Meet the world’s animals.

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• Moustached Brush Finch Atlapetes albofrenatus

  

  This brush finch is recorded in Colombia’s eastern Andes. A 2014 study compared photographs and vocalizations of the Colombian nominate form, describing its white chin, green mantle and moustachial marking.

• Banded Lapwing Vanellus tricolor

  The Banded Lapwing lives in short grassland and farmland in Australia. Its black breast band and white throat stand out. It is nomadic and searches for invertebrates on the ground.

• Western Spinebill Acanthorhynchus superciliosus

  The Western Spinebill has rufous, white, black, and grey plumage and a slender bill. It uses flowers, fruit, and small invertebrates in southwestern Australia.

• Saturnine Antshrike Thamnomanes saturninus

  An antshrike with dark grey and black plumage in males and olive-brown plumage in females. It eats varied insects in South American lowland evergreen forest.

• Green-tailed Trainbearer Lesbia nuna

  The Green-tailed Trainbearer is a high-Andean hummingbird. The male's long tail is distinctive, and the bird visits flowers in shrubland.

• Spectacled Monarch Symposiachrus trivirgatus

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in forests on Australia's east coast. On Queensland's Gold Coast, local records place it in rainforest and damp eucalypt forest below the canopy.

• Madagascan Spinetail Zoonavena grandidieri

  This small swift is about 12 cm long and occurs on Madagascar and Grand Comoro in the Comoro Islands. It catches insects in the air by day.

• River Prinia Prinia fluviatilis

  This prinia inhabits grassy river edges and wetlands. In a 2006 observation in Mali, twelve singing birds were recorded along riverbanks; three individuals seen well were much paler than another species.

• Salvadori's Nightjar Caprimulgus pulchellus

  Salvadori's Nightjar has dark plumage and a short tail. It is active at night in forests of Sumatra and Java, catching insects in flight; the wing patch differs between the sexes.

• Rufous-backed Wren Campylorhynchus capistratus

  A wren of Central American dry forest and scrub. Its white eyebrow and rufous back stand out, and it may build a globular nest in thorny trees.

• Grey-headed Fish Eagle Icthyophaga ichthyaetus

  The Grey-headed Fish Eagle is a large eagle identified by the adult's gray head and brown breast. It lives in woodland near water and feeds mainly on fish.

• Juba Weaver Ploceus dichrocephalus

  This weaver was recorded along rivers in southern Ethiopia. Breeding males have black heads, red eyes, rufous chests, and yellow bellies; females and nonbreeding males are duller.

• Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx vagans

  The Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo lives in Southeast Asian forests. It has a hawk-like shape and a dark line behind the eye, and lays its eggs in nests of forest babblers.

• Ashy-headed Laughingthrush Argya cinereifrons

  This laughingthrush has a gray head and reddish-brown body and forms groups in damp forest.

• Cabot's Tern Thalasseus acuflavidus

  Cabot's Tern occurs along the Atlantic coast of South America. At the Cardos Island breeding colony in Brazil, adults were studied carrying fish and other food to chicks. The black bill with a yellow tip describes breeding adults of the nominate subspecies, T. a. acuflavidus.

• Eurasian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium passerinum

  A small owl of northern Eurasian coniferous forests. It hunts small birds and mammals around dusk and before sunrise.

• Slender-billed White-eye Zosterops tenuirostris

  This small bird lives only on Norfolk Island. It probes bark crevices with its long, slender bill to find insects and also feeds on nectar.

• Sand Lark Alaudala raytal

  The Sand Lark is a small lark found on riverbanks, salt-lake margins, and sandy coasts. Its sandy plumage blends with open ground.

• Purple-naped Sunbird Hypogramma hypogrammicum

  The Purple-naped Sunbird lives in forests across Southeast Asia. The male is green overall with bright green streaking below. It feeds low in the vegetation on insects and spiders, as well as nectar, fruit, and seeds.

• Watercock Gallicrex cinerea

  The Watercock is a rail of wet grasslands, marshes, and well-vegetated ponds. Northern breeding populations may move south.

• Fulmar Prion Pachyptila crassirostris

  It is blue-gray above, with a black M-shaped wing marking, a black tail tip, and a mostly white underside. It spends much of its life at sea, and its two subspecies nest on different island groups.

• Blue-crowned Chlorophonia Chlorophonia occipitalis

  The Blue-crowned Chlorophonia is a forest bird with green plumage and a blue crown patch. The sexes differ below, and the bird feeds on berries in the canopy.

• Yellow-faced Myna Mino dumontii

  The Yellow-faced Myna is a starling of New Guinea's forest canopy. Its yellow face and white rump are easy to notice.

• Grey-hooded Warbler Phylloscopus xanthoschistos

  This leaf warbler is recorded in montane forest in southern Tibet. Its grey head, yellow-toned body, and facial markings help distinguish it.