Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-cheeked starling Spodiopsar cineraceus

  

  A bird of settlements and towns with trees in East Asia. In Japan, flocks gather at shared roosts after breeding.

• Bannerman's Weaver Ploceus bannermani

  Bannerman's Weaver lives in mountains of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon, using forest edges and shrubby openings.

• Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius

  A shorebird of North America. Breeding adults show dark spots on the belly, and the bird teeters as it walks by water.

• Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus

  Males are black and yellow-orange, while females are pale yellow. Females sew their hanging nests to the undersides of palm fronds.

• Forest Bittern Zonerodius heliosylus

  The Forest Bittern is a forest heron with a black crown and brown-and-buff barring. It forages alone along streams in New Guinea's rainforests.

• Long-legged Pipit Anthus pallidiventris

  The Long-legged Pipit walks on open ground in dry grassland and farmland, searching for small invertebrates.

• Mountain Saw-wing Psalidoprocne fuliginosa

  The Mountain Saw-wing occurs in the mountains of Cameroon and on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea. It is about 12 cm long, weighs 11–12 g and catches insects while flying above mountain forest.

• Purple-rumped Sunbird Leptocoma zeylonica

  This sunbird has different plumage in males and females. It visits flowers for nectar and also occurs in well-wooded gardens and open forest in Sri Lanka.

• Bell's Sparrow Artemisiospiza belli

  Bell's Sparrow lives in dry scrub and has a greyish head. It searches for seeds and insects near shrubs.

• Light-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca albiceps

  This ovenbird-family species occurs in humid montane forest in southeastern Peru and Bolivia. Its pale crown and dark eyebrow are distinctive.

• Sabota Lark Calendulauda sabota

  This lark has a noticeable white eyebrow. It searches the ground for insects and seeds in savanna and open woodland. Plumage and bill thickness vary by region.

• Blue-capped Hummingbird Eupherusa cyanophrys

  The Blue-capped Hummingbird is a mountain species in southern Mexico; the male has a vivid blue-violet forecrown.

• 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.

• White-tailed Lapwing Vanellus leucurus

  It lives around wetlands in Central Asia and the Middle East, with pale sandy plumage and long yellow legs. In flight its wings show brown, black and white, and the tail is white. It is a very rare vagrant to Britain.

• Rustic bunting Emberiza rustica

  A bird with a raised crown that visits river flats and farmland in winter flocks.

• Moluccan Island Thrush Turdus deningeri

  The Moluccan Island Thrush occurs on separate Moluccan islands. The 2024 Clements treatment includes the Seram population and tentatively includes the Taliabu form. Seram birds are black-bodied with an indistinct white hood.

• Buff-faced Scrubwren Aethomyias perspicillatus

  A field guide to the Mimika region of Papua records this species under its older name, Sericornis perspicillatus. The account describes olive upperparts and a pale buff-orange face, and records it in shrubs and the midstory at montane forest edges.

• 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.

• Black-throated Grey Warbler Setophaga nigrescens

  In breeding plumage, male Black-throated Gray Warblers have a black throat, gray back, a black-and-white face pattern, and a yellow spot near the eye. The species breeds west of the Rocky Mountains and winters in Mexico.

• Black-streaked Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys gravivox

  This scimitar babbler lacks a pale eyebrow and has brown cheeks; most subspecies show black breast spots or streaks. It uses open woodland, edges, scrub and bamboo.

• Helmeted Manakin Chiroxiphia galeata

  The Helmeted Manakin is a small manakin with different male and female plumage. A study in southeastern Brazil documented nests low in the forest undergrowth.

• Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus

  Males and females have different plumage: males are black-and-pale-grey barred, while females are rufous. Pairs move through low trees in search of small arthropods.

• Narino Tapaculo Scytalopus vicinior

  This small bird occurs on the Pacific slopes of Colombia and Ecuador. It lives in wet forest understory; adults have grey heads and breasts with ochre-brown lowerparts.

• Maned Duck Chenonetta jubata

  An Australian duck that often walks on land to find food in grassland.