Meet the world’s animals.

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• Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea

  

  A tern that travels from Arctic breeding grounds to Antarctic waters with the seasons. In Britain, it breeds along northern coasts.

• Plate-billed Mountain Toucan Andigena laminirostris

  The Plate-billed Mountain Toucan stands out for its blue-grey underparts and large bill patterned in red, black, and ivory. It mainly eats fruit, but also takes small animals and eggs during the breeding season.

• Oriental scops owl Otus sunia

  A small owl that breeds in deep forest and hunts insects from dusk into the night.

• Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis

  A black-and-white kingfisher with a long bill. It can hover over water while searching for fish.

• Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida

  Clay-colored Sparrows are small and slim, with a broad pale eyebrow, pale mustache, and gray collar. They breed in low northern prairie shrublands and winter in drier grasslands and upland scrub.

• Weyns's Weaver Ploceus weynsi

  Weyns’s Weaver occurs in central Africa, including around Lake Victoria and along the Congo River. Species accounts place it in seasonal swamp forest and lakeside vegetation; it is usually resident but may wander irregularly.

• Paint-billed Crake Mustelirallus erythrops

  The Paint-billed Crake is a small, 18–20 cm rail of seasonally wet grassland and freshwater marsh. It catches invertebrates on or near the ground and water.

• Beautiful Sibia Heterophasia pulchella

  A laughingthrush relative of the eastern Himalayas. Its blue-grey head and back, black face, and broad dark tail band help identify it.

• Belford's Honeyeater Melidectes belfordi

  This large honeyeater inhabits high-elevation forests of New Guinea's central ranges. White scaling on the back and a stripe across the black head are useful field marks.

• Sargasso Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri

  At about 28–30 cm, this is a small shearwater with dusky brown upperparts, a white belly, and a longer tail than a similar shearwater. It searches warm seas for fish and squid and nests on islands.

• Indian Robin Saxicoloides fulicatus

  This small bird ranges across the Indian subcontinent and uses gardens and scrub. It searches for insects on the ground; the male is black with a rufous belly.

• San Blas Jay Cyanocorax sanblasianus

  The San Blas Jay lives along Mexico's southwestern Pacific coast and uses dry woodland and scrub. A study near Acapulco recorded year-round groups in the southern population.

• Samoan Whistler Pachycephala flavifrons

  This whistler is found on Samoan islands. Males have yellow underparts, while females are paler above with a gray throat.

• American Goldfinch Spinus tristis

  A small finch of North America. Breeding males are bright yellow in spring, while females and winter birds are duller. It feeds mainly on plant seeds.

• Ferruginous Babbler Pellorneum bicolor

  The Ferruginous Babbler has rich rufous-brown plumage that blends into the forest floor. It searches for insects low in the understory of lowland and swamp forest.

• Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus

  Cisticola marginatus occurs in western and eastern sub-Saharan Africa. The nominate subspecies in breeding plumage has a rufous crown and dark dorsal streaks.

• Pirre Warbler Basileuterus ignotus

  The Pirre Warbler is a small warbler recorded in the Pirre mountains of eastern Panama. Museum and current species accounts place it in humid high-elevation forest.

• Pale-billed Antpitta Grallaria carrikeri

  This antpitta occurs on the eastern Andean slope of northern Peru. It uses the understory of high-elevation cloud forest, especially places with abundant bamboo.

• White-tipped Quetzal Pharomachrus fulgidus

  This quetzal has been observed in northern Colombian montane forest. Adult males have conspicuous white tips on their tail feathers. A local nesting record describes eggs in a cavity in a dead tree.

• Goliath Coucal Centropus goliath

  The Goliath Coucal is a large cuckoo of the northern Moluccas. It is mostly black, with bluish wings and tail and a white wing patch.

• Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria

  The Solitary Sandpiper has a prominent white eye-ring and a black-and-white tail. It walks in shallow water, frequently bobbing the rear of its body.

• Magpie Mannikin Lonchura fringilloides

  This small African bird occurs near water, bamboo, and village gardens. In the account’s northern form, the head and neck are glossy black, with a white belly and barred flanks. Oiseaux.net records its transfer from Lonchura to Spermestes.

• Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus

  The Green-backed Tit is a small bird found in mountain forests in northern India. Its green back, yellow underside, and black head with white cheeks stand out as it searches branches and trunks for food.

• Blue-fronted Fig-parrot Cyclopsitta gulielmitertii

  This small green parrot has blue in its wings, a black forecrown and cheeks, and orange markings that differ by sex. Small groups use forests and edges in western New Guinea.