Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Pearl-breasted Swallow Hirundo dimidiata

  This small swallow lives in scattered parts of southern Africa. It can be overlooked among similar swallows, yet recorded nest sites range from animal burrows to buildings and bridges.

• Pale-breasted Thrush Turdus leucomelas

  The Pale-breasted Thrush is a brownish bird with a grayish crown, streaked throat, and yellowish bill. It occurs across much of lowland South America.

• Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens

  Two birds were recorded foraging in open hillside woodland at Akagera National Park, Rwanda. The reported birds had green backs and wings, white throats, yellow breasts and bellies, and a dark band through the eye.

• Peruvian Tern Sternula lorata

  The Peruvian Tern occurs along the Humboldt Current, from southern Ecuador to northern Chile. It is a small tern whose breeding sites also include dry plains inland from the coast.

• Spotted Whistling Duck Dendrocygna guttata

  The Spotted Whistling Duck has a reddish-brown breast with fine dark markings and reddish-brown scaling on its white flanks. It lives in wetlands and feeds on grass seeds and snails at twilight and night.

• Green Parakeet Psittacara holochlorus

  The Green Parakeet is mostly green and has a long, pointed tail. Within its natural range it uses tropical and subtropical woodlands, farmland, and plantations.

• White-winged Grosbeak Mycerobas carnipes

  The White-winged Grosbeak is a highland bird with a dark head and a conspicuous white wing patch. In Yunnan, China, it uses coniferous and mixed forests and feeds mainly on plant seeds.

• Fan-tailed Warbler Basileuterus lachrymosus

  This warbler lives in the understory of woods in Mexico and Central America. It moves near the ground and flicks or fans its long tail to show the white tips.

• Pied Starling Lamprotornis bicolor

  Its glossy dark brown back contrasts with a white belly. In southern African grasslands and farmland, it forages for insects on the ground, often in flocks.

• Madagascar Mannikin Lemuresthes nana

  Lepidopygia nana is a small finch found widely across Madagascar. It eats grass seeds and often forages in flocks of its own species.

• Banded Green Sunbird Anthreptes rubritorques

  This sunbird lives in Tanzania's mountain forests. Males have a red breast band, and birds search for nectar and small insects high in trees.

• Metallic Pigeon Columba vitiensis

  The Metallic Pigeon has purple and green sheen on the crown, a yellow bill, and red skin around the eye. It searches for fruit and other foods in island forests and nearby areas.

• Ochraceous Wren Troglodytes ochraceus

  The Ochraceous Wren is a small wren about 9.5 cm long and 9.5 g. It is recorded in Costa Rica’s humid mountain forest, nearby second growth and pastures with scattered trees.

• Ferruginous-backed Antbird Myrmoderus ferrugineus

  This antbird lives in forests from the Guianas to northern Brazil. It walks on the forest floor and searches for food among leaf litter. Males and females differ in throat color.

• Ruby-crowned Tanager Tachyphonus coronatus

  Males are black and females reddish brown. It uses moist forest, forest edges, and secondary growth, feeding on fruit and insects.

• Striped Honeyeater Plectorhyncha lanceolata

  This honeyeater lives in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia, often near rivers. Bold black head stripes stand out against its grey-brown plumage, and it feeds among lower canopy foliage.

• Long-tailed Minivet Pericrocotus ethologus

  The Long-tailed Minivet male is notable for a black head and red on the wings. It searches for insects in treetops and is usually social outside the breeding season.

• Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris

  This bulbul forages through leaf litter in southern African forests. It is shy and may form small groups outside the breeding season.

• Guianan Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes albolineatus

  The Guianan Woodcreeper lives in humid forests north of the Amazon River and in the Guianas and eastern Venezuela. It climbs trunks to find insects and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Javan Woodcock Scolopax saturata

  The Javan Woodcock inhabits damp montane forests of Java and Sumatra. It probes the forest floor with its long bill, and observations on Java recorded display behaviour at dawn and dusk.

• White-throated Hawk Buteo albigula

  The White-throated Hawk has brown-and-white plumage with chestnut on the neck and chest. In Argentina it is recorded in Andean-Patagonian forest and the northwest.

• Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucura

  The male is black with a white rump and tail, while the female is browner.

• Racket-tipped Thorntail Discosura longicaudus

  This small hummingbird lives in northern South America. The male’s outer tail feathers are greatly elongated and end in racket-shaped tips.