Meet the world’s animals.

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• Abyssinian Thrush Turdus abyssinicus

  

  A thrush of eastern African highlands, recorded in forest, scrub, inland wetlands and human-modified habitats. BirdLife International’s 2016 assessment classifies it as an altitudinal migrant.

• Eurasian hobby Falco subbuteo

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

• Collared Imperial Pigeon Ducula mullerii

  A large pigeon of forests around New Guinea, it is marked by a black collar and maroon back and may move as fruit availability changes.

• African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro

  The African Goshawk is a widespread medium-sized African hawk. Its plumage varies by sex, age, and region.

• White-banded Tyrannulet Mecocerculus stictopterus

  The White-banded Tyrannulet is a small bird of Andean forests. Its white eyebrow and two wing-bars stand out as it searches among leaves for small invertebrates.

• Kofiau Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera ellioti

  This kingfisher is restricted to Kofiau Island in Indonesia. Its blue head, white body, and long central tail feathers are striking. Little is known about its ecology, and its feeding behavior is presented as probable.

• Red-winged Lark Corypha hypermetra

  A 2024 taxonomic study places the nominate form from southern Somalia through Kenya to north-eastern Tanzania, and subspecies gallarum in Ethiopia. It cautions that range boundaries remain uncertain and separates the Kidepo form as another species.

• Yellow-throated Fulvetta Schoeniparus cinereus

  This babbler lives in evergreen broadleaf forest in southeastern Tibet and western Yunnan, China. Yellow eyebrow markings and yellow underparts stand out against its olive upperparts.

• Gray Vireo Vireo vicinior

  Gray Vireos breed in dry scrub of the southwestern United States. Many winter in Mexico and use similar scrub as well as desert stream areas.

• Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba

  The Green-winged Pytilia has an olive-green back and red bill and tail. It feeds on the ground; males and females have different head and breast colors.

• Bristle-crowned Starling Onychognathus salvadorii

  A starling of Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya in eastern Africa. It has bristle-like black feathers on the forehead, a blue sheen, and uses rocky mountain habitat.

• Black-bibbed Cicadabird Coracina mindanensis

  The Black-bibbed Cicadabird occurs in the Philippines and uses the canopy and middle storey of moist lowland secondary forest and montane forest. The male plumage description here is limited to the Mindanao subspecies mindanense.

• Von Schrenck's Bittern Botaurus eurhythmus

  Von Schrenck’s Bittern is a small heron of reed beds, broad marshes, and rice fields. Males and females have different plumage.

• Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis

  The Savannah Sparrow lives in grasslands and is marked by a short tail and fine breast streaks. It eats more insects in the breeding season and more seeds in winter.

• Sokoke Pipit Anthus sokokensis

  The Sokoke Pipit is a shy bird of coastal forests in Kenya and Tanzania, with Arabuko-Sokoke Forest as its stronghold.

• Masked Tanager Stilpnia nigrocincta

  The Masked Tanager occurs in humid forest and at forest edges in northern South America. Males have a lavender-blue head, neck and throat with black lores. The account says it mainly eats fruit, with arthropods also taken.

• Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica

  The Wedge-tailed Shearwater is a large seabird of warm Indian and Pacific waters. It has light and dark morphs; dark birds are brown overall.

• Rufous-tailed Robin Luscinia sibilans

  It breeds in forests of Siberia and northeastern China and winters from southern China into northern Southeast Asia. The source uses the name Larvivora sibilans for the bird listed in the pool as Luscinia sibilans.

• 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.

• Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis

  The Yellow-throated Cuckoo is a cuckoo of forests in western and central Africa. The male has a yellow throat, and the species feeds mainly on caterpillars.

• Marquesan Swiftlet Aerodramus ocistus

  A swiftlet of the Marquesas Islands, it has dark-brown upperparts, a grey rump, grey-brown underparts and a long, forked tail.

• Mexican Jay Aphelocoma wollweberi

  The Mexican Jay ranges from Mexico into the southwestern United States, inhabiting mountain woodlands in family groups.

• Cinnabar Boobook Ninox ios

  The Cinnabar Boobook is an owl found on Sulawesi. One bird observed in a North Sulawesi reserve caught insects in the upper forest canopy.

• Wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis

  A small plover endemic to New Zealand, with a bill that bends to the right and breeding grounds on South Island braided rivers.