Meet the world’s animals.

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• Tawny Owl Strix aluco

  

  A round-headed owl with large dark eyes. In Britain it is mainly active at night in wooded areas and parks with mature trees.

• Common Green Magpie Cissa chinensis

  A magpie with green plumage and a red bill and legs. In Borneo it lives in lowland and hill forests.

• Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius

  The Orchard Oriole is black and russet in the adult male, while the female is yellow-green. It searches foliage for insects, eats fruit, and migrates seasonally.

• Grey-hooded Sunbird Aethopyga primigenia

  Males have a grey head and throat, metallic bronze-green forehead and ear-coverts, yellow rump, white breast, and yellow flanks. On Mindanao it uses forest and edges and visits banana flowers.

• Mount Cameroon Speirops Zosterops melanocephalus

  It has a pale grey-white forehead and eye area, with a dark brown head and nape. It occurs in open forest edges and mountain scrub on Mount Cameroon.

• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dryobates minor

  A sparrow-sized woodpecker with black-and-white bars on its back and wings. In Britain it searches for food high in woodlands with plenty of deadwood.

• Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus

  Cisticola marginatus occurs in western and eastern sub-Saharan Africa. The nominate subspecies in breeding plumage has a rufous crown and dark dorsal streaks.

• Alpine Thrush Zoothera mollissima

  The Alpine Thrush is about 25–27 cm long. It breeds on rocky ground above the tree line and moves to lower elevations outside the breeding season.

• Blyth's Rosefinch Carpodacus grandis

  Blyth's Rosefinch is a large rosefinch of high-elevation conifer forest and areas near the treeline. Males and females differ in plumage.

• Sumba Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa segregata

  This flycatcher occurs on Sumba, Indonesia. In a comparison of 12 specimens, the breast was brown with slight streaking, while the vent was nearly white and showed almost no pattern. A 1995 record noted four birds in primary-forest understory.

• Apurimac Brush Finch Atlapetes forbesi

  A Peruvian brush-finch with a grey body and rufous head. It forages in Andean scrub and Polylepis woodland.

• Bates's Swift Apus batesi

  Bates's Swift is a dark swift with a deeply forked tail. It occurs in humid forests from western Cameroon toward northern Gabon and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus

  The sexes look different: males are gray, while females are brown with a white rump.

• Elfin Myzomela Myzomela adolphinae

  A tiny honeyeater of New Guinea's mid-montane forest canopy and village edges. Males show red on the head and rump against a dark back and wings; females have red only at the chin.

• Black-polled Yellowthroat Geothlypis speciosa

  Males have a black face mask and yellow underparts; females have an olive face without the mask. A wetland survey documented the remaining populations in central Mexico.

• Sharp-billed Treehunter Heliobletus contaminatus

  This small bird lives in evergreen forest in South America. A broad pale-golden eyebrow and a dark stripe behind it help identify it.

• Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus

  The Glaucous Gull is a large gull with pale wing tips. Young birds have different plumage from adults.

• White-streaked Antvireo Dysithamnus leucostictus

  This small bird lives in low tangles of humid montane forest. Males are gray, while females have a rufous-brown head and back, among other sex-specific differences.

• Yellowish Bulbul Hypsipetes everetti

  A Philippine bulbul of forests and forest edges that feeds on fruit.

• Double-barred Finch Taeniopygia bichenovii

  The Double-barred Finch is a small Australian finch that eats seeds and insects in dry grassy woodland and scrub. It is also recorded near water and on farmland.

• Beck's Petrel Pseudobulweria becki

  Beck's Petrel is a small seabird with contrasting dark-brown and white plumage. It has been recorded at sea, but its breeding grounds have not been found.

• 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.

• Spotted Crocias Laniellus albonotatus

  The Spotted Crocias is a forest bird of Java with a long tail and white throat. It moves in small groups through the upper parts of lower-montane forest.

• Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus

  The Southern Masked Weaver lives in open areas of southern Africa. Breeding males have a striking black face and yellow body, and the species eats seeds and other foods.