Meet the world’s animals.

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• King Rail Rallus elegans

  

  A large rail of North American wetlands, it has a chestnut back, gray face, and black-and-white bars on its flanks. It walks through reeds and grasses to find food.

• River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis

  The River Warbler is a small bird with fine streaks on its breast and flanks. It stays hidden in waterside vegetation and searches for insects and other small invertebrates.

• White-billed Starling Onychognathus albirostris

  Its glossy blue-black plumage and pale bill stand out. In the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands it uses cliffs, gorges, moorland, and towns, eating fruit and insects.

• Hooded Pitohui Pitohui dichrous

  The Hooded Pitohui lives in forests on New Guinea and Yapen Island. Its black head, wings, and tail contrast with its rufous-brown body.

• Juba Weaver Ploceus dichrocephalus

  This weaver was recorded along rivers in southern Ethiopia. Breeding males have black heads, red eyes, rufous chests, and yellow bellies; females and nonbreeding males are duller.

• Rainbow Bee-eater Merops ornatus

  The Rainbow Bee-eater has vivid green, blue, and yellow plumage. It beats captured bees against a perch to remove their stings before eating them.

• Andean Snipe Gallinago jamesoni

  The Andean Snipe inhabits wet grassland and waterside habitats high in the Andes. Pale stripes on its back and dark bars underneath help identify it.

• Scarlet-headed Blackbird Amblyramphus holosericeus

  The Scarlet-headed Blackbird ranges from Bolivia and Paraguay through Brazil and Uruguay to Argentina. It is associated with wetlands, lakes and riverbanks bordered by marsh vegetation.

• Snowy Egret Egretta thula

  A slender white heron with black legs and bright yellow feet that searches shallow water for small aquatic animals.

• Short-billed Pipit Anthus furcatus

  The Short-billed Pipit searches short grass and dry grassland. It has a mottled brown back and dark breast streaks, and has been recorded in several parts of Argentina.

• Siberian House Martin Delichon lagopodum

  This martin breeds in East Asia and winters mainly in Southeast Asia. It has a white face and underside, an extended white rump and catches small insects in flight.

• Floreana Mockingbird Mimus trifasciatus

  This large grey-and-white mockingbird now lives on two islets off Floreana Island.

• Flame-breasted Sunbird Cinnyris solaris

  The male has a glossy blue-green throat and forehead with a vivid orange breast and belly. The species lives alone or in pairs in open woodland and scrub of lowlands and low hills.

• American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea

  The American Tree Sparrow has a rounded body, long tail, and rusty cap. In winter, small flocks forage for seeds on the ground in fields and yards from southern Canada into the northern United States, then migrate to northern tundra as snow melts.

• Dark-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albigularis

  This small bird lives in grassy scrub and forest edges in Amazonia and forages in young second growth. Its rufous crown and dark throat are useful field marks.

• Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix verticalis

  The Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark uses open, sparsely grassed ground, including sandy and gravel plains. Its black head and neck contrast with large white ear patches.

• Cozumel Emerald Cynanthus forficatus

  This hummingbird is restricted to Cozumel Island, Mexico. Males are emerald green with a deeply forked tail; females also have a forked tail and a dark facial mask.

• Yemen Warbler Curruca buryi

  The Yemen Warbler is a small warbler found in the highlands of Yemen. It feeds on insects and other invertebrates.

• Citreoline Trogon Trogon citreolus

  The Citreoline Trogon has a yellow belly and pale eyes. It searches for food from branches in forests of western Mexico.

• Gansu Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus kansuensis

  This small leaf-warbler breeds in western China. Its breeding forest and pale facial and crown stripes help describe it.

• Tawny-throated Dotterel Oreopholus ruficollis

  This dotterel uses open grassland and stony ground in the Andes and elsewhere in South America. Adults have a tawny throat, and the sexes look similar.

• Black-faced spoonbill Platalea minor

  A waterbird that sweeps its spoon-shaped bill from side to side in shallow water.

• White-capped Bunting Emberiza stewarti

  This bunting breeds in the mountains of Central Asia and moves toward northwestern India outside the breeding season. It gathers in flocks and searches for food on the ground during that period.

• White-tailed Shrike Lanioturdus torquatus

  This bird occurs in southwestern Angola and northern Namibia. It has black, grey, and white plumage with yellow eyes and searches for insects on the ground and in trees.