Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-chinned Myzomela Myzomela albigula

  

  A myzomela of the Louisiade Islands. Nominate albigula on Rossell Island has dark grey-brown upperparts and a red chin-and-throat streak.

• White-eared Bulbul Pycnonotus leucotis

  The White-eared Bulbul has bright white cheek feathers, eats fruit, and lives in scrub and woodland from Oman to India.

• Puna Miner Geositta punensis

  A ground-dwelling bird of high Andean grasslands in northwestern Argentina. It is brown above, greyish-white below, with cinnamon wings and tail marked by dark bands.

• White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis

  The White-headed Vulture has a white head and bare red face. It uses treed savanna and feeds mainly on carrion.

• Silverbird Empidornis semipartitus

  This flycatcher lives in eastern African grassland and semi-arid bushland. It drops from a perch to catch insects on the ground.

• Velvet-purple Coronet Boissonneaua jardini

  The Velvet-purple Coronet is a hummingbird of wet montane forest in western Colombia. Its iridescent purple, blue, and green plumage, slightly curved bill, and white leg patch are noted in the account.

• Little Ground Tyrant Syrtidicola fluviatilis

  The Little Ground Tyrant is a small flycatcher of broad river beaches and mudflats. In 2014, one bird was recorded on a sandbar of the Napo River in Ecuador; the paper considered it a non-breeding visitor.

• Salvadori's Fig Parrot Psittaculirostris salvadorii

  This small parrot lives in lowland forest in northwestern New Guinea. Males and females have different cheek and chest markings, and it eats figs, other fruits, and nectar.

• American Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides dorsalis

  The American Three-toed Woodpecker has three toes. It chips sideways at bark on dead or dying trees to find beetle larvae beneath it.

• Black-capped White-eye Zosterops atricapilla

  This white-eye lives in montane forest. In 2025, a pair was observed taking nectar from flowers near a nest at Kinabalu Park, Malaysia.

• Rain Quail Coturnix coromandelica

  The Rain Quail is a small quail of grasslands and farmland. Males have black markings on the face and throat, and breeding and movement are linked to rainy seasons.

• Bay-crowned Brush Finch Atlapetes seebohmi

  The Bay-crowned Brush Finch occurs along the western Andes of southern Ecuador and north-western Peru. Its grey plumage is marked by a rufous crown and pale throat; it forages in montane scrub, dwarf forest, and forest edges.

• Bates's Swift Apus batesi

  Bates's Swift is a dark swift with a deeply forked tail. It occurs in humid forests from western Cameroon toward northern Gabon and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Alor Boobook Ninox plesseni

  This owl occurs on Alor and Pantar in the Lesser Sunda Islands. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of Ninox novaeseelandiae, but a study using vocal and DNA evidence supports treating it as a separate species.

• Cuban Palm Crow Corvus minutus

  This crow is endemic to western Cuba. It is reported mainly from lowland cultivation with scattered palms, where it forages on the ground for invertebrates, lizards and fruit.

• Sulawesi Lilac Kingfisher Cittura cyanotis

  The Sulawesi Lilac Kingfisher occurs on Sulawesi and Lembeh Island. It waits for prey from low branches in forest and catches invertebrates on the ground.

• Barred Rail Hypotaenidia torquata

  The Barred Rail occurs in the Philippines and Indonesia and uses wet grassland and wetlands. Its short cocked tail and rufous chest band help identify it.

• Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus

  A grackle found mainly in Central and South America, with its range extending into parts of North America. Males have long tails and a purple gloss, while females are brown.

• Taiwan Liocichla Liocichla steerii

  The Taiwan Liocichla is endemic to Taiwan and uses the understory of mid-elevation forest. In winter it also moves into lower forests.

• Running Coua Coua cursor

  The Running Coua is a ground-dwelling bird of dry woodland and scrub in southwestern Madagascar. It walks while searching for insects and fallen fruit.

• Austral Thrush Turdus falcklandii

  This thrush is resident in northwestern Patagonia. Dark streaks mark its white throat, and ochre coloring spreads across the breast and belly.

• Rufescent Prinia Prinia rufescens

  The Rufescent Prinia is recorded at forest edges, in scrub, bamboo, and upland grassland in Bangladesh. The country's bird Red List describes it in small daytime flocks and foraging near the ground for insects.

• Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus

  A large gull of the North Atlantic coast. Adults have broad black wings and back, a white head, and a large yellow bill.

• Andean Duck Oxyura ferruginea

  This diving duck lives in the Peruvian Andes. Males have a reddish-brown body and blue bill, while females are dark brown.