Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chestnut-headed Tesia Cettia castaneocoronata

  

  The Chestnut-headed Tesia is a round, nearly tailless bird with a white eye-ring, chestnut head, and yellow throat. It searches for insects close to the ground.

• Black Grasswren Amytornis housei

  

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in the Kimberley of northwestern Western Australia. Its black underparts, white streaks, and long tail are distinctive.

• White-necked Petrel Pterodroma cervicalis

  

  The White-necked Petrel is a large seabird marked by a white collar and black cap. It feeds mainly on squid at sea and migrates to the North Pacific.

• Little Corella Cacatua sanguinea

  

  The Little Corella is a mostly white cockatoo with a blue ring around each eye and a pale rose-pink patch between the eye and bill. It is widespread in Australia and feeds on grass seeds and grains in large flocks.

• Western Rock Nuthatch Sitta neumayer

  

  The Western Rock Nuthatch forages on cliffs and rock faces and builds a mud nest in a crevice.

• Little Grey Flycatcher Muscicapa epulata

  

  The Little Grey Flycatcher is a small flycatcher of the Afrotropics. It is reported from humid forest edges and dense cover, where it catches small invertebrates.

• Arafura Fantail Rhipidura dryas

  The Arafura Fantail occurs along the northern coast of Australia and in southern New Guinea. It uses rainforest and mangroves.

• Rose-bellied Bunting Passerina rositae

  The male is blue with a rose-pink belly, while the female is greyish brown. The species inhabits a restricted area of Mexico's southern Pacific slope.

• Jerdon's Minivet Pericrocotus albifrons

  A minivet recorded in the central plains of Myanmar. Males and females differ in plumage, and the species is reported from dry scrub and places with scattered bushes.

• Golden-crested Myna Ampeliceps coronatus

  Its yellow crest and orange bill stand out. It lives in lowland forest.

• Jabiru Jabiru mycteria

  A large wetland bird with a white body, bare black head and neck, and a broad bill. It wades in shallow water to find food.

• Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre

  The Curve-billed Thrasher lives in dry parts of the southwestern United States and Mexico, including scrub with cacti and open woodland. It probes the ground with its long, downcurved bill for insects and fruit.

• Dune Lark Calendulauda erythrochlamys

  The Dune Lark is treated as endemic to Namibia's Namib Desert and lives on sparsely vegetated dunes. Some taxonomies include a closely related lark within this species.

• Olive Whistler Pachycephala olivacea

  The Olive Whistler occurs in southeastern Australia and Tasmania, using wet forests and alpine heath. It has a dark grey head and olive-brown back. Females are duller and lack the throat barring, while juveniles are more rufous-brown. It feeds mainly on insects, foraging in trees, shrubs, and on the ground.

• Malia Malia grata

  Malia is endemic to Sulawesi. It is olive above and greenish yellow below and associated with montane forest.

• Chusquea Tapaculo Scytalopus parkeri

  The Chusquea Tapaculo is associated with dense stands of Chusquea bamboo. Its original description covered a population studied at 2,250–3,150 m in southeastern Ecuador.

• Speckled Mourner Laniocera rufescens

  This forest bird is reddish brown with fine markings. It perches within humid forest or second growth and may be seen alone.

• Azure-naped Jay Cyanocorax heilprini

  The Azure-naped Jay is a large jay of lowland northern South America. Its blue-grey body contrasts with a pale sky-blue nape and white-tipped tail feathers.

• Ethiopian Firefinch Lagonosticta larvata

  The Ethiopian Firefinch, Lagonosticta larvata, occurs in southeastern Sudan, eastern South Sudan and western Ethiopia. This account follows the nominate population.

• Salim Ali's Swift Apus salimalii

  This swift breeds on the eastern Tibetan Plateau and in adjacent western Sichuan. Its wintering range remains unknown.

• Black-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus affinis

  This honeyeater is endemic to Tasmania. It moves through the canopy of wet and dry sclerophyll forest while looking for food.

• Bluish-fronted Jacamar Galbula cyanescens

  The Bluish-fronted Jacamar has a metallic blue-green crown and rufous underparts. It lives in riverine forest, and its only known nest is a tunnel in a stream bank.

• Dovekie Alle alle

  A small Arctic seabird with a black breast and white belly in breeding plumage, and a white throat in nonbreeding plumage. It dives for small crustaceans and other marine prey.

• Andean Ibis Theristicus branickii

  The head is rufous, paling toward the neck, and the back is blue-grey. It has a long, downcurved bill and occurs in flocks in highland wetlands and open grassland.