Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chestnut-winged Chachalaca Ortalis garrula

  

  The Chestnut-winged Chachalaca occurs in lowlands of northwestern Colombia. Its chestnut wings and long tail stand out, and it is common in scrub and riparian woodland.

• Blue Nuthatch Sitta azurea

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

• Javan Black-capped Babbler Pellorneum capistratum

  The Javan Black-capped Babbler has a black head and chestnut-brown back. On Java, it searches for small prey among leaf litter in moist forest.

• Yellow-sided Flowerpecker Dicaeum aureolimbatum

  This tiny flowerpecker occurs on Sulawesi and nearby islands. Its olive-green upperparts and diet of fruit and pollen are notable.

• Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris

  The Little Black Cormorant is slim and black, with a green sheen on its back. It dives to catch fish and other prey.

• Rwenzori Hill Babbler Sylvia atriceps

  This babbler lives in central African mountain forests. It was formerly included with the African Hill Babbler but is now treated as a separate species.

• Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis

  A thrush that visits mountain forests north of Kyushu; females have browner flanks.

• Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus

  A small bird with a red tail. Redstarts breed in Britain in spring and summer; British-breeding birds migrate south of the Sahara for winter.

• Fülleborn's Longclaw Macronyx fuelleborni

  Fülleborn's Longclaw is a grassland bird with a yellow eyebrow and throat, a black breast band, and a buff-colored belly. Pairs use upland grassland and other grassy habitats, especially near water.

• 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.

• Red-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus trochilirostris

  The Red-billed Scythebill is a forest bird with a very long, down-curved bill and fine streaks on the face and breast.

• Military Macaw Ara militaris

  This large macaw is mostly green, with a red forehead and blue wings. Its three subspecies are geographically separate, from Mexico through the Andes to Bolivia and Argentina.

• Diamantina Tapaculo Scytalopus diamantinensis

  This small tapaculo is restricted to mountains in northeastern Brazil. Males and females differ in the tone of their upperparts, and the species lives in dense forest-floor vegetation.

• Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida

  Clay-colored Sparrows are small and slim, with a broad pale eyebrow, pale mustache, and gray collar. They breed in low northern prairie shrublands and winter in drier grasslands and upland scrub.

• Snowy Plover Charadrius nivosus

  The Snowy Plover is a pale, sand-colored shorebird that blends into beaches and salt flats. It searches for small invertebrates as it moves across the shore.

• Alor Myzomela Myzomela prawiradilagae

  This honeyeater is known only from Alor Island, Indonesia. Its original description reports that it is mainly recorded in montane eucalypt woodland, mostly above 900 m.

• Bar-crested Antshrike Thamnophilus multistriatus

  This antshrike occurs in Colombia and Venezuela. It uses premontane tropical forest, dry-forest borders, and coffee forest, moving from the understorey to the canopy.

• Dusky Hummingbird Phaeoptila sordida

  This hummingbird occurs in Mexico. Its upperparts are pale green, with a whitish stripe and dark patch behind the eye. It uses dry areas with scattered trees or shrubs and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Red-fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata

  This 16–17 cm barbet uses upland bushland and acacia woodland and eats fruit. Sound recordings include Lake Langano in Ethiopia.

• Pohnpei Fantail Rhipidura kubaryi

  This fantail lives on Pohnpei and nearby larger lagoon islands in Micronesia. It moves through forest while fanning or wagging its white-tipped tail.

• Swamp Boubou Laniarius bicolor

  This bushshrike has a black upper body and white underparts. Pairs live in thickets beside rivers and wetlands and feed mainly on invertebrates.

• Madagascar Blue Vanga Cyanolanius madagascarinus

  The Madagascar Blue Vanga lives in forests on Madagascar. Males have a blue head and back, a black stripe through the eye, and white throat and underparts. Females are duller. It searches among leaves for insects and sometimes eats berries.

• Black-billed Mountain Toucan Andigena nigrirostris

  A mountain toucan with a blue breast and a large bill that visits fruiting trees, often in small groups.

• Manipur Fulvetta Fulvetta manipurensis

  This babbler ranges from northeastern India to northern Vietnam. Records in China are from western and southeastern Yunnan, where it searches for insects in forest undergrowth and bamboo thickets.