Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus

  

  The Eastern Marsh Harrier flies low over open areas such as grassland and marshes, and may perch close to the ground.

• Spot-bellied Bobwhite Colinus leucopogon

  This Central American quail uses open country with bushes and trees. Its plumage varies among subspecies, and females are duller than males.

• Palawan Tit Pardaliparus amabilis

  This small tit lives in Palawan's forests and searches among branches for 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.

• Japanese Reed Bunting Emberiza yessoensis

  The Japanese Reed Bunting uses grassland, farmland, and dry riverbeds. This account focuses on the form that breeds in Honshu and Kyushu.

• Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica

  The Hudsonian Godwit has long legs and a long, slightly upturned bill. It is reddish in breeding plumage and gray-brown outside the breeding season.

• Grey-sided Bush Warbler Cettia brunnifrons

  This small bird has a long pale stripe above the eye and a small bill. It lives in thick vegetation and searches near the ground for spiders and larvae.

• Sentinel Lark Corypha athi

  The Sentinel Lark ranges from central Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. Nairobi-area observers describe birds singing for long periods from prominent perches.

• Madagascar Bee-eater Merops superciliosus

  Despite its English common name, the Madagascar Bee-eater occurs across Africa and Asia. The nominate subspecies found on Madagascar and nearby islands is mainly olive green.

• Chestnut-vented Nuthatch Sitta nagaensis

  This small nuthatch searches bark for insects in forests and scrub.

• Rufous-gaped Hillstar Urochroa bougueri

  It has a bronzy-green body, blue throat, and long straight bill. It inhabits forest on the western slope of the Andes and feeds on nectar.

• Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus thoracicus

  The male has a black head with a small red crown patch and a yellowish-green back. In peat-swamp and heath forests, at edges, and in coastal vegetation, it eats fruit, insects, and spiders.

• Sooty Antbird Hafferia fortis

  The Sooty Antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory and sometimes forages near columns of army ants.

• Streak-backed Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura striata

  This small bird ranges through the western Andes of Peru to northwestern Chile. A regional bird account describes pale streaks on the back and rufous streaks on the crown.

• Superb Pitta Pitta superba

  This pitta is endemic to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Its glossy black plumage has bright red feathers beneath the tail and pale blue on the upperwing. A 1990 survey observed it calling from forest perches.

• Yellow-crowned Gonolek Laniarius barbarus

  The Yellow-crowned Gonolek is about 23 cm long. It uses acacia thornbush savanna and woodland, searching branches and foliage for invertebrates.

• Large Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys hypoleucos

  The Large Scimitar Babbler has a long, heavy curved bill, dark brown face and back, pale throat and breast, and grey flanks. It forages low in vegetation.

• Eastern yellow robin Eopsaltria australis

  A bird of eastern and southeastern mainland Australia. It pounces from low perches onto insects on the ground.

• Bar-tailed Pheasant Syrmaticus humiae

  The Bar-tailed Pheasant is a long-tailed pheasant with red wattles around the eyes. Blue and white markings stand out on males, while females are mottled brown.

• Naretha Bluebonnet Northiella narethae

  This parrot inhabits dry woodland in the far southeast of Western Australia and along the western edge of the Nullarbor Plain. Its brown body contrasts with a yellow belly and red undertail.

• Iberian Magpie Cyanopica cooki

  The Iberian Magpie is a corvid found on the Iberian Peninsula. Its blue wings and tail and black crown are distinctive.

• Common Bush Tanager Chlorospingus flavopectus

  It is 11.5–13 cm long. In Bolivia's eastern Andes, it lives in pairs or small flocks, and Bolivian subspecies differ in crown, cheek, and eye color.

• Brown Trembler Cinclocerthia ruficauda

  The Brown Trembler inhabits forests of the Lesser Antilles. Its rounded body is rufous-brown, and it searches for food while tossing leaves.

• Tullberg's Woodpecker Campethera tullbergi

  A woodpecker of montane forests from southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon east to the highlands of East Africa. Males have a red forecrown and nape and spotted or barred yellow-green underparts.