Meet the world’s animals.

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• Moluccan Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis aeruginosus

  

  The Moluccan Brush Cuckoo has a dark gray head and throat, with chestnut underparts extending onto the breast. It is recorded in hill forest on the Maluku Islands.

• Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos

  A sandpiper that breeds on Arctic tundra and migrates south, mostly to South America. Its stippled breast ends sharply at a white belly.

• Slaty-breasted Tinamou Crypturellus boucardi

  The Slaty-breasted Tinamou searches for fruits, seeds, and ants on the floor of wet forest. Its breast is dark gray, its throat is white, and females have bars on their wings.

• Kandt's Waxbill Estrilda kandti

  A small estrildid finch of a restricted part of Central and East Africa. It uses both dry tropical grassland and humid forest, searching for seeds on the ground or among trees.

• European Shag Gulosus aristotelis

  The European Shag is a seabird of rocky coasts. It dives after fish, and breeding adults show a raised crest.

• Mexican Chickadee Poecile sclateri

  The Mexican Chickadee has a black cap and bib, white cheeks, and a gray back. It searches branches for insects and other food in high-elevation pine-oak forests.

• Lesser Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea minor

  The Lesser Bird of Paradise lives in forests of northwestern New Guinea. Males court females with vivid colors and long ornamental plumes.

• Hooded Parrot Psephotellus dissimilis

  The Hooded Parrot lives in dry open woodland and grassland in northern Australia. It feeds on seeds on the ground and nests inside termite mounds.

• Sula Cuckoo-Dove Turacoena sulaensis

  Sula Cuckoo-Dove is a forest dove of the Sula and Banggai Islands. Adults show a conspicuous white face and red eye-ring.

• Coppersmith Barbet Psilopogon haemacephalus

  A barbet that lives in Singapore’s parks and residential areas. Adults are mostly green with red and yellow markings, and feed largely on figs and other fruit.

• Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis

  This African eagle has a black chest band and a white belly. It spots and catches snakes and other prey on the ground.

• Pale-throated Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis kinneari

  The Pale-throated Wren-Babbler is a small bird recorded in mountain forests of northern Vietnam and southern China. At about 11–12 cm, its dark scale-like markings help identify it.

• Chestnut-faced Babbler Zosterornis whiteheadi

  This babbler is endemic to Luzon in the Philippines. It is recorded in mountain forest as well as open forest, secondary growth, and scrub.

• Maroon-naped Sunbird Aethopyga guimarasensis

  This small sunbird occurs on Negros, Panay, and Guimaras in the western Visayas of the Philippines. It is recorded in forest and along forest edges; a species-level ecological dataset classifies nectar as its main food niche.

• Yellow-breasted Boubou Laniarius atroflavus

  A montane forest bird of western Cameroon and southeastern Nigeria whose pairs duet.

• Mekong Wagtail Motacilla samveasnae

  The Mekong Wagtail breeds along low-flow river channels with rocky or sandy bars and shrubs. Its 2001 description recorded a breeding range from Cambodia into southern Laos.

• Pohnpei Broadbill Myiagra pluto

  Myiagra pluto is confined to Pohnpei Island in Micronesia. It also occurs at forest edges and village gardens, catching insects from low perches.

• White-spectacled Warbler Seicercus affinis

  The White-spectacled Warbler is a scarce winter visitor in Hong Kong. A white eye-ring broken at the front and a yellow wing bar help identify it; it searches for insects in the understory.

• Australian Swiftlet Aerodramus terraereginae

  This swiftlet is resident in north-eastern Queensland and breeds in caves and gorges. It makes echolocation clicks when entering dark caves.

• Buffy-crowned Wood Partridge Dendrortyx leucophrys

  This ground-dwelling partridge has a long tail and short crest. It walks through undergrowth in moist mountain forest and secondary growth in Costa Rica.

• Merlin Falco columbarius

  A small falcon that visits Japanese coasts and farmland in winter and pursues small birds.

• Flame-crested Manakin Heterocercus linteatus

  This manakin lives in Amazonian forest. In Peru, only a small number of visual records are reported from the far southeast; it also occurs in Brazil and Bolivia.

• Taiwan Fulvetta Fulvetta formosana

  This fulvetta is endemic to Taiwan's mountains. It moves in small flocks through understory and bamboo, feeding mainly on insects.

• Tarictic Hornbill Penelopides panini

  On Panay and Negros, this small hornbill stands out by the blue bare skin around the eye and its pale tail with a black tip.