Meet the world’s animals.

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• Tricolored Parrot-Finch Erythrura tricolor

  

  A small finch of forests and woodland edges in the Lesser Sundas. It has a green back, blue body, and red tail; females are duller than males.

• Short-tailed shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris

  A dark seabird that breeds in Australia and makes long ocean journeys.

• Spotted Thrush-Babbler Illadopsis turdina

  A babbler of damp African woodland and streamside thickets, foraging close to the ground. Its white breast is spotted rufous.

• Nubian Bustard Neotis nuba

  The Nubian Bustard is a large bustard of dry country along the southern Sahara. It is active by day and eats both animal and plant foods.

• White-shouldered Ibis Pseudibis davisoni

  The White-shouldered Ibis is a large ibis with a pale blue-white neck band and a white wing mark visible in flight.

• Red-faced Malkoha Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus

  The Red-faced Malkoha is a long-tailed cuckoo with a red face and green bill, native to Sri Lanka. It uses the forest canopy and dense undergrowth.

• Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksii

  The Red-tailed Black Cockatoo is a black parrot with a conspicuous red tail. The sexes differ in plumage, and the species includes several subspecies and disjunct populations.

• Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris

  This shrike lives in open country in southern Africa. It watches from branches or fences and catches insects and small mammals.

• White-tailed Shrike Lanioturdus torquatus

  This bird occurs in southwestern Angola and northern Namibia. It has black, grey, and white plumage with yellow eyes and searches for insects on the ground and in trees.

• Dusky Babbler Turdoides tenebrosa

  Its blackish-brown breast has pale scaling, and it has a white eye with dark wings and tail. In Central African moist shrubland it is usually seen in pairs or small groups and eats invertebrates and fruit.

• Red-faced Cormorant Urile urile

  The Red-faced Cormorant lives along remote North Pacific coasts. In breeding plumage, its red face and white flank patch stand out against its dark body.

• Black-tipped Cotinga Carpodectes hopkei

  The Black-tipped Cotinga occurs from southeastern Panama through western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador, mainly in humid forest canopy. Males are almost white and females mostly gray above. It eats fruit, but details are sparse and seasonal movement is only suspected.

• Red-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis

  This nocturnal bird has a rusty band across the throat and chest. It catches flying insects at dusk and during the night.

• Rosy-throated Longclaw Macronyx ameliae

  The Rosy-throated Longclaw is a shy bird of wet grassland with striking pink underparts.

• Mountain Oriole Oriolus percivali

  The Mountain Oriole lives in East African montane forest. Its head, neck, and upper breast are glossy black, with yellow and olive-green across the back and wings.

• Amur Falcon Falco amurensis

  This small falcon breeds in East Asia and migrates to southern Africa. Plumage differs among adult males, females, and juveniles.

• Splendid Fairywren Malurus splendens

  The Splendid Fairywren is a small bird of Australian shrublands. Breeding males stand out with bright blue and black plumage, and the birds search for insects on the ground and in low shrubs.

• Strange Weaver Ploceus alienus

  The Strange Weaver lives in montane forest of the Albertine Rift and searches among branches and leaves for small invertebrates. Natural-history details are sparse, so nest construction and social behavior are not described here.

• Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus fuscicollis

  This African parrot is described with two subspecies. Their head and rump colors, ranges and woodland habitats differ.

• Peruvian Sierra Finch Phrygilus punensis

  This finch occurs in the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It forages on the ground in sparse, dry scrub and may be seen in family groups or mixed flocks.

• Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla

  The Little Bunting is a small bunting that visits Britain from Russia. In Britain, most records are in autumn, and some birds are found in winter flocks of buntings.

• Yellow-bibbed Lory Lorius chlorocercus

  The Yellow-bibbed Lory is a parrot with a red body, black crown, yellow chest band, and green wings. In the wild it lives in forests of the eastern Solomon Islands and eats flowers, fruit, and other foods.

• Green Manakin Cryptopipo holochlora

  It occurs on the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, in moist lowland and foothill forest and at forest edges. Ecuadorian records extend to about 1,500 m.

• Brown Sicklebill Epimachus meyeri

  The Brown Sicklebill shows a strong difference between adult males and females in plumage and ornamentation. It eats fruit and small animals in New Guinea's mountain forests.