Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos

  

  A sandpiper that breeds on Arctic tundra and migrates south, mostly to South America. Its stippled breast ends sharply at a white belly.

• Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula

  This duck stays year-round in wetlands of North America. Its brown plumage includes a blue iridescent wing patch, and males have bright yellow bills.

• Greater Hoopoe-Lark Alaemon alaudipes

  The Greater Hoopoe-Lark is a desert bird with sandy plumage, a long tail, and a down-curved bill. It is usually seen alone or in pairs.

• Forest Owlet Athene blewitti

  A small, diurnal owl of localized forests in central and western India. Its plumage helps distinguish it from similar owls.

• Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus

  This large cuckoo occurs from East Asia into Southeast Asia. The sexes have different plumage; it eats fruit and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Rufous-tailed Tailorbird Orthotomus sericeus

  A small bird with a long bill and often-raised tail. It moves through forest edges and garden thickets, chasing flying insects from low perches.

• Stripe-backed Bittern Botaurus involucris

  The Stripe-backed Bittern is a heron relative whose streaked back helps it blend into wetland vegetation. It moves alone and slowly through dense reeds in lowland freshwater wetlands, feeding on small invertebrates.

• Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii

  This social African bird inhabits woodland and savanna. White arrow-shaped marks across the breast and belly are its distinctive feature.

• Scaly Thrush Zoothera dauma

  A forest-dwelling thrush with scale-like markings on its plumage, it searches among leaf litter for invertebrates.

• Pale-headed Munia Lonchura pallida

  The Pale-headed Munia has a pale head that contrasts with its darker body. It occurs in the lowlands of eastern Indonesia, including dry scrub, grassland, marshes, and farmland.

• Swainson's Francolin Pternistis swainsonii

  Swainson's Francolin is a southern African bird that uses grasslands, woodland edges, farmland, and watersides. It searches on the ground for seeds and insects.

• Samoan Starling Aplonis atrifusca

  The Samoan Starling is endemic to the Samoan Archipelago. A National Park of American Samoa survey recorded it in native forest and human-dominated forest, including fruiting trees.

• Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus

  This swift-flying martin catches insects in the air. It is recorded as a migrant in Singapore.

• Orange-breasted Fruiteater Pipreola jucunda

  A CERO report recorded an adult male foraging along a humid forest edge in Ecuador. A possibly different bird was reported to have a larger orange chest patch, and the reason for the difference is unresolved.

• Yellow-browed Seedeater Crithagra whytii

  This canary occurs from Tanzania west to Zambia and northern Malawi. It has a long, slightly notched tail and feeds on small seeds and other foods along woodland edges and in open country.

• Grey Goshawk Tachyspiza novaehollandiae

  In Tasmania, this large raptor is described as white. It nests in mature wet forest near waterways and looks for prey from trees.

• Indian Gray Hornbill Ocyceros birostris

  The Indian Gray Hornbill is a grayish-brown hornbill with a casque above the bill. The male's casque is larger than the female's.

• Spangled Honeyeater Melipotes ater

  The Spangled Honeyeater lives in montane forest and tall secondary growth on Papua New Guinea’s Huon Peninsula. Its plumage is almost entirely black, with white spots below.

• Yellow-billed Cacique Amblycercus holosericeus

  The Yellow-billed Cacique ranges from Mexico through Central America into northwestern South America. It lives in thickets and bamboo near forest edges.

• McConnell's Spinetail Synallaxis macconnelli

  This spinetail occurs in the understory of evergreen forest and woodland in Guyana. It has a warm rufous crown and wings against a gray body.

• Madagascar Wagtail Motacilla flaviventris

  The Madagascar Wagtail has a gray head and back, a white eyebrow, and a narrow black breast band. It forages on the ground near water in Madagascar.

• 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.

• Lesser Antillean Bullfinch Loxigilla noctis

  On Dominica, male Lesser Antillean Bullfinches are black with an orange chin and throat. Females are olive-brown above and grey-brown below.

• Grey Tit-Flycatcher Myioparus plumbeus

  This flycatcher is widespread across sub-Saharan Africa. It has gray upperparts, a white eye-ring and white outer tail feathers, and feeds on insects in riverine forest, mature woodland and savanna.