Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ankober Serin Crithagra ankoberensis

  

  The Ankober Serin is a small bird of rocky slopes and escarpments in the Ethiopian highlands. It eats grass and herb seeds and can forage in flocks of several dozen.

• Short-toed Rock Thrush Monticola brevipes

  The Short-toed Rock-thrush lives in dry rocky habitats of southern Africa. Males are blue-grey and rufous, while females are mainly grey-brown.

• Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca

  Fox Sparrows vary from rusty red to gray among their geographic groups. They scratch through leaf litter to find food.

• House Swift Apus nipalensis

  The House Swift is a swift with a dark body, a white throat patch, and a broad white rump band. It catches insects in flight and forages over forests and towns.

• Savanna Hawk Buteogallus meridionalis

  The Savanna Hawk is a raptor with rufous plumage and long legs. It searches for prey by walking through lowland savanna or by hunting from a perch or in flight.

• Noisy Friarbird Philemon corniculatus

  The Noisy Friarbird lives in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia. Its head is black and bare, with a rounded knob at the base of the bill.

• Southern Martin Progne elegans

  The Southern Martin moves seasonally across a broad part of South America. In Patagonia, Argentina, it is seen near water during the Southern Hemisphere spring and summer.

• Bahama Yellowthroat Geothlypis rostrata

  The male Bahama Yellowthroat has yellow underparts and a black facial mask; females lack the mask and have a grey crown. It searches for small invertebrates in low scrub and pine-forest understory in the Bahamas.

• Rusty-winged Barbtail Premnornis guttuliger

  An Andean forest bird that searches among foliage in the lower and middle forest layers.

• Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis

  A large gull found around the Mediterranean and northwestern Africa. Adults have a gray back and yellowish legs.

• Dusky-throated Antshrike Thamnomanes ardesiacus

  This bird lives in humid lowland forest of northern Amazonia. The female has a whitish chin, and in transitional forest it can join mixed flocks with another antshrike.

• Tuamotu Sandpiper Prosobonia parvirostris

  A small sandpiper endemic to the Tuamotu Archipelago. It searches for food among coastal coral rubble, sand, and vegetation.

• Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus

  This bulbul was described in field notes for the Upper Guinea forest zone. It has olive-brown upperparts, sulfur-yellow underparts and a rufous tail, and may be seen near columns of ants.

• Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii

  A forest-dwelling finch of Africa. Males have a red back, green throat, and grey-green body.

• Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea

  The Grey Petrel ranges widely over the Southern Hemisphere's oceans. It has a grey body and white belly, and uses burrows on its breeding islands.

• Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx vagans

  The Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo lives in Southeast Asian forests. It has a hawk-like shape and a dark line behind the eye, and lays its eggs in nests of forest babblers.

• Scaly Babbler Turdoides squamulata

  The Scaly Babbler is a babbler of coastal thickets and riverine scrub in East Africa. Scaled markings on the head and breast, an orange eye, and a black bill help identify it. Family groups call to one another while staying in dense cover.

• Mexican Whip-poor-will Antrostomus arizonae

  This night-active nightjar has fine brown, gray, and buff markings. It hides on the forest floor by day and catches flying insects at dusk.

• Heuglin's Masked Weaver Ploceus heuglini

  This weaver ranges from the Sahel to western East Africa. It uses dry savanna woodland, thickets, scrub, and areas around farms and villages, and is thought to feed mostly on arthropods.

• Hispaniolan Parakeet Psittacara chloropterus

  The Hispaniolan Parakeet is a green parrot native to Hispaniola. A city survey in the Dominican Republic found that records were associated with the richness of tree species.

• White-naped Seedeater Sporophila fringilloides

  Males are black and white with a white nape band; females are brown. The species ranges from southern Venezuela and southeastern Colombia through northwestern Brazil to the Manaus region, and into southern Guyana.

• Painted Tiger Parrot Psittacella picta

  The Painted Tiger Parrot lives in the mountains of New Guinea. Its mainly green plumage has yellow and red markings that vary by sex and among regional populations.

• Olive-spotted Hummingbird Talaphorus chlorocercus

  The Olive-spotted Hummingbird is recorded in scrub and secondary vegetation on islands along Amazonian rivers. It has green upperparts, gray underparts, and olive spots on the throat and chest.

• Mangrove Kingfisher Halcyon senegaloides

  The Mangrove Kingfisher has blue wings, white underparts, and a red bill. It occurs along eastern African coasts and catches fish, crabs, and other prey at waterside habitats.