Meet the world’s animals.

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• Whiskered Auklet Aethia pygmaea

  

  The Whiskered Auklet is a small seabird with a crest and white plumes that stand out in the breeding season.

• Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon

  The Northern House Wren is a small brown bird found even around homes and parks in North America. It searches for insects in low branches and shrubs and often gives a lively, bubbling song.

• Vinous-breasted Myna Acridotheres leucocephalus

  This bird is native to Southeast Asia. Birds that escaped or were released from captivity have been recorded in towns and parks in central Israel.

• Killdeer Charadrius vociferus

  A North American plover of open ground. It runs, pauses, and searches the ground for insects.

• Yellow-rumped Flowerpecker Prionochilus xanthopygius

  This small flowerpecker inhabits lowland forest on Borneo. Males are strongly blue and yellow, while females are mainly gray and olive.

• Burmese Bush Lark Plocealauda microptera

  A lark of open grassland and fallow fields in central Myanmar. It forages in open country and is also recorded perching on trees and wires.

• Chaco Chachalaca Ortalis canicollis

  The Chaco Chachalaca is a large guan recorded in northern Argentina's woods and forests. Argentina's SIB species page describes pairs or small flocks moving quickly through tree branches.

• Taiwan Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola sonorivox

  This pheasant is endemic to Taiwan and uses hill and mountain woodland, bamboo, and scrub. It is a ground-dwelling bird.

• Ethiopian Bee-eater Merops lafresnayii

  Its back is green and its underparts are pale cinnamon, with a yellow throat bordered behind by blackish blue. A 2015 field report lists at least five birds of the lafresnayii form at Lake Langano, Ethiopia.

• Greater Ground Robin Amalocichla sclateriana

  This ground robin is known from high montane forests of New Guinea. One bird was recorded on the Huon Peninsula in 2011, and researchers noted that it might differ in size from known populations.

• Pale-tipped Inezia Inezia caudata

  This small bird inhabits wooded areas near water in northern South America. A 2000 study treated the forms now matched to CoL ID 3PP56 as caudata and intermedia, and compared their plumage and ranges.

• Silver Teal Spatula versicolor

  The silver teal is a small duck with a dark brown cap and a blue-green wing patch. It is recorded at lakes and rivers in Argentina.

• Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti

  Vieillot's Barbet is a daytime bird found in sub-Saharan Africa. It eats fruits and flower nectar among other foods.

• Hispaniolan Trogon Priotelus roseigaster

  The Hispaniolan Trogon is the only trogon on Hispaniola. It has metallic green upperparts, a gray breast, and a red belly.

• Mangrove Rail Rallus longirostris

  The Mangrove Rail is a rail of scattered coastal sites in Central and South America, where it uses mangroves and salty wetlands. It probes shallow mud and water with its long bill.

• Collared Puffbird Bucco capensis

  A forest bird with a cinnamon head, large bill, and a black collar across the neck and chest, it waits to ambush sizable prey.

• Amboyna Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia amboinensis

  A slender reddish-brown dove with different plumage in males and females, ranging from the Moluccas to the New Guinea region.

• Tawny Grassbird Megalurus timoriensis

  The Tawny Grassbird hides among grasses and shrubs. This entry presents behaviour recorded by a local field guide on Cebu in the Philippines.

• Rufous-naped Tit Periparus rufonuchalis

  This tit lives in mountain regions from the western Himalayas into Central Asia. The male is marked by a black head and white cheeks.

• White-throated Fantail Rhipidura albicollis

  The White-throated Fantail is a forest-dwelling fantail that feeds on small invertebrates.

• Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides

  The Squacco Heron is a small heron whose head and back feathers lengthen in breeding plumage. It waits for prey in shallow water.

• Brown-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes

  In Hong Kong this small warbler is a common winter visitor to dense vegetation in open-canopy places. It also breeds in montane scrub there.

• Javan Owlet Glaucidium castanopterum

  A small owl with a rounded head, chestnut back, and white underparts marked by long brown streaks. It is mainly nocturnal and lives in forest and forest edge on Java.

• Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus

  A North American bird: adult males are black and white with a red breast, while females and young birds are brown and streaked.