick-billed group of Fox Sparrows from western North American mountains. Cornell describes it as the Thick-billed group within Fox Sparrow, a broader taxonomic treatment than the pool’s Passerella megarhyncha.

• White-fronted Whitestart Myioborus albifrons

  This active little bird has yellow underparts and white around the eyes. It joins mixed-species flocks in high-elevation cloud forest and searches for insects.

• Shelley's Francolin Scleroptila shelleyi

  Shelley’s Francolin lives in grassy woodland and rocky areas of eastern and southern Africa. Its white throat, reddish-brown breast markings, and black-and-white barred belly help identify it.

• Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus

  A pipit whose adult breeding plumage has a rusty-red throat and breast. It breeds on northern tundra and moves south seasonally.

• Kelp Goose Chloephaga hybrida

  Male Kelp Geese are white, while females are dark with bold white bars. They live on rocky marine shores and feed mainly on seaweed.

• Lava Gull Leucophaeus fuliginosus

  Endemic to the Galápagos Islands, the adult has a dark head and pale edges on the wings. It nests under coastal vegetation.

• White-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes atacamensis

  This bird occurs in the high Andes along clear streams. It has white on the wings, throat, eyebrow, and outer tail feathers, and forages near shallow water and mud.

• White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis

  The White-tailed Ant Thrush keeps to forest undergrowth and the forest floor. The East African account describes broad white tips on the outer tail feathers and records the species in western Uganda and Kenya's Kakamega Forest.

• Noronha Vireo Vireo gracilirostris

  The Noronha Vireo is a small bird confined to the main island of Fernando de Noronha off Brazil. A paper including field observations from 1973 recorded it in wooded and scrubby areas, but not in the cleared center.

• Chimango Caracara Milvago chimango

  Argentina's biodiversity record describes a brown caracara marked by a white patch at the wing tips. It feeds mainly on carrion and searches for food in open places and along roads.

• African Gray Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus

  The African Gray Hornbill is a hornbill of woodland and savanna in sub-Saharan Africa. It feeds in trees and shrubs on insects, fruit, and other foods.