Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mantled Hawk Pseudastur polionotus

  

  The Mantled Hawk is a large hawk with white and slate-grey plumage and a short tail. It lives in humid hilly forest and hunts reptiles, small mammals, and birds.

• Ruvu Weaver Ploceus holoxanthus

  The Ruvu Weaver is recorded along rivers in eastern Tanzania. A 2021 study treats it as distinct from the African Golden Weaver and reports adult plumage features and nests documented in riverside vegetation.

• Rough-crested Malkoha Dasylophus superciliosus

  This malkoha occurs in the Philippines. In moist lowland forest it moves through vine tangles while searching for large insects and other prey. Differences in body traits among island populations and subspecies have also been reported.

• Giant Laughingthrush Ianthocincla maxima

  This large laughingthrush is found in China. It uses mountain scrub along forest edges, rhododendron thickets, and meadows.

• White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus

  In breeding plumage, its black body and silvery-white wings stand out. It breeds in eastern Europe and western Asia.

• Cloud-forest Screech Owl Megascops marshalli

  This screech-owl inhabits cloud forest on the eastern Andes of central Peru. The account also reports a recent discovery in Bolivia.

• Crested Ibon Lophozosterops dohertyi

  This white-eye-family bird occurs in forests of Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands. It is about 12 cm long and feeds on fruit.

• Bar-tailed Lark Ammomanes cinctura

  This small lark has inconspicuous plumage. It forages on the desert ground in small flocks and seeks shade during the hottest part of the day.

• Black-throated Sunbird Aethopyga saturata

  Male Black-throated Sunbirds have a black throat and breast, a maroon back, and a purple iridescent head. They use forests and forest edges and feed mainly on nectar.

• Red-fronted Coot Fulica rufifrons

  The Red-fronted Coot is a waterbird with a blackish head and neck, a grey body, and white undertail feathers. A red frontal shield sits above its yellow bill.

• Pycroft's Petrel Pterodroma pycrofti

  Pycroft's Petrel breeds on islands off the northeastern North Island of New Zealand. It is active at night around colonies and feeds on small crustaceans and squid near the sea surface during long flights.

• Citril Finch Carduelis citrinella

  A small finch with a gray head and yellow-green cheeks, rump, and underparts. It feeds on plant seeds in open mountain woods and meadows.

• White-cheeked starling Spodiopsar cineraceus

  A bird of settlements and towns with trees in East Asia. In Japan, flocks gather at shared roosts after breeding.

• 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.

• Golden-cheeked Warbler Setophaga chrysoparia

  The Golden-cheeked Warbler is a small bird whose adult male has golden cheeks against black plumage. Its breeding grounds are juniper-oak woodlands in central Texas.

• Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica

  The Blue-breasted Kingfisher is a large blue kingfisher. In reserves in the Republic of the Congo it is described as a forest-interior bird, more often heard than seen.

• Wetar Ground Dove Pampusana hoedtii

  The Wetar Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling dove whose plumage differs strongly between males and females.

• Double-barred Finch Taeniopygia bichenovii

  The Double-barred Finch is a small Australian finch that eats seeds and insects in dry grassy woodland and scrub. It is also recorded near water and on farmland.

• Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus

  A small snipe that hides in wet grassland and visits Britain for the winter, from autumn into spring.

• Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis

  With a white face and black neck, this goose migrates from Arctic breeding areas to UK coasts and estuaries for winter.

• Greyish Baywing Agelaioides badius

  This icterid lives in central and southern South America, using open woodland, scrub, and grassland with scattered trees.

• Przevalski's Partridge Alectoris magna

  This partridge lives on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in China. A narrow, almost broken tawny-brown neck band helps distinguish it.

• Mottled Piculet Picumnus nebulosus

  The Mottled Piculet is a tiny woodpecker, about 10–11 cm long. Its back is olive-brown, and its belly has dark marks. It lives in moist lowland forest in southeastern South America and also searches for food in dead bamboo.

• Jonquil Parrot Aprosmictus jonquillaceus

  The Jonquil Parrot comprises two subspecies on Timor, Roti, and Wetar. A male of the nominate subspecies is green with a blue rump and red wing patches, and the species uses woodland and Acacia savanna.