Meet the world’s animals.

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• Keel-billed Motmot Electron carinatum

  

  The Keel-billed Motmot is a Central American motmot with a keel-like ridge along the upper bill.

• Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea

  

  This whydah occurs in Africa. Breeding males grow long tails and lay eggs in the nests of small finches.

• Chuuk Monarch Metabolus rugensis

  

  The Chuuk Monarch is endemic to the Chuuk Islands. Baker’s 1951 account describes a mostly white male with a black face and throat and a mostly sooty-black female. The species uses large patches of primary forest and mangroves.

• Black-billed Kingfisher Pelargopsis melanorhyncha

  

  The Black-billed Kingfisher has a cream-colored head and underparts, dark greenish-brown wings, and a large bill. It hunts for crabs along rivers and coasts.

• Fawn-breasted Bowerbird Chlamydera cerviniventris

  

  The Fawn-breasted Bowerbird occurs on New Guinea and in northern Australia. The male builds a stick bower and uses it in courtship.

• Neddicky Cisticola fulvicapilla

  

  The Neddicky is a small bird about 11 cm long. By day it uses light woodland, savanna, and grassland, searching the ground for invertebrates.

• Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis

  This hummingbird is described in a species account for Cundinamarca, Colombia. The account notes bronze-green upperparts, a rufous rump, and pale streaks on the throat.

• Antipodean Albatross Diomedea antipodensis

  This large albatross ranges over the Southern Ocean. Plumage varies with sex, age, and subspecies, and it breeds on islands south of New Zealand.

• Olive-winged Bulbul Pycnonotus plumosus

  The Olive-winged Bulbul is marked by olive-toned wing feathers and a pale streak behind the eye. It occurs in forests and mangroves across Southeast Asia and is described as a common resident in Singapore.

• Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla

  Adults have black-and-white plumage. In the nominate subspecies, males have red to reddish-orange eyes and females orange to yellow-orange eyes. It searches for insects in the canopy.

• Buff-breasted Warbling-finch Microspingus lateralis

  This small tanager lives in the mountains of southeastern Brazil. It uses forest edges and bamboo patches, eating insects, fruit, and seeds.

• Sooty-capped Bush Tanager Chlorospingus pileatus

  This bird lives in mountain forest in Costa Rica and Panama. Its dark head and white eyebrow stand out as it moves in small groups through the understorey.

• Two-banded Warbler Myiothlypis bivittata

  This small warbler inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slopes. It has olive and yellow plumage, a rufous-olive crown and narrow dark crown stripes. The Peru account places it at 750–1,500 m.

• Red-keeled Flowerpecker Dicaeum australe

  A Philippine flowerpecker that feeds on fruit and nectar.

• Northern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus ruppelli

  This shrike occurs in dry scrub and savanna in East Africa. It moves in small groups and watches for prey from exposed perches.

• Eurasian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus

  The Eurasian Reed Warbler is a small bird that sings from reedbeds. It eats insects in summer and berries in autumn; many birds that breed in Britain migrate to Africa.

• Two-banded Puffbird Hypnelus bicinctus

  This large-headed puffbird occurs in Colombia and Venezuela. A white eye mask extends onto the neck, and two dark bands cross the chest.

• Namaqua Sandgrouse Pterocles namaqua

  The Namaqua Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry southwestern Africa. It eats seeds, and males carry water to chicks in their belly feathers.

• Arabian Partridge Alectoris melanocephala

  The Arabian Partridge is native to the Arabian Peninsula and has been reported around Abha and Tanomah in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

• Biak Hooded Pitta Pitta rosenbergii

  The Biak Hooded Pitta occurs on Biak Island. A local field guide notes the rosenbergii form’s deep blue flanks and lack of a glossy throat band. A record also documents it in secondary forest on Biak.

• Hellmayr’s Pipit Anthus hellmayri

  Dark streaks on its ochre back mark this pipit. It uses grassy places near water and Patagonian grassland, moving close to the ground.

• Hartlaub's Duck Pteronetta hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Duck has a cinnamon-red body with pale blue on the wings. The male has a white spot at the tip of the bill, and the species uses rivers, lakes, and streams in western and central equatorial Africa.

• Palawan Frogmouth Batrachostomus chaseni

  This frogmouth inhabits lowland forest on Palawan. Males are gray-brown and finely speckled; females are more rufous and less patterned.

• Peruvian Tern Sternula lorata

  The Peruvian Tern occurs along the Humboldt Current, from southern Ecuador to northern Chile. It is a small tern whose breeding sites also include dry plains inland from the coast.