Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rusty Pitohui Pseudorectes ferrugineus

  

  The Rusty Pitohui feeds on insects and fruit in forests around New Guinea. Its white eye and rufous tail help identify it.

• Ceylon Bush-Warbler Elaphrornis palliseri

  

  This bush-warbler lives in the mountains of Sri Lanka. It stays among low vegetation in damp forest and bamboo.

• Crested Gallito Rhinocrypta lanceolata

  

  The Crested Gallito has a reddish crest and flanks with a black tail, and it runs frequently on the ground.

• White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus

  

  The White-winged Becard shows regional variation in male plumage across Central and South America. It uses forest edges and second growth, alone or in pairs, and moves through middle tree levels.

• Piapiac Ptilostomus afer

  

  This corvid has a long graduated tail and a stout, curved bill. Its black plumage has a blue-purple sheen, and its eyes are purple.

• Pale-headed Munia Lonchura pallida

  

  The Pale-headed Munia has a pale head that contrasts with its darker body. It occurs in the lowlands of eastern Indonesia, including dry scrub, grassland, marshes, and farmland.

• Grey-rumped Swiftlet Collocalia marginata

  A swiftlet of the Philippines, it has white-edged rump feathers, with the extent of white varying between birds and regions.

• White-fronted Honeyeater Purnella albifrons

  This honeyeater lives in arid and semi-arid scrub and woodland. It feeds mainly on nectar, but also takes insects and honeydew.

• Brown Jacamar Brachygalba lugubris

  The Brown Jacamar lives in South American woodland and savanna forest. It has a long pointed bill and a rufous breast.

• Masked Gnatcatcher Polioptila dumicola

  The Masked Gnatcatcher searches woodland and scrub for small insects. Males have a black facial mask; females have a white eye-ring and cheeks.

• Spectacled Guillemot Cepphus carbo

  In breeding plumage, this seabird stands out for white spectacles on its face and red legs. It nests in cliff crevices and dives for fish.

• Green Ibis Mesembrinibis cayennensis

  A dark green wader whose plumage can shimmer emerald and bronze in good light. It occurs in lowlands from Central America to northern and eastern South America.

• Silver Oriole Oriolus mellianus

  Silver Oriole has silvery plumage that contrasts with the black head, throat, and wings of the adult male. It breeds in southern China and winters in southern Thailand and western Cambodia.

• Spectacled Fulvetta Fulvetta ruficapilla

  This small fulvetta occurs in central and southern China. It has a brown to gray-brown crown, a dark side crown stripe, a broad pale-gray eyebrow, and rufous wings. It eats invertebrates and seeds.

• European Shag Gulosus aristotelis

  The European Shag is a seabird of rocky coasts. It dives after fish, and breeding adults show a raised crest.

• East Brazilian Chachalaca Ortalis araucuan

  This chachalaca occurs in northeastern Brazil. It has an ochraceous-cinnamon crown and hindneck with a white belly, and uses humid forest and scrubby woodland where it feeds on fruit.

• Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis

  Sunlight can bring a blue-green sheen to its black plumage, and its long tail is deeply forked. It hunts insects from perches in savanna and open woodland.

• Pin-striped Tit-Babbler Mixornis gularis

  A small, vocal babbler of lowland forests in Southeast Asia, it forages in small groups from near the ground to the canopy.

• Brushland Tinamou Nothoprocta cinerascens

  The Brushland Tinamou occurs in the Bolivian Chaco. Its prominent crest and long, decurved bill stand out, and it is quiet and easily overlooked in the austral winter.

• Baya Weaver Ploceus philippinus

  A bird of grassland and wetland edges that weaves hanging nests from plant fibres.

• Satanic Nightjar Eurostopodus diabolicus

  The Satanic Nightjar is a nocturnal bird of Sulawesi. Males have a white throat band and females a pale buff band.

• Grey-throated Sunbird Anthreptes griseigularis

  The Grey-throated Sunbird is a small Philippine endemic recorded in lowland woods, mangroves, coastal second growth, and coconut groves.

• Ringed Storm Petrel Hydrobates hornbyi

  Ringed Storm Petrels occur offshore along the Humboldt Current on the west coast of South America. A breeding site has also been recorded inland in Chile's Atacama Region, where birds were reported to enter the nesting site at night.

• Caica Parrot Pyrilia caica

  Adults have a dark head and a broad yellowish collar. Juveniles do not yet have the adult’s black facial mask.