Meet the world’s animals.

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• Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis

  

  A seabird of the northern Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans. It glides over open water and gathers on coastal cliffs to breed.

• White-backed Swallow Cheramoeca leucosterna

  This swallow inhabits arid and semi-arid parts of southern and central Australia. It breeds in open country where sandy banks or earth cliffs are available.

• Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus

  The Fish Crow is an all-black crow found near estuaries, rivers, and lakes. It eats fish and crabs as well as eggs, fruit, and other foods.

• Blue-black Kingfisher Todiramphus nigrocyaneus

  This kingfisher lives in lowland forest on New Guinea and nearby islands. Along forested waters, it looks for fish and crabs.

• Plateau Lark Corypha nigrescens

  This lark is very localized on high plateaus in Tanzania and Malawi. Its natural history is poorly documented.

• Rose-collared Piha Lipaugus streptophorus

  This cotinga occurs locally on the tepuis of southeastern Venezuela and adjacent northern Brazil and Guyana. It feeds mainly on fruit and also takes insects.

• Galapagos Hawk Buteo galapagoensis

  The Galapagos Hawk is a large raptor of the islands. Adults are dark, juveniles are paler, and females are larger than males.

• Scaly-breasted Wren Microcerculus marginatus

  This wren lives near the forest floor in Amazonian lowlands. Adults have brown upperparts, a white throat and breast, and brown scale-like markings across the breast and flanks.

• Grandala Grandala coelicolor

  This thrush ranges through high country from the Himalaya to Tibet and western China. Males are blue; females are brown with a bluish rump and white wing patches.

• Black-faced Dacnis Dacnis lineata

  In the lineata form described by Peru Aves, males are black and blue, while females are olive and grey. It forages in the canopy of mature forest and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus

  This weaver lives in dry savanna and scrub. In breeding plumage the male has a black face and yellow body, and he builds a woven grass nest.

• Golden-fronted Greenlet Hylophilus aurantiifrons

  The Golden-fronted Greenlet occurs from Panama through northern South America to Trinidad and Tobago. It searches the undersides of leaves for insects and spiders. Detailed nest records in the account are from Trinidad only.

• Tapajos Fire-eye Pyriglena similis

  The Tapajos Fire-eye lives in humid forest understory in Brazil’s Amazonian lowlands between the Tapajós and Xingu rivers. Males are black and females rufous brown; both have red eyes and a white back patch that is usually hidden.

• Black-headed Apalis Apalis melanocephala

  Nine subspecies are listed for the Black-headed Apalis. The account gives a general species description of a dark back, white underparts, long tail, and orange bill; females are duller than males.

• Buff-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus senex

  A small tyrant flycatcher recorded in Amazonas and Rondônia, Brazil. It inhabits low, stunted forest near blackwater rivers and white-sand woodland.

• Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis

  A small, long-tailed dove with a reddish-brown breast and belly. In southern Africa it is often seen in pairs or small groups, feeding on seeds on the ground.

• Gray Swiftlet Aerodramus vanikorensis

  Long wings and gray-brown plumage identify this swiftlet. It glides through the air and builds a nest using moss.

• Bar-headed Goose Anser indicus

  A goose with black bars on its white head, found from Central to South Asia.

• Golden pheasant Chrysolophus pictus

  A pheasant whose colourful male displays its feathers to court females.

• McGregor's Cuckooshrike Coracina mcgregori

  It lives in montane forest above 1,000 m on Mindanao and appears in small or mixed-species groups in the canopy. It has a black throat and white wing patch.

• Black-collared Starling Gracupica nigricollis

  The Black-collared Starling is a starling marked by a black-and-white collar and yellow skin around the eyes. It forages on the ground and also occurs in parks and farmland.

• Brown Nightjar Veles binotatus

  This nightjar has dark brown plumage with pale and chestnut mottling, and rests in the lower growth of tropical forest.

• Yellow-lored Bristlebill Bleda notatus

  A lowland forest bird of West-Central Africa, also recorded in older secondary growth and forest–grassland mosaics. Records reach 650 m.

• Antillean Piculet Nesoctites micromegas

  This small piculet lives on Hispaniola. Its yellow crown and the streaked pale underside are distinctive.