Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mountain hawk-eagle Nisaetus nipalensis

  

  A large forest hawk-eagle with broad wings and a crest at the back of the head.

• Groundscraper Thrush Turdus litsitsirupa

  The Groundscraper Thrush searches for food on the ground in grassland and open woodland. Its spotted breast and bold black facial stripes are distinctive.

• Sharp-beaked Ground Finch Geospiza difficilis

  A Darwin’s finch of the Galápagos highlands. Among related ground finches, its relatively stout, sharply pointed bill is a useful clue.

• Marsh Widowbird Euplectes hartlaubi

  This weaver occurs patchily in central and eastern Africa, using swampy grassland and nearby cultivated areas. The male's tail and plumage change with breeding phase.

• Spot-backed Antshrike Hypoedaleus guttatus

  This antbird inhabits moist lowland forest. The male has rows of white spots above, while the female has more extensive ochre below.

• Wailing Cisticola Cisticola lais

  The Wailing Cisticola is a grassland bird with a long tail and streaked back, ranging through eastern and southern Africa.

• Paramo Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola alpinus

  The University of Azuay's account of the Cajas massif records this ground tyrant in páramo and grazed grassland. It walks over open ground on long legs and eats arthropods.

• Grey-fronted Green Pigeon Treron affinis

  This green pigeon lives in the Western Ghats of southwestern India. The male has a chestnut back, while the female's back is green.

• Tenggara Swiftlet Collocalia sumbawae

  A swiftlet of the western Lesser Sunda Islands. It occurs in forest and dense habitats and feeds on invertebrates.

• Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis

  A small diving duck that often holds its tail upright. Breeding males have a blue bill and chestnut body; the species breeds in North America.

• Crested Argus Rheinardia ocellata

  The Crested Argus is a pheasant whose male has exceptionally long tail feathers. It lives in remaining evergreen forests along the Annamite Mountains of Vietnam and Laos.

• Long-tailed Myna Mino kreffti

  The Long-tailed Myna lives on islands of the Bismarck and Solomon archipelagos. Glossy black plumage is set off by a white rump and yellow belly; it feeds on fruit in the canopy.

• Brown-breasted Bulbul Pycnonotus xanthorrhous

  This bulbul occurs in China. It has a black slightly crested crown, brown upperparts, and a yellow vent. The strength of the breast band varies by subspecies. It frequents scrub and tangles, sometimes in noisy flocks.

• Japanese pygmy woodpecker Yungipicus kizuki

  A small woodpecker with black-and-white markings, seen throughout the year in Japan from lowlands to low mountains.

• Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla

  The Nashville Warbler is a small bird that breeds in North America and winters in Mexico. Its white eye ring and foraging in shrub tangles are distinctive.

• Abyssinian White-eye Zosterops abyssinicus

  The Abyssinian White-eye is marked by a white eye-ring and occurs in small groups in wooded highlands.

• Black-faced Munia Lonchura molucca

  The Black-faced Munia is a small finch that eats seeds in open lowland habitats.

• Striped Laughingthrush Trochalopteron virgatum

  This slim laughingthrush occurs in northeastern India and adjacent western Myanmar. It also uses scrub and grass patches near broadleaf forest.

• Chestnut-throated Spinetail Synallaxis cherriei

  This furnariid occurs in central and eastern Amazonia. Its wings are black, with chestnut upper coverts. In one northern Peruvian record, a bird called in young secondary growth and responded strongly to playback.

• Cinnamon-chested Flycatcher Ficedula buruensis

  This flycatcher is recorded in the mountains of Buru, Seram, and Kai Besar. In 2023, a male of the Kai Besar subspecies had brightly iridescent blue upperparts; another bird, possibly a female, looked less blue and more slate-grey.

• Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot Loriculus galgulus

  The Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot is a small parrot of Southeast Asian forests. The sexes differ in their blue and red head markings, and the bird may rest hanging upside down from a branch.

• Kauai Amakihi Chlorodrepanis stejnegeri

  This Hawaiian honeycreeper lives in high-elevation native forest on Kauai. It uses its curved bill to search trunks and branches for insects and also feeds on nectar and fruit.

• 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.

• Honduran Emerald Amazilia luciae

  This hummingbird is endemic to Honduras, where it lives in dry interior valleys with scrub and thorn forest. It feeds on flower nectar as well as insects and spiders.