Meet the world’s animals.

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• Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola

  

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

• Long-tailed Meadowlark Leistes loyca

  This meadowlark inhabits open country in southern South America. The male's red breast is conspicuous, and the species nests on the ground.

• American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus

  A brown-and-buff heron that can blend into marsh vegetation by stretching its neck and pointing its bill upward.

• Forest Wagtail Dendronanthus indicus

  The Forest Wagtail is an olive-brown bird with a long tail. It breeds in northeast Asia and winters as far south as Singapore.

• Tumbes Swallow Tachycineta stolzmanni

  The Tumbes Swallow has glossy blue upperparts, a white rump and belly, and a squared tail. It is uncommon within its restricted range in north-western Peru and also occurs in Ecuador, foraging close to the ground.

• Pemba Sunbird Cinnyris pembae

  This sunbird is restricted to Pemba Island off Tanzania. Males are green and violet; females have gray-brown upperparts and pale underparts.

• Baird's Sparrow Centronyx bairdii

  Baird’s Sparrow lives in North American grasslands. It has a short tail and a flat head, and runs through grass while looking for food.

• White-lored Spinetail Synallaxis albilora

  Field notes report this bird in the Pantanal and adjoining areas, in undergrowth of dry and gallery forests, riverine shrubs and cultivated areas. It forages among tangles and vines. Photographs show an individual with a uniformly gray crown.

• Sun Lark Galerida modesta

  This lark lives in grassland and dry savanna south of the Sahel and across the Sudan region. It has pale brown plumage with dark streaks.

• Black-bellied Hummingbird Eupherusa nigriventris

  The Black-bellied Hummingbird inhabits mountain forest on Costa Rica's Caribbean side. Males often forage in the canopy and differ from females in underpart color.

• Martens's Warbler Seicercus omeiensis

  Martens’s Warbler (Seicercus omeiensis) breeds in China and winters in Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong it is a rare winter visitor to closed-canopy woodland and shrubland.

• Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus

  The Semipalmated Plover is a small shorebird with a dark band across the chest. It migrates from North American breeding grounds toward South America.

• Dark-sided Thrush Zoothera marginata

  This thrush occurs around the Himalayas. It has a dark-brown head and reddish-brown wings. A report from Majuli Island, Assam, describes feeding in damp leaf litter and a record of a small frog in its diet.

• Papuan Scrubwren Aethomyias papuensis

  A scrubwren of New Guinea’s mountains that searches for insects in low bushes and forest undergrowth, often hidden in dense vegetation.

• Rufous-headed Chachalaca Ortalis erythroptera

  A chachalaca with a brown body and rufous head and upper neck. Family groups use the forest mid-canopy but also come to the ground.

• Northern Parula Setophaga americana

  A small warbler that catches insects high in eastern North American forests. It is bluish grey with yellow highlights, and breeding males have a breast band.

• Black Laughingthrush Melanocichla lugubris

  A dark-plumaged bird with blue-gray skin behind the eye and an orange-red bill. It uses foothill broadleaf forest and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Dwarf Tyrant-Manakin Tyranneutes stolzmanni

  This small manakin lives in lowland evergreen forest in western Amazonia. The account records it up to about 800 m in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. It gives no detailed information about diet or breeding.

• Black-capped Antwren Herpsilochmus atricapillus

  This antwren occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, in dry or moist lowland forests.

• Ancash Tapaculo Scytalopus affinis

  It is endemic to Peru and recorded on the western Andean slope at 3,000–4,600 m. It feeds at or near the ground, but is difficult to distinguish from similar tapaculos; range and voice are useful identification clues.

• Pink-eared Duck Malacorhynchus membranaceus

  The Pink-eared Duck is a small duck with white and dark brown bars, a large brown patch around the eye, and a small pink patch behind it.

• Red-crowned Parakeet Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae

  A medium-sized parakeet with a red forehead and green body. Its three extant subspecies occupy islands around New Zealand, and the source describes their island distributions.

• African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis

  This cuckoo lives in open woodland and savanna across parts of sub-Saharan Africa. In southern Africa it lays its eggs in Fork-tailed Drongo nests.

• Chinese Hwamei Garrulax canorus

  A brown songbird marked by white around the eye, it forages near the ground in shrubs and bamboo and sings loudly.