Meet the world’s animals.

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• Boa Nova Tapaculo Scytalopus gonzagai

  

  A small tapaculo of montane forest in southern Bahia, Brazil. Its flanks and rump have brown-and-black bars.

• Rufous-winged Buzzard Butastur liventer

  The Rufous-winged Buzzard is a raptor that searches for prey in wooded grassland and farmland. By day, it watches open ground from a perch.

• Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ruficollis

  A bird with a long curved yellow bill, a bold white eyebrow, and a chestnut breast. Hong Kong birds are thought to derive from captive stock, so local records are kept separate from the natural range.

• 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.

• Spotted Nothura Nothura maculosa

  The Spotted Nothura lives in South American grasslands. It eats mostly plant matter and is also described as omnivorous.

• 'Elepaio Chasiempis sandwichensis

  This forest bird is endemic to Hawaiʻi Island. Adults are dark brown above and white below, and the throat differs between males and females. It searches foliage for small arthropods and also catches prey in flight.

• Arabian Warbler Curruca leucomelaena

  The Arabian Warbler is marked by its black hood and long black tail. It moves slowly through acacia canopies in dry scrub and along wadis.

• African River Martin Pseudochelidon eurystomina

  The dark African River Martin has conspicuous red eyes and an orange-red bill.

• Black-throated Grey Warbler Setophaga nigrescens

  In breeding plumage, male Black-throated Gray Warblers have a black throat, gray back, a black-and-white face pattern, and a yellow spot near the eye. The species breeds west of the Rocky Mountains and winters in Mexico.

• Groove-billed Toucanet Aulacorhynchus sulcatus

  The Groove-billed Toucanet is mostly green, with a blue facial patch and a ridged, multicolored bill. It lives in mountains of northern South America.

• Blyth's Reed Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum

  Blyth's Reed Warbler is a small reed warbler that lives among grasses and shrubs. It breeds across northern Eurasia and migrates to South Asia for winter.

• Eurasian tree sparrow Passer montanus

  A small bird that nests in gaps in roofs and walls. In Japan it is closely associated with settlements and can be recognized by black cheek patches.

• Lafresnaye's Vanga Xenopirostris xenopirostris

  Lafresnaye's Vanga is endemic to southern and southwestern Madagascar. It searches dead wood with a thick, flattened bill and feeds on invertebrates and sometimes small chameleons.

• Pacific Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes johnsoni

  The Pacific Tuftedcheek occurs in the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Its rufous back and flanks and white spots on a dark breast are distinctive.

• Bornean Banded Pitta Hydrornis schwaneri

  This pitta is endemic to Borneo. Adult males show a yellow eyebrow, blue rump and tail, and a blue belly patch. It is now treated separately from related forms once grouped with it.

• Western Fieldwren Calamanthus montanellus

  Western Fieldwren is recorded from the Stirling Range in Western Australia. Milligan's original account describes it running through stony ground and singing from the ground or low bushes.

• Olrog's Gull Larus atlanticus

  Olrog’s Gull feeds mainly on crabs and breeds along the Argentine coast. In winter it disperses north to Uruguay and southern Brazil.

• Gray-collared Becard Pachyramphus major

  The Gray-collared Becard is described from semi-open forests in Mexico and Guatemala. Males have a black cap and back with a pale grey nape and underside; females have a brown crown and back.

• Rufous-margined Antwren Herpsilochmus rufimarginatus

  This small antwren occurs in forests of eastern and southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. It searches forest vegetation for insects and other small invertebrates.

• Stone Partridge Ptilopachus petrosus

  A small partridge that often holds its tail upright. Red legs and skin around the eye stand out; it uses grassy savanna and rocky ground.

• Puna Snipe Gallinago andina

  This snipe lives in high Andean wetlands. When startled, it takes off suddenly and flies in a zigzag. It nests on the ground near water.

• Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris

  Males combine dark grey and rufous plumage, while females are grey-brown and streaked; the birds often search for insects high in trees.

• Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis

  A gray bird with a black cap and rusty feathers beneath the tail. It lives in dense thickets and weaves other birds' sounds into long songs.

• Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens

  Leaf-love is a bulbul found from western to central Africa, where it uses woodland and thickets near water.