Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eurasian Dotterel Charadrius morinellus

  

  The Eurasian Dotterel is a plover that breeds in uplands from Europe to Siberia and winters from North Africa toward Iran. In breeding plumage, females are more colorful than males.

• Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush Garrulax castanotis

  The Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush occurs on Hainan in China, in northern Vietnam, and in eastern Laos. Some older treatments grouped it with the Grey Laughingthrush; this account follows the current treatment of Garrulax castanotis as a separate species.

• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata

  A sandpiper with rich cinnamon and chestnut markings in breeding plumage. After adults migrate south, juveniles travel via Alaska toward Australasia.

• Juan Fernandez Petrel Pterodroma externa

  The underside of the wings is white with dark tips and edges. It breeds on the Juan Fernández Islands and ranges over the open Pacific outside the breeding season.

• Little Crow Corvus bennetti

  This crow lives in dry woodland and shrubland in Australia. It is active by day and eats a varied diet.

• Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta

  The Hairy-breasted Barbet lives in African lowland forest. Males have yellow spots on the black upperparts and yellow edges to the wing feathers.

• Javan Banded Pitta Hydrornis guajanus

  It searches among leaf litter and dense cover in the lowland and foothill forests of Java. BirdGuides also shows photo records from Bali.

• Blue-and-white Kingfisher Todiramphus diops

  The Blue-and-white Kingfisher occurs in the northern Moluccas. Males have blue wings and back with a white head and underparts; the account lists habitats from forests and streams to farmland and coasts.

• 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.

• White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus

  The White-eyed Vireo has a striking white iris and yellow sides. It forages in dense shrubs and sings frequently during the breeding season.

• African Silverbill Euodice cantans

  This small bird lives in dry savanna and forages on the ground for grass and weed seeds, sometimes in large flocks.

• Japanese Night Heron Gorsachius goisagi

  A heron of dim lowland forests that walks the forest floor in search of earthworms and other small animals.

• Green-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia viridigaster

  This hummingbird occurs in the mountains of Colombia and Venezuela. A 2000 study documents geographic variation in Andean tail color and discusses separating the related S. cupreicauda.

• Pale Rockfinch Carpospiza brachydactyla

  A pale sand-colored sparrow-like bird of sparsely vegetated hills and rocky valleys; it also eats insects during breeding.

• Bianchi's Warbler Seicercus valentini

  Bianchi’s Warbler appears as Seicercus valentini or Phylloscopus valentini in different sources. The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society describes a small leaf warbler that searches for insects in the understory and notes that its full range is still poorly understood.

• Hume's Short-toed Lark Calandrella acutirostris

  Hume's Short-toed Lark breeds on dry, gravelly high ground and winters mainly in the northern and central Indian subcontinent. One bird recorded at Eilat in 1986 was described as rounder-headed and shorter-tailed than the related Short-toed Lark.

• Red-collared Lorikeet Trichoglossus rubritorquis

  This lorikeet occurs in northern Australia. Adult males have a blue-black head with fine violet-blue streaks and a red-orange collar around the back of the neck. It uses riverside eucalypt woodland, wetlands, and scrub, and feeds on nectar, fruit, and insects.

• Cochabamba Mountain Finch Poospiza garleppi

  This small finch occurs in the mountains around Cochabamba, Bolivia, including shrub-filled ravines and Polylepis woodland.

• Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola

  The Brown-throated Martin is a small brown-toned swallow. The common pale morph has a white belly; the less common brown morph also has a brown belly.

• Grimwood's Longclaw Macronyx grimwoodi

  This African bird walks through wet, open grassland and searches the ground for small animals.

• Black Pitohui Melanorectes nigrescens

  This whistler relative inhabits mid-mountain forest on mainland New Guinea. Males are black, females olive-brown to rufous, and the birds forage for arthropods.

• Star-spotted Nightjar Caprimulgus stellatus

  The Star-spotted Nightjar is a nocturnal bird of dry grassland and scrub. By day, it rests on the ground among fallen leaves.

• Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus

  A harrier that breeds from eastern Europe to Central Asia. Males are pale gray, while females and juveniles are browner; it lives in open country.

• Yellow-billed Cacique Amblycercus holosericeus

  The Yellow-billed Cacique ranges from Mexico through Central America into northwestern South America. It lives in thickets and bamboo near forest edges.