Meet the world’s animals.

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• Blue-lored Antbird Hafferia immaculata

  

  This antbird occurs in Colombia, Ecuador, and western Venezuela. It uses the undergrowth of humid forest on the western slopes of the Andes.

• Greenish Warbler Phylloscopus trochiloides

  The Greenish Warbler has a green back, pale underparts, and a conspicuous white eyebrow and wingbar. It searches for insects in forests and along their edges, then migrates after breeding.

• American Woodcock Scolopax minor

  This shorebird walks on the forest floor and probes the soil with its long bill for earthworms.

• White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis

  The White-headed Vulture has a white head and bare red face. It uses treed savanna and feeds mainly on carrion.

• Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus canicapillus

  A small woodpecker with a gray head that searches bark and branches for insects. It uses habitats with trees, from woodland to gardens.

• Black-eared Cuckoo Chalcites osculans

  The Black-eared Cuckoo is a brood-parasitic cuckoo found widely across mainland Australia. Its breeding records are concentrated in the southern inland half of the continent.

• Purple Heron Ardea purpurea

  A heron with a buff head and neck, black cap, gray back, and deep chestnut shoulder patch. It favors dense plants beside shallow water.

• Burmese Yuhina Yuhina humilis

  It lives in forests in eastern Myanmar and western Thailand, moving in small groups to feed on fruit, nectar and insects.

• Blyth's Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone affinis

  It launches from high branches to catch insects in the air. Females and first-winter birds have conspicuous chestnut backs and tails.

• Society Kingfisher Todiramphus veneratus

  It occurs on Tahiti and Moorea in the Society Islands. The eBird account describes different male plumage forms on the two islands.

• Black-faced Rufous Warbler Bathmocercus rufus

  The Black-faced Rufous Warbler moves through dense undergrowth in damp forests of central and eastern Africa. The male has a black face and throat, chestnut upperparts, and grayish underparts, and searches for insects. The identification account centers on males, so it does not represent full female plumage.

• Curve-winged Sabrewing Pampa curvipennis

  The Curve-winged Sabrewing occurs in the eastern Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. An 1887 regional account describes the male with a blue crown, bronze-green upperparts and iron-grey underparts.

• Pale-faced Bulbul Pycnonotus leucops

  This bulbul occurs in northern Borneo. It has a yellowish-olive body and a pale gray head; the 2023 eBird taxonomy update treats it as a species split from Flavescent Bulbul.

• Greenish Yellow Finch Sicalis olivascens

  It lives in Andean scrub and forages on the ground. The Peruvian account places it at 1,650–4,200 m, in pairs or family groups.

• Slate-colored Fox Sparrow Passerella schistacea

  Passerella schistacea is also described as the Slate-colored group within Fox Sparrow. It breeds in dense riparian scrub in the western interior and moves toward the Pacific Coast in winter.

• Mangrove Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia

  The Mangrove Yellow Warbler is a bright yellow songbird whose adult males have a chestnut hood. It searches for insects and spiders in American coastal mangroves and nearby scrub.

• Painted Francolin Francolinus pictus

  The Painted Francolin has a rufous face and throat and conspicuous white-spotted feathers. In India it lives in pairs or family groups around grassland and cultivated areas.

• African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus

  The African Pipit is a ground-dwelling bird with streaked brown plumage and a pale eyebrow. It walks through grassland in search of small invertebrates.

• Upland Goose Chloephaga picta

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

• Heermann's Gull Larus heermanni

  In breeding plumage it has a dark grey body, white head, and red bill. It breeds in Mexico’s Gulf of California and moves north along the Pacific Coast.

• Scale-throated Earthcreeper Upucerthia dumetaria

  In northwestern Patagonia, this ground-dwelling bird uses forest edges and shrub steppe. It walks as it forages and nests in tunnels dug in soil.

• Rufous-backed Thrush Turdus rufopalliatus

  It resembles an American Robin but lacks a white eye-ring, and has rufous on the back and wings. It often hides in woods and dense thickets.

• Beautiful Rosefinch Carpodacus pulcherrimus

  The Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch is a seed-eating bird of Himalayan shrubland. Some populations move seasonally.

• Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe

  A small flycatcher of eastern North America, the Eastern Phoebe often launches from a low perch to catch flying insects.