Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous Motmot Baryphthengus martii

  

  The Rufous Motmot is a forest bird with a rufous head and chest and a blue-green belly. The shape of its tail tip differs between subspecies.

• Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea

  

  This brood-parasitic finch occurs in southeastern Africa. Males are known to mimic the song of their host, the African Firefinch.

• Blue Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone cyanescens

  

  The male has blue plumage and a dark face. This paradise flycatcher occurs on Palawan and the Calamian Islands in the southwestern Philippines, where it catches flying insects in primary and secondary forest.

• Rufous-collared Kingfisher Actenoides concretus

  

  The Rufous-collared Kingfisher is a colorful forest kingfisher. It favors woodland near water and takes fish as well as large insects and small animals.

• Tooth-billed Bowerbird Scenopoeetes dentirostris

  

  This bird lives in upland rainforest in northeastern Queensland. During the breeding season, the male courts on a display court arranged with leaves.

• Senegal Eremomela Eremomela pusilla

  

  The Senegal Eremomela is recorded in open woodland and savanna in northern Ghana. A field study described it searching foliage and the ground for insects.

• Fawn-breasted Brilliant Heliodoxa rubinoides

  This hummingbird occurs in Andean cloud forest. Females resemble males but have more green spotting below, and their pink throat patch may be smaller or absent.

• Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans

  A large albatross that ranges widely across the Southern Ocean and breeds on Antarctic and subantarctic islands. Young birds are mostly dark and gradually become whiter with age.

• Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris

  This bulbul occurs across parts of Central and East Africa. BirdLife lists moist lowland and montane forests among its major habitats.

• Bocage's Bushshrike Chlorophoneus bocagei

  Chlorophoneus bocagei inhabits lowland to mid-altitude forest in tropical Africa. Adults have grey upperparts, a white eyebrow, and white underparts with a buff wash on the breast. It gleans insects in the canopy.

• Rusty-collared Seedeater Sporophila collaris

  The Rusty-collared Seedeater lives in wet grasslands and marshes of southern South America. Males have a rusty collar.

• Dusky-headed Brush Finch Atlapetes fuscoolivaceus

  It lives on the eastern side of the Colombian Andes, moving in small groups through dense vegetation at forest edges and in second growth. The cited source does not report its diet.

• Northern Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva

  Setophaga aestiva is the migratory northern form of the Yellow Warbler. It breeds in North America and moves to Central and South America for winter; the resident mangrove form is now treated separately.

• Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker Dicaeum trochileum

  Males have a bright red head, breast, and back, while females are mostly brown. The species also occurs in lowland gardens, farms, and forest edges.

• Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator

  The male Woodchat Shrike has a reddish-orange head and striking black-and-white markings. During breeding it hunts insects in open, sparsely wooded places, then winters in Africa.

• Tahiti Reed Warbler Acrocephalus caffer

  This reed warbler occurs in French Polynesia. Most birds are pale yellow with mottling above, while a dark olive-brown morph also occurs. It uses bamboo thickets and second-growth forest and eats insects and other small animals as well as nectar.

• Buff-bellied Puffbird Notharchus swainsoni

  The Buff-bellied Puffbird lives in Atlantic Forest from southeastern Brazil through eastern Paraguay to northeastern Argentina, including forest and Cerrado edges.

• Four-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles quadricinctus

  This sandgrouse has sandy plumage crossed by dark bands. It occurs in dry savanna and cultivated areas, alone in pairs or small groups.

• Sri Lanka Junglefowl Gallus lafayettii

  A junglefowl endemic to Sri Lanka that forages on the ground in forest and scrub. Males and females differ markedly in plumage.

• Indian Pitta Pitta brachyura

  The Indian Pitta is a colorful ground-dwelling bird of scrub and forest in the Indian subcontinent. It moves between regions seasonally.

• Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava

  A wagtail with a yellow underside and greenish back. It visits Britain in spring and summer and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Cape Gannet Morus capensis

  The Cape Gannet is a large seabird that breeds off Namibia and South Africa. It has a white body, black wings and tail, and a pale yellow-orange head.

• Rufous Gnateater Conopophaga lineata

  A small bird that searches for insects in the understory of eastern South American forest. A 2015 study used the older treatment that grouped three traditionally recognized subspecies within one species.

• Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus

  A small grey-brown goose with a white patch at the base of its pink bill and black belly patches. The East Asian population winters in eastern China and the Korean Peninsula.