Meet the world’s animals.

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• Coquerel's Coua Coua coquereli

  

  This cuckoo has a long tail and legs, blue bare skin around the eye, and a rufous belly. It inhabits dry deciduous forest in western and northern Madagascar.

• Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava

  A small passerine with an orange-red breast, it feeds on grass seeds in wetlands and dry savannas of equatorial Africa.

• Russet-crowned Crake Rufirallus viridis

  A small South American crake with a russet crown and cinnamon underparts.

• Crested serpent eagle Spilornis cheela

  An eagle with a feather crest, found in Japan on Ishigaki and Iriomote islands.

• Rivoli's Hummingbird Eugenes fulgens

  A large hummingbird of mountain forests, it feeds at flowers and the male shows glossy colors on its crown and throat.

• Spotted Antbird Hylophylax naevioides

  This antbird lives in lowland evergreen forests in Central America, including Panama. Adult males have a black head and white throat; females differ, with a paler throat.

• Eastern Woodhaunter Automolus subulatus

  This woodhaunter lives in the humid forest understory of the western Amazon. It searches among leaves and epiphytes for small arthropods.

• Sand Partridge Ammoperdix heyi

  The Sand Partridge walks on rocky slopes and in valleys, feeding on seeds, berries, and insects on the ground. Males have white facial marks; females and young birds are sandy-colored.

• Cardinal Lory Pseudeos cardinalis

  The Cardinal Lory is a nectar-feeding parrot with conspicuous red plumage. It ranges from New Ireland to Bougainville and the Solomon Islands, using coastal lowlands and upland forest.

• Pied Crow Corvus albus

  The Pied Crow is a large crow found across much of Africa. Its black head and wings contrast with a white body patch.

• Yellow-breasted Brush Finch Atlapetes latinuchus

  The Yellow-breasted Brush Finch lives in Andean forest and highland grassland. Its crown and nape are rufous, the face has a broad black mask, and the belly is bright yellow. It searches foliage for fruit, fresh leaf buds, and insects.

• Red-collared Woodpecker Picus rabieri

  Adult males show a red head and upper breast, green upperparts, and pale bars on the belly; females have a black crown. The species uses forest and bamboo-rich woodland and searches low branches or the ground for ants.

• Cloud-forest Screech Owl Megascops marshalli

  This screech-owl inhabits cloud forest on the eastern Andes of central Peru. The account also reports a recent discovery in Bolivia.

• Highland Elaenia Elaenia obscura

  The Highland Elaenia inhabits mountain forest and forest edges on the eastern Andes. It has dark olive-brown upperparts and yellowish underparts, and searches the canopy for insects and berries.

• Chestnut-naped Forktail Enicurus ruficapillus

  This streamside bird is notable for its chestnut head and black-and-white tail. It searches for insects along rivers and streams in humid Southeast Asian forests.

• Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi

  A small sunbird of tropical Africa. The male has metallic green on the head and back.

• White-throated Babbler Argya gularis

  It inhabits dry scrub in central and southern Myanmar, feeding in small groups mainly on the ground.

• Hawaiian Duck Anas wyvilliana

  The Hawaiian Duck is a brown-speckled native duck of Hawaiʻi. It forages in shallow freshwater wetlands; this description excludes birds hybridized with Mallards.

• Hartert's Camaroptera Camaroptera harterti

  A small northwestern Angolan bird with gray-brown upperparts and green wings and tail. It uses humid forest undergrowth and thickets for small invertebrates.

• White-backed Thrush Turdus kessleri

  This thrush breeds in the eastern and northeastern Tibetan Plateau of China. Males show black and chestnut markings, and winter records in the Himalayas are vagrants.

• Akepa Loxops coccineus

  A small Hawaiian honeycreeper, it uses its crossed bill to find insects and spiders in ʻōhiʻa buds and is now believed to remain only on Hawaiʻi Island.

• Green-throated Tanager Stilpnia argyrofenges

  A tanager of humid forest on the eastern Andean slope. It is recorded in the canopy and middle levels, both in pairs and mixed flocks.

• Yellow-throated Miner Manorina flavigula

  This honeyeater lives in dry woodland and scrub on mainland Australia and searches for food on the ground and in trees.

• St Vincent Amazon Amazona guildingii

  A large parrot of St. Vincent's tropical rainforest. Its plumage combines blue, green, orange, and other bright colors, and it eats nuts and fruit.