Meet the world’s animals.

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• Moluccan Flycatcher Myiagra galeata

  

  The Moluccan Flycatcher is a small bird of wooded habitats and coastal scrub in the Moluccas. Males are grey and white; females have a pale rufous wash on the throat and breast.

• Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus

  A wader that probes mud with its long bill. Its plumage changes between breeding and winter, and it moves from northern North American wetlands to coastal wintering areas.

• Marbled Duck Marmaronetta angustirostris

  This duck has a brown, pale-spotted body and a dark stripe through the eye. It uses shallow wetlands.

• Dunn's Lark Eremalauda dunni

  A lark of arid land along the southern Sahara margin; it may move after rain.

• Rusty-barred Owl Strix hylophila

  The Rusty-barred Owl inhabits Atlantic Forest in southern and southeastern Brazil and nearby parts of Paraguay and Argentina. It is nocturnal and hunts small animals in forest.

• Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus

  The Plaintive Cuckoo is a small cuckoo with a gray head and breast and reddish underparts. It uses habitats from forest to parks, and brood parasitism on Ashy Tailorbirds is recorded in Singapore.

• White-winged Apalis Apalis chariessa

  The White-winged Apalis is a small East African bird with black upperparts, yellow underparts and white wings. It searches for insects in the canopy and along forest edges.

• Chinese Egret Egretta eulophotes

  A white egret that feeds on mudflats and in mangroves. It breeds in East Asia and moves south seasonally.

• Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush Garrulax monileger

  This laughingthrush ranges through South and Southeast Asia. It is diurnal and gregarious, and the described subspecies has a dark breast necklace and a white eyebrow.

• Moluccan Island Thrush Turdus deningeri

  The Moluccan Island Thrush occurs on separate Moluccan islands. The 2024 Clements treatment includes the Seram population and tentatively includes the Taliabu form. Seram birds are black-bodied with an indistinct white hood.

• Orange-winged Pytilia Pytilia afra

  The Orange-winged Pytilia is a waxbill with conspicuous orange-yellow wings. It feeds on grass seeds and insects on the ground; the female’s wing color is duller than the male’s.

• Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta

  Rock Ptarmigan live in Arctic and alpine habitats and change plumage with the seasons. The population in Japan is the subspecies known as the Japanese Rock Ptarmigan.

• Jungle Myna Acridotheres fuscus

  A starling native from South Asia to the Malay Peninsula. Its crown feathers stand up, and it uses farmland, towns, and parks.

• Pacific Swallow Hirundo tahitica

  The Pacific Swallow has a metallic blue back and chestnut on the forehead and throat. In Singapore, it is recorded year-round from mangroves to urban areas.

• Olivaceous Piha Snowornis cryptolophus

  This cotinga has olive plumage and yellow bare skin around the eye. It uses the middle levels of Andean montane forest, where it may sit still before sallying for insects or taking fruit from hanging branches.

• Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni

  This seed-eating bird lives in montane forests, including parts of East Africa. It has a conspicuously heavy bill and pale wingbars. The guide notes geographic variation in the pale forehead area and streaking.

• White-collared Kite Leptodon forbesi

  The White-collared Kite is a raptor with a white band at the back of its neck. It has been recorded soaring over Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil.

• Belford's Honeyeater Melidectes belfordi

  This large honeyeater inhabits high-elevation forests of New Guinea's central ranges. White scaling on the back and a stripe across the black head are useful field marks.

• Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta

  This grassland bird is known for a black V on its yellow breast and a flutelike song. It searches the ground for seeds and insects.

• Rufous Spinetail Synallaxis unirufa

  This long-tailed ovenbird lives in the understory of humid Andean forests. The account describes four regional forms, so the nominate form's color is distinguished from variation elsewhere.

• African Rock Pipit Anthus crenatus

  This pipit lives in rocky highlands of South Africa and Lesotho. Its plumage differs with sex and age.

• Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys

  The Shining-blue Kingfisher has blue upperparts and orange-chestnut underparts. It catches fish and other aquatic prey around tropical African waters.

• Lacrimose Mountain Tanager Anisognathus lacrymosus

  This tanager lives in humid Andean forests. Its blue upperparts and orange-yellow underparts stand out, and it often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Nimba Flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae

  This black flycatcher is recorded in Sierra Leone’s Gola Forest National Park. It lives inside primary forest and catches insects in the canopy or from crevices in branches.