Meet the world’s animals.

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• Croaking Ground Dove Columbina cruziana

  

  Male Croaking Ground Doves have a bluish head and pinkish tones on the neck and breast. In Peru they feed on small seeds on the ground in open places, often in pairs or in flocks at feeding sites.

• Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl Megascops watsonii

  The Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl occurs in gray and reddish-brown color morphs and has variable ear tufts. It favors forest interiors.

• Long-billed Crow Corvus validus

  The Long-billed Crow is black with blue and purple gloss and has an exceptionally long bill.

• Yellow Oriole Icterus nigrogularis

  This oriole ranges across northern South America. Males are yellow with black wings and face markings; females are duller. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Crimson-backed Sunbird Leptocoma minima

  The Crimson-backed Sunbird is a small bird endemic to India's Western Ghats. A breeding male has a purple throat and crimson rump, and the species feeds on nectar and small prey.

• 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.

• Black-and-buff Woodpecker Meiglyptes jugularis

  This woodpecker lives in Southeast Asian forests. Males have a red cheek stripe that females lack. It uses humid forest edges, secondary growth, and bamboo, searching bark for invertebrates.

• Rufous-fronted Prinia Prinia buchanani

  The Rufous-fronted Prinia is a small bird of dry grassland and scrub. A 2005 field note from Dive Ghat in Maharashtra, western India, recorded birds singing from low bushes.

• Ethiopian Thrush Turdus simensis

  This thrush occurs on the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands. Adults have gray-brown upperparts and a short tail, and forage on the ground for insects and worms. It uses open or scrubby habitats rather than dense forest.

• Brown-rumped Seedeater Crithagra tristriata

  A small brown finch with fine streaks on the head. It feeds on seeds in highland scrub and woodland edges from Ethiopia to northern Somalia.

• European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

  The European Pied Flycatcher is a woodland migrant. In British breeding areas, males are black and white with two white marks on the forehead; females are more subdued brown and white.

• Black-fronted Brush Finch Atlapetes nigrifrons

  This brush-finch occurs in the Serranía del Perijá. A 2014 study describes a black forehead, rufous rear crown, and gray cheek patch, and recorded pairs or small groups in lower montane and secondary forest on the Colombian side.

• Himalayan Swiftlet Aerodramus brevirostris

  In Hong Kong it flies over wetlands and fishponds. In Hunan, China, it occupies caves and uses clicks in their dark interiors.

• Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk Accipiter rufiventris

  This sparrowhawk occurs in fragmented parts of eastern Africa from Ethiopia to South Africa. In southern Africa, slate-grey upperparts and plain rufous underparts are distinctive.

• Pied Honeyeater Certhionyx variegatus

  This Australian honeyeater moves in search of flowering shrubs in dry country. Males are black and white; females are grey-brown and white.

• Pied-winged Swallow Hirundo leucosoma

  The Pied-winged Swallow is a small blue-and-white swallow with conspicuous white lines at the base of its wings.

• Townsend's Warbler Setophaga townsendi

  Townsend's Warbler searches for small insects high in conifers, where its yellow and black plumage stands out among the foliage. In winter it also occurs in Mexico, Central America, and along the Pacific coast of the United States.

• Guianan Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes albolineatus

  The Guianan Woodcreeper lives in humid forests north of the Amazon River and in the Guianas and eastern Venezuela. It climbs trunks to find insects and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris

  The Red-legged Kittiwake breeds on islands in the Bering Sea and is recognizable by its red legs and yellow bill.

• Spot-winged Antshrike Pygiptila stellaris

  The Spot-winged Antshrike forages in Amazonian forest. Males and females have different plumage, and the bird may move through the midstory and canopy with mixed-species flocks.

• Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii

  This sandpiper has long, tapering wings and migrates from Arctic breeding grounds to South America. It often forages on dry ground away from water.

• Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris

  This bulbul forages through leaf litter in southern African forests. It is shy and may form small groups outside the breeding season.

• Fiji Parrotfinch Erythrura pealii

  The Fiji Parrotfinch has a green body with a red head, rump, and tail. It comes to open grassland to feed mainly on grass seeds.

• Murphy's Petrel Pterodroma ultima

  Murphy’s Petrel is a seabird that breeds on islands in the South Pacific. It is mostly dark brown to gray, with pale flashes at the wingtips.