Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cape Verde Warbler Acrocephalus brevipennis

  

  Endemic to the Cape Verde Islands, this reed warbler has a dun-brown back and warm buff underparts. It uses densely vegetated places such as reedbeds, scrub, and plantations.

• Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus

  The Red-billed Starling is identified by its red bill. Males have a white head and grey body, while females are mainly brown; large flocks form in winter.

• Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris

  This shrike lives in open country in southern Africa. It watches from branches or fences and catches insects and small mammals.

• Grey-eyed Greenlet Hylophilus amaurocephalus

  This vireo relative lives in forest and scrub in eastern Brazil. Its gray iris and rufous crown stand out, and it searches for insects in trees.

• Cyprus Warbler Curruca melanothorax

  The Cyprus Warbler is endemic to Cyprus. The male has dark plumage and pale facial markings, and part of the population migrates away from the island in autumn.

• Blue-naped Pitta Hydrornis nipalensis

  A pitta with a reddish-brown head and body and a blue rump, living quietly in forest.

• Red-lored Amazon Amazona autumnalis

  The Red-lored Amazon is mostly green, with a red forehead and bluish crown. Its native range extends from eastern Mexico to northwestern South America.

• Tolima Blossomcrown Anthocephala berlepschi

  This small hummingbird lives in humid montane forest and forest edges in Colombia's Central Andes. Its crown can look golden or coppery in the light, and it feeds on nectar.

• Speckle-throated Woodpecker Campethera scriptoricauda

  This East African woodpecker has a green, yellow-barred back and black spots that continue from the throat down the pale underside.

• Buff-sided Robin Poecilodryas cerviniventris

  Oiseaux.net lists a length of 16–18 cm and a mass of 20–25 g, and gives humid forest, riparian vegetation, and mangroves as habitats. Its page also lists audio-recording sites in northern Australia.

• Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna

  The Eastern Meadowlark lives in grasslands and farmland in eastern North America and searches for food on the ground.

• Lanceolated Monklet Micromonacha lanceolata

  This puffbird has a large-looking head, a plump body, and a short tail. In Bolivia’s Río Paracti valley, one male was recorded in understory forest near a river.

• Band-winged Nightjar Systellura longirostris

  Its grey plumage with black and ochre markings camouflages it on the ground. It catches flying insects in open areas at dusk and at night, and rests on the ground by day. The range recorded here follows Argentina's national parks information system.

• White-winged Swamp Warbler Bradypterus carpalis

  This small bird inhabits papyrus swamps in central and eastern Africa. It has dark brown upperparts, a pale eyebrow, and white wing markings. In an East African survey it was recorded only in undisturbed papyrus stands.

• Olive-backed Foliage-gleaner Automolus infuscatus

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in the Amazon Basin and adjoining foothills. The individual pictured in the species account is of unknown sex and shows an olive-brown back and rufous tail.

• Preuss's Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon preussi

  A swallow of West Africa that catches flying insects over open country, towns, and water.

• Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena

  This francolin walks through shrubland and semi-open areas in southern Africa, searching for seeds and insects. It may raise its tail when excited.

• White-fronted Tern Sterna striata

  A medium-sized tern common along New Zealand’s coast. It catches small fish around the sea, lagoons, and river mouths, and nests in colonies on open coastal ground.

• Crimson-rumped Toucanet Aulacorhynchus haematopygus

  The Crimson-rumped Toucanet has a green body, red rump, and large reddish-brown and black bill. It feeds mainly on fruit and nests in old woodpecker holes.

• Boreal Owl Aegolius funereus

  A small owl of forests in northern North America and Eurasia. At night it waits on a perch for small animals.

• Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys

  The Shining-blue Kingfisher has blue upperparts and orange-chestnut underparts. It catches fish and other aquatic prey around tropical African waters.

• Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis

  A small North American bird whose plumage varies from grey to brown by region, with white outer tail feathers that flash in flight.

• Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea

  A small weaver that mainly eats grass seeds in African semiarid grasslands and savannas. Breeding males develop conspicuous facial markings.

• Andaman Crake Rallina canningi

  This rail has chestnut head and upperparts and black-and-white bars on the belly. It hides in wet forest and marsh vegetation, so it is difficult to see.