Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-breasted Weaver Ploceus benghalensis

  

  The Black-breasted Weaver lives in freshwater wetlands with grass and reedbeds. It is active on the ground by day and feeds mainly on seeds.

• Black-chinned Hummingbird Archilochus alexandri

  The Black-chinned Hummingbird is a small hummingbird found across western North America into Mexico. A male's black chin can flash purple in the right light.

• Indian Swiftlet Aerodramus unicolor

  It is a small swiftlet of the Western Ghats of south-western India and Sri Lanka. It catches insects and other invertebrates in flight and builds dark nests of feathers and saliva in caves.

• Visayan Pygmy Babbler Dasycrotapha pygmaea

  A small bird of Leyte and Samar in the Philippines. It feeds at middle heights in forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• 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.

• Philippine Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia tenuirostris

  A long-tailed dove found on islands in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan.

• American Woodcock Scolopax minor

  This shorebird walks on the forest floor and probes the soil with its long bill for earthworms.

• Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris

  The Ring-necked Duck is a diving duck that also uses shallow wetlands. It breeds in northern North America and uses lakes and wetlands during migration and winter.

• Botha's Lark Spizocorys fringillaris

  This stocky lark inhabits highland grasslands in South Africa. It favors flat or gently sloping ground with short, dense grass, and the sexes look similar.

• Peruvian Screech Owl Megascops roboratus

  This owl ranges from southern Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It uses mostly dry woodland and semi-open landscapes with old trees that have cavities; both grey and red morphs occur.

• Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianinus

  The Pheasant Coucal is a large cuckoo relative with a long tail. It lives in grassland and scrub across northern and eastern Australia.

• Carruthers's Cisticola Cisticola carruthersi

  Males have a rich rusty head and nape, a dark softly mottled back with blackish edges, gray underparts, and a dark tail with white tips and bars. A 2006 survey recorded it as one of the most abundant species in three western Kenyan papyrus swamps.

• Beautiful Sibia Heterophasia pulchella

  A laughingthrush relative of the eastern Himalayas. Its blue-grey head and back, black face, and broad dark tail band help identify it.

• Indian Blackbird Turdus simillimus

  The Indian Blackbird sings from foothill forests, forest edges, and orchards.

• Red-eared Parrot-Finch Erythrura coloria

  The Red-eared Parrotfinch is a small finch of the mountains of Mindanao. It has a blue forehead and face, a red crescent behind the ear, and forages low for grass seeds.

• Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei

  The Harlequin Quail lives in grasslands, and males and females have different plumage.

• Socotra Starling Onychognathus frater

  The Socotra Starling is a glossy black starling with reddish-brown wings, found only on Socotra Island. It feeds on fruit and insects and forages in small groups.

• Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura

  The Fanti Saw-wing flies around moist woodland and water, catching small invertebrates in the air.

• European Serin Serinus serinus

  A small finch that stays year-round in southern Europe and visits northern Europe in summer. It uses open landscapes with scattered trees.

• Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus

  This large eagle has a crest and a barred tail. Studies in South Africa report that it feeds mainly on mammals.

• Chattering Giant-Honeyeater Gymnomyza viridis

  This is a large honeyeater recorded in forests on Taveuni, Fiji. Field notes from 1970 describe visits to wild banana flowers and pandanus, as well as pairs feeding one another.

• 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.

• Chestnut-crowned Foliage-gleaner Automolus rufipileatus

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in riverine forest and seasonally flooded várzea across the Amazon basin, feeding low in dense vegetation.

• Ruddy kingfisher Halcyon coromanda

  A kingfisher with a vivid red bill that lives in shady woodland, including woods beside streams.