Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hildebrandt's Starling Lamprotornis hildebrandti

  

  Hildebrandt's Starling is resident in Kenya and northeastern Tanzania. It uses dry woodland and scrub and has been recorded foraging on foot near livestock.

• Streaked Weaver Ploceus manyar

  A weaver of the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, the Streaked Weaver may gather in flocks in grassy habitats.

• White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis

  The White-rumped Sandpiper is a small shorebird that breeds in the Arctic and migrates to South America. In flight, white feathers covering the base of the tail stand out.

• Nicaraguan Grackle Quiscalus nicaraguensis

  This grackle lives in marshes, lake edges, riverside areas, pastures, and flooded scrub. It travels and forages in groups ranging from small parties to large flocks. In Nicaragua, it also occurs along large-lake shores and nearby wetlands.

• Tree Martin Petrochelidon nigricans

  The Tree Martin has a glossy blue-black head and back, a red-brown forehead, and a light gray rump. It catches insects in flight.

• Mangrove Sunbird Anthreptes gabonicus

  A small sunbird of mangroves and riverine forest, with a pale eyebrow and a short, down-curved bill. It gleans insects from foliage and also drinks nectar.

• Lark Bunting Calamospiza melanocorys

  Breeding males are black with a white wing patch, while females, young birds, and males outside the breeding season are brown. It gathers in grasslands and shrubsteppe of the Great Plains.

• Grey-flanked Cinclodes Cinclodes oustaleti

  Cinclodes oustaleti lives near Andean streams and lakes. It is dark brown, with a white eyebrow and throat, a pale-flecked dark breast, and a cinnamon wing-bar. It moves to lower elevations in winter.

• Dupont's Lark Chersophilus duponti

  Dupont's Lark has a pale eyebrow and a short, white-edged tail. It feeds on seeds and insects on the ground in dry grassland.

• Perija Metaltail Metallura iracunda

  The Perija Metaltail is a small hummingbird restricted to the Perija Mountains on the Colombia–Venezuela border.

• Andean Solitaire Myadestes ralloides

  The Andean Solitaire often lives alone in Andean forests and has a gray face and breast with a brown back.

• Grace's Warbler Setophaga graciae

  This warbler inhabits mature pine forests from western North America into Central America. It searches for insects in the upper parts of trees.

• Cordillera Azul Antbird Myrmoderus eowilsoni

  This antbird is known from the Cordillera Azul of Peru. The describing paper reports it walking on the ground in humid montane forest and, at the time, known only from one ridge.

• Green-winged Teal Anas carolinensis

  The Green-winged Teal is a small North American duck, notable for the green stripe on the male's head. It feeds near the water's surface and moves between breeding and wintering areas with the seasons.

• Northern Rosella Platycercus venustus

  This parrot lives in woodlands and savanna across northern Australia. Its black head and back contrast with yellow cheeks and underparts, while blue shows on the wings and tail.

• Greater Black Coucal Centropus menbeki

  The Greater Black Coucal is recorded from forest, scrub, and freshwater swamps on New Guinea. Adults have glossy blue-green black plumage, while juveniles look different.

• Hoary-throated Barwing Actinodura nipalensis

  This barwing occurs in the Eastern Himalaya, including Nepal. A pale throat and faint arcs around the eye are distinctive; winter records may occur at lower elevations.

• African Black Swift Apus barbatus

  The African Black Swift catches insects in flight. The nominate subspecies in South Africa is described as partly migratory.

• African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus

  Males are smaller and greyer, while females are larger and mainly brown. It flies low over coastal and inland wetlands in search of prey and ranges from eastern to southern Africa.

• Emerald Tanager Tangara florida

  The Emerald Tanager searches for fruit in the canopy of humid montane forest and also finds small invertebrates in moss on branches.

• MacGillivray's Prion Pachyptila macgillivrayi

  A seabird breeding around St Paul Island in the southern Indian Ocean and on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. It eats small crustaceans at sea and ranges widely outside the breeding season.

• Bar-winged Prinia Prinia familiaris

  The Bar-winged Prinia has an olive back marked by white wing bars. It searches for insects in gardens, parks, and secondary growth on Sumatra, Java, and Bali.

• Socorro Wren Troglodytes sissonii

  The Socorro Wren is a wren of Socorro Island, Mexico. Species accounts record it in dry forest and dry shrubland.

• Orange River Francolin Scleroptila gutturalis

  The Orange River Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird of dry grassland in southern Africa. It has a striking black-and-white pattern from the sides of the neck toward the throat, and the sexes have similar plumage.