Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey-breasted Spiderhunter Arachnothera modesta

  

  The Grey-breasted Spiderhunter lives in Southeast Asian woodland. Its olive back and fine streaks on the throat and chest are useful field marks.

• Slender-billed Babbler Argya longirostris

  The Slender-billed Babbler has a rufous-brown back and a slender, slightly down-curved bill. It hides in seasonally wet grassland and searches the ground for insects.

• Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides

  The Australian Shelduck is a large duck with a dark head, white neck ring, and chestnut breast. It occurs in freshwater areas of southwestern and southeastern Australia.

• Barred Wren-Warbler Calamonastes fasciolatus

  This small bird lives in semi-arid savanna in southern Africa. Fine barring and pale cheeks help identify it, and it sings a high trill from a tree top.

• Western Bluebird Sialia mexicana

  The Western Bluebird is a small thrush with blue and rusty plumage. It drops from a low perch to catch insects on the ground.

• Spot-winged Grosbeak Mycerobas melanozanthos

  This large bird lives in Himalayan mountain forests. Males are black and yellow, while females are mainly olive brown, so the sexes differ in plumage.

• Grassland Yellow Finch Sicalis luteola

  A finch of grassland and farmland. The population on Barbados is introduced; the account suggests an introduction around 1900.

• Macleay's Honeyeater Xanthotis macleayanus

  A honeyeater of tropical rainforest in northeastern Queensland, Australia, from Cooktown to Paluma. It takes nectar as well as insects and ripe fruit.

• Scarlet-fronted Parakeet Psittacara wagleri

  The Scarlet-fronted Parakeet has a green body, red forehead, and long tail. It eats fruit and seeds and is native to Colombia and Venezuela.

• Sula Cuckoo-Dove Turacoena sulaensis

  Sula Cuckoo-Dove is a forest dove of the Sula and Banggai Islands. Adults show a conspicuous white face and red eye-ring.

• Mauritius Bulbul Hypsipetes olivaceus

  This bulbul lives in forests on Mauritius. Its grayish body is topped by a loose, pointed dark crest. It eats insects, seeds and fruit, and its range is confined to the island.

• Red-faced Malkoha Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus

  The Red-faced Malkoha is a long-tailed cuckoo with a red face and green bill, native to Sri Lanka. It uses the forest canopy and dense undergrowth.

• Rufous Crab Hawk Buteogallus aequinoctialis

  The Rufous Crab-hawk has a rufous belly and yellow feet. It searches for crabs in coastal mangroves and swoops down from a branch to catch them.

• White-bellied Mountain-gem Lampornis hemileucus

  This hummingbird lives in the mountains from Costa Rica to western Panama. Males have a purple throat; females have green throat spots.

• Goeldi's Antbird Akletos goeldii

  Goeldi's Antbird occurs in Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. Males are black; females are rufous-brown with a grey head and white throat.

• Double-banded Greytail Xenerpestes minlosi

  The Double-banded Greytail is a small ovenbird recorded in eastern Panama and parts of Colombia. A field study in Panama documented a nest in a heavily cleared town, built in a tree fork.

• 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.

• Scarlet-chested Parakeet Neophema splendida

  The Scarlet-chested Parakeet has a blue head and yellow underbody; the male has a scarlet chest. It forages for seeds on the ground in dry inland scrub.

• Ratchet-tailed Treepie Temnurus temnurus

  The Ratchet-tailed Treepie is a crow-family bird of Southeast Asian forests. Its long tail has deep notches at the tips.

• Black-striped Sparrow Arremonops conirostris

  The Black-striped Sparrow has a gray head marked with black stripes and yellow edging on the shoulder. In Costa Rica it uses shrubs and forest edges in humid lowlands, forming pairs or family groups.

• White-browed Piculet Sasia ochracea

  The White-browed Piculet is a small woodpecker with green upperparts, a rufous rump, and a white stripe behind the eye. It searches for ants and other small prey in low, dense vegetation near bamboo or water.

• Pacific Pygmy Owl Glaucidium peruanum

  The Pacific Pygmy Owl occurs in gray-brown and rufous color forms. It ranges along the western Andes of South America and is most active around dusk and at night.

• Sharp-tailed Grass Tyrant Culicivora caudacuta

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the grasslands of the Cerrado, Pampa, and Chaco in South America.

• Hodgson's Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Redstart moves between breeding and wintering areas. It uses high-elevation scrub and forest edges, and searches for food in the upper parts of trees.