Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis

  

  The White-shouldered Black Tit is mostly black, with a white wing patch and pale eye. It ranges across parts of western and eastern Africa and uses dry woodland, savanna and open habitats.

• Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus

  This small barbet has a red forehead and a golden wing patch. It eats mistletoe fruit and other foods, and nests in a tree hole.

• Madagascan Nightjar Caprimulgus madagascariensis

  The Madagascan Nightjar is a nocturnal bird found on Madagascar and Aldabra in the Seychelles. It catches insects on the wing at night and rests on leaf litter by day.

• Long-tailed Bush-Warbler Locustella caudata

  This bush-warbler occurs on Luzon and Mindanao in the Philippines. Adults are rufescent brown above, with a greyish-white chin and throat.

• Western House Martin Delichon urbicum

  This swallow breeds across Europe and western Asia and winters south of the Sahara. It has blue-black upperparts, a white rump and underside, and a forked tail. It catches insects in flight and builds mud nests under eaves or on cliffs.

• Clay-colored Robin Turdus grayi

  The Clay-colored Robin is a thrush widespread in Central America. It visits forest edges, plantations, and gardens, where it eats fruit and small animals.

• Northern Scrub Robin Drymodes superciliaris

  The Northern Scrub Robin lives in scrub in north-eastern Australia. It often stays near the ground and nests there.

• Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida

  A warbler of East African scrub and forest. Williams and Arlott's 1980 field guide describes a green bird with a grey, black-banded crown and a dark chestnut throat patch that skulks in dense thickets, often near water.

• Long-tailed Wood Partridge Dendrortyx macroura

  A quail of Mexico’s high-elevation forests, notable for its long tail and red bill and legs.

• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus

  The Blue-cheeked Bee-eater is a green bee-eater with bright blue cheeks. In Middle Eastern breeding areas it uses semidesert near water and digs a nesting tunnel in sandy banks.

• White-cheeked Tern Sterna repressa

  The White-cheeked Tern is a coastal seabird marked by white cheeks and a dark cap and feeds on fish and other marine prey.

• Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni

  The male has blue-gray upperparts. It nests in small colonies on its breeding grounds, and some travel to South Africa outside the breeding period.

• 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.

• Pygmy Flowerpecker Dicaeum pygmaeum

  This small flowerpecker is endemic to the Philippines. Males and females have different plumage.

• Gadwall Mareca strepera

  The male has fine gray patterning and a distinctive black rear.

• Chaco Chachalaca Ortalis canicollis

  The Chaco Chachalaca is a large guan recorded in northern Argentina's woods and forests. Argentina's SIB species page describes pairs or small flocks moving quickly through tree branches.

• Chestnut-fronted Macaw Ara severus

  The Chestnut-fronted Macaw is a green macaw with a long tail and blue and red markings. It can be quiet and hard to spot in the canopy, and is usually in pairs or small flocks outside communal roosts.

• Grey Shrikethrush Colluricincla harmonica

  The Grey Shrikethrush varies in color across its range, from gray to brown. It searches for food on the ground and on tree trunks and branches in Australian forests and woodlands.

• Moltoni's Warbler Curruca subalpina

  This small warbler hides in low shrubs. The male has a pale salmon-pink underside from throat to belly, and its breeding range is limited to islands and mountains around Italy.

• Corsican Finch Carduelis corsicana

  A small finch endemic to Corsica and Sardinia. Males have a brighter yellow face and breast than females, with a streaky brown back.

• Flame-throated Warbler Oreothlypis gutturalis

  This small warbler lives in cloud forest in Costa Rica and western Panama. The sexes look similar, with a grey back, orange throat and breast, and a pale belly.

• Stuhlmann's Starling Poeoptera stuhlmanni

  This starling lives in East African montane forest. Males have a blue-black sheen, while females are greyer. It eats fruit.

• Great-billed Munia Lonchura grandis

  A small bird of New Guinea's grasslands and wetlands, with a black head and underside set off by a yellow-orange rump.

• Noisy Pitta Pitta versicolor

  This pitta ranges along Australia's east coast north into Papua New Guinea. It lives in rainforests and sclerophyll forests; some may move in colder months.