Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris

  

  The Lesser Noddy is a seabird of islands in the Indian Ocean and nearby waters. In Seychelles, flocks catch fish and squid and nest in island trees.

• Dusky Antbird Cercomacroides tyrannina

  This antbird occurs from Central America into northern South America. Males are dark gray with white tips on the wings and tail; females are olive-brown above and rufous below. Pairs forage for insects along lowland forest edges and in secondary growth.

• Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola

  A little-known snipe that breeds in Himalayan alpine regions. A study in an alpine meadow in Sichuan, China, found breeding birds foraging where soil fauna were more abundant.

• Hairy-backed Bulbul Tricholestes criniger

  This bulbul occurs in forests of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. Fine, hair-like feather shafts on its back give it its name. It eats fruit and insects.

• Java sparrow Lonchura oryzivora

  In its wild form, this small bird has a striking black head and white cheeks.

• Juan Fernandez Petrel Pterodroma externa

  The underside of the wings is white with dark tips and edges. It breeds on the Juan Fernández Islands and ranges over the open Pacific outside the breeding season.

• Goliath Coucal Centropus goliath

  The Goliath Coucal is a large cuckoo of the northern Moluccas. It is mostly black, with bluish wings and tail and a white wing patch.

• Rufous-fronted Laughingthrush Garrulax rufifrons

  This Javan laughingthrush has a rufous forehead and chin. It eats fruit and insects, and may forage in noisy small groups or mixed-species flocks.

• Black-headed Berryeater Carpornis melanocephala

  The Black-headed Berryeater is a cotinga of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. A field report documented a male passing fruit to a female.

• Pennant-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus vexillarius

  The Pennant-winged Nightjar has a breeding male with long pennant-like feathers and catches insects in the air.

• Yellow-breasted Pipit Anthus chloris

  The Yellow-breasted Pipit inhabits highland grasslands in southern Africa. Breeding adults are yellow below, with females slightly duller than males.

• Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger

  A bird of African savannas and dry woodland, it forages on the ground and breeds in large groups.

• Barred Parakeet Bolborhynchus lineola

  This parakeet has a green body crossed by black bars. Subspecies differ in color intensity and range, and wild birds may form groups in trees.

• White-bellied Dacnis Dacnis albiventris

  The White-bellied Dacnis forages in the canopy of mature terra firme forest, which is not seasonally flooded. Males have blue heads and breasts with white bellies; females have greenish upperparts and yellowish underparts.

• Mindoro Racket-tail Prioniturus mindorensis

  The Mindoro Racket-tail is a green parrot from Mindoro Island in the Philippines. The 1890 original description records a violet crown and nape and yellow-green face on an adult male.

• Mexican Sheartail Doricha eliza

  This small hummingbird is endemic to Mexico. Its breeding range is split between the northern Yucatan Peninsula and central Veracruz, where records include coastal scrub and dry deciduous forest.

• Stork-billed Kingfisher Pelargopsis capensis

  The Stork-billed Kingfisher is a large kingfisher with a huge red bill, blue upperparts, and orange-yellow underparts. It watches for prey from waterside perches.

• White-bellied Wren Uropsila leucogastra

  A resident wren of Mexico and Central America, it searches forest thickets for insects and spiders.

• Copper-tailed Starling Hylopsar cupreocauda

  A starling of Sierra Leone's forest canopy. Adults have a glossy purple head and breast, a blue-black body, and a coppery-bronze tail.

• Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops

  This small plover lives around fresh water in Australasia. It has a black face pattern and breast band with chestnut shoulder feathers. It walks along the water's edge looking for insects and small molluscs.

• Desert Lark Ammomanes deserti

  The Desert Lark has a sandy back and a pale underside. It lives in dry, rocky country, and its plumage varies.

• Reeves's Pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii

  A pheasant endemic to China, living in evergreen forest and open woodland. It scratches leaf litter for seeds, berries, leaves, and invertebrates.

• Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum nigriceps

  This flycatcher lives in moist forest from Central America into north-western South America and catches small insects in the canopy and at forest edges.

• Greylag goose Anser anser

  A large goose with grey-brown plumage. In Europe it lives in vegetated wetlands and surrounding grassland.