Meet the world’s animals.

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• Moussier's Redstart Phoenicurus moussieri

  

  A redstart of North Africa, it catches small invertebrates on the ground in open woodland and scrub.

• Ruddy Crake Laterallus ruber

  A small crake of wetlands and wet forests. Its head is dull black, its wings and back are reddish brown, and the male has a rusty breast. It searches for food at shallow water and mud surfaces.

• Naked-faced Spiderhunter Arachnothera clarae

  The Naked-faced Spiderhunter has a long, curved bill and orange bare skin at its base. It inhabits forest and scrub in the Philippines and favors plantain flowers.

• Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis

  A seabird of the northern Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans. It glides over open water and gathers on coastal cliffs to breed.

• White-eyed Prinia Schistolais leontica

  This prinia includes a documented record from the Fouta Djalon highlands of Guinea. English accounts use both White-eyed Prinia and Sierra Leone Prinia.

• White-naped Swift Streptoprocne semicollaris

  This large swift occurs in the mountains of Mexico. It catches flying insects above forests and uses caves or cliff crevices for roosting and nesting.

• Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes

  A shorebird with bright yellow legs and a thin bill. It breeds in northern North America and uses shallow wetlands during migration.

• Green-backed Honeyeater Glycichaera fallax

  This honeyeater occurs in northern Australia and around New Guinea. It has an olive back, a pale cream-colored belly, a white iris with a pale eye-ring, and feeds among foliage, moving from tree to tree.

• African Citril Crithagra citrinelloides

  A small yellow-green finch, with a dark facial pattern in males of the nominate subspecies. It occurs in highland grasslands and forest edges in East Africa.

• Asir Magpie Pica asirensis

  This long-tailed magpie is restricted to the mountains of southwestern Arabia and has white patches on its belly and sides.

• Curve-winged Sabrewing Pampa curvipennis

  The Curve-winged Sabrewing occurs in the eastern Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. An 1887 regional account describes the male with a blue crown, bronze-green upperparts and iron-grey underparts.

• Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria

  The Tambourine Dove is a shy dove of woodland and thickets in sub-Saharan Africa and the Comoros. It often forages on the ground and is usually seen alone or in pairs.

• Buff-breasted Wren Cantorchilus leucotis

  It lives in secondary lowland forest along rivers from central Panama through northern South America. Pairs sing duets, and the birds search the understory for terrestrial invertebrates.

• Pale-legged Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes

  The Pale-legged Leaf Warbler breeds in East Asia and winters farther south in Southeast Asia. It has olive-brown upperparts and a pale eyebrow.

• Indian Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone paradisi

  The Indian Paradise Flycatcher catches insects while darting among branches. Some males have greatly elongated central tail feathers.

• Lesser Horned Owl Bubo magellanicus

  The Lesser Horned Owl ranges from central Peru toward the southern tip of South America. It hunts in open country and roosts or nests in scrub, forest edges, and similar sites.

• Golden-winged Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus calopterus

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher is about 9.5 cm long. It forages in dense understory at forest edges and in second growth; in northern Peru it is recorded along the Andean foothills up to about 600 m.

• Banggai Golden Bulbul Hypsipetes harterti

  KOMIU, a local forest-care foundation, presents Hypsipetes harterti as the Banggai Golden Bulbul. Its profile lists forest and mixed plantations as habitat and gives a photo locality on Bakalan Island.

• Black Skimmer Rynchops niger

  The Black Skimmer is a waterbird of American coasts, estuaries, and lagoons. It catches small fish by flying just above the water with its longer lower bill cutting the surface.

• Strange Weaver Ploceus alienus

  The Strange Weaver lives in montane forest of the Albertine Rift and searches among branches and leaves for small invertebrates. Natural-history details are sparse, so nest construction and social behavior are not described here.

• Sombre Nightjar Caprimulgus fraenatus

  The Sombre Nightjar catches flying insects on the wing and lives in open stony bushland, scrub and grassland.

• Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara

  The male is deep red and black, while the female is red and olive brown. It searches for small seeds on the ground and uses savanna, grassland, and cultivated areas.

• Spectacled Thrush Turdus nudigenis

  The Spectacled Thrush occurs in the Lesser Antilles and parts of South America, including Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil. It uses open places with trees and shrubs to search for fruit and small prey.

• Masked Cardinal Paroaria nigrogenis

  This tanager-like bird occurs in northeastern Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad. It uses wetlands and mangroves near water.