Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-capped Kingfisher Halcyon pileata

  

  A large kingfisher with a black cap, blue back, and red bill. In Hong Kong it is mainly seen at coastal wetlands during passage and winter.

• White-bellied Imperial Pigeon Ducula forsteni

  The White-bellied Imperial Pigeon is a large forest pigeon of Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. It feeds mainly on fruit.

• Grey-headed Oliveback Nesocharis capistrata

  This small African bird uses savanna, shrubland and inland wetlands. The current IUCN assessment places it in the genus Delacourella.

• Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius

  A shorebird of North America. Breeding adults show dark spots on the belly, and the bird teeters as it walks by water.

• Maned Duck Chenonetta jubata

  An Australian duck that often walks on land to find food in grassland.

• Velvet-fronted Grackle Lampropsar tanagrinus

  This icterid occurs in the Amazon basin. tanagrinus.

• Silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera

  A pheasant whose male has white-and-black patterned feathers on its back and long tail.

• Yellow-throated Woodpecker Piculus flavigula

  This woodpecker inhabits Amazonian forest, including northern Peru. It may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Northern Rosella Platycercus venustus

  This parrot lives in woodlands and savanna across northern Australia. Its black head and back contrast with yellow cheeks and underparts, while blue shows on the wings and tail.

• Narcondam Hornbill Rhyticeros narcondami

  This hornbill occurs only in the forests of Narcondam Island. Males and females differ in head color, and fruit is its main food.

• Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus

  The Bright-rumped Attila is a tyrant flycatcher marked by a yellow rump. Its plumage varies among subspecies and color morphs, and it searches for insects and small animals in the middle forest layers.

• Southern Crag-Martin Ptyonoprogne fuligula

  The Southern Crag-Martin nests on cliffs and buildings in southern Africa. It catches small insects in flight and is distributed across the region.

• Black-eared Hemispingus Sphenopsis melanotis

  The Peru account places this tanager in Andean montane forest and describes several forms with variable plumage. It forages in dense foliage from the understory into the middle story.

• Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex

  The Simple Greenbul is marked by its white throat and two white crescents around the eye. In Upper Guinea it is found in regrowth and thickets.

• 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.

• Kashmir Nutcracker Nucifraga multipunctata

  The Kashmir Nutcracker lives in coniferous forests of the western Himalaya and eastern Hindu Kush. It eats seeds of blue pine and chilgoza pine, among other foods, and is reported mainly at 2,000–3,000 m.

• Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus

  It has a brown back, a grayish head, and spots on the breast and belly. Males may sing after wet and windy weather.

• Moorland Chat Pinarochroa sordida

  The plumage and behaviour below come from a 1949 account of the Ruwenzori Mountains only. It describes birds above the bamboo zone, with dark brown upperparts, a faint wingbar and white outer tail feathers.

• Yellowish Pipit Anthus chii

  The Yellowish Pipit has a large but patchy range from Panama to Argentina. It is ground-dwelling, with a streaked back and breast, and uses open, flat places. It may sing while in flight.

• Thick-billed Miner Geositta crassirostris

  This miner lives in dry western Peruvian slopes and coastal lomas. It has gray-brown upperparts, a stout bill, and a pale eyebrow, and searches the ground among rocks.

• Pileated Parrot Pionopsitta pileata

  The Pileated Parrot lives in humid forests of southeastern Brazil and nearby areas. Males have red on the head; females do not.

• Black-faced Brush Finch Atlapetes melanolaemus

  This brush-finch lives in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The account describes dark sides of the head, back, and tail, a rufous crown and nape, a dark throat, and dull yellow underparts. It forages in low shrubs at forest edges.

• White-crowned Lapwing Vanellus albiceps

  The White-crowned Lapwing has a white forehead and crown, gray face, brown back, and white underside. It walks along riversides looking for insects and other small invertebrates.

• MacGregor's Honeyeater Macgregoria pulchra

  MacGregor's Honeyeater is a large honeyeater of New Guinea's high mountains. Its black plumage is accented by yellow-orange on the wings and around the eyes, and it feeds mainly on podocarp fruit.