Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger

  

  A bird of African savannas and dry woodland, it forages on the ground and breeds in large groups.

• Goliath Coucal Centropus goliath

  The Goliath Coucal is a large cuckoo of the northern Moluccas. It is mostly black, with bluish wings and tail and a white wing patch.

• Javan Fulvetta Alcippe pyrrhoptera

  This small bird lives in evergreen broadleaf forest in western and central Java. It has a brown crown and back, rufous-chestnut rump and wings, and eats insects.

• Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii

  A large tern with a shaggy black crest and cap. It feeds mainly on small fish, searching from above the water and diving head-first to catch them.

• Simeulue Scops Owl Otus umbra

  The Simeulue Scops Owl is a small owl found on Simeulue Island off northwest Sumatra. Adults weigh about 95 g and hunt invertebrates at night.

• Indian White-eye Zosterops palpebrosus

  The Indian White-eye is a small bird with a clear white ring around each eye. It forages in small groups among trees for insects, nectar and fruit.

• Bimaculated Lark Melanocorypha bimaculata

  The Bimaculated Lark walks across dry, open grasslands. Dark patches on both sides of its chest stand out, and breeding males sing long songs in flight.

• Common Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus

  This sunbird is seen from forest to savanna. Males show iridescent green plumage with maroon and blue breast bands; females are paler.

• Brown Wood Rail Aramides wolfi

  The Brown Wood Rail is a chicken-sized rail with a yellow bill and pink legs. It keeps to streams and marshy areas in humid forest, where paired birds may call together.

• Bannerman's Shearwater Puffinus bannermani

  Bannerman's Shearwater is endemic to the Ogasawara Islands. Breeding colonies have been confirmed in forests on Minamiiwoto and Higashijima.

• Yellow-rumped Seedeater Crithagra xanthopygia

  This finch is reported as common in dry, open scrub in the highlands of Eritrea and Ethiopia. A 2020 expedition also recorded 12 birds in Djibouti and described their plumage.

• White-billed Starling Onychognathus albirostris

  Its glossy blue-black plumage and pale bill stand out. In the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands it uses cliffs, gorges, moorland, and towns, eating fruit and insects.

• Balkan Warbler Phylloscopus orientalis

  The Balkan Warbler is a small, pale leaf warbler. It breeds in Mediterranean scrub and forest, and outside the breeding season also uses vegetated dry valleys, open woodland, and scrub while searching for tiny insects and other prey.

• Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea

  This warbler has rich red-brown and creamy buff in summer, then becomes mostly green and white in fall. It searches lower branches of conifers on its breeding grounds.

• Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera danae

  The Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher lives in moist forest in southeastern New Guinea. Adult males have a brown head and back, pink underparts, and long tail feathers.

• Barking Imperial Pigeon Ducula latrans

  This large pigeon lives in Fiji's forests. Its gray head and breast contrast with a reddish-brown belly. It eats fruit and uses the forest canopy.

• Black-throated Munia Lonchura kelaarti

  The Black-throated Munia is a small bird whose back and belly markings vary by region. It occurs in southern Indian hills and Sri Lanka and eats grass and weed seeds, as well as rice.

• Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima

  A stocky wader seen on rocky shores in Britain in winter, with distinctive yellow legs.

• Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis

  This large waterbird lives around wetlands and eats mainly plant matter.

• Jamaican Oriole Icterus leucopteryx

  A black-and-yellow oriole that feeds on fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Gray-winged Francolin Scleroptila afra

  A finely patterned bird that blends into grassland, endemic to South Africa and Lesotho and found in mountains and rocky hills.

• Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos macei

  The Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker is a small woodpecker. It is active by day in forests and searches for invertebrates on tree trunks.

• Purple-crowned Lorikeet Parvipsitta porphyrocephala

  The Purple-crowned Lorikeet has a purple crown as an adult and often feeds on nectar and pollen from eucalypts.

• Pacific Elaenia Myiopagis subplacens

  This small tyrant flycatcher ranges through the Tumbesian region of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. A broad white eyebrow and yellow crown patch help identify it.