Meet the world’s animals.

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• Malagasy Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone mutata

  

  On Madagascar, this flycatcher hunts insects and spiders in forests, edges, and gardens. Males change from a red immature plumage to a white adult morph, and their central tail feathers lengthen during breeding.

• Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata

  

  The Half-collared Kingfisher is small, with a blue back, pale orange underparts and a white throat.

• Green Catbird Ailuroedus crassirostris

  

  The Green Catbird is an Australian bird with a green, white-spotted body and red eyes. It feeds on fruit and flowers in the forest canopy and gives a cat-like call.

• Grey-crowned Prinia Prinia cinereocapilla

  

  The Grey-crowned Prinia is a small bird marked by its grey crown. A study in western Nepal reported it in grassland and scrub habitats.

• White-bellied Woodstar Chaetocercus mulsant

  

  The White-bellied Woodstar is common in montane forest on the eastern Andes and also occurs in humid montane forest on the western slope. Males have a conspicuous violet throat, while females have rufous sides to the breast and belly.

• Buller's Albatross Thalassarche bulleri

  

  Buller’s Albatross ranges over seas around New Zealand and takes fish and squid near the surface.

• Black-headed Bulbul Brachypodius melanocephalos

  The common color morph has a glossy black head with olive and yellow body plumage. Small groups feed on fruit in forests and forest edges from northeastern India through Southeast Asia.

• Slate-colored Boubou Laniarius funebris

  The Slate-colored Boubou has dark grey plumage and a darker head. It inhabits dry scrub and riverine thickets, foraging on the ground and within dense vegetation for insects and other invertebrates.

• Bicolored Conebill Conirostrum bicolor

  This small tanager occurs in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and northern Brazil, along rivers and in coastal wetlands. Adults are bluish grey with a reddish iris.

• Rufous-winged Sparrow Peucaea carpalis

  A small sparrow of the Sonoran Desert, from the southwestern United States into northwestern Mexico. It uses dry scrub and grassland, and breeds around the start of the summer rains.

• Belding's Yellowthroat Geothlypis beldingi

  This warbler has a fragmented range on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. BirdLife describes freshwater marshes with reeds and cattails as its main habitat.

• Red-capped Flowerpecker Dicaeum geelvinkianum

  The Red-capped Flowerpecker is a small bird of New Guinea and adjacent islands. Males often show red on the crown and rump, and it eats fruit and seeds.

• Burmese Shrike Lanius collurioides

  The Burmese Shrike has a blue-grey head and upper back, with chestnut across the rest of the upperparts. Yunnan records also describe it taking insects and small animals such as lizards.

• Pitcairn Reed Warbler Acrocephalus vaughani

  This small warbler has gray-brown upperparts and yellowish-buff underparts. It uses tall, wooded patches on Pitcairn Island and is reported to avoid open areas.

• Swallow-wing Puffbird Chelidoptera tenebrosa

  This puffbird occurs in Amazonian lowlands and forest edges. It is dark slate with a rufous lower belly and white vent and back; its broad wings and short tail show clearly in flight. It hawks passing prey from a perch.

• Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus

  This sandgrouse lives in dry grassland and scrub in East Africa. Males have black markings across the face and throat, while females are plainer. It feeds on plant seeds on the ground.

• Sooty Grouse Dendragapus fuliginosus

  Males have a yellow comb against a slate-blue head, while females are browner. In Southeast Alaska’s wet evergreen forests, their foods change with the seasons.

• Rusty-naped Pitta Hydrornis oatesi

  In Yunnan, this elusive pitta lives near the forest floor in moist forests, often beside streams.

• Rosy-throated Longclaw Macronyx ameliae

  The Rosy-throated Longclaw is a shy bird of wet grassland with striking pink underparts.

• Ringed Teal Callonetta leucophrys

  The Ringed Teal is a small duck of South American wetlands and ponds, with different facial patterns in males and females.

• Black Skimmer Rynchops niger

  The Black Skimmer is a waterbird of American coasts, estuaries, and lagoons. It catches small fish by flying just above the water with its longer lower bill cutting the surface.

• Strong-billed Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus

  A large woodcreeper of Andean forests, it searches along trunks and branches with a notably stout bill.

• Karoo Thrush Turdus smithi

  The Karoo Thrush is a thrush of dry southern African country. A research paper describes it as darker than forest-dwelling relatives, with a dusky-brown rather than white throat. It uses arid shrubland and riverine Acacia and feeds on the ground.

• Blue Mountain Vireo Vireo osburni

  This vireo lives in humid montane forests of north-western Jamaica and feeds within dense leaf cover.