Meet the world’s animals.

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• Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus

  

  A small snipe that hides in wet grassland and visits Britain for the winter, from autumn into spring.

• Masked Shining Parrot Prosopeia personata

  The Masked Shining Parrot lives on Viti Levu in Fiji. Adults are marked by a black face and yellow to orange coloring across the breast and belly.

• Brown Cacholote Pseudoseisura lophotes

  This roughly 26 cm ovenbird has brown plumage with chestnut tones and a darker crest. In a study at Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina, pairs searched for food, including dry acacia pods and items on the ground.

• Rufous-backed Honeyeater Ptiloprora guisei

  During the Bishop Museum expedition to Mount Dayman in Papua New Guinea, it was recorded frequently above 1,400 m and used several forest strata.

• Sunda Warbler Seicercus grammiceps

  This leaf-warbler lives in montane forest on Java and Sumatra. It has a reddish-brown head and a pale eye-ring.

• Tschudi's Nightjar Systellura decussata

  This nightjar uses dry open country, where its sandy plumage blends with the ground and sparse vegetation.

• Spectacled Parrotlet Forpus conspicillatus

  The Spectacled Parrotlet has three subspecies. In the nominate subspecies, males have blue-purple markings around the eye, on the wings and rump; these areas are green in females.

• Olive-colored White-eye Zosterops oleagineus

  This white-eye occurs on Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia. It is olive-green overall, with a conspicuous white ring around the eye.

• Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla

  A coastal gull whose breeding adults have a black head, red bill, and narrow white eye crescents.

• Speckle-breasted Antpitta Cryptopezus nattereri

  This antpitta occurs in southeastern South America, using low areas of humid montane forest and mature secondary woodland.

• Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator

  A diving duck with a long, thin bill and shaggy crest. It catches and eats fish.

• Scott's Oriole Icterus parisorum

  Scott's Oriole lives in arid areas of the southwestern United States and eats insects, nectar, and fruit. The male is bright yellow and black.

• Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga

  The Grey-rumped Swallow is an African swallow with a greyish rump. It catches insects while flying over open country.

• Musician Wren Cyphorhinus arada

  This small wren is recorded in Bolivian Amazonian forests. It forages mainly in leaf litter and keeps to dense lower growth or the ground, alone or in pairs.

• Red-pate Cisticola Cisticola ruficeps

  The Red-pate Cisticola is mainly an East African bird, with confirmed records in northeast Nigeria. The rust-red crown and gray back described below apply only to the breeding-plumaged scotoptera subspecies.

• Ursula's Mouse-coloured Sunbird Cinnyris ursulae

  A report records this species in forest in southeastern Nigeria in December 2004. The observed birds had olive-green upperparts and grey faces and forecrowns.

• MacGillivray's Warbler Geothlypis tolmiei

  MacGillivray's Warbler is a small warbler that breeds in western North America and migrates to Central America.

• Red-necked Woodpecker Campephilus rubricollis

  The Red-necked Woodpecker has a red neck and chest and a rufous belly. In the Bolivian forests covered by the source, it occurs alone or in loose pairs and uses several forest levels.

• Black-chinned Siskin Spinus barbatus

  A small finch of the Andean-Patagonian forest region, it has a black head and throat in males and olive coloring in females.

• Western Bearded Greenbul Criniger barbatus

  The Western Bearded Greenbul has conspicuous yellow throat feathers. In West African forest it moves in pairs or small groups and attends ant columns.

• White-cheeked Hill Partridge Arborophila atrogularis

  A forest-dwelling partridge with conspicuous white cheeks, it lives in dense evergreen forest and uses the forest floor and grassy edges.

• Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis

  This weaver lives in African highland forest. It moves along moss-covered branches while searching for insects and fruit.

• Red-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron formosum

  This large laughingthrush ranges from southwestern China to northern Vietnam. Its red wings and tail stand out, and it occurs in evergreen broadleaf forest and nearby scrub or bamboo.

• Pale thrush Turdus pallidus

  A thrush mainly seen in Japan in winter. It favors dim woodland with undergrowth and forages on the ground.