Meet the world’s animals.

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• Streaked shearwater Calonectris leucomelas

  

  A seabird that flies low over the water and visits Japanese islands to breed.

• Blue Whistling Thrush Myophonus caeruleus

  The plumage is deep blue with shining pale blue spots on the head, throat, and breast. It lives by wooded streams and can also occur in leafy urban areas.

• Fiery Minivet Pericrocotus igneus

  This long-tailed cuckooshrike lives in forests of the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. Males show connected red-orange wing patches, while females have a red-orange rump.

• Asian Glossy Starling Aplonis panayensis

  An adult Asian Glossy Starling is dark green-black with red eyes. It eats fruit and insects and is often seen in flocks.

• Spike-heeled Lark Chersomanes albofasciata

  This lark has a long, slender, downcurved bill and a short tail with a white tip. It forages mostly on the ground in southern African grassland and scrub.

• Transvolcanic Jay Aphelocoma ultramarina

  The Transvolcanic Jay lives in highland forests along Mexico's central volcanic belt. Its blue-gray plumage and flocks of several to a few dozen birds are characteristic.

• Java sparrow Lonchura oryzivora

  In its wild form, this small bird has a striking black head and white cheeks.

• Lesser Antillean Swift Chaetura martinica

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

• Green-backed Honeyeater Glycichaera fallax

  This honeyeater occurs in northern Australia and around New Guinea. It has an olive back, a pale cream-colored belly, a white iris with a pale eye-ring, and feeds among foliage, moving from tree to tree.

• Kilombero Weaver Ploceus burnieri

  The Kilombero Weaver lives in Tanzania's Kilombero River floodplain. Breeding males are bright yellow with a black face pattern, and the birds nest on reeds.

• Pennant-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus vexillarius

  The Pennant-winged Nightjar has a breeding male with long pennant-like feathers and catches insects in the air.

• Streaky-breasted Spiderhunter Arachnothera affinis

  This spiderhunter has an olive-green back and fine streaks on its grayish breast. It lives in foothill forest and forest edge on Java and gives loud, harsh calls.

• Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet Touit purpuratus

  This small parrot occurs in northern South America. Its body and underparts are green, while crown and tail markings vary by subspecies and sex. It searches for food in forest crowns.

• Rainbow lorikeet Trichoglossus moluccanus

  A colourful Australian parrot with a blue head, green wings and an orange-to-yellow breast.

• Blue-eyed Ground Dove Columbina cyanopis

  The Blue-eyed Ground Dove is a small dove with striking blue eyes. It is associated with Brazil's Cerrado and was rediscovered in northern Minas Gerais in 2015.

• Cobb's Wren Troglodytes cobbi

  This wren is now confined to small offshore islands in the Falklands. It searches for small animals in grassland near the tide line and on rocky shores.

• Chilean Swallow Tachycineta leucopyga

  The Chilean Swallow is a small swallow with a metallic blue back, white underparts, and a forked tail. It breeds in Chile and moves north for the winter.

• 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.

• Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata

  The Red-legged Crake is a rail of wet forests and wetlands. In Singapore it has been recorded in a limited part of the country.

• Star-throated Antwren Rhopias gularis

  This small antwren lives in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. Both sexes have grey underparts, rufescent-brown upperparts and a black throat spotted with white. It forages low in dense vegetation.

• Green-crowned Warbler Seicercus burkii

  A migratory leaf warbler of the lower Himalayan belt. It searches evergreen forest and bamboo for small invertebrates and moves to lower elevations in winter.

• Yellow Tit Machlolophus holsti

  The Yellow Tit is endemic to Taiwan’s mountains and uses the canopy of primary broadleaf forest. Males are strikingly black and yellow, while females and juveniles differ in color and crest shape.

• Red Knot Calidris canutus

  A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and travels to distant coasts during migration. Its belly turns orange-red in breeding plumage.

• Red-headed Vulture Sarcogyps calvus

  The Red-headed Vulture has a red to orange head as an adult; it is paler in juveniles. It occurs across India and feeds on carrion.