Meet the world’s animals.

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• Galapagos Petrel Pterodroma phaeopygia

  

  The Galapagos Petrel breeds in the humid highlands of the Galapagos Islands and ranges widely over the sea to find food.

• Large-billed crow Corvus macrorhynchos

  A crow with a thick bill and a raised forehead. In Japan it occurs in forests, towns and other habitats.

• Mangaia Kingfisher Todiramphus ruficollaris

  This kingfisher is endemic to Mangaia in the Cook Islands. An orange neck band is a field mark, and surveys have recorded it in primary and secondary forest and other island habitats.

• Lemon-chested Greenlet Hylophilus thoracicus

  A greenlet with a visual record from forest fragments in southeastern Brazil. A 2024 survey recorded it near Estrela Dalva in Minas Gerais.

• White-breasted Negrofinch Nigrita fusconotus

  This small bird has records from forests in western and central Africa. The historical description gives it a black head, shoulders, flight feathers, and tail, a gray-brown back, and a whitish belly. At Luki Biosphere Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, small groups were observed in the forest-edge canopy.

• American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus

  A brown-and-buff heron that can blend into marsh vegetation by stretching its neck and pointing its bill upward.

• White-eared Hummingbird Basilinna leucotis

  This hummingbird lives in mountain forests from Nicaragua to northern Mexico. It has a white ear-stripe on a dark head; in bright light, an adult male's face appears violet and its throat gleams green.

• Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus

  Pallas's Leaf Warbler is a tiny bird identified by crown stripes and a yellow rump. It breeds in northern Asia and occurs as far as central China and the Himalayas.

• Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea

  Its narrow tail has dark-brown central feathers and rufous outer feathers. It lives in grassland and grassy openings in African woodland and savanna, searching the ground for small invertebrates and seeds.

• Josephine's Lorikeet Charmosyna josefinae

  A red lorikeet with pale lilac streaks, it feeds on nectar and pollen in the mountain forests of western and central New Guinea.

• White-naped Seedeater Sporophila fringilloides

  Males are black and white with a white nape band; females are brown. The species ranges from southern Venezuela and southeastern Colombia through northwestern Brazil to the Manaus region, and into southern Guyana.

• Cuban Martin Progne cryptoleuca

  The Cuban Martin catches insects while flying. It uses dry lowland scrub, pasture, farmland, and second-growth woodland, and it also occurs in pine forest.

• Pechora Pipit Anthus gustavi

  The Pechora Pipit is marked by bold white stripes on its back and fine streaks on the chest. It hides in dense grass and flushes only at close range.

• Ladder-tailed Nightjar Hydropsalis climacocerca

  It is gray-brown with fine markings. The male has a long tail that looks W-shaped when spread. It is nocturnal and occurs along rivers.

• Jerdon's Baza Aviceda jerdoni

  A crested hawk that waits on a perch for prey, it breeds in scattered areas from India to Southeast Asia.

• St. Lucia Oriole Icterus laudabilis

  An oriole endemic to St. Lucia. Black plumage is sharply set off by russet-orange patches, and it has a long, slender bill.

• Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus

  The Bridled Tern is widespread across tropical and subtropical seas. It forages at patches of floating seaweed and may rest on floating objects at sea.

• Wreathed hornbill Rhyticeros undulatus

  A tropical forest bird with a ridged structure above its bill.

• Bay Antpitta Grallaria capitalis

  This antpitta occurs in the eastern Andes of central Peru. It inhabits humid montane forest and edges, with records around 1,800–3,000 m.

• Band-bellied Owl Pulsatrix melanota

  The Band-bellied Owl has a dark brown back and a pale belly crossed by heavy brown bars. It lives on the eastern Andean slope and is active at night.

• Cambodian Tailorbird Orthotomus chaktomuk

  A small tailorbird restricted to dense floodplain scrub in southeastern Cambodia. Males have a black throat patch, and both sexes have an orange crown.

• Makira Starling Aplonis dichroa

  This starling lives on Makira in the Solomon Islands. Its dark body has blue and purple sheen, and it occurs in forest and along forest edges.

• Tibetan Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon harmani

  A pheasant found in southeastern Tibet and one locality in northeastern India. Its blue-gray plumage, white throat band and long, drooping tail are distinctive.

• Rufous-faced Crake Rufirallus xenopterus

  The Rufous-faced Crake is an elusive rail recorded in shallowly flooded grassland in South America. Its head and back are rufous, and its wings have bold black-and-white bars.