Meet the world’s animals.

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• Orange-billed Babbler Argya rufescens

  

  The Orange-billed Babbler lives in flocks in Sri Lanka's wet-zone forests. Its reddish-brown body contrasts with a bright orange bill and legs.

• Helmeted Friarbird Philemon buceroides

  In northeastern Australia it uses lowland forest, forest edges, woodland, and mangroves. James Cook University records it as common on its Townsville campus.

• Black-vented Shearwater Puffinus opisthomelas

  The Black-vented Shearwater is a seabird with brown-black upperparts and pale underparts. It breeds off Baja California and also ranges in coastal waters of Mexico and California.

• Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra

  The Sooty Chat is a chat whose male has black plumage and a white wing patch. Females and juveniles are brown, and the species forages on the ground in grassland.

• Black-collared Jay Cyanolyca armillata

  The Black-collared Jay is a jay of Andean mountain forests.

• Parrot Crossbill Loxia pytyopsittacus

  The Parrot Crossbill is a crossbill of northern Europe that searches for pine seeds. In Britain it is scarce, with small numbers sometimes arriving from the north in winter.

• Pale-crowned Cisticola Cisticola cinnamomeus

  This cisticola occurs in eastern and southern Africa, in moist grassland and near wetlands. During the breeding season, the male has a brown crown while the female keeps streaks on hers.

• Mangrove Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia

  The Mangrove Yellow Warbler is a bright yellow songbird whose adult males have a chestnut hood. It searches for insects and spiders in American coastal mangroves and nearby scrub.

• Cuban Lizard-cuckoo Coccyzus merlini

  The Cuban Lizard-cuckoo has red skin around the eyes and a long tail. It lives in forest and scrub and eats lizards, frogs, and other small prey.

• Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor

  A shorebird that breeds in North American wetlands and gathers at western salt lakes during migration before travelling to South America. In breeding plumage females are brighter than males, and males raise the young after females leave.

• Black-headed Munia Lonchura malacca

  The Black-headed Munia is a small Asian finch with a dark head and chest and a chestnut back. It gathers in wet grasslands and rice fields to search for seeds.

• Pesquet's Parrot Psittrichas fulgidus

  Pesquet’s Parrot has a mostly bare face, dark upperparts, and red lower belly and underwings. Adult males have a red mark behind the eye.

• Golden Dove Ptilinopus luteovirens

  The Golden Dove is a Fijian fruit dove that feeds in the forest canopy. Males are golden while females and young are green; a 1970 field report often noted its bark-like call.

• Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

  A common North American hawk, it circles over open country on broad wings, riding rising air.

• Meratus White-eye Zosterops meratusensis

  Zosterops meratusensis was described from the Meratus Mountains of southeastern Borneo. The paper suggests that its range may be confined to this mountain area.

• Nile Valley Sunbird Hedydipna metallica

  The Nile Valley Sunbird has a striking breeding male with bright plumage and a long forked tail. Females and non-breeding males are duller.

• Sokoke Pipit Anthus sokokensis

  The Sokoke Pipit is a shy bird of coastal forests in Kenya and Tanzania, with Arabuko-Sokoke Forest as its stronghold.

• Ochre-collared Monarch Arses insularis

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in northern New Guinea and on Yapen Island, from lowlands into the mountains. Males contrast black and white with an ochre collar; females are more subdued and brown-toned.

• Hume's Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus humei

  Hume's Leaf Warbler breeds from Central Asia into China and migrates south for winter. The HKBWS account says most Hong Kong records are of subspecies mandellii.

• Pale-rumped Swift Chaetura egregia

  The Pale-rumped Swift is marked by pale rump and upper-tail coverts that contrast with its dark back and tail. It flies over continuous Amazonian forest.

• Fulvous-headed Tanager Thlypopsis fulviceps

  This tanager occurs in mountain forests of Colombia and Venezuela. It has a rufous head, gray back and tail, and gray to whitish underparts.

• Hispaniolan Pewee Contopus hispaniolensis

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in forests on Hispaniola. Its upperparts are dark grayish-olive and its throat is gray. It may sally from a perch to catch flying insects and return to the perch.

• Buru Cuckooshrike Coracina fortis

  The Buru Cuckooshrike is a grey forest bird from Buru Island, with black markings around the eye and on the chin.

• Black-billed Thrush Turdus ignobilis

  This thrush is noted for its black bill. Its chest markings vary, and in northern and western Bolivia it uses forest edges, riverside woods, the ground and trees.