Meet the world’s animals.

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• Streak-throated Swallow Petrochelidon fluvicola

  

  The Streak-throated Swallow has a glossy blue-black back and brown streaks on the throat and breast. It gathers near water and catches small insects in flight.

• Tiny Tyrant-Manakin Tyranneutes virescens

  This small manakin lives in moist lowland forest on the Guianan Shield. It has dull grey-green upperparts, yellowish underparts, and fine grey streaks on the throat and upper breast.

• Long-billed Crow Corvus validus

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

• White-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis

  The White-breasted Kingfisher is a kingfisher with a red bill, blue back and tail, brown head and belly, and a white throat and breast. It eats fish and shrimp as well as crabs and lizards.

• Woodlark Lullula arborea

  The Woodlark is a lark of wooded heath, with an eyebrow stripe that meets behind the head. In Britain it may form small flocks in winter.

• White-tailed Cotinga Xipholena lamellipennis

  This cotinga occurs in lower Amazonian Brazil south of the Amazon River. The male is purplish black, with white on most of the tail and wings. The species is poorly known and is reported as apparently nowhere common.

• Sulawesi Goshawk Lophospiza griseiceps

  The Sulawesi Goshawk is a hawk of Sulawesi and nearby islands. Its gray head and dark bars across the pale underside are useful clues to its appearance.

• Veracruz Wren Campylorhynchus rufinucha

  The Veracruz Wren is found locally in a small area on Mexico's Gulf Coast.

• Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush Catharus dryas

  The Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush lives in Central American cloud forests. Its dark face and throat, yellow-orange eye-ring, and spotted pale underparts are useful identification marks.

• Gold-ringed Tanager Bangsia aureocincta

  The Gold-ringed Tanager is restricted to the western Colombian Andes. In a Montezuma survey, most records were above 1,850 m and at forest edges, with many birds foraging alone. Nest information comes from a small number of observations.

• Asian Golden Weaver Ploceus hypoxanthus

  The Asian Golden Weaver was recorded nesting among cattails at freshwater wetlands in a Bangkok study area.

• Grey-eyed Greenlet Hylophilus amaurocephalus

  This vireo relative lives in forest and scrub in eastern Brazil. Its gray iris and rufous crown stand out, and it searches for insects in trees.

• Black-chinned Antbird Hypocnemoides melanopogon

  This antbird lives in lowland areas north of the Amazon and Marañón rivers and searches for food in waterside shrubs and overhanging vegetation. Males show gray and black plumage; females have a paler belly center.

• Foxy Cisticola Cisticola troglodytes

  The Foxy Cisticola is a small cisticola distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. It searches for invertebrates near the ground in savanna, scrub, and streamside vegetation.

• Streamer-tailed Tyrant Gubernetes yetapa

  Adults have strikingly elongated central tail feathers. In southern Brazil, a breeding study found that fledged young first foraged independently, then joined mixed-species flocks.

• Oberholser's Fruit Dove Ptilinopus gularis

  Oberholser's Fruit Dove is a dove of Sulawesi. A survey in Gorontalo found it associated with forest compared with coconut farms.

• White-naped Swift Streptoprocne semicollaris

  This large swift occurs in the mountains of Mexico. It catches flying insects above forests and uses caves or cliff crevices for roosting and nesting.

• Paradise Shelduck Tadorna variegata

  This New Zealand endemic duck has white-headed females and black-headed males. Pairs are often seen together.

• Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus

  The world’s largest grouse lives mainly in pine woodland. In Britain, it remains in northern Scotland.

• Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis

  The Bat Falcon hunts in forests and at forest edges in Central and South America. Despite its name, it eats bats but mainly preys on small birds and large insects.

• Ryukyu Minivet Pericrocotus tegimae

  This minivet ranges from Japan's Ryukyu Islands through Kyushu to western Honshu. Males have a narrow white forehead band that is nearly absent in females.

• Western Fieldwren Calamanthus montanellus

  Western Fieldwren is recorded from the Stirling Range in Western Australia. Milligan's original account describes it running through stony ground and singing from the ground or low bushes.

• Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus

  A starling with metallic blue-green plumage and yellow eyes, it eats fruit and insects.

• Ladder-tailed Nightjar Hydropsalis climacocerca

  It is gray-brown with fine markings. The male has a long tail that looks W-shaped when spread. It is nocturnal and occurs along rivers.