Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Tern Sterna hirundo

  

  A migratory bird with long, narrow wings and a forked tail that plunges into water to catch fish.

• Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni

  This weaver occurs in eastern Africa. The breeding male has a black head and throat with a yellow back, and the account records it in dry savanna and around acacia woodland.

• Scissor-tailed Nightjar Hydropsalis torquata

  The male has outer tail feathers that extend well beyond the body. This nightjar rests on the ground and catches flying insects at dusk and after dark.

• Rufous Fantail Rhipidura rufifrons

  The Rufous Fantail is a small bird with a reddish-brown rump and a tail it often spreads into a fan.

• Wattled Ibis Bostrychia carunculata

  The Wattled Ibis is a large, dark ibis with a white patch on the upper wing and a throat wattle. It occurs mainly across the Ethiopian Plateau.

• LeConte's Thrasher Toxostoma lecontei

  LeConte's Thrasher is a pale, sand-colored bird of the dry deserts of southwestern North America. It stays near the ground in brush for much of the year, while males sing from high perches during the breeding season.

• Western Orphean Warbler Curruca hortensis

  The Western Orphean Warbler is a migratory warbler that breeds around the Mediterranean. The male has a gray head and back, a white throat, and pale pinkish underparts.

• Pale-headed Munia Lonchura pallida

  The Pale-headed Munia has a pale head that contrasts with its darker body. It occurs in the lowlands of eastern Indonesia, including dry scrub, grassland, marshes, and farmland.

• Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus gracilirostris

  A small thrush of highland forests, marked by a slate-gray face and a broad olive band across the breast.

• White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis

  A bee-eater with a white throat and black-and-white striped head. It breeds along the southern edge of the Sahara and moves to humid forests in western and central Africa after breeding.

• Black-tailed Tityra Tityra cayana

  The Black-tailed Tityra is widespread in Amazonia; in Peru, the account records it up to about 700 m in the Andean foothills.

• Flame-fronted Barbet Psilopogon armillaris

  The Flame-fronted Barbet lives in humid forests on Java and Bali. Its green body contrasts with blue and reddish colors on the head.

• Gray Seedeater Sporophila intermedia

  Males in mature plumage are dark gray and white, while females are yellow-olive and buff. The species was studied in the lowlands of Colombia's upper Magdalena Valley.

• Blue-faced Malkoha Phaenicophaeus viridirostris

  A long-tailed cuckoo of southern India and Sri Lanka, found from lowlands to foothills and often in thorn scrub or second growth.

• Rufous-lored Kingfisher Todiramphus winchelli

  The Rufous-lored Kingfisher is a kingfisher of Philippine forests. It combines a blue back and white belly with a reddish-brown head.

• White-bellied Woodpecker Dryocopus javensis

  A large woodpecker that uses the forest canopy. In Singapore, its native population is confined to a limited area.

• Chusquea Tapaculo Scytalopus parkeri

  The Chusquea Tapaculo is associated with dense stands of Chusquea bamboo. Its original description covered a population studied at 2,250–3,150 m in southeastern Ecuador.

• Japanese bush warbler Horornis diphone

  A small bird of satoyama woods, low hills and thickets, known for its spring song.

• Socotra Cormorant Phalacrocorax nigrogularis

  This dark seabird lives around the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. It dives below the surface to find food.

• Chapman's Antshrike Thamnophilus zarumae

  Chapman's Antshrike is about 14–15 cm long and occurs from southwestern Ecuador into northwestern Peru. It uses forest edges and secondary woodland and gleans invertebrates in trees. The species page divides this region between two subspecies.

• Principe Starling Lamprotornis ornatus

  This starling is endemic to Príncipe Island. A 1990 survey recorded it in plantations, regenerating forest, and primary forest, with groups high in the canopy.

• Palawan Hornbill Anthracoceros marchei

  The Palawan Hornbill is endemic to the Palawan island group. It mainly eats fruit, as well as recorded insects and lizards.

• Australasian Shoveler Spatula rhynchotis

  The Australasian Shoveler strains small foods from the water with its broad bill. Breeding males are more brightly colored than females.

• Bicolored Babbler Cyanoderma bicolor

  This small forest bird is also called Gray-hooded Babbler in the source. It has gray-brown plumage with a chestnut wing patch and moves in small groups in the forest understory.