Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bar-bellied Pitta Hydrornis elliotii

  

  The Bar-bellied Pitta lives in lowland forest in Indochina and searches for food on the ground. It turns leaf litter while feeding on insects and earthworms.

• Berthelot's Pipit Anthus berthelotii

  

  This small pipit has grey-brown upperparts and a clearly streaked breast. The species is endemic to Macaronesia—Canary Islands, Madeira and the Selvagens—and may make short local movements during dry periods.

• Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis

  

  With a white face and black neck, this goose migrates from Arctic breeding areas to UK coasts and estuaries for winter.

• Olrog's Gull Larus atlanticus

  

  Olrog’s Gull feeds mainly on crabs and breeds along the Argentine coast. In winter it disperses north to Uruguay and southern Brazil.

• Grey-crested Cacholote Pseudoseisura unirufa

  

  This ovenbird occurs in seasonally flooded savannas and woodland in parts of Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil. It has mainly rufous-cinnamon plumage and a greyish crest.

• Black-hooded Thrush Turdus olivater

  

  This thrush inhabits humid montane forest. The black-headed male of the nominate form searches for food among leaf litter.

• Pied Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius flaviscapis

  The Pied Shrike-Babbler occurs on Java. Males and females differ in plumage, and the species searches for food in forest foliage.

• American Kestrel Falco sparverius

  A small falcon found in North America. It hunts insects and other small prey in open country, perching on posts or hovering into the wind.

• Palawan Hornbill Anthracoceros marchei

  The Palawan Hornbill is endemic to the Palawan island group. It mainly eats fruit, as well as recorded insects and lizards.

• Spectacled Finch Callacanthis burtoni

  A female observed in western Bhutan had conspicuous yellow-orange skin around the eye and a heavy yellowish bill.

• Chinese Grassbird Graminicola striatus

  This grassbird lives in tall grass. In Hong Kong, it hides in Miscanthus grassland and low bamboo, and shows a conspicuous black-and-white streaked nape patch on a warm brown body.

• Black-headed Bunting Emberiza melanocephala

  This bunting migrates to Cyprus to breed, using farmland with nearby trees and shrubs, and winters in India.

• Jamaican Elaenia Myiopagis cotta

  The Jamaican Elaenia is a small tyrant flycatcher of humid montane and foothill forests in Jamaica.

• Hartlaub's Turaco Tauraco hartlaubi

  Hartlaub's Turaco is a green bird of the East African highlands. It moves by hopping through the canopy and making short flights between trees.

• Great Indian Bustard Ardeotis nigriceps

  The Great Indian Bustard is a large bird that walks through grassland while foraging. Its pale neck and black crown stand out, and breeding males display to females in grassland.

• St. Lucia Oriole Icterus laudabilis

  An oriole endemic to St. Lucia. Black plumage is sharply set off by russet-orange patches, and it has a long, slender bill.

• Black-headed Trogon Trogon melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Trogon is a forest bird marked by the male's dark head and chest, the female's gray head, and the yellow belly shared by both sexes.

• Banded Wattle-eye Platysteira laticincta

  This small bird lives in the montane forests of western Cameroon. The male has a broad blue-black band across its white belly and a red bare wattle above the eye.

• Black-headed Berryeater Carpornis melanocephala

  The Black-headed Berryeater is a cotinga of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. A field report documented a male passing fruit to a female.

• Nepal Fulvetta Alcippe nipalensis

  The Nepal Fulvetta lives in forest from the lowlands to the mountains of the eastern Himalayas. Outside the breeding season it may form active flocks of up to about 20 birds, sometimes with other species.

• Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops

  This small plover lives around fresh water in Australasia. It has a black face pattern and breast band with chestnut shoulder feathers. It walks along the water's edge looking for insects and small molluscs.

• Broad-billed Warbler Tickellia hodgsoni

  This small warbler occurs from the Himalayas to Indochina, using damp montane forest and bamboo undergrowth to find insects.

• Purple-crowned Fairywren Malurus coronatus

  In breeding plumage, the male of the western subspecies has a purple crown and blue tail. The subspecies lives in thick river-edge vegetation from the Victoria River catchment to the northern Kimberley.

• Northern Giant Petrel Macronectes halli

  The Northern Giant Petrel is a large seabird whose plumage becomes paler with age. It breeds on subantarctic islands and feeds at sea on fish and squid.