Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mexican Cacique Cassiculus melanicterus

  

  The Mexican Cacique is a black-and-yellow bird of tropical lowlands in western Mexico. It gathers in the canopy around flowering or fruiting trees and also forages on the ground.

• Elegant Tern Thalasseus elegans

  A long-billed tern that flies over the sea and catches fish.

• Great Gray Owl Strix nebulosa

  A large, round-faced owl of northern forests that hunts small mammals in nearby meadows and openings.

• Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis

  A small grassland bird with white-tipped tail feathers; birds in northern Japan move to warmer areas in autumn and winter.

• Great Myna Acridotheres grandis

  The Great Myna is a dark myna with a prominent crest, yellow bill, and white vent. It forages in open places such as grasslands, fields, and parks, often with other mynas and starlings.

• Gray-breasted Partridge Arborophila orientalis

  The Grey-breasted Partridge is a small partridge with a striking black-and-white face. It lives in mountain forests of eastern Java and forages on the ground.

• Gray-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis

  This small rail lives in wet grass and marshes. It has brown upperparts, a gray head and breast, and pale bars on the flanks. It moves through grass and has records in Ecuador and nearby Amazonian regions.

• Maroon Woodpecker Blythipicus rubiginosus

  This woodpecker is about 23 cm long and lives in humid forest. It is active by day and searches for food on trunks and branches.

• Arctic Redpoll Acanthis hornemanni

  This small finch breeds at high northern latitudes. In winter records from British Columbia, adult males appear especially pale.

• American Black Duck Anas rubripes

  A duck of shallow wetlands in eastern North America. It is dark brown overall and can be hard to distinguish among Mallards.

• Thick-billed Green Pigeon Treron curvirostra

  The Thick-billed Green Pigeon is a green pigeon that feeds on figs and other fruit in the forest canopy. Males and females have different plumage patterns.

• White-eyed Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla leucophthalma

  This small antbird occurs in Amazonian forest in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia. Males are brown and gray, females are mainly brown, and both forage in the lower forest strata.

• Styan's Bulbul Pycnonotus taivanus

  This Taiwanese endemic bulbul occurs in eastern Taiwan and the Hengchun Peninsula. Its black head, pale cheeks, and orange or yellow mark at the bill base are distinctive.

• Festive Amazon Amazona festiva

  The Festive Amazon is a parrot of the Amazon River basin and riverside regions of Colombia and Venezuela. Adults are green, with red on the back and rump.

• Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus

  The Spotted Towhee searches leaf litter for seeds and small invertebrates in western North American thickets and forest edges.

• Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris

  The Groove-billed Ani is a black bird with a high-ridged bill. It forages on the ground in flocks, searching for insects.

• Tepui Spinetail Cranioleuca demissa

  The Tepui Spinetail is a small ovenbird of the tepuis of southern Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil. It searches branches and bark for small prey in humid montane forest.

• Masked Yellowthroat Geothlypis aequinoctialis

  This small bird has yellow underparts and yellowish-green upperparts. Males have a black facial mask, which females lack; their facial markings also differ.

• Wakolo Myzomela Myzomela wakoloensis

  This honeyeater occurs on Buru and Seram in Indonesia. A male described in a museum catalogue had a scarlet body, black wings and tail, and a scarlet band across the upper wing. It feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Rufous-brown Solitaire Cichlopsis leucogenys

  This thrush has a disjunct range from northern South America through Peru to Brazil. In Peru it inhabits premontane forest and was recorded at Megantoni, Cusco, in 2022. Its body is ochraceous-brown, with a yellow bill, eye-ring, and legs.

• Elegant Sunbird Aethopyga duyvenbodei

  The male has maroon and iridescent blue-green plumage, while the female is olive above. The species lives on Sangihe Island.

• Dusky-blue Flycatcher Muscicapa comitata

  The Dusky-blue Flycatcher (Bradornis comitatus) occurs in the Afrotropical region. It uses forest edges, secondary growth and farmland, and catches invertebrates in the air.

• Swainson's Flycatcher Myiarchus swainsoni

  This flycatcher was documented in a study of subtropical Atlantic Forest in southeastern Paraguay. At the study site it used forest, forest edges, and riparian areas.

• Banasura Laughingthrush Montecincla jerdoni

  A laughingthrush endemic to India's southwestern Western Ghats. A 2026 mountain survey recorded it in shola forest at the sites studied.