Meet the world’s animals.

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• Magdalena Antbird Sipia palliata

  

  This antbird occurs in humid forest in Colombia and Venezuela. It forages low in dense undergrowth, including around fallen logs.

• Northern Rosella Platycercus venustus

  This parrot lives in woodlands and savanna across northern Australia. Its black head and back contrast with yellow cheeks and underparts, while blue shows on the wings and tail.

• Olrog's Cinclodes Cinclodes olrogi

  Olrog’s Cinclodes is a highland ovenbird found in central Argentina. It walks through rocky grassland and hills while searching for invertebrates on the ground.

• Lewin's Honeyeater Meliphaga lewinii

  This honeyeater lives in forests of eastern Australia. Its dark greenish-gray body has large yellow crescent-shaped ear patches, and it feeds mostly on fruit.

• Cordilleran Parakeet Psittacara frontatus

  This medium-sized parakeet ranges through the Andes of southern Ecuador and Peru. Red on the forehead and thighs and bare white eye-rings are conspicuous. It can also be found in fields and orchards as well as forest habitats.

• Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus

  A long-winged tern with a pointed bill that catches small fish in shallow coastal waters.

• Radjah Shelduck Radjah radjah

  The Radjah Shelduck stands out for its white head and breast and chestnut breast band. It feeds in shallow wetlands, mainly at night.

• Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus

  The rusty blackbird shows rusty feather edges and pale eyes in winter. It breeds in northern forests and winters in the eastern United States.

• Yellow-bellied Prinia Prinia flaviventris

  This small bird searches for insects in Hong Kong grassland and reedbeds; adult plumage changes by season.

• Eastern Miombo Sunbird Cinnyris manoensis

  This sunbird occurs in the Zambezian miombo region. Males have blue-green upperparts and a red breast band. The species tends to build a grass ball nest attached among branches or leaves.

• Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina

  The Tennessee Warbler is a small bird that breeds in Canada’s boreal forests. Breeding males show a gray head and pale eyebrow, while females and nonbreeding birds look more yellow-green overall.

• Grey-headed Woodpecker Picus canus

  The Grey-headed Woodpecker has a green body and grey head. In India’s Great Himalayan National Park, it is described feeding on ants and insects, as well as fruit in winter.

• Maui Alauahio Paroreomyza montana

  The Maui Alauahio is a small Hawaiian honeycreeper. Its surviving population lives in Maui's highlands and mainly eats small invertebrates.

• Cabanis's Greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisi

  Cabanis's Greenbul is about 16–19 cm long. The account lists primary and secondary forest, gallery forest, riverine scrub, and ravine vegetation among its habitats. It also lists a sound record from Kakamega Forest Reserve in Kenya.

• Bar-backed Hill Partridge Arborophila brunneopectus

  A hill partridge of evergreen forest and bamboo. The nominate subspecies recorded in China has a barred back and chestnut breast.

• Blue-winged Minla Actinodura cyanouroptera

  The Blue-winged Minla is a babbler with blue wings and a blue-gray head that moves in flocks through forest undergrowth.

• Chiguanco Thrush Turdus chiguanco

  This thrush has a gray-brown body, yellow bill, and yellow legs. The Peruvian account says it searches for food by hopping on the ground and eats fruit and insects.

• Orange-fronted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus aurantiifrons

  The Orange-fronted Fruit Dove lives in lowlands near the coast of New Guinea. It has a large orange patch on the forehead and a grey collar, and mainly eats fruit.

• Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus

  The Lizard Buzzard is a small raptor of sub-Saharan Africa. Its grey head and back contrast with a black stripe down its white throat.

• Red-rumped Bush Tyrant Cnemarchus erythropygius

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in the high Andes. Gray head, back, and breast contrast with whitish markings on the forehead, throat, and sides of the face, plus rufous belly, rump, and tail. The account describes foraging in humid scrub, highland grassland shrubs, and Polylepis woodland, with perches on bushes and trees.

• Brown-winged Kingfisher Pelargopsis amauroptera

  Adults have orange-brown underparts and a blue back. In southwestern Bangladesh's mangroves, the bird watches waterways from low perches and dives for prey.

• Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia

  It has a grey head, olive back, and bright red rump. It clings to grass stalks and flower heads while searching for seeds and small insects.

• Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus

  The Red-billed Starling is identified by its red bill. Males have a white head and grey body, while females are mainly brown; large flocks form in winter.

• Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana

  The Swamp Sparrow lives in wetlands from central Canada to the eastern United States. Its rusty cap and wings stand out, and it searches for food in shallow water.