Meet the world’s animals.

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• African Rock Pipit Anthus crenatus

  

  This pipit lives in rocky highlands of South Africa and Lesotho. Its plumage differs with sex and age.

• Beesley's Lark Chersomanes beesleyi

  This lark is restricted to a small area of northern Tanzania. Checklists have changed its rank; this account follows the current split treatment as Chersomanes beesleyi.

• Green Aracari Pteroglossus viridis

  The Green Aracari lives in humid lowland forests of South America. Its large-looking bill is light, and the bird helps spread seeds when it eats fruit.

• Sombre Kingfisher Todiramphus funebris

  This large kingfisher lives on Halmahera. Its dark back and white facial stripe stand out, and it catches small animals in forests and mangroves.

• Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata

  The Red-legged Crake is a rail of wet forests and wetlands. In Singapore it has been recorded in a limited part of the country.

• Intermediate Egret Ardea intermedia

  A heron often seen in rice fields, intermediate in size between the Little and Great Egrets.

• Chestnut-banded Plover Charadrius pallidus

  This small shorebird is adapted to salty lakes and mudflats. It has separate eastern and southern African populations; southern birds use coastal lagoons and inland saline pans.

• Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus

  The Vieillot's Black Weaver lives along forest edges and in grassland in western and central Africa. Plumage differs by sex and subspecies, and birds may forage in flocks.

• Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus

  Male Brewer's Blackbirds are glossy black with yellow eyes, while females are brown. The species uses open habitats from grasslands to parks and city streets.

• Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica

  The Wedge-tailed Shearwater is a large seabird of warm Indian and Pacific waters. It has light and dark morphs; dark birds are brown overall.

• Lagden's Bushshrike Malaconotus lagdeni

  This large forest bird is recorded in closed-canopy forest in Sierra Leone. It has a gray head and yellow-and-black wings, and feeds on flying insects and other invertebrates in the canopy of lowland forest.

• Buffy Laughingthrush Pterorhinus berthemyi

  The Buffy Laughingthrush occurs in southeastern China, where it uses broadleaf evergreen and bamboo forests as well as plantations. Its head to breast is ochre-brown, with black lores and chin and blue bare skin around the eyes.

• Amazonian Trogon Trogon ramonianus

  A trogon of mature Amazonian rainforest. Males are strongly blue and green, while females are mostly gray, so the sexes look different.

• Short-crested Monarch Hypothymis helenae

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in the Philippines. A study on Luzon found a nest in secondary forest.

• Iberian Chiffchaff Phylloscopus ibericus

  The Iberian Chiffchaff is a small leaf warbler, 11 to 12 cm long. It breeds in western Europe and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Crested Bunting Emberiza lathami

  This bunting has a conspicuous crest: males are dark, while females show brown streaking. The species ranges from northern India and the Himalayan foothills east through China to northern Indochina, and feeds on seeds.

• Little Cuckoo Coccycua minuta

  The Little Cuckoo is a small reddish-brown cuckoo spread across Amazonia. It is often found in vine-filled thickets along water, forest edges, and cleared forest.

• Iriomote Tit Sittiparus olivaceus

  The Iriomote Tit occurs on Iriomote and Ishigaki islands in Japan's Yaeyama Islands. The sexes have similar plumage: a black head and throat, chestnut forehead, cheeks and nape, reddish-brown breast and belly, and olive flanks. It lives in evergreen broadleaf forest.

• Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus

  The Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird is a small barbet, marked by a yellow rump and white facial stripes.

• Pennant-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus vexillarius

  The Pennant-winged Nightjar has a breeding male with long pennant-like feathers and catches insects in the air.

• Chinese Bush-Warbler Locustella tacsanowskia

  The Chinese Bush-Warbler is a plain brown bird that breeds from southern Siberia to southern China. It keeps hidden in vegetation on its breeding grounds, and its winter range is uncertain.

• American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

  A swallow that builds gourd-shaped mud nests in colonies on cliffs and beneath bridges.

• Amami Thrush Zoothera major

  A large thrush found on Amami-Oshima, with records also from nearby Kakeroma Island. It searches for animal prey and fruit in mature evergreen forest around humid valleys.

• Stierling's Wren-Warbler Calamonastes stierlingi

  This small bird occurs in miombo woodland. A survey in northern Mozambique found it on the lower slopes of Mt Chitagal and Mt Sanga and recorded up to four territorial individuals in a day.