Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cinereous Owl Strix sartorii

  

  This owl is documented in the mountains of Mexico. The American Ornithological Society committee account notes its original description from high-elevation pine forest in Veracruz and identifies its ash-gray coloration as a distinguishing feature.

• Junin Grebe Podiceps taczanowskii

  

  The Junin Grebe is a flightless grebe found only at Lake Junín in central Peru. It changes the parts of the lake it uses between the breeding season and the rest of the year.

• Gray Pratincole Glareola cinerea

  

  The Gray Pratincole catches flying insects on the wing and lives around large rivers in West Africa, where it rests and nests on sandbanks.

• Philippine Swamphen Porphyrio pulverulentus

  

  This waterbird inhabits wetlands in the Philippines. An older handbook describes the adult male in slate blue to deep navy, while a current species page lists sheltered, slow or still waters fringed with reeds.

• Western Tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaea

  

  The Western Tinkerbird is a small African barbet recorded in several separated mountain regions. Its black back is marked by a broad yellow stripe running from crown to rump.

• Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike Prionops scopifrons

  

  This helmetshrike lives in forests and woodland from eastern to southeastern Africa and is seen in small to medium-sized flocks.

• Rainbow Bee-eater Merops ornatus

  The Rainbow Bee-eater has vivid green, blue, and yellow plumage. It beats captured bees against a perch to remove their stings before eating them.

• Southern rockhopper penguin Eudyptes chrysocome

  A penguin with yellow plumes extending backwards above the eyes. Its breeding range includes the Falkland Islands.

• White-breasted Antbird Rhegmatorhina hoffmannsi

  This antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory. Willis described the male with a white face, throat, and breast, a black crest, grey underparts, and greenish-brown upperparts; the female differs in crown and body pattern.

• Chestnut-crowned Warbler Seicercus castaniceps

  A bird of the subspecies sinensis was recorded foraging in broad-leaved deciduous forest in southwest Hebei, China, in 2012. That individual had a chestnut crown and yellow wing-bars.

• Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis

  The Carolina Chickadee is a small bird with a black cap and bib, gray back, and whitish underside. In winter it may forage in flocks with other small birds.

• Green-eared Barbet Psilopogon faiostrictus

  The Green-eared Barbet has green upperparts and paler underparts. In the source's male description, brown streaks mark the crown and nape, with green ear coverts. Its main food is fruit.

• Red-capped Manakin Ceratopipra mentalis

  The Red-capped Manakin is a small bird of the understory in humid forests from Central America to northwestern South America. Males have red heads, females are green, and both may be found around fruiting trees.

• Amami Woodcock Scolopax mira

  The Amami Woodcock is a large ground-dwelling shorebird of broadleaf forests in the Amami Islands and northern Okinawa Island. Its dark plumage and long legs blend into the forest floor.

• Tropical Scrubwren Sericornis beccarii

  The Tropical Scrubwren inhabits dense rainforest and forages in the lower canopy and on the ground. The page records female birds of subspecies minimus in north-eastern Queensland.

• African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro

  The African Goshawk is a widespread medium-sized African hawk. Its plumage varies by sex, age, and region.

• Bennett's Woodpecker Campethera bennettii

  This woodpecker inhabits African woodland and savanna with tall trees. Males and females differ in head and throat markings, and it may forage for ants on the ground.

• Citron-throated Toucan Ramphastos citreolaemus

  This toucan ranges from northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela. It feeds on fruit in the canopy of humid forest.

• Javan Coucal Centropus nigrorufus

  This large coucal is recorded in Java's lowlands, where it uses mangroves and nearby wetlands.

• Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor

  A slender heron with blue-gray, lavender, and white plumage and a white stripe down the neck. It searches for small fish in coastal wetlands, moving with quick turns.

• Kosrae White-eye Zosterops cinereus

  This grey white-eye lives on Kosrae. Adults lack the olive-brown back and flanks of the related Pohnpei bird and have a thin white eye-ring. Small flocks forage in forest, mangroves and other terrestrial habitats.

• Black-spotted Barbet Capito niger

  This barbet lives in moist lowland forest and swamps in northern South America. Both sexes excavate nest cavities in tree stumps, and the diet consists mainly of fruit and oily seeds.

• Ochre-striped Antpitta Grallaria dignissima

  The Ochre-striped Antpitta occurs in Peru's northern Amazonian lowlands. It has a brown head and back, ochre face, throat, and upper breast, and long black streaks on the whitish lower underparts. It forages on the floor of terra firme forest.

• White-winged Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis

  The White-winged Snowfinch lives in cold mountain habitats and moves to lower elevations seasonally.