Meet the world’s animals.

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• Great-winged Petrel Pterodroma macroptera

  

  The Great-winged Petrel is a large seabird with long wings and all-dark plumage. It breeds on Southern Hemisphere islands and disperses widely over the oceans outside the breeding season.

• Black-hooded Laughingthrush Garrulax milleti

  The Black-hooded Laughingthrush is a large laughingthrush of the Vietnamese and Lao highlands. Dark plumage extends from the head to the breast.

• Paperbark Flycatcher Myiagra nana

  This flycatcher lives in northern Australia. Adult males have a blue sheen on dark upperparts, while females often show an orange-buff breast.

• Sakhalin Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus borealoides

  The Sakhalin Leaf Warbler breeds from Sakhalin through the northern Japanese islands and winters south into Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong it occurs mainly during autumn passage, using the lower layers of woodland and shrubs.

• Sulawesi Cuckoo Cuculus crassirostris

  This cuckoo lives in forests on Sulawesi. It has a gray head, a barred belly, and a banded tail, and it feeds on insects.

• Tawny-collared Nightjar Antrostomus salvini

  A nightjar of the lowlands of northeastern Mexico, inhabiting dry scrub and open areas with scattered bushes.

• Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura

  The Fanti Saw-wing flies around moist woodland and water, catching small invertebrates in the air.

• Orange-headed Thrush Geokichla citrina

  The Orange-headed Thrush has an orange head and underparts, with plain gray or brown upperparts. Facial markings vary among subspecies; in Singapore it searches wooded ground for insects and also eats fruit.

• Green Jery Neomixis viridis

  This bird lives in forests of eastern Madagascar. It has olive-green upperparts and yellow-tinged pale underparts, and searches in forest and trees for invertebrates.

• Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea

  A small gull that breeds in wet Arctic tundra; breeding adults show a pale pink wash and a black collar.

• Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina

  In breeding plumage, the male has an orange head and reddish bill; the female is brown. This diving duck feeds on aquatic plants and algae.

• Burrowing Parakeet Cyanoliseus patagonus

  The Burrowing Parakeet lives in open country in Chile and Argentina. Its white eye ring and yellow-red belly are distinctive, and it nests in burrows in banks and cliffs.

• Bronze-green Euphonia Euphonia mesochrysa

  This small bird inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andes from Colombia through Bolivia. It feeds mainly on fruit, including mistletoe berries.

• Masked Yellowthroat Geothlypis aequinoctialis

  This small bird has yellow underparts and yellowish-green upperparts. Males have a black facial mask, which females lack; their facial markings also differ.

• Bali Myna Leucopsar rothschildi

  The Bali Myna is a white starling native to Bali, recognizable by its blue facial skin and white crest.

• Cinderella Waxbill Estrilda thomensis

  In northwestern Namibia, Cinderella Waxbill records come from the Kunene and Ondoto river areas.

• Bannerman's Sunbird Cyanomitra bannermani

  Adult males have a green head, throat and chest, with a violet sheen on the throat and upper breast; the upperparts are olive. The species uses evergreen and riverine forest, sometimes miombo, and feeds on nectar and insects. The profile lists Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia.

• Grenada Dove Leptotila wellsi

  The Grenada Dove is a pigeon endemic to the Caribbean island of Grenada. It forages on the ground in dry coastal and deciduous forest.

• Bay Wren Cantorchilus nigricapillus

  A small bird of forest and second-growth edges, ranging from Costa Rica to western Ecuador. Regional forms in Panama differ in breast color and the barring beneath.

• Rufous-tailed Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla erythrura

  The Rufous-tailed Stipplethroat lives in lowland and foothill evergreen forest in western Amazonia. Males have a gray face, whitish streaked throat, and rufous rump and tail; females are more ochre below. It gleans insects and spiders from dead leaves. Breeding biology is poorly known.

• Swallow Tanager Tersina viridis

  In Bolivia, the Swallow Tanager is seen in forest canopies and feeds mainly on fruit. Females have a dark facial mask and barred flanks.

• Gray-fronted Honeyeater Ptilotula plumula

  This small honeyeater is endemic to Australia. It feeds on nectar and is marked by a pale grey front and a yellow tuft near the ear coverts.

• Grey-chinned Minivet Pericrocotus solaris

  The Grey-chinned Minivet differs in its red or yellow plumage by sex. In Hong Kong it is recorded almost exclusively in closed-canopy woodland, and some birds appear to move to lower areas in winter.

• Olivaceous Greenlet Hylophilus olivaceus

  The Olivaceous Greenlet is locally recorded in montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its head and upperparts are olive, with olive-yellow underparts. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy at forest edges, in second growth, and in broken forest.