Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sand Lark Alaudala raytal

  

  The Sand Lark is a small lark found on riverbanks, salt-lake margins, and sandy coasts. Its sandy plumage blends with open ground.

• Buff-thighed Puffleg Haplophaedia assimilis

  A small hummingbird of the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Its buff leg puffs and dark blue tail are useful field marks; it uses humid montane forest understory.

• Black-breasted Thrush Turdus dissimilis

  The Black-breasted Thrush lives in forests of the eastern Himalaya. An adult male has a black head and upper breast with orange-red flanks. It moves from higher breeding forests to lower ground in winter.

• Hermit Warbler Setophaga occidentalis

  This small warbler breeds in western North America and winters in Central America. Its yellow face stands out as it searches for insects high in conifers.

• Riparian Antbird Cercomacroides fuscicauda

  The Riparian Antbird uses riverside floodplain forest and dense river-island thickets. Males are gray and females brown to rufous. Habitat and voice help distinguish it from similar antbirds.

• Canada goose Branta canadensis

  A goose native to North America, with a long black neck and head and a white patch across the cheeks and chin.

• Blue-fronted Fig-parrot Cyclopsitta gulielmitertii

  This small green parrot has blue in its wings, a black forecrown and cheeks, and orange markings that differ by sex. Small groups use forests and edges in western New Guinea.

• Gray-capped Cuckoo Coccyzus lansbergi

  This cuckoo has a grey cap and rufous back. Some details of its range and seasonal movements remain poorly known.

• Dusky Babbler Turdoides tenebrosa

  Its blackish-brown breast has pale scaling, and it has a white eye with dark wings and tail. In Central African moist shrubland it is usually seen in pairs or small groups and eats invertebrates and fruit.

• Lesser Antillean Swift Chaetura martinica

  The Lesser Antillean Swift flies over montane forest in the Lesser Antilles. It catches small insects in flight.

• Variable Goshawk Tachyspiza hiogaster

  The Variable Goshawk occurs across Wallacea, New Guinea, and nearby island groups. It hunts from perches, diving on prey such as lizards; plumage and diet vary by region.

• Saffron-crowned Tanager Tangara xanthocephala

  This tanager is marked by an orange-yellow crown and a black facial pattern. In humid forests on the eastern Andes, it searches moss and the undersides of small branches for arthropods.

• Cambodian Tailorbird Orthotomus chaktomuk

  A small tailorbird restricted to dense floodplain scrub in southeastern Cambodia. Males have a black throat patch, and both sexes have an orange crown.

• Gray-winged Francolin Scleroptila afra

  A finely patterned bird that blends into grassland, endemic to South Africa and Lesotho and found in mountains and rocky hills.

• White-fronted Tern Sterna striata

  A medium-sized tern common along New Zealand’s coast. It catches small fish around the sea, lagoons, and river mouths, and nests in colonies on open coastal ground.

• Olive-winged Bulbul Pycnonotus plumosus

  The Olive-winged Bulbul is marked by olive-toned wing feathers and a pale streak behind the eye. It occurs in forests and mangroves across Southeast Asia and is described as a common resident in Singapore.

• Yellow-billed Amazon Amazona collaria

  A medium-sized parrot native to Jamaica. Adults are mostly green, with a red throat and a yellow bill.

• Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera cailliautii

  The Green-backed Woodpecker is a small woodpecker of woodland and open forest in parts of eastern and central Africa. It is active by day and feeds on small invertebrates, including insects.

• Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba delegorguei

  The Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon is an African pigeon with iridescent neck feathers. It eats fruit and may be seen in pairs.

• Akiapolaau Hemignathus wilsoni

  This endemic Hawaiian honeycreeper lives in montane forest on Hawaiʻi Island. It uses a long curved upper bill and a short lower bill to search branches for insects and larvae.

• White-plumed Honeyeater Ptilotula penicillata

  This honeyeater lives in woodland and forest on mainland Australia. A white neck plume is its key mark, and it feeds in tree crowns and shrubs.

• Mindanao Ibon Lophozosterops goodfellowi

  This forest bird occurs on Mindanao in the Philippines. Sources use different generic combinations, including Heleia, Lophozosterops, and Apoia.

• Lesser Antillean Pewee Contopus latirostris

  A pewee distributed across Puerto Rico and islands of the Lesser Antilles. Subspecies differ among islands, including in the color of the breast and belly.

• Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus

  This finch has black and dark red plumage, and individuals differ in bill size. Adults eat seeds, while parents feed nestlings a soft diet made mostly of insects.