Meet the world’s animals.

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• Iphis Monarch Pomarea iphis

  

  The Iphis Monarch occurs on Ua Huka in the Marquesas Islands. It lives in valley forests and eats insects. Its plumage differs by sex and age.

• Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis

  Its streaky brown plumage blends into open fields, while breeding males sing during high flights.

• Baya Weaver Ploceus philippinus

  A bird of grassland and wetland edges that weaves hanging nests from plant fibres.

• Fearful Owl Asio solomonensis

  The Fearful Owl is a medium-sized owl without ear-tufts. White markings form an X across its face, and it has yellow eyes and streaked brown plumage.

• Rufous-backed Thrush Turdus rufopalliatus

  It resembles an American Robin but lacks a white eye-ring, and has rufous on the back and wings. It often hides in woods and dense thickets.

• Pearly Antshrike Megastictus margaritatus

  An antshrike of Amazonian lowland forest. The sexes have different plumage, and records also come from northeastern and east-central Peru.

• Black-headed Bulbul Brachypodius melanocephalos

  The common color morph has a glossy black head with olive and yellow body plumage. Small groups feed on fruit in forests and forest edges from northeastern India through Southeast Asia.

• Hawaii Amakihi Chlorodrepanis virens

  This small Hawaiian honeycreeper is common on Hawaii, Maui, and Molokai and rare on Lanai. Males are bright yellow, females yellowish green, and birds move among leaves in search of nectar, insects, and fruit.

• Orange-winged Amazon Amazona amazonica

  Mostly green, it has blue and yellow head markings and orange on the wings. It feeds on fruit and seeds in tropical northern South America.

• Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata

  The Lesser Moorhen is a waterbird whose sexes differ in plumage. It is active by day, eats plant seeds and other food in wetlands, and occurs in part of the Afrotropical region.

• Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus

  The Rock Wren is a wren of dry rocky places in western North America. It probes rock crevices and searches for insects on the ground and among rocks.

• Sunda Crow Corvus enca

  The Sunda Crow is a black crow with a slender bill and a purplish sheen. On Borneo it also occurs along forest edges and near the coast.

• Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina

  The Cape May Warbler is a small bird that breeds in boreal forests of Canada and the northern United States. It uses varied woods and shrublands during migration and winter.

• Violet-green Swallow Tachycineta thalassina

  The Violet-green Swallow breeds in western North America. Its green and violet sheen and white facial markings make it distinctive.

• Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae

  It ranges from southern China to northern and eastern Vietnam. Males are blue-green and red; females and young birds are more yellow-olive. It also eats fruit and small insects.

• Red-pate Cisticola Cisticola ruficeps

  The Red-pate Cisticola is mainly an East African bird, with confirmed records in northeast Nigeria. The rust-red crown and gray back described below apply only to the breeding-plumaged scotoptera subspecies.

• Philippine Swiftlet Aerodramus mearnsi

  The Philippine Swiftlet is a small swiftlet found in the mountains of the Philippines. It has a shallowly forked tail and is often seen in flocks.

• Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus

  A nocturnal nightjar of East African woodland and savanna. It has a slender body and slightly elongated central tail feathers.

• Slender-billed Starling Onychognathus tenuirostris

  The Slender-billed Starling is an East African starling with a long, narrow bill and glossy dark plumage.

• Pale Chanting Goshawk Melierax canorus

  The Pale Chanting Goshawk is a raptor of open, dry country in southern Africa. It watches for prey from an exposed perch.

• Green-crowned Warbler Seicercus burkii

  A migratory leaf warbler of the lower Himalayan belt. It searches evergreen forest and bamboo for small invertebrates and moves to lower elevations in winter.

• Yunnan Fulvetta Alcippe fratercula

  This small bird lives from southern China into northern Indochina, in evergreen broadleaf forest, secondary forest, bamboo and scrub. It has a grey head, a blackish crown stripe and a white eye-ring.

• Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus

  A duck whose breeding male is slate blue with white markings and chestnut sides; it breeds in fast streams and winters on rough rocky coasts.

• Grey-bellied Comet Taphrolesbia griseiventris

  A long-tailed hummingbird of the dry hills of north-central Peru. One female fed insects to nestlings, while another was building a nest beneath a mossy earth overhang.