Meet the world’s animals.

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• Gray's Lark Ammomanopsis grayi

  

  This lark lives around the Namib Desert and prefers gravel plains to dunes. Its pale plumage blends with the ground.

• Cape Crow Corvus capensis

  The Cape Crow is a glossy black crow. It usually lives as a territorial pair and searches the ground for food in grasslands and dry savannas.

• Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii

  A forest-dwelling finch of Africa. Males have a red back, green throat, and grey-green body.

• Silver-backed Needletail Hirundapus cochinchinensis

  This large swift has long, pointed wings and catches insects in flight. It is recorded in Hong Kong as a passage migrant.

• New Zealand Bellbird Anthornis melanura

  The New Zealand Bellbird is endemic to New Zealand and has a bell-like song. It feeds on nectar, fruit, and insects; males are olive green with a purplish head.

• Black-billed Weaver Ploceus melanogaster

  The Black-billed Weaver lives in dense undergrowth in African montane forest. Male yellow markings vary between its geographically separated forms: the Cameroon form has a yellow breast collar, while the eastern form has yellow on the face.

• Andaman Nightjar Caprimulgus andamanicus

  A nightjar resident on the Andaman Islands. It has a bold black central crown streak, a white throat, and dark bars on the tail.

• Banded Green Sunbird Anthreptes rubritorques

  This sunbird lives in Tanzania's mountain forests. Males have a red breast band, and birds search for nectar and small insects high in trees.

• Maroon-tailed Parakeet Pyrrhura melanura

  The Maroon-tailed Parakeet has a green body and dark maroon tail. It occurs in forested parts of Colombia and feeds on fruit in small flocks.

• Red Lory Eos bornea

  The Red Lory is mainly red, with black on parts of the wings and blue feathers beneath the tail. It has also been recorded in lowland forest on Buru Island.

• Gray-fronted Quail-Dove Geotrygon caniceps

  The Gray-fronted Quail-Dove is a secretive dove from Cuba. Its pale forehead area is diffuse rather than a crisp white patch like that of a related species.

• Gray-breasted Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucophrys

  The Gray-breasted Wood-Wren forages in the understory of Andean montane forest. Its white eyebrow and gray throat and breast are useful field marks.

• White-rumped Swallow Tachycineta leucorrhoa

  The White-rumped Swallow is a South American swallow with glossy blue-green upperparts and a white rump and belly. It catches insects over water and grassland and also nests in building cavities.

• Pacific Pygmy Owl Glaucidium peruanum

  The Pacific Pygmy Owl occurs in gray-brown and rufous color forms. It ranges along the western Andes of South America and is most active around dusk and at night.

• New Guinea Flightless Rail Megacrex inepta

  The New Guinea Flightless Rail lives in wetlands and thickets on New Guinea. It has a gray forehead, a rusty-brown crown and nape, and a green bill.

• Band-tailed Antwren Myrmotherula urosticta

  This small antwren lives in tall forests of eastern Brazil and often forages with mixed-species bird flocks.

• Nordmann's Greenshank Tringa guttifer

  A shorebird that breeds in East Asia and winters on coasts of South and Southeast Asia, Nordmann's Greenshank has a thick bill and neck and relatively short legs.

• Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis

  The Ferruginous Hawk hunts small mammals over open country such as grasslands and deserts. It is a large North American hawk.

• 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.

• Little Cuckoo Coccycua minuta

  The Little Cuckoo is a small reddish-brown cuckoo spread across Amazonia. It is often found in vine-filled thickets along water, forest edges, and cleared forest.

• Palawan Striped Babbler Zosterornis hypogrammicus

  The Palawan Striped-Babbler is a small bird of the mid-elevation mountains of Palawan in the Philippines.

• Black-faced Monarch Monarcha melanopsis

  This tree-dwelling bird lives in forests and woodlands along eastern Australia and catches insects among foliage or in flight.

• Brown-winged Kingfisher Pelargopsis amauroptera

  Adults have orange-brown underparts and a blue back. In southwestern Bangladesh's mangroves, the bird watches waterways from low perches and dives for prey.

• Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps

  This small bird is about 11 cm long. The species account describes the male with a black crown and face, a dark cap, and a dark breast band.