Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pygmy Antwren Myrmotherula brachyura

  

  The Pygmy Antwren is widespread in Amazonia. Males have yellow underparts with black-and-white streaking above; females have buff-and-black streaking on the head and back. Birds forage along open forest edges and light gaps.

• Golden-crested Myna Ampeliceps coronatus

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

• Canvasback Aythya valisineria

  A diving duck that breeds on North American lakes and marshes. In winter it gathers on fresh and coastal waters to find aquatic plant roots and tubers.

• Blue-winged Minla Actinodura cyanouroptera

  The Blue-winged Minla is a babbler with blue wings and a blue-gray head that moves in flocks through forest undergrowth.

• Audubon's Oriole Icterus graduacauda

  Audubon's Oriole is an oriole with a strong contrast between its black head, wings, and tail and its yellow body. It lives in woodland and brush in Mexico and southern Texas.

• White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis

  A vulture of plains and settlements on the Indian subcontinent. It circles in the air while searching for carrion.

• Amazonian Plain Xenops Xenops genibarbis

  Xenops genibarbis is an Amazonian lowland woodcreeper. The nominate subspecies account describes a short, slightly upturned bill and pale eyebrow.

• White-collared Yuhina Yuhina diademata

  This small bird occurs in the mountains of southern China and nearby parts of Asia. Its white collar and long crest help identify it.

• White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys

  The White-crowned Sparrow is a North American sparrow recognized by the adult's black-and-white head. It occurs across much of the United States in winter.

• Barred Parakeet Bolborhynchus lineola

  This parakeet has a green body crossed by black bars. Subspecies differ in color intensity and range, and wild birds may form groups in trees.

• Swamp Francolin Ortygornis gularis

  This ground-dwelling bird forages in wet grass and along wetland edges. It eats plants and seeds as well as invertebrates from the ground.

• Coconut Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus

  The Coconut Lorikeet is about 30 cm long. It is active by day in forests and eats fruit and nectar. The source gives a breeding-latitude band from near the equator to about 23 degrees south, shown here as only part of its range.

• Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor

  This slender warbler is marked in black and yellow. Despite its name, it favors scrubby second-growth forest and young pine stands rather than open prairie.

• Blue rock thrush Monticola solitarius

  A bird of coastal rocks and cliffs that is also seen in Japanese towns.

• Grey-cowled Wood Rail Aramides cajaneus

  About 35.5 cm long. The olive-brown back, gray head and neck, rufous-and-black underparts, red legs, and yellow-green bill are useful field marks.

• Ruby-cheeked Sunbird Chalcoparia singalensis

  The Ruby-cheeked Sunbird has different male and female plumage. It forages high in trees, taking nectar from flowers and sometimes insects from spider webs.

• Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens

  Two birds were recorded foraging in open hillside woodland at Akagera National Park, Rwanda. The reported birds had green backs and wings, white throats, yellow breasts and bellies, and a dark band through the eye.

• Edible-nest Swiftlet Aerodramus fuciphagus

  The Edible-nest Swiftlet is a small swiftlet of Indo-Malayan forests. It catches insects and other invertebrates while flying.

• Purple-gaped Honeyeater Lichenostomus cratitius

  A honeyeater of mallee heath in southern Australia. It feeds mainly on nectar, but also takes insects.

• Trinidad Euphonia Euphonia trinitatis

  A small tanager found on Trinidad and in northern South America. It feeds on fruit in treetops and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Bornean Black Magpie Platysmurus aterrimus

  This forest corvid is restricted to Borneo. The 2024 Clements treatment separates it from the Malay Black Magpie.

• Purple-backed Sunbeam Aglaeactis aliciae

  Male Purple-backed Sunbeams have iridescent purple backs and rumps. This hummingbird feeds on nectar and small insects on high Andean slopes in northern Peru.

• Jambu Fruit Dove Ptilinopus jambu

  Male Jambu Fruit Doves have a crimson face and white chest; females have a purplish face and green chest. They eat fruit and live in Southeast Asian evergreen and mangrove forests.

• Tropical Screech-Owl Megascops choliba

  The Tropical Screech-Owl is widespread in South America and has several plumage morphs, including gray, brown, cinnamon and rufous. A Bolivian study detected its calls just after sunset and before dawn along forest edges.