Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little Stint Calidris minuta

  

  A tiny wader that passes through the UK on migration. Many pass in autumn, and most migrate to Africa for winter.

• Flightless Steamer-Duck Tachyeres pteneres

  The Flightless Steamer-Duck is a large duck that cannot fly and lives along coasts and channels. It is mostly gray, with a white belly and orange bill and legs.

• Short-tailed Lark Spizocorys fremantlii

  The Short-tailed Lark is a small lark, about 14–15 cm long. It walks on rocky ground and short-grass plains to eat seeds, and may also occur near human habitation.

• Mottled Wood Owl Strix ocellata

  The Mottled Wood Owl is a large owl without ear tufts, marked with reddish-brown and white mottling. It uses gardens and open woodland near dry forests and calls at dawn and dusk.

• Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis

  The Yellow-throated Cuckoo is a cuckoo of forests in western and central Africa. The male has a yellow throat, and the species feeds mainly on caterpillars.

• Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea

  This small African bird occurs in eastern Africa, including Kenya, and parts of western Africa. It uses montane forest, woodland, and thickets.

• Goliath Heron Ardea goliath

  A large heron that waits for fish in shallow water. Its grey body contrasts with its chestnut head, neck, and belly.

• White-throated Babbler Argya gularis

  It inhabits dry scrub in central and southern Myanmar, feeding in small groups mainly on the ground.

• Tristan Thrush Turdus eremita

  An island thrush endemic to the Tristan da Cunha group in the South Atlantic. On Tristan da Cunha it is mainly reported around the mountain base and gulches; on Nightingale and Inaccessible it occurs across all habitats described by the island account.

• Arabian Waxbill Estrilda rufibarba

  The Arabian Waxbill is a small bird with a noticeable red eyebrow. It feeds on grass seeds by day and is recorded in vegetated highlands near water in Saudi Arabia.

• Chukar Alectoris chukar

  Native to southern Eurasia, the Chukar also has introduced populations in rocky, dry country of western North America.

• Grosbeak Starling Scissirostrum dubium

  This starling is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It lives mostly in tropical lowlands and lightly wooded forest and excavates nest cavities in rotting or dying trunks.

• Chestnut-collared Swallow Petrochelidon rufocollaris

  This swallow occurs in western Peru and Ecuador, from lowlands to Andean foothills. The Peru Aves account describes it over scrub, deciduous woodland, and farmland.

• Peruvian Plantcutter Phytotoma raimondii

  It has a short, notched bill; males are mainly grey and females are brown with dark streaks. The species remains in dry forest and scrub along Peru's coast.

• Blanford's Rosefinch Agraphospiza rubescens

  This rosefinch lives in mountain areas from south-eastern Tibet and north-western Yunnan to parts of central China. Males are crimson, while females are mainly brown.

• Pallas's Fish Eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus

  Pallas's Fish Eagle is a large raptor found across parts of central, southern, and eastern Asia. It uses rivers and wetlands where it can catch fish.

• Crimson Chat Epthianura tricolor

  This Australian bird lives in dry inland areas and open country in the west and south. Adult males stand out with red on the head, breast and rump and a black facial mask.

• Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna

  The Eastern Meadowlark lives in grasslands and farmland in eastern North America and searches for food on the ground.

• Grey-crested Cacholote Pseudoseisura unirufa

  This ovenbird occurs in seasonally flooded savannas and woodland in parts of Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil. It has mainly rufous-cinnamon plumage and a greyish crest.

• Blyth's Pipit Anthus godlewskii

  Blyth's Pipit migrates and uses rocky hills, grassland, and open marshy ground. It searches the ground for small invertebrates.

• Beach Kingfisher Todiramphus saurophagus

  The Beach Kingfisher is a white-and-blue coastal kingfisher. It nests in tree cavities near the shore and catches fish, crabs, and insects.

• Blue-browed Tanager Tangara cyanotis

  The blue-green eyebrow contrasts with the black mask, crown, and back. This tanager lives in humid lower Yungas forest and mainly eats fruit.

• Rufous-tailed Shama Trichixos pyrropygus

  This shama has a warm brown body and rufous tail. It skulks alone in lowland forest understorey and searches near the ground for insects.

• Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata

  The Red-legged Crake is a rail of wet forests and wetlands. In Singapore it has been recorded in a limited part of the country.