Meet the world’s animals.

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• Harwood's Francolin Pternistis harwoodi

  

  This spurfowl is endemic to Ethiopia. At the study sites, breeding females' plumage blended with the ground and stones, while males gave territorial calls.

• Bradfield's Hornbill Lophoceros bradfieldi

  Bradfield's Hornbill lives in dry woodlands and nearby habitats of southern Africa. It is usually in pairs or family groups, but local flocks can form toward the end of the dry season when food is scarce.

• Seychelles Kestrel Falco araeus

  This small falcon lives on islands in the Seychelles. It hunts insects and small vertebrates, including skinks and geckos.

• Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens

  The Glaucous-winged Gull is a large gull of Pacific shorelines. Adult wingtips are pale gray like the rest of the upperwing, and the bird searches coastlines for fish and crabs.

• Western Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla tephrolaema

  This bulbul occurs in the Cameroonian highlands and on Bioko. Records include montane forest, secondary and gallery forest, clearings, and bamboo.

• Tucuman Amazon Amazona tucumana

  The Tucuman Amazon is a large parrot of montane forest in southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. Its scaly plumage and green crown stand out.

• Tinian Monarch Monarcha takatsukasae

  This forest bird is endemic to Tinian. Juveniles have a yellow bill base and buff tips on the wing bars and rump, which distinguish them from adults.

• Greater Flameback Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus

  The Greater Flameback is a large woodpecker ranging across South and Southeast Asia. In part of its range, it is strongly associated with mangroves.

• Superb Fruit Dove Ptilinopus superbus

  The Superb Fruit-Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon with different plumage in males and females. It searches for fruit in trees.

• Maui Honeycreeper Pseudonestor xanthophrys

  This Hawaiian honeycreeper lives only in high-elevation forest on east Maui. It has a large curved bill, and pairs defend territories year-round.

• Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala

  The Noisy Miner is a grey bird with yellow bare skin around the eye and feeds on nectar and insects.

• Scrub Greenlet Hylophilus flavipes

  This small bird was studied in populations of Colombia’s Magdalena Valley. It searches foliage in scrub and woodland for small invertebrates.

• Seychelles White-eye Zosterops modestus

  The Seychelles White-eye is a small bird on Mahé. A survey report covering November 2022 to February 2023 describes a dull olive-brown body with a white eye-ring.

• Greenish Tyrannulet Phyllomyias virescens

  This small tyrannulet lives in humid evergreen forest in southeastern Brazil and nearby parts of South America. It is bright olive above, with dusky wings.

• Dusky Twinspot Euschistospiza cinereovinacea

  This African mountain bird has red on the rump and flanks, with white spots providing useful identification clues. The sources also describe a difference in tone between males and females.

• 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.

• Urubamba Antpitta Grallaria occabambae

  This ground-dwelling antpitta occurs in the southeastern Peruvian Andes. A 2020 paper treats it as a distinct species; the nominate subspecies has dark reddish-brown upperparts and paler underparts.

• Flat-billed Kingfisher Todiramphus recurvirostris

  The Flat-billed Kingfisher lives on Samoa. It uses dry and moist tropical forest, coasts, farmland, and urban areas, searching for food on the ground and in forests and eating invertebrates and lizards.

• Yucatan Nightjar Antrostomus badius

  The Yucatan Nightjar lives in forests and at forest edges on the Yucatán Peninsula. Its camouflaged plumage helps it remain difficult to see as it hunts from perches.

• Orange-breasted Fruiteater Pipreola jucunda

  A CERO report recorded an adult male foraging along a humid forest edge in Ecuador. A possibly different bird was reported to have a larger orange chest patch, and the reason for the difference is unresolved.

• Lesser Horned Owl Bubo magellanicus

  The Lesser Horned Owl ranges from central Peru toward the southern tip of South America. It hunts in open country and roosts or nests in scrub, forest edges, and similar sites.

• Blue Cuckooshrike Coracina azurea

  This cuckooshrike occurs in forests from West Africa into parts of Central Africa. Adult males are blue, while females are duller.

• Little Crow Corvus bennetti

  This crow lives in dry woodland and shrubland in Australia. It is active by day and eats a varied diet.

• Ridgway's Rail Rallus obsoletus

  Ridgway's Rail is a gray and rusty rail of western North America. It probes muddy ground for invertebrates. Cornell's account lists California, Arizona, Nevada, and the western coast of Mexico; before 2014 it was grouped with Clapper Rail and related forms as one species.