Meet the world’s animals.

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• Soft-plumaged Petrel Pterodroma mollis

  

  This ocean-going petrel has dark gray and white plumage and breeds on subantarctic islands. New Zealand's only known breeding population is on the Antipodes Islands.

• Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus

  A nocturnal nightjar of East African woodland and savanna. It has a slender body and slightly elongated central tail feathers.

• Rufous-headed Woodpecker Celeus spectabilis

  This woodpecker often uses bamboo stands in western Amazonian lowland forest. One observation records it feeding in a non-bamboo tree.

• Ruvu Weaver Ploceus holoxanthus

  The Ruvu Weaver is recorded along rivers in eastern Tanzania. A 2021 study treats it as distinct from the African Golden Weaver and reports adult plumage features and nests documented in riverside vegetation.

• Hyacinth Visorbearer Augastes scutatus

  This hummingbird lives in rocky and shrubby habitats of the Serra do Espinhaço. Males have green and blue plumage with a white breast band; females are mottled grayish.

• Timberline Wren Thryorchilus browni

  This wren inhabits the mountains from southern Costa Rica into Panama, using high-elevation bamboo thickets and forest edges.

• Horus Swift Apus horus

  The Horus Swift has a patchy sub-Saharan African range and catches insects in flight. Its nesting sites include eastern and southern Africa and northern Senegal.

• Golden Honeyeater Cleptornis marchei

  The Golden Honeyeater is a yellow bird endemic to the Mariana Islands. It breeds in a range of wooded and semi-open habitats.

• Armenian Gull Larus armenicus

  The Armenian Gull is a relatively small gull with a short bill and a rounded head. It breeds on upland lakes and winters along coasts and inland wetlands.

• Grey Imperial Pigeon Ducula pickeringii

  The Grey Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon that uses forest canopies. It occurs on islands including the Sulu Archipelago and northern Borneo and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Cerulean Cuckooshrike Coracina temminckii

  This cuckooshrike is endemic to Sulawesi, where it inhabits mature hill and mountain forest. Adults are bluish, but juveniles and regional forms differ in color.

• 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.

• Grey Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius

  It is reddish in breeding plumage and gray and white in winter. It breeds in the Arctic and spends winter on the open ocean.

• Brazilian Teal Amazonetta brasiliensis

  This small duck has a red bill in males and a black bill in females. It feeds on aquatic plants, small animals, and grains in marshes and small water bodies.

• Temminck's Lark Eremophila bilopha

  Temminck's Lark is a small lark that searches for seeds on dry, open ground. In breeding plumage, the male is marked by black head tufts and a bold black-and-white face pattern.

• Romblon Boobook Ninox spilonotus

  An owl recorded on Tablas and Sibuyan in the Philippines. The studied island birds had a relatively plain head pattern.

• Black-bellied Cuckoo Piaya melanogaster

  This reddish cuckoo has a long tail. In Peru it is found in the canopy of tropical forest.

• Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida

  A warbler of East African scrub and forest. Williams and Arlott's 1980 field guide describes a green bird with a grey, black-banded crown and a dark chestnut throat patch that skulks in dense thickets, often near water.

• Iraq Babbler Argya altirostris

  The Iraq Babbler is a social bird centered on the Tigris–Euphrates basin. Small groups use reed beds and riverside shrubs.

• Yemen Thrush Turdus menachensis

  The Yemen Thrush is marked by an olive-toned back, a stout orange-yellow bill, and a bright orange patch under the wing in flight. It also lives in the highlands of Saudi Arabia.

• Grey-headed Oliveback Nesocharis capistrata

  This small African bird uses savanna, shrubland and inland wetlands. The current IUCN assessment places it in the genus Delacourella.

• Red-billed Francolin Pternistis adspersus

  The Red-billed Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird with yellow around the eyes and a red bill and legs. By day it uses dry savanna and thickets near water, eating plant and animal foods.

• Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus

  A starling with metallic blue-green plumage and yellow eyes, it eats fruit and insects.

• Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis

  The Southern Rough-winged Swallow catches insects in flight over open country and near water in Central and South America.