Meet the world’s animals.

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• Nyanza Swift Apus niansae

  

  A swift with dark wings and a pale throat that catches insects over eastern African highlands, cliffs, and towns.

• Orange River White-eye Zosterops pallidus

  The Orange River White-eye is a white-eye of arid southern Africa. It moves through foliage in flocks and feeds on insects and fruit.

• 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.

• Makatea Fruit Dove Ptilinopus chalcurus

  The Makatea Fruit Dove is confined to Makatea in French Polynesia, where it uses wooded areas and trees near villages.

• Rufous-throated Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis caudatus

  This small babbler inhabits moist evergreen forest in the eastern Himalayas. It searches for insects in dense undergrowth in steep gullies and occurs from eastern Nepal through Bhutan to northeastern India.

• Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus

  This 18–21 cm bee-eater has a green crown and back, a black eye stripe, and a dark throat patch. It catches flying insects over damp grassland and reedbeds.

• Black-tipped Cicadabird Coracina schisticeps

  It occurs in New Guinea forest and forest edges and has been recorded to about 1,200 m. Males are slaty gray; females are browner.

• White-naped Monarch Carterornis pileatus

  It occurs on Halmahera and Buru in moist lowland forest. Salvadori's description of a male from Halmahera records a black forehead, back, wings and tail against a white crown, pale eye-area patches, white cheeks, chest and belly. A field report recorded small groups in logged forest and forest edges.

• Chinese Bush-Warbler Locustella tacsanowskia

  The Chinese Bush-Warbler is a plain brown bird that breeds from southern Siberia to southern China. It keeps hidden in vegetation on its breeding grounds, and its winter range is uncertain.

• Cinereous Bunting Emberiza cineracea

  The Cinereous Bunting uses rocky, scrub-covered slopes and nests on the ground. Its underparts range from whitish gray to yellowish between the western and eastern subspecies.

• Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica

  This shorebird breeds along Arctic and subarctic coasts. Outside the breeding season, it probes coastal mud and sand with its long bill.

• Radjah Shelduck Radjah radjah

  The Radjah Shelduck stands out for its white head and breast and chestnut breast band. It feeds in shallow wetlands, mainly at night.

• Eye-ringed Parrotbill Suthora ricketti

  The Eye-ringed Parrotbill is a small mountain bird of Yunnan, China. It has a dark eye-ring bordered by pale skin and is treated as a species separate from the Brown-winged Parrotbill.

• Black-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira peltata

  The Black-throated Wattle-eye lives in African woodland and thickets near water and eats insects. Males and females differ in throat color.

• Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis

  The Bengal Florican lives in grasslands and has strongly different adult male and female plumage.

• Ward's Flycatcher Pseudobias wardi

  Ward’s Flycatcher is a Madagascan bird with white and midnight-blue plumage. A study records it in dry forest at the southern tip of Nosy Hara, where it was seen perched in trees.

• Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix signatus

  The male Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark is recognizable by its chestnut-colored head. By day, it feeds on seeds on the ground in dry grassland and acacia scrub.

• Tawny-browed Owl Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana

  The Tawny-browed Owl hunts from trees at night in the Atlantic Forest region.

• Philippine Coucal Centropus viridis

  This coucal is about 41–43 cm long. It is active on the ground by day and feeds on ground invertebrates.

• Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus

  This small African barbet lives in western and central African forest. The plumage described here is that of subspecies flavisquamatus.

• Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus

  Cisticola marginatus occurs in western and eastern sub-Saharan Africa. The nominate subspecies in breeding plumage has a rufous crown and dark dorsal streaks.

• Sulphur-vented Whistler Pachycephala sulfuriventer

  This whistler inhabits moist forests on Sulawesi. Its basic adult description combines olive-brown and white plumage with bright yellow lower belly and undertail feathers.

• Japanese Night Heron Gorsachius goisagi

  A heron of dim lowland forests that walks the forest floor in search of earthworms and other small animals.

• Yellow-throated Laughingthrush Pterorhinus galbanus

  The Yellow-throated Laughingthrush has a black facial mask and yellow belly. Around northeast India, it searches the ground in forest undergrowth and scrub.