Meet the world’s animals.

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• Silvery Kingfisher Ceyx argentatus

  

  This small kingfisher lives along forest streams and ponds. Its dark blue back has a silvery-blue stripe, with white throat and belly markings and bright red legs.

• Jerdon's Bush Lark Plocealauda affinis

  A lark of open grasslands in India. It is active on the ground by day and feeds on seeds and small animals.

• Bearded Bellbird Procnias averano

  The Bearded Bellbird is noted for the male’s black, beard-like throat wattles and the different plumage of males and females. Males give loud bell-like calls and eat fruit.

• Cinereous vulture Aegypius monachus

  A large vulture with broad wings and a dark-brown body.

• Gray-breasted Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucophrys

  The Gray-breasted Wood-Wren forages in the understory of Andean montane forest. Its white eyebrow and gray throat and breast are useful field marks.

• Naumann's Thrush Turdus naumanni

  Naumann's Thrush is seen from autumn to spring in Koshimizu, eastern Hokkaido. It forms flocks in woodland and open areas, feeding on insects, earthworms, and rowan berries on the ground.

• Genovesa Ground Finch Geospiza acutirostris

  This ground finch occurs only on Genovesa Island in the Galápagos. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Sharp-beaked Ground Finch but is now listed as a separate species.

• Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus

  The Little Weaver lives in African savanna and open woodland. A breeding male has a black facial mask, and the bird is often seen alone.

• Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius melitophrys

  A shrike-vireo of forests and scrub in Mexico and Guatemala. Males and females differ in the chestnut markings on the head and breast.

• Black Antshrike Thamnophilus nigriceps

  The Black Antshrike occurs in eastern Panama and northern Colombia. The AOS checklist places it at lowland evergreen-forest edges and in secondary forest from 0–600 m; a species account lists its length as 16 cm.

• Ashy Prinia Prinia socialis

  The Ashy Prinia is a small prinia recorded widely across the Indian subcontinent. It uses open habitats such as gardens, farmland, thorn scrub, and grassland, feeding on invertebrates.

• Pale-bellied Mourner Rhytipterna immunda

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs in the Amazon region. A 2005 survey in Bolivia found it in the canopy of low-stature forest and in semi-open scrub with scattered trees.

• Sao Tome Green Pigeon Treron sanctithomae

  The Sao Tome Green Pigeon is restricted to Sao Tome Island in the Gulf of Guinea. It feeds on fruit high in forest canopies and also uses forest-edge plantations.

• Volcano Swiftlet Aerodramus vulcanorum

  The Volcano Swiftlet is a swiftlet of Java's high mountains. It is seen over volcanic craters and the surrounding montane forest.

• Cape Teal Anas capensis

  This African duck has a grey body and a reddish bill. It moves in response to changes in rainfall and water levels, and feeds on small aquatic animals and plants in shallow waters.

• Barbary Partridge Alectoris barbara

  The Barbary Partridge is marked by a broad chestnut collar and blue-grey throat and cheeks. It uses scrub and woodland and eats young leaves, shoots, seeds, and fruit.

• Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina

  A forest cuckooshrike of tropical Africa. Adult males have a glossy black body and a purple sheen on the throat.

• Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera

  This starling inhabits grassland and scrub in eastern Africa. Adults have glossy blue-green and purple plumage with a long tail, and feed on fruit, insects, and other available food.

• Chuck-will's-widow Antrostomus carolinensis

  Chuck-will's-widow is a nocturnal bird whose mottled brown plumage blends into woodland. It catches flying insects at night, breeding in North America and moving south for winter.

• Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus

  This greenbul lives in forests from West to Central Africa. It moves in small groups and mixed flocks, gleaning arthropods from branches and thickets.

• Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus canicapillus

  A small woodpecker with a gray head that searches bark and branches for insects. It uses habitats with trees, from woodland to gardens.

• Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea

  The male is conspicuously blue with a throat band, while the female is blue-green. It breeds in eastern North American forests and winters in the Andes.

• Rusty-crowned Babbler Sterrhoptilus capitalis

  Rusty-crowned Babbler is about 14–15 cm long. It uses forest, forest edges, and secondary growth, and gleans invertebrates in trees. Oiseaux.net lists call recordings from near PICOP on Mindanao, Philippines.

• Fawn-breasted Waxbill Estrilda paludicola

  A waxbill widespread from western to eastern Africa. It searches grassy savanna for seeds and is marked by a red bill and rump with a fawn breast.