Meet the world’s animals.

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• Karoo Eremomela Eremomela gregalis

  

  The Karoo Eremomela has a grey cap, green back, white belly, and yellow vent. It uses scrub on rocky ridges and Karoo plains, often in pairs or small flocks, feeding low down or on the ground. Its range is centred on the Karoo.

• Sykes's Nightjar Caprimulgus mahrattensis

  This sand-gray nightjar blends into dry semi-desert. It is active from dusk into the night, rests on the ground by day, and catches insects close to the ground.

• Inca Wren Pheugopedius eisenmanni

  A wren of humid mountain forest in southern Peru, marked by a white eyebrow and barred tail.

• Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga

  The Great Black Hawk is a large raptor with a dark adult body and distinctive white markings on the tail. In Peru, it is recorded along lowland Amazonian rivers and in forests in the northwest.

• Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis

  This weaver occurs widely in parts of southern, central, and eastern Africa. Males change in appearance between breeding and non-breeding plumages, and the birds eat grass seeds as well as insects.

• White-eared Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites meyerii

  The White-eared Bronze Cuckoo lives in mountain forests of New Guinea and searches for insects in the middle levels of trees. White ear patches and green barring help identify it.

• Red-faced Liocichla Liocichla phoenicea

  This babbler was rediscovered in Nepal's Chitwan region. A 2018 report confirmed by photograph a bird with crimson markings on its body; birds moved quickly through dark thickets and the canopy.

• Australian Tern Gelochelidon macrotarsa

  The Australian Tern is a medium-sized waterbird of Australia and New Guinea. It takes prey on land as well as around water and was recently separated from the Common Gull-billed Tern.

• Rufous-capped Babbler Cyanoderma ruficeps

  The Rufous-capped Babbler is a small bird marked by a bright rufous crown. It works through forest undergrowth and often travels with mixed flocks of small birds.

• Rufous Owl Ninox rufa

  The Rufous Owl is a large owl with reddish-brown plumage and pale bars. It rests in leafy cover by day and is active at night.

• Malaita White-eye Zosterops stresemanni

  This white-eye is endemic to Malaita in the Solomon Islands. It is abundant above 200 m in the surveyed area and is generally restricted to the canopy of large trees.

• Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix signatus

  The male Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark is recognizable by its chestnut-colored head. By day, it feeds on seeds on the ground in dry grassland and acacia scrub.

• Loveridge's Sunbird Cinnyris loveridgei

  Loveridge’s Sunbird is restricted to the mountains of Tanzania. Males have a golden-green head, a narrow violet breast band, and an orange-red breast; they visit flowers in montane forest.

• Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata

  This waterbird lives in marshes and ponds across the Americas. It swims and walks on floating plants with its long toes.

• Murphy's Petrel Pterodroma ultima

  Murphy’s Petrel is a seabird that breeds on islands in the South Pacific. It is mostly dark brown to gray, with pale flashes at the wingtips.

• Black-eared Seedeater Crithagra mennelli

  The Black-eared Seedeater is a small, streaked finch marked by a broad black band through the eye and a white eyebrow. It feeds in miombo and mopane woodland.

• Tropical Scrubwren Sericornis beccarii

  The Tropical Scrubwren inhabits dense rainforest and forages in the lower canopy and on the ground. The page records female birds of subspecies minimus in north-eastern Queensland.

• Eurasian hobby Falco subbuteo

  A long-winged falcon that flies swiftly to catch small birds and dragonflies in the air.

• Golden-breasted Starling Lamprotornis regius

  This starling lives in dry savanna from Ethiopia to northeastern Tanzania. Adults have blue-green upperparts and golden underparts; females have shorter tails than males.

• Stripe-breasted Tit Melaniparus fasciiventer

  A large tit of the Albertine Rift's montane forests. Males have a black head and central belly, with a conspicuous white band across the lower breast and flanks.

• Mountain Chiffchaff Phylloscopus sindianus

  The Mountain Chiffchaff is a small leaf warbler of mountain woodland and alpine scrub. Its pale brown body is marked by a white eyebrow.

• Rufous-faced Antpitta Grallaria erythrotis

  This antpitta occurs in humid mountain forest in Bolivia. It has a dark crown, orange face and white throat, and searches for small prey close to the ground.

• Painted Bunting Passerina ciris

  The Painted Bunting is a small bird that breeds in the south-central and coastal southeastern United States. It searches for seeds during migration and winter.

• Southern Yellowthroat Geothlypis velata

  The Southern Yellowthroat occurs in marshes, moist grassland, and edges of swampy forest. Southern breeding populations move north in winter, while birds in some parts of the range occur year-round.