Meet the world’s animals.

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• Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis

  

  The Spotted Owl is a large owl of western North American forests. It silently hunts small mammals at night.

• Greenish Tyrannulet Phyllomyias virescens

  This small tyrannulet lives in humid evergreen forest in southeastern Brazil and nearby parts of South America. It is bright olive above, with dusky wings.

• Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens

  The mourning wheatear is a small bird of deserts and rocky highlands.

• 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.

• Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius

  A weaver whose male has a black facial mask and pale eye. It weaves a round grass nest and breeds in colonies.

• Ruwenzori Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris stuhlmanni

  The current name is Cinnyris stuhlmanni, but a 1949 Ruwenzori account uses the older name Nectarinia afer stuhlmanni and describes males there. Current data place it in Burundi, DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.

• Yunnan Fulvetta Alcippe fratercula

  This small bird lives from southern China into northern Indochina, in evergreen broadleaf forest, secondary forest, bamboo and scrub. It has a grey head, a blackish crown stripe and a white eye-ring.

• Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata

  The Yellow-billed Duck is an African duck with a bright yellow bill marked by a black patch.

• Band-tailed Cacique Cacicus latirostris

  The Peru account places this bird in the lowlands of Loreto and central Ucayali, where it forms small groups and mixed flocks in the forest canopy. Its yellow tail has a black terminal band. The account also uses Ocyalus latirostris; this entry retains the pool name Cacicus latirostris.

• Taita Apalis Apalis fuscigularis

  This apalis occurs in forest fragments in the Taita Hills of southeastern Kenya. It has sooty-gray upperparts, a black throat and breast, and gleans small invertebrates from low vegetation.

• Campina Thrush Turdus arthuri

  The Campina Thrush occurs in the Guianas and northern Amazonia, with records in savanna and at forest edges. A South American committee proposal summarizes why it is treated separately from Turdus ignobilis.

• Peruvian Diving Petrel Pelecanoides garnotii

  This small seabird has a dark back and white underside and dives for food along the Humboldt Current coast.

• White-naped Yuhina Yuhina bakeri

  A white-eye of the eastern Himalayas and nearby regions. A Bhutan government report describes a stout bill, rufous crest, white nape, and a pale, finely streaked breast.

• Crimson-browed Finch Carpodacus subhimachalus

  This finch lives at high elevations in southwestern China. Males have red markings around the brow and cheeks, while females are olive or yellow-green. It may move to lower elevations in winter.

• 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.

• Eungella Honeyeater Bolemoreus hindwoodi

  The Eungella Honeyeater is restricted to a small area of rainforest around the Clarke Range. A five-site study in 2019-2020 recorded it feeding on many kinds of flowers and fruits.

• Painted Whitestart Myioborus pictus

  The Painted Whitestart has a bright scarlet belly and black-and-white wings. It fans its tail and moves through branches to flush and catch insects.

• 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.

• Burrowing Parakeet Cyanoliseus patagonus

  The Burrowing Parakeet lives in open country in Chile and Argentina. Its white eye ring and yellow-red belly are distinctive, and it nests in burrows in banks and cliffs.

• Caribbean Dove Leptotila jamaicensis

  The Caribbean Dove lives in forests and scrub of eastern Mexico and Caribbean islands. It has an olive-brown back, a white face, and glossy neck feathers, and searches for seeds on the ground.

• Crested Kingfisher Megaceryle lugubris

  A black-and-white crested kingfisher of rivers and mountain lakes in Japan.

• Cream-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus simplex

  The Cream-vented Bulbul is olive-brown with a white eye-ring. It occurs from the Thai-Malay Peninsula through Indonesia and uses forest and secondary growth.

• Moluccan Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus musschenbroeki

  The Moluccan Drongo-Cuckoo occurs on islands in eastern Indonesia. A juvenile observed on Sulawesi in 2021 had a black body with dense white spots and a very short tail.

• Gray Gull Leucophaeus modestus

  The Gray Gull changes head color by season. In Chile it feeds along the coast and breeds inland in the Atacama Desert.