Meet the world’s animals.

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• American Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus

  

  A raptor with narrow wings and a deeply forked tail. It catches prey in flight and also hunts small vertebrates during the breeding season.

• Canary White-eye Zosterops luteus

  This white-eye occurs along northern Australia's coast, chiefly in mangroves. Breeding records from the Darwin region suggest year-round breeding, with many nests in the upper part of short mangroves.

• Pygmy Sunbird Hedydipna platura

  The Pygmy Sunbird is a tiny sunbird of dry savanna and thorn scrub. Males have elongated central tail feathers.

• Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer

  Males have a black head, chestnut body and long tail streamers. The species lives in wooded parts of western, central and eastern Africa south of the Sahara, and eats insects.

• House Swift Apus nipalensis

  The House Swift is a swift with a dark body, a white throat patch, and a broad white rump band. It catches insects in flight and forages over forests and towns.

• Lemon-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus icteronotus

  A tanager ranging from Colombia through Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It eats fruit in thickets and along moist forest edges.

• Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster

  This tyrant flycatcher has a bushy crest and yellowish lower belly. It catches insects by flying out from a perch and also eats fruit.

• Golden Cuckooshrike Campochaera sloetii

  This cuckooshrike is described from the canopy of tall forest in New Guinea. It has an orange-yellow body and black wings with white bars.

• La Selle Thrush Turdus swalesi

  The La Selle Thrush lives in highland forest on Hispaniola. Its two subspecies occupy separate areas of the island; adults of the nominate subspecies have a black head and back and reddish-brown underparts.

• Peruvian Wren Cinnycerthia peruana

  The Peruvian Wren is rufous with dark bars and a noticeable grey eyebrow. It searches the understory in pairs or family groups in humid mountain forest on Peru's eastern Andean slope.

• Greylag goose Anser anser

  A large goose with grey-brown plumage. In Europe it lives in vegetated wetlands and surrounding grassland.

• Blackish-grey Antshrike Thamnophilus nigrocinereus

  Males are dark gray with a pale belly, while females have a dark crown and otherwise brown plumage. The cinereoniger subspecies in northeastern Colombia uses seasonally flooded savanna woodland and gallery forest.

• Friedmann's Lark Mirafra pulpa

  This poorly known lark occurs in East African savannas. A 2020 review found that known records cluster around the Chyulu and Nyambeni foothills in Kenya.

• Yellow-eyed Bristlebill Bleda ugandae

  Bleda ugandae is a resident of lowland forest in central Africa. It is treated separately from the related Lesser Bristlebill, with yellow eyes and a weaker mark near the bill among the distinguishing features.

• Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster

  The male has a shining violet back while the female has brown plumage; the birds eat fruit and insects in trees.

• Plain Parakeet Brotogeris tirica

  The Plain Parakeet is a small green parrot that eats fruit, flowers, and nectar and moves in pairs or flocks. It is native to the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil and also visits gardens where fruit is available.

• Tumbes Hummingbird Thaumasius baeri

  A small hummingbird of dry areas in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Its green back, gray underside and pale tail tips stand out.

• Dot-fronted Woodpecker Veniliornis frontalis

  This woodpecker occurs on the eastern Andean slope from Bolivia to Argentina. It inhabits humid and montane woodland, searching tree trunks for food.

• Crested Oropendola Psarocolius decumanus

  A large bird with a black body, slim crest, pale bill, and long yellow tail.

• 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.

• Maquis Canastero Asthenes heterura

  This canastero is recorded in scrub and woodland on Bolivia's eastern Andes. Its long tail and rufous edges on the wings and tail are useful field marks.

• Black-collared Swallow Pygochelidon melanoleuca

  This swallow has a black chest band against a white belly. A study along a river in southeastern Brazil recorded it nesting in rock cavities.

• Sooty Grouse Dendragapus fuliginosus

  Males have a yellow comb against a slate-blue head, while females are browner. In Southeast Alaska’s wet evergreen forests, their foods change with the seasons.

• 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.