Meet the world’s animals.

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• Somali Fiscal Lanius somalicus

  

  This shrike has a grey back and white underparts and searches for prey in dry grassland.

• Cape Verde Warbler Acrocephalus brevipennis

  

  Endemic to the Cape Verde Islands, this reed warbler has a dun-brown back and warm buff underparts. It uses densely vegetated places such as reedbeds, scrub, and plantations.

• Grey-cheeked Nunlet Nonnula frontalis

  

  The Grey-cheeked Nunlet ranges from central Panama to northern Colombia in lowland forest. It has a long, slender blue-gray bill, red eye-ring, gray cheeks and chestnut crown, and catches arthropods from branches and leaves in short sallies.

• Crowned Sandgrouse Pterocles coronatus

  

  The Crowned Sandgrouse lives in dry areas from the Sahara into western Asia. It visits water in flocks, and the adult male has a rufous crown and a black facial band.

• Chestnut-breasted Hill Partridge Arborophila mandellii

  

  The Chestnut-breasted Hill Partridge is a forest partridge of the eastern Himalayas. A chestnut band across the breast and a grey belly help identify it.

• Fairy Pitta Pitta nympha

  

  The Fairy Pitta is a brightly colored migrant that breeds in Taiwan's low-elevation, damp broadleaf forests in summer. It searches the ground for insects and earthworms.

• Madanga Anthus ruficollis

  The 2015 paper uses the name Madanga ruficollis, while the pool lists Anthus ruficollis. It describes a Buru forest bird that searches for food on tree trunks and branches.

• Marbled Duck Marmaronetta angustirostris

  This duck has a brown, pale-spotted body and a dark stripe through the eye. It uses shallow wetlands.

• Philippine Frogmouth Batrachostomus septimus

  The Philippine Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird found only in the Philippine archipelago. It catches large insects and lives in forests and at forest edges.

• Cabot's Tern Thalasseus acuflavidus

  Cabot's Tern occurs along the Atlantic coast of South America. At the Cardos Island breeding colony in Brazil, adults were studied carrying fish and other food to chicks. The black bill with a yellow tip describes breeding adults of the nominate subspecies, T. a. acuflavidus.

• Zimmer's Woodcreeper Dendroplex kienerii

  A 2002 taxonomic study treated birds called Dendroplex necopinus as the same species as D. kienerii. Field records under the former name were mainly from tall seasonally flooded forest along Amazonian riverbanks and islands.

• Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus

  It has a brown back, a grayish head, and spots on the breast and belly. Males may sing after wet and windy weather.

• Cozumel Vireo Vireo bairdi

  This resident vireo occurs only on Cozumel Island, Mexico. It has chestnut-toned head and back, a white eye-ring, and two pale wing-bars, and forages in low to middle vegetation.

• Oriental Hobby Falco severus

  An Asian falcon that perches on exposed dead trees and launches quickly after prey.

• Blyth's Hornbill Rhyticeros plicatus

  The Papuan Hornbill has a black body and white tail. Males have a rufous head and neck, while females are black. It feeds mainly on rainforest fruit and flies high between fruiting trees.

• African Citril Crithagra citrinelloides

  A small yellow-green finch, with a dark facial pattern in males of the nominate subspecies. It occurs in highland grasslands and forest edges in East Africa.

• Striated Wren-Babbler Ptilocichla mindanensis

  A wren-babbler of the Philippines. The nominate form on Mindanao has a fulvous-brown head and back, a white eyebrow and throat, and heavy dark streaks on the breast and belly.

• Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana

  The Ortolan Bunting is a bunting whose breeding male has a grayish-olive head and yellow throat. It feeds on seeds on the ground, but mainly on invertebrates during breeding.

• Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet Phylloscartes ventralis

  The Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet has a long tail and two pale wingbars. It searches for prey in middle and upper forest layers, changing its foraging behavior with forest structure.

• Fischer's Turaco Tauraco fischeri

  A turaco whose red feather pigment contains copper. It moves through forest and thicket using feet adapted for gripping branches, and often eats fruit.

• Northern Black Bustard Afrotis afraoides

  The Northern Black Bustard, also called the Northern Black Korhaan, is a ground-dwelling bird of open, dry country in southern Africa, with very different male and female plumage.

• Giant Cowbird Molothrus oryzivorus

  The Giant Cowbird ranges from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. Males are black with a violet sheen, while females are dark brown. It lays eggs in other birds' nests, leaving them to raise its young.

• Southern Surucua Trogon Trogon surrucura

  This trogon lives in humid forests and wooded river corridors in South America. Males have blue chests and green backs, while females are mostly grey; both sexes take insects and other prey from perches.

• Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea

  This flycatcher ranges widely from West to East Africa. It searches for insects in forest and woodland, along rivers and in farmland, and builds a low nest.