Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pink-breasted Lark Calendulauda poecilosterna

  

  This lark inhabits dry East African savanna and scrub. It usually feeds on the ground alone or in pairs, taking insects and seeds.

• Ceylon Spurfowl Galloperdix bicalcarata

  The Ceylon Spurfowl is a hard-to-see bird of Sri Lankan forests. Males and females have different plumage, and the female incubates the eggs in a ground nest.

• Fulvous-faced Scrub Tyrant Euscarthmus fulviceps

  This small tyrant is recorded in dry scrub and deciduous forest of western Ecuador. It searches near the ground for insects and also eats fruit.

• White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata

  Its white face, long neck, and long legs stand out, and it gives a high-pitched whistle. It gathers in wetland flocks and feeds on insects and plants from mud and shallow water.

• Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra

  This waterbird is a rail with mostly black plumage, red eyes and legs, and a yellow bill. It is active by day in freshwater marshes, eating water insects, small fish, frogs, and seeds.

• Madagascar Blue Pigeon Alectroenas madagascariensis

  A pigeon of eastern Madagascar’s forests, it has a silvery blue-grey neck, dark blue body, and conspicuous red tail. It feeds in the canopy on fruit.

• Burrowing owl Athene cunicularia

  A small, long-legged owl that uses burrows in the ground for nesting and shelter.

• Canada Jay Perisoreus canadensis

  The Canada Jay lives year-round in northern North American forests and stores food in trees for colder periods. Its round head, long tail, and gray-and-white plumage make it distinctive.

• Chopi Blackbird Gnorimopsar chopi

  This all-black icterid has records in protected areas across Argentina. It is seen alone or in pairs and sometimes gathers in groups.

• Violet-tailed Sunbird Anthreptes aurantius

  This sunbird uses wooded habitats near water in Central Africa and takes nectar and fruit. A study in the Republic of the Congo documented several adults feeding young both before and after they fledged.

• Crested Ibon Lophozosterops dohertyi

  This white-eye-family bird occurs in forests of Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands. It is about 12 cm long and feeds on fruit.

• Black-rumped Flameback Dinopium benghalense

  A woodpecker with a striking golden-looking back.

• Roberts's Warbler Oreophilais robertsi

  Roberts's Warbler is a small bird of the highlands of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Adults have olive-brown upperparts, yellow eyes, a grayish-rufous breast, a white belly, and rufous flanks. It feeds on small invertebrates in montane thickets.

• Moluccan Island Thrush Turdus deningeri

  The Moluccan Island Thrush occurs on separate Moluccan islands. The 2024 Clements treatment includes the Seram population and tentatively includes the Taliabu form. Seram birds are black-bodied with an indistinct white hood.

• 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.

• Swinhoe's Minivet Pericrocotus cantonensis

  In Hong Kong, Swinhoe's Minivet is recorded as a rare spring and autumn passage migrant. The regional bird account reports it singly or in small groups at wooded sites, and describes different plumage in males and females. It gives no local diet records.

• Sunda Forktail Enicurus velatus

  The Sunda Forktail is a streamside bird with dark gray upperparts and white underparts. A short white forehead stripe and the sexes' different crown colors help identify it.

• Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina

  The Chipping Sparrow is a small North American bird with a conspicuous rufous crown as an adult. It searches for seeds in grassy places with trees and eats many insects during the breeding season.

• Silver-backed Needletail Hirundapus cochinchinensis

  This large swift has long, pointed wings and catches insects in flight. It is recorded in Hong Kong as a passage migrant.

• Bicolored Hawk Astur bicolor

  The Bicolored Hawk is a forest raptor of Central and South America. It ambushes prey from cover, and plumage varies across its range.

• Yellow-tufted Honeyeater Lichenostomus melanops

  This honeyeater lives in eucalypt forests and open woodland of eastern Australia. Its black face and yellow ear tufts stand out; it feeds on nectar and insects from leaves and bark.

• Short-crested Monarch Hypothymis helenae

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in the Philippines. A study on Luzon found a nest in secondary forest.

• Red-throated Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon rufigula

  The Red-throated Cliff Swallow is a small swallow with a black and glossy blue-black back and rufous markings around the face. It catches flying insects in flocks and nests in colonies near cliffs and gorges.

• Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca

  Breeding males have a bright orange face and throat and forage high in leafy forest canopies.