Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ashy-headed Laughingthrush Argya cinereifrons

  

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

• Painted Honeyeater Grantiella picta

  This honeyeater occurs in southeastern Australia. Mistletoe fruit is its main food, and it also takes nectar and insects.

• Henderson Petrel Pterodroma atrata

  This seabird breeds on Henderson Island in the South Pacific. It is grey-brown and paler below; a study placed nests on the island's interior plateau and tracked a breeding bird far out to sea.

• Black-banded Flycatcher Ficedula timorensis

  A forest flycatcher of Timor. It searches dense undergrowth for insects, usually alone or in pairs.

• White-winged Magpie Urocissa whiteheadi

  Adult White-winged Magpies have dark head and upperparts, a gray underside, pale wing markings, a long tail, and a heavy red bill.

• Salvadori's Seedeater Crithagra xantholaema

  This seedeater occurs in Ethiopia. Its grey-brown body has a yellow area from the lower throat to the upper breast.

• Hunter's Cisticola Cisticola hunteri

  Hunter’s Cisticola occurs locally in the highlands of Kenya, at Mount Elgon in Uganda and in northern Tanzania. Two or more birds may sing together.

• 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.

• Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus geoffroyi

  The Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo forages on the ground and has a prominent rufous-and-black crest and a black breast band. Peru Aves illustrates adults of unknown sex from Panama.

• Pantanal Snipe Gallinago paraguaiae

  The Pantanal Snipe has fine streaks on its head and back, with a pale center to its belly. It stays inconspicuous in marshes and muddy places.

• Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor

  The Chestnut-breasted Nigrita is a small bird of lowland forest, mangroves, and secondary growth in tropical Africa.

• Pygmy Hanging Parrot Loriculus exilis

  This small parrot, about 11 cm long, lives on Sulawesi in Indonesia. It is green with a red throat patch and rump, and hanging parrots rest upside down.

• Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus occipitalis

  The Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove lives in forests of the Philippines. It has green upperparts, a gray head, yellow breast, and maroon marks on the belly and behind the eye.

• Ridgway's Hawk Buteo ridgwayi

  This medium-sized hawk has broad wings and a long tail. It waits for prey from low perches or open areas and is native to Hispaniola and nearby islands.

• Kosrae White-eye Zosterops cinereus

  This grey white-eye lives on Kosrae. Adults lack the olive-brown back and flanks of the related Pohnpei bird and have a thin white eye-ring. Small flocks forage in forest, mangroves and other terrestrial habitats.

• Temminck's Sunbird Aethopyga temminckii

  This sunbird lives in lowland and montane forest on Borneo and Sumatra, in Malaysia, and in southwestern Thailand. It is active by day, often in pairs or small family groups, and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Silver-rumped Spinetail Rhaphidura leucopygialis

  The Silver-rumped Spinetail is a small swift of Southeast Asian forests and their surroundings. Its dark body and silvery-white rump stand out, and it catches insects in flight.

• Cinereous Warbling Finch Microspingus cinereus

  The Cinereous Warbling Finch is a small bird of Brazil's central Cerrado. Its distribution is sparse and local, and field knowledge remains limited according to the species account.

• Ochraceous-breasted Flycatcher Nephelomyias ochraceiventris

  This small flycatcher lives in humid mountain forest east of the Andes. It searches leaves and branches in the canopy and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Black Thrush Turdus infuscatus

  This thrush ranges from eastern and southern Mexico into Central America. Males are dark, while females are browner and differ in appearance.

• Yellow-billed Pintail Anas georgica

  This duck has a yellow bill and a long neck and tail. The account here describes the subspecies recorded in the Patagonia region.

• Pacific Antwren Myrmotherula pacifica

  The Pacific Antwren is a small bird with different male and female plumage. It occurs on the Pacific side of Central America and north-western South America, using vine-rich forest.

• Tibetan Lark Melanocorypha maxima

  The Tibetan Lark occurs on the Tibetan Plateau and was first documented in northwestern Nepal in 2015. Flocks have been observed in high-elevation grassland.

• Red-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus cafer

  This small bird has a short crest and a red vent. In its native range on the Indian subcontinent, it feeds in scrub and farmland.