Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-and-buff Woodpecker Meiglyptes jugularis

  

  This woodpecker lives in Southeast Asian forests. Males have a red cheek stripe that females lack. It uses humid forest edges, secondary growth, and bamboo, searching bark for invertebrates.

• Desert Owl Strix hadorami

  The Desert Owl’s facial disc is described as ranging from sandy gray to off-white among specimens. It occurs in rocky deserts and uses crevices in cliffs, caves, and wadis for roosting or nesting. An Israeli pellet study found small rodents and insectivores among its prey.

• Ornate Flycatcher Myiotriccus ornatus

  An Andean foothill and subtropical-forest flycatcher from Colombia through Peru. Tail color differs between Andean slopes.

• Archer's Ground Robin Cossypha archeri

  A robin-chat of the Albertine Rift montane forests. It often feeds for insects on the ground.

• Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae

  It ranges from southern China to northern and eastern Vietnam. Males are blue-green and red; females and young birds are more yellow-olive. It also eats fruit and small insects.

• Black-lored Babbler Turdoides sharpei

  This babbler lives in East African scrub, acacia thickets, and forest margins. It often forages in parties of four or five, from near the ground into trees. Its pale eye and black lores are useful field marks.

• Bufflehead Bucephala albeola

  The Bufflehead is a small duck that nests in tree cavities and dives for food. Males and females have different plumage.

• Boat-tailed Grackle Quiscalus major

  The Boat-tailed Grackle is a coastal bird with striking differences between the sexes. Males are blue-black with extremely long tails, while females are much smaller and dark brown.

• Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis

  A small grassland bird with white-tipped tail feathers; birds in northern Japan move to warmer areas in autumn and winter.

• Boulder Chat Pinarornis plumosus

  The Boulder Chat is a terrestrial bird of well-wooded areas with granite outcrops. It eats insects and small lizards.

• Pallas's Rosefinch Carpodacus roseus

  Pallas's Rosefinch is about 16–18 cm long. The sexes differ in plumage, and birds in forests from central Siberia to northern Mongolia eat plant seeds.

• Temminck's Seedeater Sporophila falcirostris

  This small seedeater has a thick, curved bill; males are gray and females olive-brown. It eats bamboo seeds and moves in response to bamboo seeding.

• Ornate Honeyeater Melidectes torquatus

  The Ornate Melidectes is a honeyeater of New Guinea's mountains. A nominate-subspecies male has conspicuous yellow-orange bare skin around the eye and a white-scaled back, and searches for food in the canopy.

• Bahama Yellowthroat Geothlypis rostrata

  The male Bahama Yellowthroat has yellow underparts and a black facial mask; females lack the mask and have a grey crown. It searches for small invertebrates in low scrub and pine-forest understory in the Bahamas.

• Tristram's Starling Onychognathus tristramii

  Tristram's Starling is a starling whose orange wing panels stand out in flight. It uses rocky ravines and wadis, feeding on fruit and small animals.

• Red-masked Parakeet Psittacara erythrogenys

  This parakeet is leaf green with a red head, a heavy white eye-ring and a pale bill. It is native to dry forests in western Peru and Ecuador and roosts communally in large groups.

• Plain-breasted Ground Dove Columbina minuta

  The Plain-breasted Ground Dove feeds on seeds and fruit on the ground in dry grasslands and other open habitats. Males have a blue-gray head; females are paler.

• 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.

• 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.

• Short-toed Coucal Centropus rectunguis

  About 37 cm long, this coucal resembles the Greater Coucal but is smaller and shorter-tailed. It searches for food on the ground and in the understorey of lowland evergreen forest.

• Gray Noddy Anous albivitta

  A small seabird that breeds on tropical and subtropical Pacific islands. It flies in flocks close to the sea and takes small prey at the surface.

• 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.

• White-browed Crake Poliolimnas cinereus

  The White-browed Crake is a wetland bird with a broad white line bordering the black orbital area. It searches for food among floating plants and muddy margins, and ranges from Southeast Asia to Pacific islands.

• Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis

  The Grasshopper Buzzard is a raptor of open Sahel country that feeds heavily on insects, especially grasshoppers.