Meet the world’s animals.

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• Indian Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus horsfieldii

  

  The Indian Scimitar Babbler is marked by a long, downcurved yellow bill and a white line above the eye. It searches for insects and spiders among forest leaf litter and undergrowth.

• Northern Baja Deermouse Peromyscus fraterculus

  The northern Baja deermouse has cinnamon-rufous dorsal fur flecked with black, with a darker midline and flanks. It is a habitat generalist, recorded from desert scrub and washes to forests and agricultural areas.

• 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.

• Common Vole Microtus (Microtus) arvalis

  The common vole is a small vole with brown-gray fur and a short tail. In grassland and farmland, it searches for plants beneath grass cover or underground.

• White-bellied Nothura Nothura boraquira

  The White-bellied Nothura is a small tinamou recorded in Bolivian savannas and grasslands. The source gives a body length of 22–24 cm.

• Melanesian Flycatcher Myiagra caledonica

  This flycatcher occurs in New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. Adult males are glossy black; females combine grey and rufous-orange plumage.

• Chestnut-vented Warbler Curruca subcoerulea

  The Chestnut-vented Warbler is gray, with a pale eye, streaked throat, rufous vent, and large white tail patches. In dense scrub it is often detected by voice.

• Southern Crag-Martin Ptyonoprogne fuligula

  The Southern Crag-Martin nests on cliffs and buildings in southern Africa. It catches small insects in flight and is distributed across the region.

• Pink-headed Warbler Cardellina versicolor

  This small bird is about 13 cm long and uses pine–oak and montane evergreen forest. The account describes gleaning invertebrates from vegetation. Sound recordings include Chiapas, Mexico.

• Northern Emerald-Toucanet Aulacorhynchus prasinus

  The Northern Emerald-Toucanet is a medium-sized green toucanet with cinnamon at the tail tips. Pairs and small groups move through the canopy of humid tropical hills and highlands.

• Upcher's Warbler Hippolais languida

  Upcher's Warbler breeds in dry scrub from the Middle East into Central Asia and winters in parts of East Africa. It is thought to feed mainly on invertebrates.

• Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser rufoscapulatus

  The Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Weaver has a stocky body, chestnut back, and striped head. Small groups stay together year-round in miombo woodland and search the ground for seeds and insects.

• White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus

  This social bird has black-and-white plumage, a gray crest, and a yellow eye. It searches for insects in the middle and lower levels of trees.

• Ayacucho Thistletail Asthenes ayacuchensis

  The Ayacucho Thistletail is recorded from a few small valleys in eastern Ayacucho, southern Peru. It inhabits elfin forest and has a long tail with olive-brown upperparts.

• Mangrove Pitta Pitta megarhyncha

  This pitta walks on mangrove floors and searches for small prey with its long bill. Its crown is a uniform buff-brown.

• Grey Thornbill Acanthiza cinerea

  A small thornbill with grey upperparts and a white underside, active in the canopy of montane forest.

• Swallow-tailed Gull Creagrus furcatus

  An unusual gull that catches small fish and squid over the sea at night. Breeding adults show a red eye-ring, and head color changes outside the breeding plumage.

• Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata

  Masked Tityras range from Mexico through Central America into South America. They use forests, edges, clearings and cultivated areas, feeding in pairs or small flocks on insects, small vertebrates and fruit.

• Rufous-tailed Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla erythrura

  The Rufous-tailed Stipplethroat lives in lowland and foothill evergreen forest in western Amazonia. Males have a gray face, whitish streaked throat, and rufous rump and tail; females are more ochre below. It gleans insects and spiders from dead leaves. Breeding biology is poorly known.

• Rufous-fronted Wood Quail Odontophorus erythrops

  The Rufous-fronted Wood Quail searches through leaf litter on the forest floor in the Andes.

• Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus

  A large shorebird of North American grasslands, the Long-billed Curlew is notable for its very long, strongly down-curved bill.

• Sclater's Whistler Pachycephala soror

  This whistler inhabits montane forests in New Guinea. A study recorded a tendency for males to forage higher than females.

• Chilean Mockingbird Mimus thenca

  This large mockingbird occurs in open woodland and scrub in Chile. Its long tail, white eyebrow, and dark facial stripe are conspicuous, and it eats insects and fruit. A breeding study in central Chile recorded cup nests built from thorny sticks.

• Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus

  This brownish African bird also visits orchards and gardens. It eats many kinds of fruit, and pairs or small groups call noisily.