Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sanderling Calidris alba

  

  A small shorebird that runs along the water’s edge, probing wet sand for tiny prey with a short black bill and black legs.

• Madagascar Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda madagascariensis

  This medium-sized raptor lives in Madagascar's forests. It waits concealed among leaves, then glides from a perch to catch insects and small reptiles.

• Zebra Woodpecker Meiglyptes tristis

  This small woodpecker has dense black-and-pale bars. Its current native range is limited to Java.

• African Black Coucal Centropus grillii

  The African Black Coucal walks through wet grassland in search of small animals. Breeding adults have a black body and chestnut wings.

• Pearl-bellied White-eye Zosterops grayi

  This small bird has yellowish plumage, a white belly, and a broad white eye-ring. It is found only on Kai Besar Island in Indonesia.

• Buru Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx cajeli

  A small kingfisher endemic to Buru Island, Indonesia. Wallace's original description notes a black upper surface with pale-blue spots and feather edges, rufous-yellow underparts, a white throat, and coral-red bill and feet. A later nineteenth-century letter describes feeding in swamp thickets.

• Grey-backed Tailorbird Orthotomus derbianus

  This small warbler occurs in the Philippines. It is greyish overall and mainly searches for insects in forest tangles and low scrub.

• Golden-bellied Starfrontlet Coeligena bonapartei

  The Golden-bellied Starfrontlet is a hummingbird of cloud forests and other wooded openings in Colombia's eastern Andes. It has a black head and a long, straight black bill, and feeds on nectar.

• Chestnut Bulbul Hemixos castanonotus

  The Chestnut Bulbul has chestnut upperparts, a black crown and wings, and white and pearly-grey underparts. It is resident in Hong Kong forests, with additional birds arriving from the north in winter.

• Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps

  This large finch-like tanager occurs from Mexico to Panama in lowlands and hills, using forest edges and open trees. Its black head and breast bib contrast with bright golden-green upperparts.

• Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis

  The Rufous-collared Sparrow ranges from southern Mexico to the southern tip of South America and uses open habitats from grasslands and high plateaus to rural and urban areas. Behavior varies among subspecies.

• Barbuda Warbler Setophaga subita

  The Barbuda Warbler is a small bird whose only known home is Barbuda in the Caribbean. It lives in the island’s forest and hunts insects.

• Green Junglefowl Gallus varius

  This junglefowl is endemic to Indonesia. The male's glossy dark green plumage contrasts with the female's brown plumage.

• Green Pygmy Goose Nettapus pulchellus

  The Green Pygmy Goose is a small waterbird with green on its head and back and a short bill. It lives in vegetated freshwater wetlands, often in pairs or small groups.

• Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides

  A medium-sized Arctic-breeding gull whose adult wingtips vary from pale to dark among regional forms.

• Pale-tailed Canastero Asthenes huancavelicae

  Pale-tailed Canastero occurs in central-southern Peru. The Apurimac form usheri has pale outer tail feathers, and the species account places it in arid valleys with scattered shrubs, cacti, and trees.

• Red-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis

  This thrush breeds in montane areas of eastern Siberia and Mongolia, then moves to lower areas for winter. Adult males show a red throat against gray and white plumage.

• Dark-rumped Rosefinch Carpodacus edwardsii

  In the Chinese records summarized here, the Dark-rumped Rosefinch occurs in small groups among rhododendron and bamboo undergrowth. Males are redder, while females are mainly brown.

• Amazonian Scrub Flycatcher Sublegatus obscurior

  This small flycatcher is widespread in Amazonia. Its head, back and breast are grey, its belly yellowish, and it forages in secondary forest and scrub.

• Montserrat Oriole Icterus oberi

  The Montserrat Oriole is endemic to the Caribbean island of Montserrat and breeds in its hill forests.

• Blue-crowned Laughingthrush Pterorhinus courtoisi

  A 2022 study treats Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (then named Garrulax courtoisi in the paper) as breeding in low-elevation Wuyuan, the only confirmed population discussed there.

• Henderson Petrel Pterodroma atrata

  This seabird breeds on Henderson Island in the South Pacific. It is grey-brown and paler below; a study placed nests on the island's interior plateau and tracked a breeding bird far out to sea.

• White-throated Robin-Chat Cossypha humeralis

  This bird has dark upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and a rufous belly. It lives in wooded thickets in southern Africa and searches for food on the ground, flicking leaves aside.

• Black-collared Starling Gracupica nigricollis

  The Black-collared Starling is a starling marked by a black-and-white collar and yellow skin around the eyes. It forages on the ground and also occurs in parks and farmland.