Meet the world’s animals.

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• Gansu Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus kansuensis

  

  This small leaf-warbler breeds in western China. Its breeding forest and pale facial and crown stripes help describe it.

• Black-headed Sibia Heterophasia desgodinsi

  This mountain forest bird occurs from southwestern and central-southern China through Myanmar, northern Thailand and parts of Indochina. It is arboreal and searches for food in trees.

• Little Cormorant Microcarbo niger

  Its breeding plumage is glossy black, and it inhabits wetlands from the Indian subcontinent east to Java. It dives to catch fish.

• Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota

  This small duck has a blue bill and a dark brown cap.

• Buff-winged Starfrontlet Coeligena lutetiae

  The Buff-winged Starfrontlet is a 14 cm hummingbird. It feeds mainly on nectar in humid Andean forest and along forest edges.

• Rufous-banded Miner Geositta rufipennis

  A regional account from northwestern Patagonia describes it as a ground-dwelling bird of rocky high-Andean areas. It has gray-brown upperparts with rufous marks and a dark tail band. Records note that it descends to lower open country during winter snowstorms.

• Sulphur-vented Whistler Pachycephala sulfuriventer

  This whistler inhabits moist forests on Sulawesi. Its basic adult description combines olive-brown and white plumage with bright yellow lower belly and undertail feathers.

• Chestnut-bellied Hill Partridge Arborophila javanica

  The Chestnut-bellied Hill Partridge is a ground-dwelling pheasant of Java’s mountain forests. A study in fragmented forest found it more often inside natural high-elevation forest than near the edges.

• Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata

  The Giant Snipe is a large wader with a disjunct South American range. It is 40–43.5 cm long, with a very long straight bill and broad, rounded wings.

• White-headed Munia Lonchura maja

  The White-headed Munia is a small bird with a white head and pale brown body that gathers seeds from the ground and grass stems.

• Striped Sparrow Oriturus superciliosus

  This sparrow lives in the Mexican highlands. It has a bold white eyebrow, a rusty-brown crown, and dark facial markings. It searches for food on the ground in dry bunchgrass and open pine woodland.

• Short-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus ferox

  This flycatcher forages in river-created habitats and other second growth in Amazonia. Its gray breast changes sharply to a yellow belly.

• Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta

  The Melodious Warbler is a small bird with a yellowish throat and breast and a gray-green to brown back. It favors warm, open places with shrubs.

• Gray's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella fasciolata

  A migratory warbler that stays hidden deep in shrubs while giving a short, powerful song.

• Flame-headed Fig Parrot Psittaculirostris desmarestii

  The Flame-headed Fig Parrot is a small New Guinea parrot with orange, blue, and green markings around the head and face. It favors figs.

• Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti

  The Ruddy Ground Dove is a small dove widespread in Central and South America. Males are reddish brown, females are browner, and the birds forage for seeds on the ground.

• Red-collared Myzomela Myzomela rosenbergii

  The Red-collared Myzomela is a small bird of New Guinea's mountains and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Bonin Petrel Pterodroma hypoleuca

  The Bonin Petrel is a seabird that catches fish and squid offshore. It breeds in winter and lays one egg in a sandy burrow.

• Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula

  The Common Grackle is a North American bird with a long tail and glossy plumage. It searches for food on lawns and fields and sometimes gathers high in trees.

• Kikuyu White-eye Zosterops kikuyuensis

  This white-eye occurs on mountains in central Kenya. Its recorded habitats include highland forest and forest edge, bamboo stands, wooded gardens, eucalyptus and conifer woods.

• Small Snowfinch Pyrgilauda davidiana

  A snowfinch of open high country, it walks on the ground in dry grassland and semi-desert while searching for seeds and insects.

• Bearded Barbet Lybius dubius

  This stocky bird with a large bill lives in tropical West Africa. It has black upperparts, a red throat and belly and a yellow eye patch. Figs are a favoured food, and several birds may roost together.

• Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus

  Adults in breeding plumage have a dark reddish-brown head and chest with white wings that flash as they take flight. In Hong Kong it occurs in wetlands year-round, with both migrants and resident birds.

• Damara Hornbill Tockus damarensis

  This hornbill ranges from central and northeastern Namibia into southwestern Angola. It has black-and-white plumage and a long, slender red bill.