Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cerulean Kingfisher Alcedo coerulescens

  

  The Cerulean Kingfisher is a small bird with a blue back and white underside. It hunts from waterside branches and posts and eats small fish and aquatic insects.

• Red-and-white Crake Rufirallus leucopyrrhus

  The Red-and-white Crake lives among tall, coarse vegetation in wetlands. It has a chestnut head, a white throat and breast, and broken black-and-white bars on its flanks.

• Agami Heron Agamia agami

  The Agami Heron is a tropical heron with a long neck and bill and a chestnut belly. During breeding, blue crest and back plumes grow longer, and the bird hunts fish at the water's edge.

• Red-wattled Lapwing Vanellus indicus

  A bird with a black head and breast, red bill, and red skin in front of the eyes. It is often found in pairs or small groups in grasslands and marshes.

• Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens

  This widowbird inhabits grasslands and other open areas south of the Sahara. The breeding male is striking, with a black body, red collar, and elongated tail feathers.

• Peruvian Meadowlark Leistes bellicosus

  This meadowlark occurs in western South America from Colombia and Ecuador through Peru to northern Chile. Males have a dark body, white eyebrow, and red throat and breast, and forage on the ground in open country.

• Tylas Vanga Tylas eduardi

  This vanga is endemic to Madagascar. The widely distributed eastern form has a black hood; a western form with a black crown and white chin and throat has also been reported. Western records are sparse, and the forms' geographic status and possible seasonal movement remain unresolved.

• Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii

  This all-dark seabird spends most of its life at sea and breeds on remote volcanic islands. In warm waters, it typically feeds on bioluminescent fish that surface at night.

• Mountain Oriole Oriolus percivali

  The Mountain Oriole lives in East African montane forest. Its head, neck, and upper breast are glossy black, with yellow and olive-green across the back and wings.

• Uluguru Bushshrike Malaconotus alius

  This bushshrike lives in forest in Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains. Its green and yellow body contrasts with a black head.

• Grey Sibia Heterophasia gracilis

  It occurs in hill regions of northeast India, Myanmar, and western Yunnan in China, using evergreen, deciduous, pine, and secondary forests.

• Sharp-tailed Ibis Cercibis oxycerca

  This large ibis has glossy black plumage and a long tail. In the Venezuelan Llanos, its food changes between dry and wet seasons.

• Malabar Trogon Harpactes fasciatus

  The Malabar Trogon inhabits forests in India and Sri Lanka. The male has a blue bill and reddish belly; the female has an olive-brown head and golden belly.

• Island Monarch Monarcha cinerascens

  This monarch ranges across islands from Indonesia to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It inhabits open island forests, and plumage tones vary among island subspecies.

• Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus

  A small leaf warbler with olive and yellow plumage. In Britain and Ireland it is a summer visitor that breeds there.

• Chestnut Bunting Emberiza rutila

  In breeding plumage, the male has a chestnut head and back and a yellow belly. It breeds in the Russian Far East and northeastern China, then migrates to southern China and Southeast Asia for winter.

• LeConte's Thrasher Toxostoma lecontei

  LeConte's Thrasher is a pale, sand-colored bird of the dry deserts of southwestern North America. It stays near the ground in brush for much of the year, while males sing from high perches during the breeding season.

• Greater Black Coucal Centropus menbeki

  The Greater Black Coucal is recorded from forest, scrub, and freshwater swamps on New Guinea. Adults have glossy blue-green black plumage, while juveniles look different.

• Bridled Titmouse Baeolophus wollweberi

  The Bridled Titmouse lives in forests of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. It joins mixed flocks and searches for food among tree branches.

• Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti

  Vieillot's Barbet is a daytime bird found in sub-Saharan Africa. It eats fruits and flower nectar among other foods.

• Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii

  The Square-tailed Nightjar is active at night in open woodland, savanna and scrub south of the Sahara. It catches flying beetles, grasshoppers and moths and lays its eggs in a shallow depression on the ground.

• Buff-banded Bushbird Buettikoferella bivittata

  This ground-dwelling bird occurs on Timor Island. Its appearance is documented in an 1862 Timor account, while its habitat is listed in a 2008 regional checklist.

• Pied-winged Swallow Hirundo leucosoma

  The Pied-winged Swallow is a small blue-and-white swallow with conspicuous white lines at the base of its wings.

• Black-breasted Thrush Turdus dissimilis

  The Black-breasted Thrush lives in forests of the eastern Himalaya. An adult male has a black head and upper breast with orange-red flanks. It moves from higher breeding forests to lower ground in winter.