Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mangaia Kingfisher Todiramphus ruficollaris

  

  This kingfisher is endemic to Mangaia in the Cook Islands. An orange neck band is a field mark, and surveys have recorded it in primary and secondary forest and other island habitats.

• Mangrove Rail Rallus longirostris

  The Mangrove Rail is a rail of scattered coastal sites in Central and South America, where it uses mangroves and salty wetlands. It probes shallow mud and water with its long bill.

• Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor

  A weaver of lowland forests along rivers and swamps in western and central Africa. It searches for insects and small fruits from the forest mid-levels to the canopy.

• Greater Antillean Grackle Quiscalus niger

  This grackle occurs widely across the Greater Antilles. Males are glossy and dark, while females are browner; the birds also search for food in towns.

• Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus

  The Southern Giant Petrel occurs in brown and rarer white phases. It breeds on Southern Ocean islands and the Antarctic Continent and is a distinct species from the related Northern Giant Petrel.

• Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush Ianthocincla konkakinhensis

  Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush is a laughingthrush recorded in montane forest in central Vietnam. Reports from Laos remain uncertain.

• Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus

  Adults show a strong contrast between black upperparts and wings and a white underside. The cuckoo ranges from sub-Saharan Africa to the Indian subcontinent.

• Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus

  It has a brown back, a grayish head, and spots on the breast and belly. Males may sing after wet and windy weather.

• Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura

  The Green-backed Camaroptera is a small, rounded bird of thickets, with red eyes. The eastern coastal group is green-backed, while birds elsewhere are gray-backed; some authorities treat the groups as separate species.

• Hartlaub's Gull Chroicocephalus hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Gull is a small coastal gull of southern Africa. Its head and bill colors change as it matures.

• Common Eider Somateria mollissima

  A large sea duck of northern rocky coasts that dives for mussels and other shellfish.

• St Lucia Amazon Amazona versicolor

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

• Tibetan Serin Spinus thibetanus

  The Tibetan Serin is a small finch with noticeable yellow in males and fine streaks on females. It forms flocks in Chinese mountain forests.

• Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina

  The Hooded Warbler is a small bird of low vegetation in eastern North American forests. Breeding males have a black hood.

• Siamese Pied Myna Gracupica floweri

  A starling found mainly in Thailand. It uses open grassland, farmland, and towns, and has distinctive forehead and eye-area features.

• Bronze Mannikin Lonchura cucullata

  A small, social bird widespread south of the Sahara. A Southern African account describes flocks feeding on grass seeds in grassy and scrubby places and along woodland edges.

• Nile Valley Sunbird Hedydipna metallica

  The Nile Valley Sunbird has a striking breeding male with bright plumage and a long forked tail. Females and non-breeding males are duller.

• Pompadour Green Pigeon Treron pompadora

  The Pompadour Green Pigeon is endemic to Sri Lanka. It eats fruit and seeds in rainforest and other wet woodland.

• Riparian Antbird Cercomacroides fuscicauda

  The Riparian Antbird uses riverside floodplain forest and dense river-island thickets. Males are gray and females brown to rufous. Habitat and voice help distinguish it from similar antbirds.

• Black-hooded Sierra Finch Phrygilus atriceps

  The Black-hooded Sierra Finch occurs in the central Andes. Males have a black hood and orange-rufous body, and forage on the ground in dry, sparse scrub.

• Fuscous Honeyeater Ptilotula fusca

  This olive-brown honeyeater has a yellow patch on the side of its neck and uses dry eucalypt forest and woodland in eastern Australia. Some birds move to lower elevations in winter.

• Yellow-streaked Greenbul Phyllastrephus flavostriatus

  The Yellow-streaked Greenbul has a gray head, gray-brown back, and white throat. It occurs patchily in eastern and southern African forests and feeds mainly on arthropods.

• Long-billed Woodcreeper Nasica longirostris

  A large woodcreeper of Amazonian floodplain forest, it is marked by a rufous back and a long, pale bill.

• Pied Harrier Circus melanoleucos

  The Pied Harrier has strongly different male and female plumage and flies low over open grassland to search for prey.