Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos

  

  A sandpiper that breeds on Arctic tundra and migrates south, mostly to South America. Its stippled breast ends sharply at a white belly.

• Silver-crowned Friarbird Philemon argenticeps

  A honeyeater of northern Australia. Adults have a silvery-white crown, black bare facial skin and casque, and males are slightly larger than females.

• Evergreen Forest Warbler Bradypterus lopezi

  The Evergreen Forest Warbler is a small bird recorded in moist forests and wet shrubland across scattered African highlands. It is about 15 cm long and weighs 15–21 g.

• Yellow-breasted Greenfinch Chloris spinoides

  A finch whose male has conspicuous yellow-green plumage. Summer records are reported from southern Gilgit-Baltistan; these do not represent the full range.

• Indian Pond Heron Ardeola grayii

  A heron that searches for food in shallow water, with distinct breeding and nonbreeding plumages.

• White-throated Jay Cyanolyca mirabilis

  This small jay is dark blue with a striking black-and-white head pattern. It lives in mountain forests of southwestern Mexico and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• White-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus guainumbi

  The White-tailed Goldenthroat has metallic green upperparts and a white-tipped tail. In eastern Colombia it uses savannas, grasslands, and forest edges, feeding on nectar and sometimes hovering at flowers.

• Chestnut-eared Aracari Pteroglossus castanotis

  The Chestnut-eared Aracari is a toucan with blue skin around the eye and a single red band across its yellow belly. It often uses forest edges, young forest, and fruiting trees.

• Red-crowned Ant Tanager Habia rubica

  The historical Southeast Brazil account describes a tanager whose male is reddish and whose female is olive-brown. It forages low in forest, in pairs or small family groups.

• Black-naped Fruit Dove Ptilinopus melanospilus

  This fruit-eating dove is marked by a black band on the back of the neck. It feeds in the canopy and helps disperse plant seeds.

• Rufous Limestone Babbler Gypsophila calcicola

  This bird occurs on limestone hills in central Thailand. A research paper identifies its rufous belly as a notable feature among related wren-babblers.

• White-headed Vanga Artamella viridis

  The White-headed Vanga is endemic to Madagascar. The male has a white head and underside with green-glossed black upperparts, and searches for food on forest branches.

• Happy Wren Pheugopedius felix

  This wren is endemic to western Mexico. A white eyebrow, black-and-white flecking on the face and neck, and a rufous crown and upper back distinguish it. It lives in second growth and forest edges, feeding mainly on invertebrates.

• Brooks's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus subviridis

  This small leaf warbler breeds from eastern Afghanistan through northern Pakistan to northwestern India, then winters in Pakistan and north-central India.

• Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachyphonus purpuratus

  Adults have a red forehead, yellow bill, and pinkish or silvery streaks on the throat and breast. The bird uses forest undergrowth, and an adult was photographed near a nest excavated in a dead tree in Uganda.

• African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis

  The African Paradise-Flycatcher is an insect-eating bird of forests and woodland edges south of the Sahara. Males have elongated tail feathers, and plumage varies widely.

• Whiskered Screech Owl Megascops trichopsis

  The Whiskered Screech-Owl is a small owl of Mexican canyon and foothill woodlands. It has fine gray, black, and white markings and feeds mainly on insects.

• African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus

  The African Wattled Lapwing is a large brown plover with yellow legs and yellow facial wattles beside the bill.

• Plum-throated Cotinga Cotinga maynana

  This cotinga is recorded as a resident in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. BirdLife lists swamp forest as a major habitat and moist lowland forest as another suitable habitat.

• Little Shrikethrush Colluricincla megarhyncha

  It occurs on New Guinea and in northern and eastern Australia. Checklists differ over which populations belong in this species, and plumage varies across its subspecies. It gleans insects from leaves in forests and wooded habitats.

• Buff-banded Tyrannulet Mecocerculus hellmayri

  This tyrannulet occurs on the eastern Andean slope in south-eastern Peru and Bolivia. It uses the canopy and subcanopy of humid mountain forest, alone, in pairs, or in mixed flocks.

• Willow tit Poecile montanus

  In Japan it occurs in mountain woodland from Kyushu northward. A black cap on the head is conspicuous.

• Rosy Pipit Anthus roseatus

  A small pipit that breeds in high mountain grasslands. It descends after breeding, and northern populations migrate. Adults in breeding plumage show a faint rosy wash from the throat to the belly.

• Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula

  The Plain Chachalaca is a large brown bird with white-tipped tail feathers. It searches for berries and buds in small family groups.