Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Black-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus affinis

  This honeyeater is endemic to Tasmania. It moves through the canopy of wet and dry sclerophyll forest while looking for food.

• Black Antshrike Thamnophilus nigriceps

  The Black Antshrike occurs in eastern Panama and northern Colombia. The AOS checklist places it at lowland evergreen-forest edges and in secondary forest from 0–600 m; a species account lists its length as 16 cm.

• Fawn-breasted Brilliant Heliodoxa rubinoides

  This hummingbird occurs in Andean cloud forest. Females resemble males but have more green spotting below, and their pink throat patch may be smaller or absent.

• Blue-rumped Manakin Lepidothrix isidorei

  This manakin lives in montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andean slope. The male’s rump color differs between subspecies, while the female is mainly green.

• Dusky Piha Lipaugus fuscocinereus

  This large cotinga inhabits humid Andean montane forest. A Peru account describes a localized record on the eastern slope, and a paper reports a study site in central Colombia.

• Tenggara Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone floris

  Ecology Asia presents a male white morph of the Tenggara Paradise Flycatcher from Flores, Indonesia, and identifies hill forest as its habitat.

• Brown-backed Needletail Hirundapus giganteus

  The Brown-backed Needletail is a large swift with powerful flight and broad wings. Its subspecies have different ranges.

• Grey-breasted Prinia Prinia hodgsonii

  The Grey-breasted Prinia is a small, quick-moving bird of scrub and woodland edges. Its plumage changes with the season and is duller outside the breeding period.

• Dusky Nightjar Antrostomus saturatus

  The Dusky Nightjar is a dark-plumaged highland nightjar. In Costa Rica it nests at forest edges and occurs in high elevations of the Central Volcanic and Talamanca ranges and other highlands.

• Antioquia Wren Thryophilus sernai

  This wren is known from the dry Cauca River canyon in northwestern Colombia. Its description paper records small patches of semideciduous forest and dry scrub, often along watercourses, and calls it uncommon within its range.

• White-collared Kite Leptodon forbesi

  The White-collared Kite is a raptor with a white band at the back of its neck. It has been recorded soaring over Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil.

• Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei

  A weaver of East African scrub and woodland near water; breeding males have striking yellow and black plumage.

• Black-eared Cuckoo Chalcites osculans

  The Black-eared Cuckoo is a brood-parasitic cuckoo found widely across mainland Australia. Its breeding records are concentrated in the southern inland half of the continent.

• Scaly Chatterer Argya aylmeri

  It is gray-brown above, with a rufous crown and buff underparts. The throat and breast are scaled, and the bill is yellow. Small groups forage near and on the ground in dry shrubland and thickets.

• Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis

  A large tern with a long, bright-orange bill. It lives along tropical and subtropical coasts and catches small fish and shrimp in shallow water.

• Indian Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus horsfieldii

  The Indian Scimitar Babbler is marked by a long, downcurved yellow bill and a white line above the eye. It searches for insects and spiders among forest leaf litter and undergrowth.

• Tawny-browed Owl Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana

  The Tawny-browed Owl hunts from trees at night in the Atlantic Forest region.

• Canary White-eye Zosterops luteus

  This white-eye occurs along northern Australia's coast, chiefly in mangroves. Breeding records from the Darwin region suggest year-round breeding, with many nests in the upper part of short mangroves.

• Raso Lark Alauda razae

  The Raso Lark is a small lark known from Raso Islet in Cabo Verde. In 2018, BirdLife reported a translocation to Santa Luzia, part of its historical range.

• Handsome Sunbird Aethopyga bella

  The Handsome Sunbird is a Philippine sunbird. Males have iridescent green on the head, while females have a yellow rump. A field study on Cebu recorded it taking nectar from forest mistletoe flowers.

• Hawaiian Coot Fulica alai

  The Hawaiian Coot is a waterbird with a dark gray body and a white frontal shield and bill. It is found around ponds and wetlands in Hawai‘i Island's Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park.

• Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica

  This seabird forages in waters around Antarctica. Its dark wings have broad white trailing edges, and it gathers at sea and rests on icebergs.

• Orange Bullfinch Pyrrhula aurantiaca

  The male Orange Bullfinch is bright orange across the head and breast. The species lives in northwestern Himalayan forests, where it feeds on buds and berries.