Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sand Lark Alaudala raytal

  

  The Sand Lark is a small lark found on riverbanks, salt-lake margins, and sandy coasts. Its sandy plumage blends with open ground.

• Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti

  A kingfisher that perches in open African woodland and scrub to look for prey on the ground. Fine stripes mark its head and body.

• Tasmanian Native-hen Tribonyx mortierii

  A large flightless rail found in grassland near freshwater in Tasmania. It feeds on leaves and seeds and small animals on the ground.

• Capped Heron Pilherodius pileatus

  The Capped Heron is an uncommon but widespread heron of South American lowlands, barely extending into eastern Panama. It is usually seen alone around wetlands, forested ponds, and rivers.

• Tawny-throated Dotterel Oreopholus ruficollis

  This dotterel uses open grassland and stony ground in the Andes and elsewhere in South America. Adults have a tawny throat, and the sexes look similar.

• Clarke's Weaver Ploceus golandi

  Clarke's Weaver is a weaver found in southeastern Kenya. Males show black and yellow plumage, while females are olive and yellow.

• Chestnut-headed Oropendola Psarocolius wagleri

  This bird ranges from Central America to Colombia and Ecuador. It has a black body, chestnut head, neck and rump, and a yellow tail with dark central feathers.

• Common Diving Petrel Pelecanoides urinatrix

  This small diving seabird breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere. It forages in waters around its breeding islands and uses burrows on land at night.

• Sunda Laughingthrush Garrulax palliatus

  This laughingthrush lives in moist forests on Sumatra and Borneo and is often seen in small groups.

• 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.

• Canary Islands Chiffchaff Phylloscopus canariensis

  This small leaf warbler is endemic to the Canary Islands. It uses habitats from forests to high mountain scrub, as well as farms and gardens, and is usually sedentary.

• Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi

  The Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo inhabits forests of central Africa. Its long, graduated tail is distinctive, and it uses the lower forest storey and dense undergrowth.

• Azure Tit Cyanistes cyanus

  It has a white head, a dark line through the eye, and blue, grey and white plumage. A European account describes it as favoring bushes near fresh water.

• Jungle Nightjar Caprimulgus indicus

  The Jungle Nightjar is a nocturnal bird whose intricate gray-brown pattern blends into trees or the ground. It also occurs in grassy and scrubby places, not only in forest.

• Tawny-headed Swallow Alopochelidon fucata

  This small swallow has a tawny head and pale underside. It is migratory and catches flying insects in the air.

• Black-throated Thrush Turdus atrogularis

  The adult male stands out for its black face and throat. The female is duller and has fine streaks on the flanks.

• Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami

  This cisticola lives in African savanna. It has a rufous cap and bands near the tail tip, and gives a high, rising trill from a prominent perch.

• Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea

  A tern that travels from Arctic breeding grounds to Antarctic waters with the seasons. In Britain, it breeds along northern coasts.

• Eurasian hobby Falco subbuteo

  A long-winged falcon that flies swiftly to catch small birds and dragonflies in the air.

• Chestnut Teal Anas castanea

  In breeding plumage, the male has a chestnut head and neck with a green sheen on the crown, while the female is mottled brown. The species searches shallow water in Australian wetlands and estuaries.

• Band-tailed Guan Penelope argyrotis

  This large guan lives in humid forests of Colombia and Venezuela. It has a dark rufous back and an olive-brown breast.

• Red-faced Parrot Hapalopsittaca pyrrhops

  The Red-faced Parrot has red around the bill and on the wing shoulders, with blue on some flight feathers. It feeds quietly in the canopy of humid mountain forest.

• Black-and-yellow Grosbeak Mycerobas icterioides

  The Black-and-yellow Grosbeak has a large pale bill. Males are black and yellow, while females are grayish; pairs and small flocks occur in hill and montane forest.

• Kirtland's Warbler Setophaga kirtlandii

  This small bird has gray-and-yellow plumage. It breeds in young jack-pine forests and winters in scrubby parts of the Bahamas.