Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Myna Acridotheres tristis

  

  A brown bird with a black head and a yellow bare patch behind the eye. In Singapore, it is an introduced resident of urban areas.

• Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis

  The Red-browed Finch lives in eastern Australia, in grassy areas and along creeks. Small flocks search for grass seeds and insects, and the bright red eyebrow, rump, and bill are distinctive.

• Bornean Spiderhunter Arachnothera everetti

  The Bornean Spiderhunter inhabits lowland and submontane forest and forest edges in Borneo. It has an olive back and streaked grey underparts, and feeds mainly on understory nectar.

• Socorro Dove Zenaida graysoni

  This dove is extinct in the wild but survives under expert care. Its last wild record was in 1972; a return to Socorro Island is planned after invasive species are removed.

• Nava's Wren Hylorchilus navai

  This wren lives among limestone outcrops in lowland evergreen forest in Mexico. It searches for small invertebrates on rocks and in crevices.

• Black-chinned Antbird Hypocnemoides melanopogon

  This antbird lives in lowland areas north of the Amazon and Marañón rivers and searches for food in waterside shrubs and overhanging vegetation. Males show gray and black plumage; females have a paler belly center.

• Guira Tanager Hemithraupis guira

  This tanager occurs widely in Amazonia and elsewhere in South America. In Tumbes, northwestern Peru, the regional account says it seems limited to mangroves near sea level.

• Chattering Giant-Honeyeater Gymnomyza viridis

  This is a large honeyeater recorded in forests on Taveuni, Fiji. Field notes from 1970 describe visits to wild banana flowers and pandanus, as well as pairs feeding one another.

• Lesser Cuckooshrike Coracina fimbriata

  This cuckooshrike occurs in forests across Southeast Asia. The Singapore account lists it as a former resident there and now a very rare visitor.

• Himalayan Bulbul Pycnonotus leucogenys

  The Himalayan Bulbul is a bulbul with a black face and throat set off by a white cheek patch. It uses foothill woodland, scrub, gardens, and towns.

• Scale-throated Earthcreeper Upucerthia dumetaria

  In northwestern Patagonia, this ground-dwelling bird uses forest edges and shrub steppe. It walks as it forages and nests in tunnels dug in soil.

• Red Knot Calidris canutus

  A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and travels to distant coasts during migration. Its belly turns orange-red in breeding plumage.

• Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis

  The Red-necked Buzzard is a hawk with a chestnut head and neck and a reddish tail. It searches for prey from perches along woodland edges and in open areas.

• Tanimbar Flycatcher Ficedula riedeli

  A flycatcher of the Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia, using both primary and secondary lowland forest. The adult's white eyebrow and richer rufous breast are noted as identification characters.

• Bumblebee Hummingbird Selasphorus heloisa

  The Bumblebee Hummingbird occurs in Mexico. An early naturalist account says males used forest as their main setting but also visited wildflowers.

• Mishana Tyrannulet Zimmerius villarejoi

  This small tyrannulet occurs in a restricted part of northern Peru. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid forest and in secondary growth, sometimes alone.

• Crimson Shining Parrot Prosopeia splendens

  The Crimson Shining Parrot lives in forests and farmland on Fiji's islands. It has a red head and belly, with a broad blue band around the neck.

• White-browed Piculet Sasia ochracea

  The White-browed Piculet is a small woodpecker with green upperparts, a rufous rump, and a white stripe behind the eye. It searches for ants and other small prey in low, dense vegetation near bamboo or water.

• Silvereye Zosterops lateralis

  A small bird seen in Australia and other regions, with a conspicuous white eye-ring. It eats insects, fruit and nectar.

• Moorland Francolin Scleroptila psilolaema

  This francolin occurs on mountaintops in the Ethiopian highlands, in Afroalpine and sub-Afroalpine environments.

• Rusty-crowned Ground Sparrow Melozone kieneri

  A ground-dwelling sparrow of western Mexico, occurring in dry scrub and open woodland.

• African Black Swift Apus barbatus

  The African Black Swift catches insects in flight. The nominate subspecies in South Africa is described as partly migratory.

• Desert Eagle Owl Bubo ascalaphus

  This large owl lives among rocks in dry country and searches for prey at night.

• Red-billed Blue Magpie Urocissa erythroryncha

  The Red-billed Blue Magpie has a blue body, black head, red bill, and long tail. It is a familiar resident bird in Hong Kong.