Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica

  

  A dove found from the southwestern United States through Mexico and Central America to parts of western South America. Its white wing patches form bright arcs in flight.

• Chestnut-winged Babbler Cyanoderma erythropterum

  The Chestnut-winged Babbler ranges from southern Myanmar and Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. It forages in small groups in the middle storey of evergreen forests.

• Short-billed Minivet Pericrocotus brevirostris

  This minivet uses open forest, forest edges and secondary growth. It is recorded in mountains at 900–2,450 m and gleans invertebrates from trees.

• Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus cyanomelas

  This flycatcher ranges across eastern and southern Africa. Males have a glossy blue-black crest, throat, and upper breast, with a white lower breast and belly; females have a shorter crest and a mottled gray-and-white breast.

• Sulawesi Grasshopper-warbler Locustella castanea

  This grasshopper-warbler lives in forests on Sulawesi, where it feeds on insects and other small invertebrates in dense cover.

• Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola

  A migratory sandpiper that uses shallow freshwater wetlands in Australia, walking through water as it searches for small prey.

• Coscoroba Swan Coscoroba coscoroba

  The Coscoroba Swan is a large white waterbird of South American wetlands and lakes.

• 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.

• Barred Owl Strix varia

  A forest owl of North America, with brown-and-white barred plumage. Its calls may reveal it at night.

• Kai Coucal Centropus spilopterus

  The Kai Coucal is endemic to the Kai Islands. A field account records it mainly singly or in pairs, in tall alang-alang grass, village gardens, coconut plantations, and mangrove edges.

• Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris

  This small bird lives in humid lowland forests in western and central Africa, including Ghana. It is resident and searches foliage for small invertebrates.

• Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea

  This heron has yellow head plumes and a black-and-white face; it searches shallow wetlands for crabs and crayfish.

• Rusty Laughingthrush Pterorhinus poecilorhynchus

  This laughingthrush is endemic to Taiwan's mid-elevation forests. Mainland birds once included within the same species are now treated as Buffy Laughingthrush, Pterorhinus berthemyi.

• Tickell's Thrush Turdus unicolor

  Tickell’s Thrush searches forest floors for food and makes partial seasonal movements in elevation and range.

• Green-faced Parrot-Finch Erythrura viridifacies

  This small finch is about 12 cm long. It often eats bamboo seeds and may gather where bamboo is seeding.

• Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui

  The Coqui Francolin lives on the ground in woodland and savanna. When alarmed it may freeze in cover, and it is often found in pairs.

• White-billed Starling Onychognathus albirostris

  Its glossy blue-black plumage and pale bill stand out. In the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands it uses cliffs, gorges, moorland, and towns, eating fruit and insects.

• White-banded Swallow Atticora fasciata

  Adults have glossy blue-black plumage and a broad white breast band. They search for food over Amazonian rivers.

• Barred Fruiteater Pipreola arcuata

  The Barred Fruiteater is an Andean bird with a black head and a yellow, barred belly. It feeds in the canopy and middle levels of humid montane forest.

• Summer Tanager Piranga rubra

  The Summer Tanager is a stout bird that searches for insects high in the forest canopy. Adult males are red, while females and young males are yellow to yellow-green.

• Azores Bullfinch Pyrrhula murina

  The Azores Bullfinch has a rounded grey-brown body with a black head, wings and tail. It is confined to eastern São Miguel, where it feeds on native fruits, seeds and flowers in laurel forest.

• Black-thighed Falconet Microhierax fringillarius

  A small falcon of tropical Asian forest and forest edges. It hunts small birds and insects from perches and is marked by a pale eyebrow, rufous underparts, and black thighs.

• Double-toothed Kite Harpagus bidentatus

  This kite lives in forests across the Neotropics. It watches from a perch and hunts mainly lizards and insects.

• Bradfield's Hornbill Lophoceros bradfieldi

  Bradfield's Hornbill lives in dry woodlands and nearby habitats of southern Africa. It is usually in pairs or family groups, but local flocks can form toward the end of the dry season when food is scarce.