Meet the world’s animals.

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• Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami

  

  This cisticola lives in African savanna. It has a rufous cap and bands near the tail tip, and gives a high, rising trill from a prominent perch.

• Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant Anairetes reguloides

  The Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant can raise its crown feathers and has black-and-white mottled plumage. A 2016–2017 urban-flora survey in Trujillo, northern Peru, recorded it searching algarrobo, acacia, and ponciana branches for food.

• Spice Imperial Pigeon Ducula myristicivora

  The Spice Imperial Pigeon is a large fruit-eating pigeon found on islands off western New Guinea. A black knob at the base of its bill and iridescent green wings help identify it.

• Plume-toed Swiftlet Collocalia affinis

  A small swiftlet of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Thai–Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sundas, it flies over forests and nearby wooded areas in Singapore.

• Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons

  A brown goose with a white patch at the bill. It occurs across the Northern Hemisphere and gathers in wetlands and fields in winter.

• Bornean Partridge Arborophila hyperythra

  The Bornean Partridge is a pheasant-family bird of hill and montane forest on Borneo. It uses bamboo and thickets on the forest floor and eats both plant and animal matter.

• Javan Myna Acridotheres javanicus

  The Javan Myna is native to Java and Bali. In Singapore, an introduced urban population is established.

• Uluguru Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla neumanni

  This bulbul is restricted to Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains. An adult photograph shows a dark gray head and gray-olive body. Species accounts record it in dense highland forest and as a fruit eater.

• Scaly-breasted Woodpecker Celeus grammicus

  The Scaly-breasted Woodpecker occurs across the Amazon region. Adults are chestnut to rufous, with dark bars above and below; males have a red malar stripe.

• Olive-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis semiflava

  An adult male is marked by a black facial mask extending from the forehead toward the sides of the neck and by bright yellow underparts. In Costa Rica, the bird uses wet grassy places and marsh cover and is usually in pairs.

• Crested Ibon Lophozosterops dohertyi

  This white-eye-family bird occurs in forests of Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands. It is about 12 cm long and feeds on fruit.

• Tricolored Parrot-Finch Erythrura tricolor

  A small finch of forests and woodland edges in the Lesser Sundas. It has a green back, blue body, and red tail; females are duller than males.

• Javan Fulvetta Alcippe pyrrhoptera

  This small bird lives in evergreen broadleaf forest in western and central Java. It has a brown crown and back, rufous-chestnut rump and wings, and eats insects.

• Pinto's Spinetail Synallaxis infuscata

  Pinto's Spinetail inhabits forest thickets in northeastern Brazil. A specimen comparison describes a dark gray belly, chestnut crown, and glaucous flanks, while the pale eyebrow line varies among specimens.

• Saxicola ferreus

  Saxicola ferreus is a scarce winter visitor and passage migrant in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong bird account describes both sexes and their foraging in open shrubland and other cleared habitats.

• Citrine Lorikeet Saudareos flavoviridis

  The Citrine Lorikeet has a green back and yellow, dark-scaled underparts. Small flocks gather at flowering trees along forest edges.

• Cassin's Finch Haemorhous cassinii

  Cassin's Finch is a small finch of the mountains of western North America. Males have a red crown, and the birds eat tree seeds and buds.

• Yellow-faced Amazon Alipiopsitta xanthops

  This parrot is marked by a yellow face and orange flanks or belly. In northern Bolivia it is usually seen in pairs and may form flocks in the austral winter.

• Purple-backed Sunbeam Aglaeactis aliciae

  Male Purple-backed Sunbeams have iridescent purple backs and rumps. This hummingbird feeds on nectar and small insects on high Andean slopes in northern Peru.

• Giant Coua Coua gigas

  This large ground-dwelling bird lives in forests of western and southern Madagascar. The bare blue skin around its eyes is conspicuous, and it forages on the forest floor.

• Striped Honeyeater Plectorhyncha lanceolata

  This honeyeater lives in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia, often near rivers. Bold black head stripes stand out against its grey-brown plumage, and it feeds among lower canopy foliage.

• Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl Ketupa nipalensis

  This large eagle-owl has a spotted belly. It is nocturnal and hunts in humid riverside and mountain forests.

• Black-billed Gull Chroicocephalus bulleri

  The Black-billed Gull is a slender gull found only in New Zealand. It breeds on gravelly riverbeds and uses rivers or coasts at different times of year.

• Plain-backed Sunbird Anthreptes reichenowi

  BirdLife International describes two separated population areas: coastal Kenya and eastern Tanzania, and another spanning Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, and South Africa.