Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous Fieldwren Calamanthus campestris

  

  This rusty-brown ground bird inhabits arid southern Australia. A 2009 NSW Government determination treated it as a full species separate from the Striated Fieldwren and restricted its NSW range to the far-west arid zone.

• Mantled Hawk Pseudastur polionotus

  

  The Mantled Hawk is a large hawk with white and slate-grey plumage and a short tail. It lives in humid hilly forest and hunts reptiles, small mammals, and birds.

• Lafresnaye's Piculet Picumnus lafresnayi

  

  This small woodpecker occurs in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. It uses humid lowland forest as well as forest edges, secondary growth, and clearings.

• Blue-throated Toucanet Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis

  

  The Blue-throated Toucanet is a toucan of humid Central American forests. Its blue throat and large bill stand out, and it eats fruit and small invertebrates.

• Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas

  

  Klaas's Cuckoo lives in forests and woodlands of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. It searches among leaves for caterpillars and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca

  

  The Black Heron is a dark heron found in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. In shallow water it may spread its wings like an umbrella while foraging for fish.

• Black-crowned White-eye Zosterops atrifrons

  This small white-eye occurs in Indonesia. It has a green body, bold white eye-ring, black forehead, and yellow throat and undertail; it is seen in groups along forest edges and in cultivated areas.

• Chestnut Antpitta Grallaria blakei

  This antpitta occurs in the Peruvian Andes. Its chestnut plumage stands out, and it uses forest near the ground, often in dense bamboo.

• Chestnut Sparrow Passer eminibey

  A breeding male is deep chestnut from head to body, while the female is paler brown with chestnut on the rump and wing coverts. The sparrows feed on grass seeds on the ground and occur in small groups.

• Buru Monarch Symposiachrus loricatus

  A monarch flycatcher of Buru Island, Indonesia; detailed ecological information is limited.

• Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica

  The Blue-breasted Kingfisher is a large blue kingfisher. In reserves in the Republic of the Congo it is described as a forest-interior bird, more often heard than seen.

• Archbold's Bowerbird Archboldia papuensis

  Archbold's Bowerbird lives in highland forests of central New Guinea. Males have a yellow-orange crest and prepare a flower-decorated display site during breeding.

• Churring Cisticola Cisticola njombe

  This cisticola inhabits high-altitude grassland. A record from Kitulo in Tanzania's southern highlands includes a bird identified as njombe.

• Hook-billed Hermit Glaucis dohrnii

  The Hook-billed Hermit lives in a limited part of Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest. It drinks flower nectar and also eats small arthropods.

• Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos

  The Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross is a South Atlantic seabird. Adults have a yellow ridge on the dark bill and a pale head and body. It breeds on islands in the Tristan da Cunha group and takes prey from the sea surface.

• Penan Bulbul Alophoixus ruficrissus

  This bulbul-family bird is endemic to Borneo. Adults are olive-brown with a conspicuous puffy white throat. It uses lowland and montane forest and feeds on fruit.

• Gorgeous Bushshrike Telophorus viridis

  This bushshrike inhabits thickets in sub-Saharan Africa. Adult males have green upperparts, a red throat and upper breast, and a yellow belly; females have a narrower black breast band. It searches for arthropods in dense vegetation.

• Black-billed Seed Finch Sporophila atrirostris

  This small bird is recorded locally in the eastern Andean foothills. In Peru, it has been found in tall grass along rivers and oxbow lakes, and males and females have different plumage.

• Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca

  Fox Sparrows vary from rusty red to gray among their geographic groups. They scratch through leaf litter to find food.

• Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera

  The Blue-winged Warbler is a small bird with a yellow belly and bluish wings. It searches for insects in shrubland and along forest edges.

• Nilgiri Flowerpecker Dicaeum concolor

  The Nilgiri Flowerpecker occurs in the Western Ghats of southwestern India and feeds on nectar and fruit in forest canopies.

• Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi

  The Long-tailed Fiscal ranges from southern Somalia through Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. It perches in open country and dives to the ground for prey.

• Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris

  It breeds in reedbeds and grassland; males give complex songs that include imitations of many other birds.

• Rufous-necked Puffbird Malacoptila rufa

  This puffbird lives in Amazonian lowland forest. Its gray head, rufous neck, and white crescent on the chest stand out; it is recorded most often in the understory of várzea forest.