Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-browed Bunting Emberiza chrysophrys

  

  An East Asian bunting that moves seasonally. Males are marked by a yellow eyebrow, and the species is recorded in Hong Kong during passage.

• Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima

  A stocky wader seen on rocky shores in Britain in winter, with distinctive yellow legs.

• Red Shoveler Spatula platalea

  The Red Shoveler filters small animals and plants from the water with its broad, flattened bill. Males are reddish brown; females and young birds are mottled brown.

• Desert Lark Ammomanes deserti

  The Desert Lark has a sandy back and a pale underside. It lives in dry, rocky country, and its plumage varies.

• Maned Owl Jubula lettii

  An owl with long head feathers that form a mane. It lives in forests of West and Central Africa and is nocturnal, but details of its diet and other habits are poorly known.

• Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas

  Klaas's Cuckoo lives in forests and woodlands of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. It searches among leaves for caterpillars and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis

  The Buff-throated Apalis is a small forest warbler with grey upperparts, white underparts and a short tail. It occurs in forest from western to central and eastern Africa.

• Agami Heron Agamia agami

  The Agami Heron is a tropical heron with a long neck and bill and a chestnut belly. During breeding, blue crest and back plumes grow longer, and the bird hunts fish at the water's edge.

• Rufous-backed Sibia Leioptila annectens

  A sibia of montane forests from the eastern Himalayas through Myanmar to northern Vietnam. Its subspecies occupy separate parts of the range.

• Varzea Thrush Turdus sanchezorum

  This western Amazonian thrush was described as a distinct species in 2011. It is associated mainly with várzea forest along large tributaries of the upper Amazon and Solimões system.

• Rock Firefinch Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis

  This small finch uses rocky grassland and scrub. It follows streams in the rainy season and uses places where water remains in the dry season.

• Blue Grouse Dendragapus obscurus

  The Dusky Grouse lives in western North American mountain forests. In spring, males display their neck sacs and red eye combs.

• Polynesian Starling Aplonis tabuensis

  The Polynesian Starling is a starling found widely across South Pacific islands. In Niue, it moves in family-like groups and searches branches and trunks for insects and fruit.

• 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.

• Rufous Piha Lipaugus unirufus

  The Rufous Piha is a uniformly rufous bird. It perches in trees in tropical lowland evergreen forest and may remain still for long periods.

• Dickcissel Spiza americana

  The Dickcissel is a chunky grassland bird. Breeding males have a black V on the yellow chest; flocks can grow large during migration and winter.

• Streaked Rosefinch Carpodacus rubicilloides

  A rosefinch of rocky, shrubby slopes above the Himalayan tree line, it feeds on seeds by day.

• Crested Caracara Caracara plancus

  The Crested Caracara is a falcon with a striking black cap, white neck, and yellow-orange face. It can also be seen walking on the ground in open country in the southern United States.

• European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus

  This raptor varies greatly in plumage. It is a summer visitor in Europe and searches for food in open woodland during the breeding season.

• Sulu Hornbill Anthracoceros montani

  A hornbill with a black body and white tail, living in forests of the Sulu Archipelago in the southern Philippines.

• Mao Gymnomyza samoensis

  The Mao is a large honeyeater with a long, curved black bill. It forages for nectar, fruit, and insects in the canopy and upper parts of Samoan forests.

• Mexican Cacique Cassiculus melanicterus

  The Mexican Cacique is a black-and-yellow bird of tropical lowlands in western Mexico. It gathers in the canopy around flowering or fruiting trees and also forages on the ground.

• Wattled Guan Aburria aburri

  The Wattled Guan is a large, all-black bird with a blue bill and a long red-and-yellow wattle hanging from its throat. It lives in humid Andean montane forest and eats fruit.

• Crag Chilia Ochetorhynchus melanurus

  The Crag Chilia inhabits foothills, hills, and ravines in central Chile. It has a brown body and pale throat, and moves among shrubs and rocks while seeking food.