Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pale Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne obsoleta

  

  This small swallow flies near cliffs and gorges, catching insects in the air. It ranges from northern Africa through Arabia to southern Pakistan.

• White-bellied Treepie Dendrocitta leucogastra

  A corvid with a long tail and white belly, it lives in the humid hill forests of the Western Ghats.

• Pohnpei Kingfisher Todiramphus reichenbachii

  This kingfisher is endemic to Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. It occurs at forest edges and mangroves and excavates a nest burrow in rotten wood.

• Karoo Lark Calendulauda albescens

  This lark inhabits dry shrublands in South Africa. It walks on the ground and searches around shrub bases for seeds, insects, and other food.

• Rufous-bellied Eagle Lophotriorchis kienerii

  The Rufous-bellied Eagle is a forest-dwelling eagle named for its rusty-colored belly. It is active by day and hunts birds and small mammals in forests and along their edges.

• Long-billed Wren Cantorchilus longirostris

  This wren is endemic to Brazil. It has a long tail and bill, a prominent white eyebrow, and occurs at forest edges, in second growth, dry scrub, and mangroves.

• Christmas Island Thrush Turdus erythropleurus

  Turdus erythropleurus occurs on Christmas Island. The Parks Australia account treats it as a subspecies of Turdus poliocephalus under an older classification.

• Crimson-breasted Finch Rhodospingus cruentus

  A small finch of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Short seasonal movements have been reported in western Ecuador.

• Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii

  A bird with separated populations in western, central and eastern Africa. Breeding males are conspicuous for a black head and rump with an orange-yellow back.

• Parker's Antbird Cercomacroides parkeri

  A Colombian antbird of forest understory, with gray males and brown-and-cinnamon females.

• Stout Cisticola Cisticola robustus

  An East African bird guide describes a rufous crown and nape, a finely streaked crown, a brown blotched back and wings, and a black tail with white tips. It uses grassland and scattered bushes and sings from grass clumps or bush tops. A field survey also recorded it in south-east Angola.

• Yellowish Flycatcher Empidonax flavescens

  The Yellowish Flycatcher is marked by its yellowish belly and a pale eye-ring that broadens behind the eye. In Costa Rica, it uses the canopy and edges of moist mountain forest.

• Red Collared Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica

  The Red Collared Dove is a small dove that feeds on seeds on the ground in open grassland. Males and females have different plumage.

• American Black Swift Cypseloides niger

  The American Black Swift is a large swift that breeds in mountains of western North America. It moves south for winter, but its winter range is poorly known.

• Mandarin duck Aix galericulata

  A duck of wooded ponds and streams. Males in breeding plumage have ornamental feathers raised like sails above the back.

• Swamp Francolin Ortygornis gularis

  This ground-dwelling bird forages in wet grass and along wetland edges. It eats plants and seeds as well as invertebrates from the ground.

• Black-and-white Triller Lalage melanoleuca

  A triller of the Philippines. The source's detailed color description is specifically for a male of the nominate subspecies.

• White-faced Starling Sturnornis albofrontatus

  The White-faced Starling is endemic to Sri Lanka and has a white face with glossy black-green wings. It searches for fruit and nectar high in the canopy of wet forest.

• Salvadori's Nightjar Caprimulgus pulchellus

  Salvadori's Nightjar has dark plumage and a short tail. It is active at night in forests of Sumatra and Java, catching insects in flight; the wing patch differs between the sexes.

• Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus

  In Hong Kong, this bulbul forms flocks in forest canopies. Adults and young birds differ in head color.

• Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons

  The Golden-fronted Woodpecker has a yellow nape and lower belly. Males add a gold forehead and brilliant red crown.

• Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus

  This yellowish warbler searches among pine needles high in pine forests. It eats insects and also takes seeds, especially pine seeds, in colder months.

• Warbling white-eye Zosterops japonicus

  A small yellow-green bird of Japanese woods and gardens. A white ring around the eye gives it its name.

• Black Munia Lonchura stygia

  The Black Munia is a small finch of the southern New Guinea lowlands. Males are almost entirely black, and the species feeds on grass seeds in wetlands and tall grass.