Meet the world’s animals.

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• Atlas Pied Flycatcher Ficedula speculigera

  

  The male has conspicuous white patches on the forehead and wings in spring. It breeds in mountain forests from Morocco to Tunisia; much of its winter range is unknown.

• White-bellied Antpitta Grallaria hypoleuca

  This antpitta occurs on the eastern side of the northern Peruvian Andes. It has reddish-brown upperparts, a gray breast, and a white central belly. A regional survey recorded it in dense forest, including bamboo-rich areas.

• Black-billed Kingfisher Pelargopsis melanorhyncha

  The Black-billed Kingfisher has a cream-colored head and underparts, dark greenish-brown wings, and a large bill. It hunts for crabs along rivers and coasts.

• Silky-tailed Nightjar Antrostomus sericocaudatus

  The Silky-tailed Nightjar is a forest nightjar. In Misiones, Argentina, the nominate subspecies occurs in Atlantic Forest.

• Fiery-throated Fruiteater Pipreola chlorolepidota

  The Fiery-throated Fruiteater has a green body and a red throat in males and feeds on fruit in wet forests on the eastern Andes.

• Pemba Scops Owl Otus pembaensis

  The Pemba Scops Owl is found only on Pemba Island off northern Tanzania. It is nocturnal, and its plumage ranges from light brown to russet.

• Black-browed Triller Lalage atrovirens

  The Black-browed Triller occurs in northern New Guinea and nearby islands. Males are boldly black and white; females are duller, and the species uses forest edges and middle to upper canopy.

• Black-rumped Magpie Pica bottanensis

  The Black-rumped Magpie ranges from the eastern Himalaya to southeastern Tibet and western China. It has a black head and back, white sides and belly, and a very long tail.

• South Island Takahe Porphyrio hochstetteri

  The South Island Takahe is a large flightless rail with stout red legs and a strong bill. In the wild it feeds on grassland plants and may move into forest when snow is deep.

• Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus

  Its black crest and yellow bill stand out. It also occurs in city parks and agricultural areas in Hong Kong.

• African Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops

  The African Golden Weaver is a weaver of sub-Saharan Africa. In breeding plumage, males have chestnut coloring from the face onto the breast; females are duller.

• Noble Snipe Gallinago nobilis

  The Noble Snipe is a secretive wader of wetlands near the Andean treeline. Its back has pale stripes, and the center of its belly is unmarked white.

• Pampas Meadowlark Leistes defilippii

  The Pampas Meadowlark is a grassland bird with a short bill and tail and vivid red plumage. A study in Argentina's southern Pampas found that its use of grasslands changes between breeding and non-breeding seasons.

• Little Heron Butorides atricapilla

  A small heron found around wetlands from Africa through Asia to Australia. Plumage varies, though many birds appear mostly gray.

• Striped Pipit Anthus lineiventris

  The Striped Pipit has a patchy range east and south of the equatorial rainforest belt. Bold streaks below and pale lemon edges on the wings and tail help identify it.

• Blue Swallow Hirundo atrocaerulea

  An African migrant with glossy blue-black plumage and a long tail. At its breeding grounds it nests in holes in the ground.

• Mrs. Gould's Sunbird Aethopyga gouldiae

  Mrs. Gould’s Sunbird differs in size between sexes: males have a long tail, and nominate males have a violet crown.

• Cuzco Brush Finch Atlapetes canigenis

  This finch is known from the eastern Andean slope in Peru's Cuzco region. It forages in humid montane scrub and dwarf forest, sometimes in bamboo.

• Rufous-breasted Leaftosser Sclerurus scansor

  The Rufous-breasted Leaftosser lives in South American forests and searches leaf litter for small invertebrates. It has a dark face, a pale scaled throat and a chestnut rump.

• Somali Short-toed Lark Alaudala somalica

  This lark lives in open, dry grassland in East Africa. It has dark streaks on its reddish-brown upperparts and streaking on the breast.

• Mexican Hermit Phaethornis mexicanus

  A study of the western Mexican subspecies griseoventer describes males displaying at leks in the forest understory, where females visit and choose a mate.

• Alstrom's Warbler Seicercus soror

  Alstrom’s Warbler, Phylloscopus soror, breeds in China and winters from southwestern China into Indochina. In Hong Kong it is a passage migrant in autumn and early winter.

• Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus

  A small plover that winters in Hong Kong. Breeding males show black markings on the head.

• Spotted Ground Thrush Geokichla guttata

  The South African race has large black spots across its white underside and searches among forest leaf litter for food.