Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-fronted Coot Fulica rufifrons

  

  The Red-fronted Coot is a waterbird with a blackish head and neck, a grey body, and white undertail feathers. A red frontal shield sits above its yellow bill.

• Javan Green Magpie Cissa thalassina

  The Javan Green Magpie is a corvid whose adult green plumage contrasts with the blue feathers of newly hatched young. It eats insects and lizards in Java's mountain forests.

• Citrine Warbler Myiothlypis luteoviridis

  The Citrine Warbler is a wood-warbler of the Andes, ranging from Venezuela and Colombia south to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It searches for insects in high-elevation forest and woodland.

• Dusky Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne concolor

  The Dusky Crag Martin is a small swallow with a dark brown back and paler underside. It catches insects in flight around cliffs and buildings.

• Hunter’s Sunbird Chalcomitra hunteri

  A sunbird of dry scrub and open woodland in East Africa. The male is mostly black with green and scarlet marks, while the female is browner.

• Desert Cisticola Cisticola aridulus

  The Desert Cisticola is a small bird of dry grassland and scrub. During breeding, males and females differ in their crown pattern and forage in low grass.

• Lesser Antillean Swift Chaetura martinica

  The Lesser Antillean Swift flies over montane forest in the Lesser Antilles. It catches small insects in flight.

• Meves's Starling Lamprotornis mevesii

  With blue-green and purple gloss and a long tail, this starling uses open places with trees, often in groups, and also feeds on the ground.

• Hawaiian Hawk Buteo solitarius

  The Hawaiian Hawk is the only resident hawk in the Hawaiian Islands. It occurs only on the island of Hawai‘i and is often seen soaring over forests and open areas.

• Collared Laughingthrush Trochalopteron yersini

  This laughingthrush is listed in a Langbiang Biosphere Reserve guide for evergreen broadleaf forest. Its black hood, silvery-gray cheeks, and rusty chest and wings stand out.

• White-backed Duck Thalassornis leuconotus

  A diving duck of sub-Saharan African waters with aquatic plants. It gathers seeds of aquatic plants from muddy bottoms by diving.

• Tapajos Hermit Phaethornis aethopygus

  Phaethornis aethopygus is a hermit hummingbird recorded along the Tapajós River in Brazil. The study examined specimens and field records from the river’s eastern bank.

• Cactus Canastero Pseudasthenes cactorum

  A furnariid of Peru's western Andean slope, using open areas with shrubs and cacti. Some populations also occur in low-elevation lomas.

• Chestnut-throated Partridge Tetraophasis obscurus

  The Chestnut-throated Partridge is a pheasant-family bird with a long crest and a white band at the end of its tail. Detailed behaviour records come from observations in Lianhuashan Nature Reserve, Gansu, China.

• Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata

  This small bird lives in grassland and scrub in southeastern Australia. It feeds on the ground on grass seeds and insects, and has a gray back, white underside, and red rump.

• Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis

  A small North American bird whose plumage varies from grey to brown by region, with white outer tail feathers that flash in flight.

• Crowned Slaty Flycatcher Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus

  This gray tyrant flycatcher uses forest canopy, edges, and semi-open habitat. In Peru, austral migrants are usually recorded from February through November.

• Purple-naped Lory Lorius domicella

  The Purple-naped Lory has a red body, black and purple head, and green wings.

• Yellow-eyed Pigeon Columba eversmanni

  The Yellow-eyed Pigeon breeds in Central Asia. In winter it moves south and uses open farmland, often in flocks.

• Dark-brown Honeyeater Lichmera incana

  This honeyeater is recorded in New Caledonia’s Grand Sud Ramsar area. It searches for nectar and insects in low scrub and open ground.

• Masatierra Petrel Pterodroma defilippiana

  The Masatierra Petrel is a seabird of the open Pacific off South America. It has a grey crown and back, a black eye patch, and a thick bill.

• Hispaniolan Oriole Icterus dominicensis

  This oriole lives on Hispaniola and nearby islands. It occurs mainly in lowlands, including dry forest, mangroves, and plantations, and nests in palms or banana plants.

• Burmese Yuhina Yuhina humilis

  It lives in forests in eastern Myanmar and western Thailand, moving in small groups to feed on fruit, nectar and insects.

• European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

  The European Pied Flycatcher is a woodland migrant. In British breeding areas, males are black and white with two white marks on the forehead; females are more subdued brown and white.