Meet the world’s animals.

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• Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola

  

  This warbler breeds in eastern Europe and winters in West Africa. Its yellow crown stripe and yellow-brown streaked plumage help identify it.

• Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus

  A large woodpecker of North America that searches for ants and beetles on the ground as well as on tree trunks. In flight, its white rump and the color of its wing and tail shafts are visible.

• Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus

  A large pigeon with a gray body and conspicuous white patches on its neck and wings.

• Red-mantled Rosefinch Carpodacus rhodochlamys

  In Gilgit-Baltistan, this rosefinch uses high scrub in summer and lower brush in winter.

• Mangrove Honeyeater Gavicalis fasciogularis

  This honeyeater lives along eastern Australia's coast, especially in mangroves and nearby coastal vegetation. It also uses offshore islands and adjoining forests.

• Cassin's Vireo Vireo cassinii

  This small bird breeds in dry, open forests of western North America. Its white eye-ring is conspicuous, and it forages slowly through the lower and middle parts of trees. In winter it may join mixed flocks of woodland birds.

• Lowland White-eye Zosterops meyeni

  A white-eye recorded in the Philippines. An old museum catalogue describes the color of Luzon specimens, while Philippine Museum field notes describe small groups on Calayan Island.

• Streak-necked Flycatcher Mionectes striaticollis

  The Streak-necked Flycatcher lives in Andean forests. A white mark behind the eye and dark streaks on its yellow underside help identify it; the account reports foraging along forest edges and in second growth.

• Blue-capped Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus cyanocephalus

  This small waxbill lives in dry thorn savanna and scrub. It has a slim body, long tail, and is often seen in small flocks.

• Red-rumped Wheatear Oenanthe moesta

  The Red-rumped Wheatear is marked by rufous on its rump and tail. It lives in stony semi-desert and saline plains.

• Rufous-breasted Antpitta Grallaricula leymebambae

  A small antpitta of Andean forests. Its back is brown, with rufous coloring across the chest and sides.

• Ruddy kingfisher Halcyon coromanda

  A kingfisher with a vivid red bill that lives in shady woodland, including woods beside streams.

• Chuck-will's-widow Antrostomus carolinensis

  Chuck-will's-widow is a nocturnal bird whose mottled brown plumage blends into woodland. It catches flying insects at night, breeding in North America and moving south for winter.

• Snowy Cotinga Carpodectes nitidus

  Males have mostly white plumage and a blue-gray bill, while females are brown-gray. Details of its life in Panama are limited; altitudinal movements known from Costa Rica have not been confirmed there.

• Chaco Owl Strix chacoensis

  The Chaco Owl has a white facial disk edged in dark, a white crown with a brown center stripe, and dense brown barring below. It is active at dusk and night in the dry Chaco region of South America.

• Wallacean Cuckooshrike Coracina personata

  The Wallacean Cuckooshrike occurs widely across the Lesser Sundas and Kai Islands. A survey on Alor and Pantar recorded birds in eucalyptus woodland and tropical forest, alone or in small groups.

• Cape Crow Corvus capensis

  The Cape Crow is a glossy black crow. It usually lives as a territorial pair and searches the ground for food in grasslands and dry savannas.

• Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolor

  The Uniform Crake has dark reddish-brown plumage, red eyes and legs, and a yellowish bill. It uses damp thickets and streamside forest, searching the ground for small animals.

• Tawny Grassbird Megalurus timoriensis

  The Tawny Grassbird hides among grasses and shrubs. This entry presents behaviour recorded by a local field guide on Cebu in the Philippines.

• Burchell's Starling Lamprotornis australis

  Burchell's Starling has glossy blue-green plumage and a purple rump. It lives in open woodland and savanna, searching mainly for insects on the ground.

• Usambara Weaver Ploceus nicolli

  This weaver is found in the mountains of northeastern Tanzania. Males are mainly yellow and black, while females are olive and yellow; it feeds on insects.

• Chatham Islands Snipe Coenocorypha pusilla

  The Chatham Island Snipe is a small shorebird with finely patterned upperparts. It now lives on a small group of Chatham Islands and probes soil for food.

• Bullock's Oriole Icterus bullockii

  Bullock’s Oriole occurs in open and riparian woodland in the western United States. It forages in the canopy and weaves hanging nests from branches.

• Pied Heron Egretta picata

  The Pied Heron is a wetland heron of northern Australia and nearby islands. It has black-and-white plumage and feeds mainly on insects, as well as fish and frogs.