Meet the world’s animals.

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• Tickell's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus affinis

  

  Tickell's Leaf Warbler breeds in the Himalayas and nearby regions, then moves south to South Asia and Myanmar for the non-breeding season.

• Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima

  A stocky wader seen on rocky shores in Britain in winter, with distinctive yellow legs.

• Red Kite Milvus milvus

  Adults have a reddish-brown body and a deeply forked tail. They glide through the air and mainly feed on carrion.

• West Indian Woodpecker Melanerpes superciliaris

  This woodpecker lives on Caribbean islands and searches for food on tree trunks and branches. A black mark above and behind the eye occurs in most, but not all, subspecies.

• Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor

  The Mangrove Cuckoo is a secretive bird of coastal forests in the Caribbean and Central America. It searches among leaves for insects and small lizards.

• Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris

  The Rufous-bellied Heron is a medium-sized heron with a dark slate-gray head and back and chestnut wings and belly. Its yellow bill and legs are also conspicuous.

• Chestnut-flanked White-eye Zosterops erythropleurus

  A white-eye that breeds in northeastern China and southeastern Russia and winters from southern China to northern Southeast Asia. It can gather in huge flocks during migration.

• Tanimbar Monarch Carterornis castus

  This small monarch flycatcher lives in Tanimbar forest. Its black-and-white pattern is striking, and it searches for insects in trees.

• Gray-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala

  The Grey-headed Kingfisher is a migratory kingfisher that hunts insects in woodland south of the Sahara, diving to the ground from a perch.

• Hunter's Cisticola Cisticola hunteri

  Hunter’s Cisticola occurs locally in the highlands of Kenya, at Mount Elgon in Uganda and in northern Tanzania. Two or more birds may sing together.

• Bahama Woodstar Nesophlox evelynae

  The Bahama Woodstar is a small hummingbird found in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands. It feeds mainly on nectar and also contributes to pollination.

• Crested Finchbill Spizixos canifrons

  The Crested Finchbill ranges across Bangladesh, mainland China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its thick pale bill and upright black nape crest are distinctive.

• Fawn-breasted Tanager Pipraeidea melanonota

  The Fawn-breasted Tanager has a blue crown and dark facial markings. A São Paulo city account describes males with a blue crown, bluish-black back and wings, and fawn underparts; females and young birds are duller. It eats insects and fruit.

• Gray-browed Brushfinch Arremon assimilis

  This roughly 20 cm bird lives in humid Andean montane forest. Yellow-olive upperparts, a striped gray-and-black head, and a white throat are distinctive.

• Olive-capped Warbler Setophaga pityophila

  This warbler inhabits pine woodland in western Cuba. Its yellow-green forehead and dark breast streaks are useful field marks, and it often uses the upper canopy. A Cuban study recorded it in lower strata only during breeding.

• Koklass Pheasant Pucrasia macrolopha

  The Koklass Pheasant is a large forest bird with a silvery male and a streaked brown female.

• Wood Pipit Anthus nyassae

  The Wood Pipit searches the grassy floor of woodland for insects and other small invertebrates in south-central Africa.

• Wood Duck Aix sponsa

  A colorful duck that perches in trees and nests in tree cavities near water.

• Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus

  A long-winged tern with a pointed bill that catches small fish in shallow coastal waters.

• Lesser Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus fuscus

  Lesser Woodcreeper is about 15–19 cm long. Oiseaux.net lists forest as its habitat and invertebrates as food. The account also includes song and call recordings from several Brazilian localities.

• Andean Slaty Thrush Turdus nigriceps

  Males are bluish grey and females brown; in the Peruvian Andes it forages on the ground at forest edges and openings

• Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Leucosticte tephrocotis

  A pink-and-brown songbird of high North American mountains and Alaskan islands. In winter it moves lower to avoid heavy snow and may visit feeders.

• Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus ophthalmicus

  This flycatcher lives in humid Andean montane forest. It has a gray crown and greenish-olive back, while the breast is gray in the southern subspecies ottonis and olive-yellow in northern nominate birds.

• Cuban Blackbird Ptiloxena atroviolacea

  The Cuban Blackbird is a dark-plumaged bird of Cuba with a violet sheen. It searches for food on the ground and in other habitats.