Meet the world’s animals.

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• Streaky-breasted Spiderhunter Arachnothera affinis

  

  This spiderhunter has an olive-green back and fine streaks on its grayish breast. It lives in foothill forest and forest edge on Java and gives loud, harsh calls.

• Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus

  This large parrot lives in South African mountain forests. It uses its large bill to crack the hard kernels of yellowwood fruit while they are still unripe.

• Rainbow lorikeet Trichoglossus moluccanus

  A colourful Australian parrot with a blue head, green wings and an orange-to-yellow breast.

• Blue-eyed Ground Dove Columbina cyanopis

  The Blue-eyed Ground Dove is a small dove with striking blue eyes. It is associated with Brazil's Cerrado and was rediscovered in northern Minas Gerais in 2015.

• Cobb's Wren Troglodytes cobbi

  This wren is now confined to small offshore islands in the Falklands. It searches for small animals in grassland near the tide line and on rocky shores.

• Chilean Swallow Tachycineta leucopyga

  The Chilean Swallow is a small swallow with a metallic blue back, white underparts, and a forked tail. It breeds in Chile and moves north for the winter.

• Alor Boobook Ninox plesseni

  This owl occurs on Alor and Pantar in the Lesser Sunda Islands. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of Ninox novaeseelandiae, but a study using vocal and DNA evidence supports treating it as a separate species.

• Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata

  The Red-legged Crake is a rail of wet forests and wetlands. In Singapore it has been recorded in a limited part of the country.

• Star-throated Antwren Rhopias gularis

  This small antwren lives in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. Both sexes have grey underparts, rufescent-brown upperparts and a black throat spotted with white. It forages low in dense vegetation.

• Green-crowned Warbler Seicercus burkii

  A migratory leaf warbler of the lower Himalayan belt. It searches evergreen forest and bamboo for small invertebrates and moves to lower elevations in winter.

• Yellow Tit Machlolophus holsti

  The Yellow Tit is endemic to Taiwan’s mountains and uses the canopy of primary broadleaf forest. Males are strikingly black and yellow, while females and juveniles differ in color and crest shape.

• Red Knot Calidris canutus

  A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and travels to distant coasts during migration. Its belly turns orange-red in breeding plumage.

• Red-headed Vulture Sarcogyps calvus

  The Red-headed Vulture has a red to orange head as an adult; it is paler in juveniles. It occurs across India and feeds on carrion.

• Greyish Piculet Picumnus granadensis

  This small woodpecker relative lives in forests and at forest edges in Colombia. The male has a black crown with white spots and yellow crown marks.

• Lesser Coucal Centropus bengalensis

  The Lesser Coucal has black plumage and chestnut wings and may be seen basking among grassland shrubs. The observations and range shown here are from its native population in Singapore.

• Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum

  The Bare-throated Tiger Heron is a large heron that waits for prey beside rivers and wetlands.

• Buru White-eye Zosterops buruensis

  The Buru White-eye is endemic to Buru Island, Indonesia, and has yellow underparts. A 1995 survey recorded it in logged and primary forest near Fogi and Waikeka; in 2011, small flocks were seen in forest near Waikeka.

• Undulated Antpitta Grallaria squamigera

  The Undulated Antpitta lives in humid Andean forest and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• Japanese paradise flycatcher Terpsiphone atrocaudata

  A visitor to shaded forest with a blue bill and blue eye-rings.

• Sulawesi Lilac Kingfisher Cittura cyanotis

  The Sulawesi Lilac Kingfisher occurs on Sulawesi and Lembeh Island. It waits for prey from low branches in forest and catches invertebrates on the ground.

• Socotra Cisticola Cisticola haesitatus

  This small cisticola occurs on Socotra Island. It uses low coastal scrub and places where scattered shrubs grow in grassland.

• Ecuadorian Hillstar Oreotrochilus chimborazo

  This hummingbird occurs in the Cajas highlands of Ecuador. A local guide describes it visiting Chuquiragua flowers and records different head and belly colors in males and females.

• Bornean Bulbul Rubigula montis

  The Bornean Bulbul inhabits hill and foothill forest on Borneo. It has an olive-yellow back, bright yellow throat and underparts, and a black head with an upright crest. It also occurs in degraded or regenerating forest and often perches in open areas.

• Black-goggled Tanager Trichothraupis melanops

  This tanager uses humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Males have black markings through the eye and a bright yellow crown patch.