Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus

  

  This yellowish warbler searches among pine needles high in pine forests. It eats insects and also takes seeds, especially pine seeds, in colder months.

• Dark Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx bocki

  The Dark Hawk-Cuckoo is a large, long-tailed cuckoo with a hawk-like shape, found in montane and foothill forests of Borneo.

• Ruff Calidris pugnax

  A shorebird that breeds in wetlands from arctic to temperate regions and also uses mudflats and grasslands during migration and winter. Breeding males display elaborate head and neck feathers.

• Rock Firefinch Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis

  This small finch uses rocky grassland and scrub. It follows streams in the rainy season and uses places where water remains in the dry season.

• Blue-crowned Racket-tail Prioniturus discurus

  The Blue-crowned Racket-tail has green plumage and a blue crown and uses forests, mangroves, and cultivated areas in the Philippines.

• Peaceful Dove Geopelia placida

  The Peaceful Dove is a small grey-brown dove with barred plumage. In South Australia it feeds on the ground for seeds and usually occurs in pairs or small flocks.

• Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus lanceolatus

  The Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle is a large raptor of Indonesian forest, centered on Sulawesi. Adults have a rufous, streaked breast and a densely barred belly.

• Rufous-vented Yuhina Yuhina occipitalis

  A field guide describes a small bird with grey and rufous in its crest. It lives in eastern Himalayan evergreen forest and forages in the canopy and among mossy trunks and branches.

• Tsavo Sunbird Cinnyris tsavoensis

  Tsavo Sunbird occurs in Somalia, eastern Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania. Males are blue-green and black, while females are mainly gray-brown.

• Frill-necked Monarch Arses lorealis

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in rainforest, vine forest, and gallery forest on eastern Cape York. Its white neck frill and blue skin around the eye are striking, and males and females differ in the face and back.

• Japanese Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus xanthodryas

  The Japanese Leaf Warbler visits subalpine forests from Kyushu northward and repeats a slightly husky song. It was once grouped with the Kamchatka and Arctic Leaf Warblers.

• Edible-nest Swiftlet Aerodramus fuciphagus

  The Edible-nest Swiftlet is a small swiftlet of Indo-Malayan forests. It catches insects and other invertebrates while flying.

• Citron-headed Yellow Finch Sicalis luteocephala

  Citron-headed Yellow Finch is a small finch described as nearly endemic to Bolivia. The forecrown, sides of the face, throat, and central belly are bright yellow, contrasting with gray upperparts and flanks. The account records dry scrub, open woodland, and holes in ravine banks.

• Yellow-crowned Elaenia Myiopagis flavivertex

  A small flycatcher of northern Amazonian lowlands. Peru Aves describes olive upperparts, a yellow belly, and fine yellow wing-bars.

• Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina

  A forest cuckooshrike of tropical Africa. Adult males have a glossy black body and a purple sheen on the throat.

• Chestnut-backed Thrush Geokichla dohertyi

  The Chestnut-backed Thrush is a thrush with a rich chestnut back and a black-and-white face. It occurs in Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands.

• Niceforo's Wren Thryophilus nicefori

  This highly threatened wren occurs on the western slope of Colombia's northern Eastern Andes. It uses dry-forest understory and has also been recorded in shaded coffee and cacao plantations.

• Wood Duck Aix sponsa

  A colorful duck that perches in trees and nests in tree cavities near water.

• Pearly Antshrike Megastictus margaritatus

  An antshrike of Amazonian lowland forest. The sexes have different plumage, and records also come from northeastern and east-central Peru.

• Snowy Plover Anarhynchus nivosus

  The Snowy Plover is a small, sand-colored shorebird that searches open beaches and salt-lake shores for prey. It makes a well-hidden nest on sandy beaches.

• Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris

  A small bird of open country in North America that searches the ground for seeds and insects. Short feathers on the male’s head can rise like tiny horns.

• Yellow-browed Bulbul Acritillas indica

  This bulbul lives in forests in India and Sri Lanka. It has a yellow eyebrow, face, and throat, with olive upperparts.

• Pied Starling Lamprotornis bicolor

  Its glossy dark brown back contrasts with a white belly. In southern African grasslands and farmland, it forages for insects on the ground, often in flocks.

• Scarlet macaw Ara macao

  A parrot with vivid red, yellow and blue plumage and a large hooked bill.