Meet the world’s animals.

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• Galapagos Petrel Pterodroma phaeopygia

  

  The Galapagos Petrel breeds in the humid highlands of the Galapagos Islands and ranges widely over the sea to find food.

• Puerto Rican Oriole Icterus portoricensis

  The Puerto Rican Oriole is an oriole endemic to the island of Puerto Rico.

• Javan White-eye Zosterops flavus

  A small white-eye of coastal Java and Madura, it also has an isolated coastal population in southern Borneo. It uses habitats such as wetlands, mangroves and coastal scrub.

• Ant-eating Chat Myrmecocichla formicivora

  The Ant-eating Chat is a dark brown bird with striking white wing feathers in flight. It is found mainly inland in southern Africa and searches for ants and termites on the ground.

• Sulawesi Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx fallax

  A small kingfisher with a reddish-brown back and blue rump. It hunts insects and small animals on Sulawesi and nearby Lembeh.

• Moss-backed Tanager Bangsia edwardsi

  This tanager inhabits humid Andean forests of Colombia and Ecuador, feeding on fruit in the canopy and insects lower in the forest.

• Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei

  A gull with a slender bill and legs and a low forehead.

• Rufous Coucal Centropus unirufus

  The Rufous Coucal is a rufous-colored coucal of forests in the northern Philippines. It uses both the ground and trees.

• Red-crowned Woodpecker Melanerpes rubricapillus

  This small woodpecker has different head patterns in males and females: males have a red crown, while females have a white crown. It excavates its own tree cavity for nesting.

• Fiji Shrikebill Clytorhynchus vitiensis

  The Fiji Shrikebill lives in Fiji's forests. White edges on both mandibles are diagnostic, while underpart color varies among island forms from ochre to pale gray. Field notes place it in dark forest understory, gleaning insects from vines and branches.

• Oriental Skylark Alauda gulgula

  The Oriental Skylark uses open ground in grasslands and fields and eats both plant and animal foods.

• Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea

  A small weaver that mainly eats grass seeds in African semiarid grasslands and savannas. Breeding males develop conspicuous facial markings.

• Striped Owl Asio clamator

  This owl has long ear tufts and vertical streaks on its body. It is active at dusk and night, hunting small animals in open country and along woodland edges.

• 'Oma'o Myadestes obscurus

  The ‘Ōma‘o is a Hawaiian solitaire endemic to Hawaiʻi Island. Its subdued plumage is olive-brown and gray; it often perches quietly and is detected by song. It eats fruit, flowers, and invertebrates.

• Magdalena Antbird Sipia palliata

  This antbird occurs in humid forest in Colombia and Venezuela. It forages low in dense undergrowth, including around fallen logs.

• White-headed Bulbul Hypsipetes thompsoni

  The White-headed Bulbul is a bulbul with a grey body and a striking white head. It has a forked tail and feeds on fruit and berries.

• Scarlet Finch Carpodacus sipahi

  Adult males are bright scarlet from head to belly, while females are mainly olive and look very different. The finch feeds on plant matter in Himalayan mountain forests.

• Red-tailed Amazon Amazona brasiliensis

  The Red-tailed Amazon is a green parrot of coastal forest and mangroves in southeastern Brazil. It eats fruits and flowers and nests in tree cavities in flooded forest.

• Yellow-breasted Crake Laterallus flaviventer

  The Yellow-breasted Crake is a very small, yellow-brown-looking crake with a dark cap and barred flanks. It searches among wetland vegetation for food.

• Tooth-billed Wren Odontorchilus cinereus

  This wren inhabits lowland forest south of the Amazon River in Brazil and eastern Bolivia.

• Sumatran Treepie Dendrocitta occipitalis

  The Sumatran Treepie lives in forests on Sumatra. A white nape and long tail make it distinctive, and it is usually seen in pairs or family groups.

• Northern Parula Setophaga americana

  A small warbler that catches insects high in eastern North American forests. It is bluish grey with yellow highlights, and breeding males have a breast band.

• Pacific Swallow Hirundo javanica

  The Pacific Swallow has dark, blue-glossed upperparts and a shallow forked tail. It catches insects in flight and ranges from Southeast Asia to New Guinea and the Society Islands.

• Eastern Miombo Sunbird Cinnyris manoensis

  This sunbird occurs in the Zambezian miombo region. Males have blue-green upperparts and a red breast band. The species tends to build a grass ball nest attached among branches or leaves.