Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis

  

  A gull with a black band around its yellow bill. It often occurs inland around lakes and towns, far from the coast, where it searches for food.

• Mandarin duck Aix galericulata

  A duck of wooded ponds and streams. Males in breeding plumage have ornamental feathers raised like sails above the back.

• Casqued Cacique Cacicus oseryi

  This cacique uses the canopy of Amazonian forests. Its regional species page describes it as rare to uncommon in várzea and terra firme forest and reports small foraging flocks of the same species.

• Yellow-throated Apalis Apalis flavigularis

  This forest-associated bird is endemic to southern Malawi, where it is recorded on the Mulanje, Malosa, and Zomba massifs. A study on Mulanje found it using forest edges with understorey shrubs.

• Usambara Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris usambaricus

  This sunbird lives in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains. A study around Mazumbai Forest Reserve found it mainly in areas with limited crown cover; most recorded food came from non-native plants.

• Northern Parula Setophaga americana

  A small warbler that catches insects high in eastern North American forests. It is bluish grey with yellow highlights, and breeding males have a breast band.

• Rufous Piculet Sasia abnormis

  The Rufous Piculet is a tiny, short-tailed woodpecker with warm rufous plumage. It searches low branches, vines, and bamboo for small insects.

• Yellow-rumped Seedeater Crithagra xanthopygia

  This finch is reported as common in dry, open scrub in the highlands of Eritrea and Ethiopia. A 2020 expedition also recorded 12 birds in Djibouti and described their plumage.

• Philippine Bulbul Hypsipetes philippinus

  This bulbul lives in Philippine forests and forest edges. It has a brown back, an orange-brown throat and breast with pale streaks, and short, strong whistled phrases.

• Hartlaub's Francolin Pternistis hartlaubi

  This francolin lives on rocky hillsides in Namibia and Angola. Males and females differ in their underpart pattern and the feathers beneath the tail.

• Rufous-necked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus ruficollis

  This laughingthrush uses scrub and forest growth across the eastern Himalayan region, from south-central Nepal through Bhutan and northeastern India to northern Myanmar and adjacent southern China.

• Sulawesi Thrush Turdus turdoides

  This thrush occurs on Sulawesi, Indonesia. A distinct black line above the eye stands out, and it forages in the lower levels and on the floor of moist montane forest.

• Wetar Ground Dove Pampusana hoedtii

  The Wetar Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling dove whose plumage differs strongly between males and females.

• Vinous-breasted Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza rhodogaster

  The Vinous-breasted Sparrowhawk is a raptor of Sulawesi and nearby islands. Adults are marked by a vinous breast and slate-gray upperparts.

• Pale-eyed Pygmy Tyrant Atalotriccus pilaris

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher inhabits dry lowlands from Central America into northern South America. Its pale eye and yellow wing-bars help identify it.

• Silvery Kingfisher Ceyx argentatus

  This small kingfisher lives along forest streams and ponds. Its dark blue back has a silvery-blue stripe, with white throat and belly markings and bright red legs.

• Beautiful Firetail Stagonopleura bella

  The Beautiful Firetail has an olive-brown body, a white-barred breast, and a red bill and rump. It searches the ground for seeds and lives in pairs.

• Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus

  Its black crest and yellow bill stand out. It also occurs in city parks and agricultural areas in Hong Kong.

• Green-backed Sparrow Arremonops chloronotus

  This sparrow ranges from southeastern Mexico to Belize and Honduras. Its upperparts are olive to grass green, and the head is black-striped. A study in Campeche found three nests on the ground near thickets.

• Flame-crested Tanager Loriotus cristatus

  This tanager ranges through northern and eastern South America. The male is mostly black with a broad yellow-and-orange crest, and feeds on fruit and arthropods.

• White-throated Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias albigularis

  It has an olive-brown head, pale eyebrow, white throat, broad brown breast band, and white belly. It occurs in the shaded understory of lowland and montane forest.

• Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus

  This African cuckoo stands out for its heavy yellow bill and greenish-blue back and tail. It searches the forest for insects and small animals.

• Taiwan Blue Magpie Urocissa caerulea

  The Taiwan Blue Magpie is a corvid of Taiwan's forests and mountains, notable for its long blue tail and red bill.

• Tawny-browed Owl Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana

  The Tawny-browed Owl hunts from trees at night in the Atlantic Forest region.