Meet the world’s animals.

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• Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata

  

  A small warbler that breeds in northern North American forests and migrates south across the ocean in fall. Breeding males have a distinctive black cap.

• Purple Needletail Hirundapus celebensis

  The Purple Needletail is a swift that flies over forests and open country.

• Dusky Myzomela Myzomela obscura

  This small bird is dark brown above and paler below, with a darker patch around the eye. At James Cook University's Cairns campus, it is shown feeding on umbrella-tree flowers and fruit.

• Puaiohi Myadestes palmeri

  This thrush is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi. It lives in remote forest ravines, and its main foods vary with the season.

• Olive-bellied Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris fuelleborni

  This sunbird lives in forests and more open woodland in eastern Africa. It mainly takes nectar and also gleans small prey among foliage.

• White-tailed Blue Robin Myiomela leucura

  This shy forest robin forages near the ground in dense cover. Males are blue, females brown, and both have white patches near the base of the tail.

• Amazonian Inezia Inezia subflava

  This Amazonian Inezia occurs in waterside woodland and thickets. Its two currently recognized subspecies share two pale wingbars and pale tail tips, but differ in their underpart coloration.

• Chuuk Flycatcher Myiagra oceanica

  The Chuuk Flycatcher is endemic to the Chuuk Islands in Micronesia. Males have a blue-gray brown crown and rufous breast; birds hunt insects from low perches around forest edges and gardens.

• Southern Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps

  The Southern Red-headed Weaver is a bird whose breeding male has a striking red head and chest. It searches for insects in trees.

• Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula

  A small shorebird that breeds on beaches. Britain has birds present year-round, winter visitors, and birds passing through on migration.

• Black-browed Fulvetta Alcippe grotei

  This small bird has a gray head and shoulders, a black eyebrow, rufescent back, and pale underparts. It searches for insects in evergreen and secondary forest, sometimes joining mixed flocks.

• Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala

  Swinhoe's Snipe is a shorebird that moves between wetlands with the seasons. Its long bill and mottled plumage help it blend into grass and mud.

• Cook's Petrel Pterodroma cookii

  Cook’s Petrel breeds on islands off New Zealand and ranges widely over the open ocean outside the breeding season.

• Iranian Ground Jay Podoces pleskei

  The Iranian Ground Jay is a ground-living corvid restricted to eastern Iran. Its sandy body, black facial marks, and dark throat patch contrast with the ground as it runs in search of food.

• Shovel-billed Kingfisher Clytoceyx rex

  A large kingfisher recorded in montane forest of New Guinea. It digs for invertebrates on the forest floor with its stout bill.

• Cassin's Vireo Vireo cassinii

  This small bird breeds in dry, open forests of western North America. Its white eye-ring is conspicuous, and it forages slowly through the lower and middle parts of trees. In winter it may join mixed flocks of woodland birds.

• Mountain Firetail Oreostruthus fuliginosus

  The Mountain Firetail is a chunky finch of the New Guinea highlands. It occurs along montane forest edges and where subalpine grassland meets shrubland.

• Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus

  This widespread Australian heron is nocturnal and searches for food in wetlands.

• Bronzy Inca Coeligena coeligena

  The Bronzy Inca is a hummingbird with mostly bronzy-brown plumage. It lives in Andean montane forest and is recorded at about 1,000–2,200 m in Peru.

• 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.

• Rudd's Lark Heteromirafra ruddi

  This lark occurs locally in the highland grasslands of eastern South Africa. Its large head, short thin tail and upright posture help identify it.

• Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot Loriculus beryllinus

  This small parrot is found only in Sri Lanka. It is bright green with a red bill and rump; males also have a red crown. It is seen alone or in pairs in forest canopies and other wooded places.

• Vegetarian Finch Platyspiza crassirostris

  The Vegetarian Finch lives on several Galápagos Islands and uses its stout bill to take plant foods. It is extinct on Floreana.

• Western House Martin Delichon urbicum

  This swallow breeds across Europe and western Asia and winters south of the Sahara. It has blue-black upperparts, a white rump and underside, and a forked tail. It catches insects in flight and builds mud nests under eaves or on cliffs.