Meet the world’s animals.

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• Palmchat Dulus dominicus

  

  The Palmchat is a Caribbean island bird with a plain brown back and heavily streaked underparts. It also has a red iris and a strong, slightly decurved bill.

• Cuckoo Roller Leptosomus discolor

  

  It lives in woodland and forest in Madagascar and the Comoros. Males have iridescent green upperparts, while females are brown above.

• Alpine Pipit Anthus gutturalis

  

  A pipit of New Guinea's high alpine grasslands. It favors short grass and places with nearby bushes.

• Cocos Booby Sula brewsteri

  

  A booby of rocky islands in the eastern Pacific. Males have a whiter face and gray bill; females have a paler brown head than female Brown Boobies.

• Eastern Whipbird Psophodes olivaceus

  

  With a black head and broad white cheek patch, this bird searches near the ground for insects in wet habitats of eastern Australia.

• Subdesert Mesite Monias benschi

  

  The Subdesert Mesite is restricted to the dry spiny forests of southwestern Madagascar. It walks on the ground by day and searches beneath leaf litter for food.

• Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata

  The Magpie Goose is a large waterbird with a black head and neck, a white belly, and a diet of aquatic plants in northern Australian wetlands.

• Chestnut-belted Gnateater Conopophaga aurita

  The Chestnut-belted Gnateater searches for food near the ground in tropical forest. Males have a black face and chestnut breast, while females are more subdued.

• Cotton Pygmy-Goose Nettapus coromandelianus

  A very small duck that uses plant-rich freshwater areas in eastern Queensland, Australia.

• Javan Frogmouth Batrachostomus javensis

  The Javan Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird endemic to Java, Indonesia. It has brown mottled plumage and rests on branches by day.

• Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus

  The Lesser Black-backed Gull is a large gull with a dark gray back and white body. It breeds from northern Europe to western Siberia and moves south for winter.

• White-whiskered Spinetail Synallaxis candei

  The White-whiskered Spinetail has a black face marked by a white moustache stripe. A Colombia field page documents the nominate form in dry scrub at Los Flamencos, La Guajira, and notes that nearby forms differ in face and throat color.

• Black-breasted Boatbill Machaerirhynchus nigripectus

  The Black-breasted Boatbill is a small bird of New Guinea's mountains. It is active by day along forest edges and within forest, and is about 13–15 cm long.

• South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki

  The South Polar Skua is a large seabird that breeds in Antarctica and makes a shallow nest on the ground among rocks or moss.

• Yellow-legged Thrush Turdus flavipes

  This thrush occurs widely in South America. An island study by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro reports it in lowlands during the coldest months and conspicuous near mountaintops in spring and summer on Bom Jesus Island.

• New Zealand Rockwren Xenicus gilviventris

  The New Zealand Rockwren is a small ground-feeding bird of the South Island mountains, living above the bush line throughout its life.

• Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus

  The Red-eyed Vireo is a woodland songbird that searches leaves in the canopy for caterpillars and also eats fruit in its South American wintering areas.

• Seychelles Kestrel Falco araeus

  This small falcon lives on islands in the Seychelles. It hunts insects and small vertebrates, including skinks and geckos.

• Eastern Chat-Tanager Calyptophilus frugivorus

  A chocolate-brown back and bright yellow skin around the eye help identify this bird. In Hispaniola's mountain forests, it searches leaf litter for small animals and seeds.

• Brown Hornbill Anorrhinus tickelli

  Tickell’s Brown Hornbill lives in forests of southern Myanmar and western Thailand, usually in groups of about five to seven, feeding on fruit and small animals.

• Bar-tailed Treecreeper Certhia himalayana

  The Bar-tailed Treecreeper lives in mountain forests and searches for small food items on trunks and branches.

• Crimson-browed Finch Carpodacus subhimachalus

  This finch lives at high elevations in southwestern China. Males have red markings around the brow and cheeks, while females are olive or yellow-green. It may move to lower elevations in winter.

• Mourning Babbler Pellorneum malaccense

  The Mourning Babbler occurs in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and nearby islands. At Krau in Pahang, a study often recorded it taking food from aerial dead leaves at heights above ground up to 2 m.

• Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps

  The Red-headed Bunting breeds in Central Asia and winters in India. In Hong Kong it is a rare winter visitor; females and young can be difficult to identify because they resemble Black-headed Buntings.