Meet the world’s animals.

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• Orange-bellied Euphonia Euphonia xanthogaster

  

  The male’s orange-yellow head and belly stand out against a blue-black body, while the female is browner overall. It eats mainly fruits and berries in moist forest and along its edges.

• Bearded Barbet Lybius dubius

  This stocky bird with a large bill lives in tropical West Africa. It has black upperparts, a red throat and belly and a yellow eye patch. Figs are a favoured food, and several birds may roost together.

• Gray Whistler Pachycephala simplex

  The Gray Whistler is a small bird with a grayish back and pale underparts.

• Visayan Blue Fantail Rhipidura samarensis

  A Philippine fantail recorded on Bohol, Leyte and Samar, where it occurs in moist lowland forest. Its head and upperparts are blue, with paler blue underparts.

• Eastern Wattled-Honeyeater Foulehaio carunculatus

  A 2017 American Samoa manual calls this bird the Polynesian Wattled-Honeyeater and prints Foulehaio carunculata. It places the species on the islands of eastern Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa. In American Samoa, birds in breeding condition were captured throughout the year.

• Asian Houbara Chlamydotis macqueenii

  A large bustard of arid regions across Asia. Birds breeding in northeast Asia migrate south, while some southern populations are resident.

• Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus

  This subtly patterned bird occurs in eastern and central North America in summer. It moves slowly through high deciduous branches to find caterpillars; its rolling song often gives it away.

• Mindanao Pygmy Babbler Dasycrotapha plateni

  A small bird distributed on Mindanao in the Philippines. It has fine white streaks on a brown body and is described moving through forest in mixed flocks.

• Sibilant Sirystes Sirystes sibilator

  The Sibilant Sirystes is a tyrant flycatcher of South American forests. A taxonomic paper describes typical southern birds and paler populations in northern and central Brazil.

• Red-headed Finch Amadina erythrocephala

  A chunky gray-brown finch with scalloped underparts and white-tipped outer tail feathers, it breeds in pairs in dry thorn scrub and forms flocks at other times.

• Qilian Bluetail Tarsiger albocoeruleus

  The Qilian Bluetail (Tarsiger albocoeruleus) breeds in mountains of northern China, including Qinghai and Gansu. It is not separated from the Red-flanked Bluetail by an obvious plumage mark; research supports the split mainly through song and genetic evidence. Its wintering range remains unknown.

• Blue-headed Pitta Hydrornis baudii

  The Blue-headed Pitta is endemic to Borneo. An adult male has a blue-violet head and reddish-brown back and searches for food on the forest floor.

• Rusty-tinged Antpitta Grallaria przewalskii

  This antpitta is endemic to Peru and searches for food near the ground in montane forest. It has a brown back, with rusty coloring on the sides of the head and neck.

• Southern Boubou Laniarius ferrugineus

  The Southern Boubou moves through dense undergrowth and searches for prey near the ground. Males show a striking mix of black, white, and rufous.

• Western Striolated Puffbird Nystalus obamai

  The Western Striolated Puffbird ranges from western Amazonia into the Andean foothills. Its crown spots are concentrated toward the front, and it has a pale ochre nape collar.

• Kofiau Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera ellioti

  This kingfisher is restricted to Kofiau Island in Indonesia. Its blue head, white body, and long central tail feathers are striking. Little is known about its ecology, and its feeding behavior is presented as probable.

• Mexican Whip-poor-will Antrostomus arizonae

  This night-active nightjar has fine brown, gray, and buff markings. It hides on the forest floor by day and catches flying insects at dusk.

• White-cheeked Cotinga Zaratornis stresemanni

  The White-cheeked Cotinga has a black cap, white cheeks, dark spots and streaks, and a rusty central belly. It occurs on Peru's western Andean slope and forages in Polylepis woodland.

• Tasmanian Boobook Ninox leucopsis

  A small owl centred on Tasmania, with dark eye markings and white spots. It is active at night and uses wooded habitats; some occur in southern Victoria in winter.

• Barred Cuckooshrike Coracina lineata

  This large cuckooshrike is recorded from New Guinea and the Bismarck and Solomon Islands to eastern Australia. The account describes it foraging in forest canopies.

• Philippine Jungle Crow Corvus philippinus

  This crow occurs in the Philippines. It is all black, with a long curved bill, and sometimes uses food scraps around people.

• Ruddy Crake Laterallus ruber

  A small crake of wetlands and wet forests. Its head is dull black, its wings and back are reddish brown, and the male has a rusty breast. It searches for food at shallow water and mud surfaces.

• Rhinoceros auklet Cerorhinca monocerata

  A seabird that develops a horn-like projection on its bill during breeding.

• Sulawesi Grasshopper-warbler Locustella castanea

  This grasshopper-warbler lives in forests on Sulawesi, where it feeds on insects and other small invertebrates in dense cover.