Meet the world’s animals.

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• Galapagos Dove Zenaida galapagoensis

  

  Its brown wings have black-and-white bars, and its neck and chest are pinkish. It is more common in the dry lowlands of some islands.

• Silver-backed Needletail Hirundapus cochinchinensis

  This large swift has long, pointed wings and catches insects in flight. It is recorded in Hong Kong as a passage migrant.

• Spectacled Eider Somateria fischeri

  The Spectacled Eider is a sea duck whose breeding-plumage male has a green head and round white patches around the eyes. It breeds along Arctic coasts and gathers in openings in Bering Sea ice in winter.

• Painted Spurfowl Galloperdix lunulata

  The male has spotted black-green plumage and a golden-buff belly, while the female is mostly brown and olive. The species lives among dry rocky ground and thorn scrub in India.

• Jungle Myna Acridotheres fuscus

  A starling native from South Asia to the Malay Peninsula. Its crown feathers stand up, and it uses farmland, towns, and parks.

• Montane Nightjar Caprimulgus poliocephalus

  The Montane Nightjar is about 22–24 cm long. It is active at night and hunts insects in highland forest and semi-open places.

• Ashy Bulbul Hemixos flavala

  This bulbul lives in Asian forests. A Bangladesh account reports it in pairs or mixed flocks, feeding on nectar, fruit, and insects. The museum specimen is one male of a Laos subspecies.

• Yellow-vented Woodpecker Veniliornis dignus

  The Yellow-vented Woodpecker is a small woodpecker distributed from Venezuela through the Andes to Peru. A Colombian regional guide describes its life in mountain and secondary forest.

• Red Warbler Cardellina rubra

  Both sexes are vivid red with a gray or silver cheek patch. This warbler lives in the mountains of southern and western Mexico.

• Pygmy Ibon Oculocincta squamifrons

  This Bornean endemic has a patchy range in north-central Borneo. A survey in the Menyapa Mountains frequently recorded it at about 300 m.

• Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii

  A forest-dwelling finch of Africa. Males have a red back, green throat, and grey-green body.

• Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis

  This small shorebird breeds in the Northern Hemisphere and migrates to Australia. Its head and neck turn reddish-brown in breeding plumage.

• Grey-crowned Crocias Laniellus langbianis

  The Grey-crowned Crocias is confined to a small area around Vietnam's Da Lat Plateau. It has a gray crown and long tail and searches the middle and upper forest layers for small invertebrates.

• Straight-billed Woodcreeper Dendroplex picus

  The Straight-billed Woodcreeper has a long, straight, pale bill. The Peru account records it in riparian undergrowth and semi-open woodland edges.

• Large Blue-flycatcher Cyornis magnirostris

  The Large Blue-flycatcher breeds in eastern Himalayan foothill forests and winters in lowlands of the Thai-Malay Peninsula. The sexes have different plumage.

• Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius

  The Red-headed Lovebird is a small parrot with a red face and head and a green body. It moves in flocks, eats seeds and fruit, and nests in arboreal termite mounds.

• Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria

  The Lesser Goldfinch is a small finch with yellow, green, and black plumage. Flocks gather in trees and yards for seeds, and the species ranges from the western United States to the Peruvian Andes.

• St Lucia Amazon Amazona versicolor

  The St Lucia Amazon is a large parrot found only on Saint Lucia. It uses the forest canopy.

• Great-billed Hermit Phaethornis malaris

  The Great-billed Hermit lives in lowland forest across much of northern South America. Its long, curved bill and elongated central tail feathers are distinctive.

• Pheasant Cuckoo Dromococcyx phasianellus

  The Pheasant Cuckoo has a long tail and rufous crest and searches for food on the forest floor.

• Kadavu Honeyeater Meliphacator provocator

  A honeyeater from Kadavu Island, Fiji. The species account is headed Xanthotis provocator, an older combination, and notes its placement in Meliphacator under Clements.

• Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata

  This large owl has white markings around its eyes that look like spectacles. It is active at night and nests in tree cavities.

• Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis

  This tern has a white body, black cap and black bill with a yellow tip. Birds breeding in Britain and Ireland move to the West African coast for winter.

• Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus

  This sunbird lives in savanna and woodland in tropical West and Central Africa. Males show metallic green, blue, violet, and scarlet; females are mainly gray with yellow on the belly.