Meet the world’s animals.

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• Galapagos Hawk Buteo galapagoensis

  

  The Galapagos Hawk is a large raptor of the islands. Adults are dark, juveniles are paler, and females are larger than males.

• Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni

  This weaver occurs in eastern Africa. The breeding male has a black head and throat with a yellow back, and the account records it in dry savanna and around acacia woodland.

• Bay-breasted Cuckoo Coccyzus rufigularis

  The Bay-breasted Cuckoo has a gray back and rusty throat and breast. It searches for small animals in forests from lowlands to mountains on Hispaniola.

• Buffy Laughingthrush Pterorhinus berthemyi

  The Buffy Laughingthrush occurs in southeastern China, where it uses broadleaf evergreen and bamboo forests as well as plantations. Its head to breast is ochre-brown, with black lores and chin and blue bare skin around the eyes.

• Black-tailed gull Larus crassirostris

  A gull seen on Japanese coasts through much of the year, with a catlike call.

• Ochre-bellied Boobook Ninox ochracea

  The Ochre-bellied Boobook lives around Sulawesi in Indonesia. It roosts in dense vegetation by day and hunts insects from the middle levels of trees.

• Mountain White-eye Zosterops montanus

  The Mountain White-eye is described from Wallacea, the Greater Sundas, and the Philippines. The KOMIU profile places it in primary forest on high mountains.

• Karoo Lark Calendulauda albescens

  This lark inhabits dry shrublands in South Africa. It walks on the ground and searches around shrub bases for seeds, insects, and other food.

• Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus

  This sunbird occurs in East-Central Africa. Dave Richards's 2013 Wildlife of East Africa guide uses the former genus name Nectarinia erythrocerca and describes waterside habitat and different male and female plumage.

• Common moorhen Gallinula chloropus

  A waterbird using rivers, ponds, rice fields and other wetlands.

• Hutton's Shearwater Puffinus huttoni

  A seabird that breeds in the Kaikōura mountains of New Zealand's South Island. It feeds at sea and moves to Australia in winter.

• Vietnamese Greenfinch Chloris monguilloti

  This small finch has a dark head and bright yellow wing panels. It lives in pine forests in southern Vietnam's highlands and forages in small flocks.

• Malabar Starling Sturnia blythii

  This starling occurs in India's Western Ghats. It also uses open woodland, farmland with scattered trees, and places near settlements. A 2022 study followed one nest as the parents provisioned their chicks.

• Coal tit Periparus ater

  In Japan it inhabits mountain woodland and favors conifer canopies. It is also seen in lowlands in autumn and winter.

• Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus

  The Two-barred Warbler is a small leaf warbler with two wing-bars and a noticeable supercilium. It forages actively in mid-levels of trees and moves between breeding and wintering areas.

• Undulated Antpitta Grallaria squamigera

  The Undulated Antpitta lives in humid Andean forest and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina

  The Hooded Warbler is a small bird of low vegetation in eastern North American forests. Breeding males have a black hood.

• Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons

  A North American vireo marked by a bright yellow throat and yellow around the eyes.

• Javan Pond Heron Ardeola speciosa

  This heron changes its head and breast plumage between breeding and nonbreeding seasons. Its white wings stand out in flight, and it moves within Southeast Asia.

• Blue-black Kingfisher Todiramphus nigrocyaneus

  This kingfisher lives in lowland forest on New Guinea and nearby islands. Along forested waters, it looks for fish and crabs.

• Spotted Imperial Pigeon Ducula carola

  This imperial pigeon occurs only in the Philippines. Males show stronger gray, white, and dark contrasts, while females are browner overall; plumage also varies among subspecies.

• Black Munia Lonchura stygia

  The Black Munia is a small finch of the southern New Guinea lowlands. Males are almost entirely black, and the species feeds on grass seeds in wetlands and tall grass.

• Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta

  The Long-toed Stint is a small shorebird with long toes. It breeds in northern Asia and migrates south for winter, using shallow wetlands and similar habitats.

• Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata

  Wild Muscovy Ducks are large waterfowl of tropical American forests and watersides. They use holes in trees for roosting or nesting.