Meet the world’s animals.

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• Minahasa Masked Owl Tyto inexspectata

  

  A forest owl endemic to Sulawesi. Accounts describe a dark-edged facial disc and dark bars across its cinnamon-colored plumage.

• Barred Buttonquail Turnix suscitator

  

  The Barred Buttonquail is a small bird that eats grass seeds and small invertebrates. Females are described as more brightly colored than males, and the birds are often solitary or in small groups.

• Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus

  

  The Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture is a vulture of the Americas recorded in wetlands along Guatemala's Pacific coast. It feeds mainly on carrion, but may also take live fish, reptiles, and insects.

• Horned Screamer Anhima cornuta

  

  The Horned Screamer is a large bird of freshwater wetlands in northern South America. A long, slender hornlike projection rises from its head.

• Madagascar Jacana Actophilornis albinucha

  

  The Madagascar Jacana inhabits wetlands in western Madagascar. A 2016 survey found it at 22 of the 54 lakes examined.

• Helmeted guineafowl Numida meleagris

  

  A mainly ground-dwelling bird native to Africa. Wild birds have dark grey plumage covered with small white spots.

• White-necked Laughingthrush Garrulax strepitans

  An older bird account describes a reddish-brown head, black face, and white neck spots, and reports flocks of twenty or more in deep forest ravines. These are historical observations.

• Rufous-chested Dotterel Charadrius modestus

  This plover breeds in grasslands and wetlands at the southern tip of South America. Some move north along the Pacific coast outside the breeding season, while others remain in the south throughout the year.

• Asian Stubtail Urosphena squameiceps

  The Asian Stubtail is a small summer visitor that lives in dark, dense thickets in Kyoto Prefecture's low hills. The sexes have the same plumage color.

• Pallid Honeyguide Indicator meliphilus

  The Pallid Honeyguide is a small bird about 13 cm long. It is active by day in woodland and forest edges, where it feeds on invertebrates such as insects.

• Mallee Emu-wren Stipiturus mallee

  The Mallee Emu-wren is a small bird with a very long, filament-like tail. It moves quickly through low vegetation, and the male has a blue face and breast.

• Black-capped Petrel Pterodroma hasitata

  The Black-capped Petrel is a seabird of the northwestern Atlantic. It breeds in highlands on Hispaniola and searches near the sea surface for fish and squid, mostly at night.

• Blue-eyed Cockatoo Cacatua ophthalmica

  A large white cockatoo of lowland forest on New Britain.

• Blue Nuthatch Sitta azurea

  The Blue Nuthatch is a small bird that moves along trunks and branches in mountain forest.

• Grey-winged Trumpeter Psophia crepitans

  The Grey-winged Trumpeter is a forest bird of South America that appears larger when it arches its wings.

• Narcissus flycatcher Ficedula narcissina

  A forest insect hunter whose male has striking yellow and black plumage.

• Great frigatebird Fregata minor

  A tropical seabird with long wings and a deeply forked tail.

• Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa

  A small bird found in Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea and Pacific islands. It has a grey body, white eyebrow and throat patch, and a long tail that it often fans.

• Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa

  The Golden-crowned Kinglet is a tiny bird recognized by its yellow crown and searches for small prey in conifers.

• Olive Tanager Chlorothraupis frenata

  Here, Olive Tanager refers to the separate species *Chlorothraupis frenata* of the eastern Andean foothills. Its nest study examined Peruvian birds formerly called *C. carmioli frenata*.

• Varied Triller Lalage leucomela

  It occurs in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago. It feeds on insects and fruit along edges between open and closed forest and in riparian woodland.

• Metallic Starling Aplonis metallica

  The Metallic Starling is a starling with glossy black adult plumage that reflects green or purple. Birds travel from New Guinea to breed in coastal lowlands of northern Queensland.

• Storm's Stork Ciconia stormi

  A large stork of lowland freshwater swamp forest. Adults are black and white with a red bill; immature birds have brown where adults are black.

• Red-browed Pardalote Pardalotus rubricatus

  This pardalote occurs in Australia. Gould’s early description notes a vivid orange spot before the eye, while a regional account from the southern Carnarvon Basin reports it mainly in eucalypt canopies.