Meet the world’s animals.

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• Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus

  

  This 18–21 cm bee-eater has a green crown and back, a black eye stripe, and a dark throat patch. It catches flying insects over damp grassland and reedbeds.

• Clicking Shieldbill Peltops blainvillii

  

  The Clicking Shieldbill lives in lowland New Guinea forest and also uses clearings and gardens. It waits on a perch before sallying after flying insects.

• Eastern Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes filholi

  

  This penguin breeds on subantarctic islands around New Zealand and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean, then spends much of the non-breeding season at sea. It is treated as distinct from related rockhopper penguins.

• Dusky-tailed Antbird Drymophila malura

  

  This long-tailed antbird is associated with dense understory in humid forest, as well as woodland and forest edges.

• Ashy-throated Warbler Phylloscopus maculipennis

  

  The Ashy-throated Warbler has a yellow rump and underparts. It uses the canopy of high mountain forests and moves to lower elevations in winter in some areas.

• Sooty Bushtit Aegithalos fuliginosus

  

  A small bird of the mountains of central China, it has grey cheeks, a dark breast band and a white collar. It searches among foliage for insects and berries.

• Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii

  The Red-faced Crombec is a small bird with a very short tail. In Zimbabwean miombo woodland, it moves quickly among branches and leaves while searching for insects.

• Rufous-vented Tit Periparus rubidiventris

  The Rufous-vented Tit is a small bird of mountain forests around the Himalayas. Fresh plumage shows a black crest and a pale patch on the nape.

• Blue-throated Barbet Psilopogon asiaticus

  The Blue-throated Barbet has a green body and blue throat and ranges through forests from South Asia to northern mainland Southeast Asia.

• White-bibbed Manakin Corapipo leucorrhoa

  This manakin lives in humid foothill forest in Colombia and Venezuela. Males perform courtship displays on fallen trunks low in the forest.

• Whooping Crane Grus americana

  A tall crane of North America. Adults have a white body, black wing tips, and a red crown.

• Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata

  The Giant Snipe is a large wader with a disjunct South American range. It is 40–43.5 cm long, with a very long straight bill and broad, rounded wings.

• Large-billed Gerygone Gerygone magnirostris

  This small bird is 10–12 cm long and uses lowland wetlands and mangroves. It is active by day and searches trees for invertebrates.

• White-browed Woodswallow Artamus superciliosus

  The White-browed Woodswallow is an Australian bird with a striking white eyebrow. It moves in large flocks between seasonal ranges and catches insects in flight.

• Spanish Imperial Eagle Aquila adalberti

  The Spanish Imperial Eagle occurs in southwestern Iberia. At Monfragüe National Park in Spain, it is described as feeding mainly on rabbits and nesting in large trees.

• Wattled Brush-turkey Aepypodius arfakianus

  The Wattled Brush-turkey is a large megapode of New Guinea’s mountain forests. Its reddish-brown body bears a red comb and wattle, and it incubates eggs using heat from a mound of leaves and twigs.

• Javan Flameback Chrysocolaptes strictus

  The Javan Flameback is a woodpecker reported from Java and Bali. It has golden upperparts, a black band from behind the eye to the nape, a red crest in males and a yellow crest in females. Lowland moist forest is considered an important habitat.

• Red-necked Aracari Pteroglossus bitorquatus

  The Red-necked Aracari here is the eastern species Pteroglossus bitorquatus, with a red rump, nape, and chest band against green and yellow plumage. It forages in forest canopies.

• Red-billed Ground-Cuckoo Neomorphus pucheranii

  This large cuckoo has a greenish-brown back and a black crest, and forages on the ground. Its Amazonian lowland range is described as two subspecies in the source account.

• Forest Bittern Zonerodius heliosylus

  The Forest Bittern is a forest heron with a black crown and brown-and-buff barring. It forages alone along streams in New Guinea's rainforests.

• Togian White-eye Zosterops somadikartai

  This white-eye is endemic to the Togian Islands off Sulawesi. The 2008 species-description paper records it below 100 m in mangroves, secondary vegetation and mixed gardens.

• Brown-chested Barbet Capito brunneipectus

  The Brown-chested Barbet occurs in the forests of Brazil's central Amazon. Regional accounts describe it feeding on fruit and invertebrates in moist forest canopy and nesting in tree cavities.

• Plain-backed Antpitta Grallaria haplonota

  This antpitta forages on the floor of humid montane forest in the northeastern Andes. It has dusky, faintly scaled upperparts and a rufous underside with soft dark blotches.

• Eurasian tree sparrow Passer montanus

  A small bird that nests in gaps in roofs and walls. In Japan it is closely associated with settlements and can be recognized by black cheek patches.