Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens

  

  The Eastern Wood-Pewee is a small bird of eastern North American forests that waits on a perch and catches flying insects.

• Chestnut-winged Chachalaca Ortalis garrula

  The Chestnut-winged Chachalaca occurs in lowlands of northwestern Colombia. Its chestnut wings and long tail stand out, and it is common in scrub and riparian woodland.

• Marquesan Monarch Pomarea mendozae

  This island endemic survives on Moho Tani in the Marquesas. It hunts insects, spiders, and small lizards in forest habitat.

• Mauritius Fody Foudia rubra

  The Mauritius Fody is endemic to Mauritius. Males develop a red head and neck during the breeding season, while females remain olive-coloured throughout the year.

• Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius

  A migratory bird with a dark cap and sandy plumage that travels between Central Asia and regions including South Asia.

• Striated Babbler Argya earlei

  In northern India's lowlands, this social babbler is usually found in reedbeds, wet grass, and scrub. Fine streaking on crown and back and bright yellow eyes stand out.

• Buff-breasted Sandpiper Calidris subruficollis

  The Buff-breasted Sandpiper is a shorebird with buff plumage and a short bill. It walks through dry grass to find insects, and males display with raised wings on the breeding grounds.

• Short-tailed shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris

  A dark seabird that breeds in Australia and makes long ocean journeys.

• Long-billed Crow Corvus validus

  The Long-billed Crow is black with blue and purple gloss and has an exceptionally long bill.

• Scaly Kingfisher Actenoides princeps

  A kingfisher of Sulawesi’s humid montane forests, it is striking for its blue-violet head and scaly-marked brown body.

• White-browed Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius aeralatus

  This shrike-babbler ranges from the eastern Himalayas across Southeast Asia to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. Male wing-panel colors vary by region.

• Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor

  The Chestnut-breasted Nigrita is a small bird of lowland forest, mangroves, and secondary growth in tropical Africa.

• Dimorphic Egret Egretta dimorpha

  The Dimorphic Egret has dark and white plumage forms and breeds in Madagascar and along parts of the East African coast.

• Gray-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus largipennis

  This hummingbird occurs in humid lowland forest in eastern Colombia and in foothill forest east of the Andes. It feeds on nectar and also sallies from a perch to catch small insects.

• Iberian Chiffchaff Phylloscopus ibericus

  The Iberian Chiffchaff is a small leaf warbler, 11 to 12 cm long. It breeds in western Europe and migrates to Africa for winter.

• 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.

• Green Racket-tail Prioniturus luconensis

  A mostly green parrot with black, spatula-shaped tips on its tail feathers. It uses lowland forest and forest edges in the northern Philippines.

• Cherry-throated Tanager Nemosia rourei

  This tanager lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Adults have a red throat and yellow eyes, and small groups forage on moss- and lichen-covered branches in the canopy.

• Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera

  The Black Saw-wing is a dark swallow with a long forked tail. It flies over forests and plantations and is native to wooded parts of Africa. The amount of pale color on the underwing varies geographically.

• Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis

  The Long-billed Pipit is brown above and pale buff below. In Namibia it is usually seen alone or in pairs among gullies and rocky slopes.

• Pygmy Nightjar Nyctipolus hirundinaceus

  The Pygmy Nightjar is endemic to eastern Brazil. A study reports that it uses stony or gravelly ground in the Caatinga and rocky outcrops in Atlantic Forest sites for roosting and nesting. Plumage varies among subspecies.

• Black Harrier Circus maurus

  The Black Harrier is a southern African harrier that hunts small mammals and birds while flying low over the ground.

• Subtropical Cacique Cacicus uropygialis

  The Subtropical Cacique occurs in the Andes from northwestern Venezuela through Colombia and Ecuador to southern Peru. It is recorded in the western and central Colombian Andes and at scattered sites along the eastern slope.

• Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea

  A gull closely tied to Arctic sea ice. Adults are white, while young birds keep dark mottling.