Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-headed Petrel Pterodroma lessonii

  

  The White-headed Petrel is a large seabird that breeds on islands in the Southern Ocean. Its white head and dark eye patch stand out, and it flies long distances to feeding grounds at sea.

• Miombo Wren-Warbler Calamonastes undosus

  This small bird occurs in savannas and miombo woodland in central and eastern Africa. It has a dark gray head, barred underparts, and orange eyes.

• Sooty Grouse Dendragapus fuliginosus

  Males have a yellow comb against a slate-blue head, while females are browner. In Southeast Alaska’s wet evergreen forests, their foods change with the seasons.

• Cabot's Tern Thalasseus acuflavidus

  Cabot's Tern occurs along the Atlantic coast of South America. At the Cardos Island breeding colony in Brazil, adults were studied carrying fish and other food to chicks. The black bill with a yellow tip describes breeding adults of the nominate subspecies, T. a. acuflavidus.

• Grey-olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus cerviniventris

  This greenbul occurs in eastern and south-central Africa. It is recorded in streamside thickets, gallery forest, bamboo thickets, and moist evergreen forest, and eats insects and fruit.

• Blue-throated Macaw Ara glaucogularis

  The Blue-throated Macaw is a large parrot of Bolivia's Beni region, with a blue throat and golden-yellow underparts.

• Pale-headed Woodpecker Gecinulus grantia

  The Pale-headed Woodpecker lives in bamboo and forest habitats. Males have chestnut upperparts and a reddish patch on the forecrown that females lack.

• Chatham Islands Pigeon Hemiphaga chathamensis

  The Chatham Island pigeon is a large forest pigeon now confined to Chatham Island. Its blackish-blue head and breast contrast with maroon wings and a white belly; most birds live in the south of the island.

• Chestnut-breasted Chlorophonia Chlorophonia pyrrhophrys

  This Andean bird lives in humid montane forest and is often high in the canopy. Males stand out for a dark blue crown and green forehead and upper breast.

• Fuscous Honeyeater Ptilotula fusca

  This olive-brown honeyeater has a yellow patch on the side of its neck and uses dry eucalypt forest and woodland in eastern Australia. Some birds move to lower elevations in winter.

• Papuan White-eye Zosterops novaeguineae

  In nominate-race specimens, the upperparts are yellowish green, the breast and flanks pale gray, and the throat and undertail yellow. The species is recorded from lowland second growth and farmland to mountain forest on New Guinea.

• Olive-green Tyrannulet Phylloscartes virescens

  This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in the Guianas and northern and eastern Amazonia. It is olive green with a white eye-ring and pale wing markings, joins canopy flocks, and eats fruit and insects. Its full distribution remains incompletely known.

• Grey-headed Oliveback Nesocharis capistrata

  This small African bird uses savanna, shrubland and inland wetlands. The current IUCN assessment places it in the genus Delacourella.

• Blue-and-white flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana

  A forest bird whose male has blue upperparts and a strong song.

• Malaita Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx malaitae

  The Malaita Dwarf-Kingfisher is endemic to Malaita in the Solomon Islands.

• Cloud-forest Pygmy Owl Glaucidium nubicola

  This small owl lives in cloud forests from western Ecuador into Colombia. It may be active by day or night and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Little Raven Corvus mellori

  The Little Raven is a black raven with a blue-green to blue-purple sheen and white eyes. It occurs in southeastern Australia and uses places with abundant food, including farms and pastures.

• Red-gartered Coot Fulica armillata

  The Red-gartered Coot is a waterbird marked by a red band on each leg. It swims in lakes, ponds, and slow rivers and feeds on aquatic plants.

• Golden-crested Myna Ampeliceps coronatus

  Its yellow crest and orange bill stand out. It lives in lowland forest.

• Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus

  The Little Weaver lives in African savanna and open woodland. A breeding male has a black facial mask, and the bird is often seen alone.

• 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.

• Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae

  It ranges from southern China to northern and eastern Vietnam. Males are blue-green and red; females and young birds are more yellow-olive. It also eats fruit and small insects.

• California Towhee Melozone crissalis

  The California Towhee is a sparrow-like bird of scrub in California and Oregon. It forages on the ground and stays near low shrubs.

• Azara's Spinetail Synallaxis azarae

  Azara's Spinetail moves through scrub in Andean montane forest, at forest edges, and in second growth. Peruvian records in the account are from 1,250–3,100 m.