Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pearl-bellied White-eye Zosterops grayi

  

  This small bird has yellowish plumage, a white belly, and a broad white eye-ring. It is found only on Kai Besar Island in Indonesia.

• Nutmeg Mannikin Lonchura punctulata

  A small finch with scalloped markings on its chest. It feeds on grass seeds, and flocks are seen in Singapore parks.

• Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii

  This sandpiper has long, tapering wings and migrates from Arctic breeding grounds to South America. It often forages on dry ground away from water.

• Scaly Laughingthrush Trochalopteron subunicolor

  The Scaly Laughingthrush occurs in eastern Himalayan mountain forest and scrub, and may move to lower elevations in winter. A museum specimen is also recorded from Mount Fansipan in northern Vietnam.

• Delta Amacuro Softtail Thripophaga amacurensis

  A softtail known from seasonally flooded forest in the southern Orinoco Delta of Venezuela. Fine pale streaks mark its back and underparts.

• Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica

  The Dark-sided Flycatcher breeds in northern Asia and winters in southern China and Southeast Asia.

• Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor

  The Swift Parrot has a green body and a striking red face. It breeds in Tasmania and moves to mainland Australia in search of flowering trees.

• Plain Mountain Finch Leucosticte nemoricola

  This finch lives in high mountains from the Himalayas across the Tibetan Plateau into central China. It forages for seeds on the ground and may form flocks outside the breeding season.

• 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.

• Green Thorntail Discosura conversii

  This small hummingbird occurs from Central America into western South America. Males are iridescent green with elongated pointed tail feathers; females have shorter tails and a white moustachial stripe.

• Chestnut-breasted Malkoha Phaenicophaeus curvirostris

  The Chestnut-breasted Malkoha is a large cuckoo of forests from the Malay Peninsula to the Sunda Islands. It has a long tail and curved bill.

• Kikau Foulehaio procerior

  The Kikau, or western wattled honeyeater, lives on islands of Fiji. It uses forests and mangroves and mainly eats flower nectar and insects, often foraging in or just below the canopy. This account follows the current species treatment of Foulehaio procerior.

• Bearded Screech Owl Megascops barbarus

  This small owl is 16–20 cm long. It lives in highland pine, pine-oak, and cloud forest and is active at night.

• Relict Gull Ichthyaetus relictus

  The Relict Gull breeds in Central and East Asia and moves to the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea region for winter. Wintering first-year birds have been recorded on the mudflats of Deep Bay, Hong Kong.

• Crimson-backed Sunbird Leptocoma minima

  The Crimson-backed Sunbird is a small bird endemic to India's Western Ghats. A breeding male has a purple throat and crimson rump, and the species feeds on nectar and small prey.

• Montezuma Oropendola Psarocolius montezuma

  This oropendola ranges through lowlands from Mexico into Central America. Males are about 50 cm and females about 37.5 cm; birds breed in colonies that suspend long, pouch-like nests from branches.

• Green-tailed Towhee Pipilo chlorurus

  The Green-tailed Towhee is marked by a green tail, rusty crown, and gray face and breast. It breeds in western U.S. shrublands and moves south to the southern United States and Mexico for winter.

• Gray-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis

  This small rail lives in wet grass and marshes. It has brown upperparts, a gray head and breast, and pale bars on the flanks. It moves through grass and has records in Ecuador and nearby Amazonian regions.

• Amur Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone incei

  In Hong Kong it is recorded mainly as an autumn passage migrant, with fewer spring records. The Hong Kong avifauna says it prefers closed-canopy woodland. Males in breeding plumage grow long central tail feathers.

• Atlantic Petrel Pterodroma incerta

  The Atlantic Petrel breeds on South Atlantic islands and spends the non-breeding season at sea. A study of birds at sea found cephalopods such as squid among their main foods.

• White-headed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne albiceps

  The White-headed Saw-wing is a small, stocky swallow with a short tail. It catches insects in flight around woodland and forest edges.

• Chihuahuan Raven Corvus cryptoleucus

  The Chihuahuan Raven lives in dry grasslands and desert scrub. It forms flocks year-round and searches widely for food.

• Kofiau Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera ellioti

  This kingfisher is restricted to Kofiau Island in Indonesia. Its blue head, white body, and long central tail feathers are striking. Little is known about its ecology, and its feeding behavior is presented as probable.

• Benguela Long-billed Lark Certhilauda benguelensis

  This lark inhabits dry, stony grassland from Angola to northwestern Namibia. It searches the ground for small invertebrates and seeds.