Meet the world’s animals.

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• Magellanic Diving Petrel Pelecanoides magellani

  

  A small diving petrel with a black back and white underparts, living along the coasts at South America’s southern tip.

• White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon

  This prinia uses scrub and forest edges across tropical Africa. It has a white throat and broad tail; field observations describe it in small groups among dense vegetation.

• Blyth’s Swift Apus leuconyx

  This swift breeds in the outer Himalayas and Assam Hills and is recorded in India in winter. In the Nilgiri region of southern India, a study confirmed breeding from observations of birds carrying food.

• Bukidnon Woodcock Scolopax bukidnonensis

  This woodcock inhabits montane and mossy montane forest in the Philippines, as well as adjacent clearings. Records are from northern and central Luzon and mountains on Mindanao.

• Scarlet Myzomela Myzomela sanguinolenta

  This small honeyeater occurs in eastern Australia. Males are red and black, while females and immature birds are mainly brown. It often visits flowers for nectar.

• Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator

  The Pine Grosbeak is a large bird with a thick bill. Males are reddish, while females and young birds are mostly gray; it eats buds, seeds, and fruit.

• White-naped Jay Cyanocorax cyanopogon

  The white nape is a useful clue to this jay's identity. In dry scrub and woodland of eastern Brazil, it eats insects and other small animals as well as fruit and berries.

• Orange-throated Sunangel Heliangelus mavors

  Males have a throat that can glow orange in good light and a pale band across the breast. Females have a yellowish throat mottled with chestnut.

• Barred Dove Geopelia maugeus

  The Barred Dove is a small dove marked by a yellow bare eye-ring and strong bars from throat to breast. It eats seeds on islands of southeastern Indonesia.

• Christmas Boobook Ninox natalis

  This owl lives in the forests of Christmas Island, with reddish-brown plumage and yellow eyes, and hunts at night.

• Lesser Elaenia Elaenia chiriquensis

  The Lesser Elaenia uses open scrub and forest edges. In Bolivia it occurs alone or in pairs and eats fruit and arthropods.

• Yellow-browed Bulbul Acritillas indica

  This bulbul lives in forests in India and Sri Lanka. It has a yellow eyebrow, face, and throat, with olive upperparts.

• Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea

  A tern that travels from Arctic breeding grounds to Antarctic waters with the seasons. In Britain, it breeds along northern coasts.

• Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus

  The Northern Red Bishop changes markedly in the male's breeding plumage. Flocks feed mainly on seeds in wet grasslands and marshes.

• Large-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus macrurus

  The Large-tailed Nightjar is a nocturnal bird with mottled camouflage. It rests motionless on the ground or along a branch by day and catches flying insects at dusk.

• Lesser Seedcracker Pyrenestes minor

  Males are red from the head to the upper breast, while females have less red on the head. Juveniles are brownish, and the species feeds on grass seeds.

• Plumbeous-backed Thrush Turdus reevei

  The Plumbeous-backed Thrush has a blue-gray back and tail. It occurs in Ecuador and extreme northwestern Peru; in Peru, it is recorded in semideciduous forest up to 1,500 meters.

• Glacier Finch Idiopsar speculifer

  This bird occurs in the high Andes of Bolivia. It forages on the ground on barren slopes near the snow line, in puna grassland, and in wetlands.

• Sunda Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis sepulcralis

  The Sunda Brush Cuckoo ranges from the Malay Peninsula through the Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, and the Philippines. It uses forests and edges as well as mangroves, parks, and gardens.

• White-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis

  The White-breasted Kingfisher is a kingfisher with a red bill, blue back and tail, brown head and belly, and a white throat and breast. It eats fish and shrimp as well as crabs and lizards.

• Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos macei

  The Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker is a small woodpecker. It is active by day in forests and searches for invertebrates on tree trunks.

• Chestnut-backed Antbird Poliocrania exsul

  The Chestnut-backed Antbird is described as an understory bird of lowland tropical forest from Honduras to Ecuador. The committee page describes five subspecies in two broad groups distinguished in part by white wing spots.

• Burmese Myna Acridotheres burmannicus

  The Burmese myna is a starling with a pale crest and wine-colored chest. It searches for insects on the ground in groups.

• Speckled Teal Anas flavirostris

  The Speckled Teal is a small duck that feeds at the water's surface. Dark spots mark its neck and breast, while plumage and bill color vary with subspecies, sex, and age.