Meet the world’s animals.

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• Barrow’s Goldeneye Bucephala islandica

  

  This diving duck has an adult male with a purplish head and long white crescent, while females have brown heads.

• White-winged Swallow Tachycineta albiventer

  The White-winged Swallow has a glossy blue-green back, white underside, and conspicuous white wing patch. It pursues prey low over water or land.

• Greyish Baywing Agelaioides badius

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

• White-winged Apalis Apalis chariessa

  The White-winged Apalis is a small East African bird with black upperparts, yellow underparts and white wings. It searches for insects in the canopy and along forest edges.

• Varzea Thrush Turdus sanchezorum

  This western Amazonian thrush was described as a distinct species in 2011. It is associated mainly with várzea forest along large tributaries of the upper Amazon and Solimões system.

• Juan Fernandez Petrel Pterodroma externa

  The underside of the wings is white with dark tips and edges. It breeds on the Juan Fernández Islands and ranges over the open Pacific outside the breeding season.

• Sri Lanka White-eye Zosterops ceylonensis

  The Sri Lanka White-eye is endemic to the island's hills. It has a white eye-ring and moves in small groups through woodland and orchards.

• 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.

• Buff-bridled Inca Finch Incaspiza laeta

  This Inca finch occurs in Peru’s middle and upper Marañón drainage. Its grey head, black face, and broad buff cheek stripes are distinctive.

• Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus

  This nightjar is active after dark. Its grey and brown mottled plumage blends into open grassland and savanna.

• Tui Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

  This large honeyeater is endemic to New Zealand. It occurs from forest to suburban gardens and moves locally as flowering and fruiting plants change through the seasons.

• Three-striped Warbler Basileuterus tristriatus

  This warbler lives in mountain forests on the eastern Andean slope. Its yellow-olive body and black-and-white head stripes are distinctive. The Peru account notes duller birds in Puno than farther north.

• Grey-chinned Minivet Pericrocotus solaris

  The Grey-chinned Minivet differs in its red or yellow plumage by sex. In Hong Kong it is recorded almost exclusively in closed-canopy woodland, and some birds appear to move to lower areas in winter.

• Visayan Rhabdornis Rhabdornis rabori

  This bird is endemic to forest on Panay and Negros in the Philippines. It has a grey head and neck, a brown back, and dark tail and flight feathers, with a subtle facial mask and white streaks on the mantle. Field observations describe it high in the canopy or on exposed perches.

• Jamaican Parakeet Eupsittula nana

  The Jamaican Parakeet is a small green parakeet with olive coloring on the throat and upper breast. This account focuses on the Jamaican native form and on the habitat and food described for the species.

• Ochre-collared Monarch Arses insularis

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in northern New Guinea and on Yapen Island, from lowlands into the mountains. Males contrast black and white with an ochre collar; females are more subdued and brown-toned.

• Black-chinned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus leclancheri

  The Black-chinned Fruit Dove occurs mainly in the Philippines and is described as a very rare resident in Taiwan. It uses forest patches.

• Collared Kingfisher Todiramphus chloris

  The Collared Kingfisher has turquoise upperparts and a white collar and underside. In Singapore it is a resident found throughout the country, from coastal areas to parks.

• Spot-necked Bulbul Pycnonotus tympanistrigus

  The Spot-necked Bulbul is a bulbul found in the foothills of western Sumatra. Species data describe it as a forest-dwelling, fruit-eating resident.

• Rufous-and-white Wren Thryophilus rufalbus

  This wren lives in woodland and scrub in northwestern Costa Rica. Its rufous back and white eyebrow are distinctive; pairs place grass-and-root nests low in vegetation.

• Lesser Coucal Centropus bengalensis

  The Lesser Coucal has black plumage and chestnut wings and may be seen basking among grassland shrubs. The observations and range shown here are from its native population in Singapore.

• Little tern Sternula albifrons

  A small tern that visits Japan in warmer months to breed on beaches and river bars.

• Blue-faced Parrot-Finch Erythrura trichroa

  The Blue-faced Parrot-Finch is a small finch with a blue face. The detailed feeding and habitat observations here come from a study of the northern Australian subspecies macgillivrayi.

• Paint-billed Crake Mustelirallus erythrops

  The Paint-billed Crake is a small, 18–20 cm rail of seasonally wet grassland and freshwater marsh. It catches invertebrates on or near the ground and water.