Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,825 · Stories: 19,540

• Sun Lark Galerida modesta

  

  This lark lives in grassland and dry savanna south of the Sahel and across the Sudan region. It has pale brown plumage with dark streaks.

• Cobalt Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera carolinae

  The Cobalt Paradise Kingfisher is a kingfisher of Numfor Island. Long, narrow feathers trail from the tail; it searches near the forest floor for invertebrates and nests in termite mounds.

• Lord Howe Rail Hypotaenidia sylvestris

  The Lord Howe Island Woodhen is a flightless olive-brown rail with a down-curving bill and red eyes. It feeds on forest-floor invertebrates, and adults pair for life.

• Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum

  The Bare-throated Tiger Heron is a large heron that waits for prey beside rivers and wetlands.

• Black-headed Lapwing Vanellus tectus

  A lapwing with a black head, white facial markings and a long crest. The bill is red with a black tip and the legs are pink. It lives in dry grassland, sandy areas and other open habitats in Africa.

• Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius

  A weaver whose male has a black facial mask and pale eye. It weaves a round grass nest and breeds in colonies.

• Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater

  The Brown-headed Cowbird feeds on the ground in open habitats. Females do not build their own nests; they lay eggs in the nests of other birds.

• Kermadec Petrel Pterodroma neglecta

  This petrel has a bulky body and long pointed wings, with plumage ranging from pale to wholly dark. It breeds on islands including those in the South Pacific and ranges widely at sea.

• Rufous-chinned Laughingthrush Ianthocincla rufogularis

  It has a black crown, a scaled brown back, and a grey, spotted underside. The amount of rufous on the chin varies among subspecies.

• Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer

  Males have a black head, chestnut body and long tail streamers. The species lives in wooded parts of western, central and eastern Africa south of the Sahara, and eats insects.

• Timor Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus presbytes

  The Timor Leaf Warbler is a small warbler recorded on Timor and Flores. It uses forest edges and montane woodland on Flores, and lowland scrub on Timor.

• Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus lugubris

  The Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo is a slender cuckoo resembling a drongo, with a long, square-ended tail. It catches insects in the forest canopy and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Himalayan Black-lored Tit Machlolophus xanthogenys

  This tit is marked by a black-and-yellow face, a strong dark eye-stripe, and white spots on the wings. Small groups search the middle and upper parts of forests.

• Star-spotted Nightjar Caprimulgus stellatus

  The Star-spotted Nightjar is a nocturnal bird of dry grassland and scrub. By day, it rests on the ground among fallen leaves.

• Blue-and-white Swallow Pygochelidon cyanoleuca

  This swallow flies over open habitats in South America and beyond. Its back is glossy dark blue and its belly white; in Argentina it catches insects over forests and water.

• Fruithunter Chlamydochaera jefferyi

  The Fruithunter is endemic to Borneo’s montane forest. Males are glossy blue-black, while females are barred gray-brown; small groups may gather at fruiting trees.

• Desert Cisticola Cisticola aridulus

  The Desert Cisticola is a small bird of dry grassland and scrub. During breeding, males and females differ in their crown pattern and forage in low grass.

• Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus

  The adult Kelp Gull is a large gull with a blackish back and dull greenish-yellow legs. It is native mainly to Southern Hemisphere coasts and also occurs around lakes, rivers and saltwater wetlands.

• Mauritius Kestrel Falco punctatus

  A small falcon found only in the forests of Mauritius.

• Upland Goose Chloephaga picta

  A goose of Patagonian grasslands: males are white, while females have brown barred plumage, and both graze on plants.

• Horned Guan Oreophasis derbianus

  The Horned Guan is a large bird of mountain forests in southeastern Mexico and Guatemala. The red horn on an immature bird is small and has not yet developed into the adult form.

• Yellow-faced Parrotlet Forpus xanthops

  The Yellow-faced Parrotlet is a small parrot restricted to the upper Marañón drainage in northern Peru. Both sexes have a yellow face and breast; males show blue on the rump and wings.

• Red-mantled Rosefinch Carpodacus rhodochlamys

  In Gilgit-Baltistan, this rosefinch uses high scrub in summer and lower brush in winter.

• Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea

  The male is conspicuously blue with a throat band, while the female is blue-green. It breeds in eastern North American forests and winters in the Andes.