Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara

  

  The male is deep red and black, while the female is red and olive brown. It searches for small seeds on the ground and uses savanna, grassland, and cultivated areas.

• Intermediate Egret Ardea intermedia

  A heron often seen in rice fields, intermediate in size between the Little and Great Egrets.

• Straight-billed Hermit Phaethornis bourcieri

  A hummingbird of the Amazon lowlands that uses forest undergrowth and feeds on nectar.

• Chinese Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus yunnanensis

  This small leaf warbler breeds in Chinese mountains. Its upperparts are gray-green, its underparts are whitish, and it gives a long, mechanical song.

• Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana

  The Rufous-naped Lark is a large lark whose rusty wings show in flight. Pairs live in grassland and savanna, and the bird is conspicuous singing in spring and summer.

• Blue-winged Parakeet Psittacula columboides

  This parakeet of India's Western Ghats has a long blue tail and red bill. Males have a grey head and black neck stripe, and the birds feed on fruit and seeds.

• Rufous-rumped Seedeater Sporophila hypochroma

  The Rufous-rumped Seedeater is a small bird whose male has a gray head and back with chestnut throat and underparts. In Argentina, it breeds in tall, humid grassland.

• Siberian House Martin Delichon lagopodum

  This martin breeds in East Asia and winters mainly in Southeast Asia. It has a white face and underside, an extended white rump and catches small insects in flight.

• Grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea

  A slender waterside bird with a yellow belly and a long tail.

• Nacunda Nighthawk Chordeiles nacunda

  The Nacunda Nighthawk lives in open habitats in northern and eastern South America, catching insects in flight around dusk.

• Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja

  The Harpy Eagle is a large bird of prey of tropical forests in Central and South America. Its facial feather disk and hunting among the trees are distinctive.

• Baudo Oropendola Psarocolius cassini

  This large oropendola lives in the lowlands of Chocó, northwestern Colombia. Records place it in humid forest and forest edge up to about 365 m.

• Short-billed Gull Larus brachyrhynchus

  A small gull with a thin bill, it breeds in Alaska and northern Canada. Outside the breeding season it uses Pacific coastal waters and fields, feeding on fish, insects, grain, and other available food.

• Jackson's Hornbill Tockus jacksoni

  Jackson’s Hornbill is a black-and-white hornbill of dry East African savannas. Males and females differ in the colour and size of their bills.

• Speckle-breasted Antpitta Cryptopezus nattereri

  This antpitta occurs in southeastern South America, using low areas of humid montane forest and mature secondary woodland.

• Santa Marta Screech Owl Megascops gilesi

  This owl was recorded in humid forest at 1,800–2,500 m on the San Lorenzo ridge of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia.

• Coastal Cisticola Cisticola haematocephalus

  A cisticola of East African wetlands and moist grassland. It has a streaked back and a relatively long tail.

• Samoan Starling Aplonis atrifusca

  The Samoan Starling is endemic to the Samoan Archipelago. A National Park of American Samoa survey recorded it in native forest and human-dominated forest, including fruiting trees.

• Temminck's Tragopan Tragopan temminckii

  Temminck’s Tragopan is a pheasant of mountain forests. Males show a blue face and spotted russet plumage, and display during courtship.

• White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus

  The White-breasted Waterhen also lives around freshwater wetlands and park waters in Singapore. Adults have a white face and breast against a dark body.

• Crimson-mantled Woodpecker Colaptes rivolii

  This woodpecker lives in humid forest and cloud forest in the Andes from Bolivia to Venezuela. It has striking red upperparts and a pale face; the male and female have differently colored facial stripes.

• Green-chinned Euphonia Euphonia chalybea

  This small bird has a thick bill. Males have a yellow band on the forehead, while females are olive above and grey below.

• Wandering Whistling Duck Dendrocygna arcuata

  The Wandering Whistling Duck is a large, red-brown duck. In Kakadu it uses deep wetlands and flooded plains; its whistling call and wing noise may be heard as it flies to roost at dusk.

• White-headed Pigeon Columba leucomela

  Adults stand out for their white head, neck, and breast against dark wings. They feed on fruit in rainforests of eastern Australia.