Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pelagic Cormorant Urile pelagicus

  

  A coastal cormorant smaller than the Japanese Cormorant, with crests and white patches in breeding season.

• Legge's Flowerpecker Dicaeum vincens

  This small flowerpecker is endemic to Sri Lanka. It is common in wet lowland forest, moves through the treetops and descends to feed on nectar, fruit, berries, and seeds.

• Bushy-crested Hornbill Anorrhinus galeritus

  A hornbill that lives in groups in Southeast Asian forests. Fruit is its main food, but it also searches the canopy for insects and small animals.

• Black Fantail Rhipidura atra

  The Black Fantail lives in New Guinea's mountain forests. One pair was observed nesting and raising young in the Arfak Mountains.

• Snares Island Snipe Coenocorypha huegeli

  The Snares Island Snipe has a stocky body and relatively short bill and legs. It probes the ground and mud for invertebrates.

• Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

  A large reed warbler that lives in wetlands. In Britain, its loud song can help observers find birds arriving during spring passage.

• 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.

• Chinese Babax Pterorhinus lanceolatus

  This laughingthrush relative occurs mainly in southern and central China, with records in Myanmar. It uses forest edges and young growth as well as bamboo and tea plantations.

• Helmet Vanga Euryceros prevostii

  The Helmet Vanga is a large vanga of eastern Madagascar’s humid evergreen forests. It is notable for its huge blue bill; a field study recorded insects as its main prey and both parents sharing incubation.

• White-naped Xenopsaris Xenopsaris albinucha

  This small passerine occurs in separated parts of South America, from Venezuela to the southern cone. A study found resident, partly migratory, and migratory breeding populations, with seasonal plumage change in the records.

• 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 Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava

  A wagtail with a yellow underside and greenish back. It visits Britain in spring and summer and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Perija Thistletail Asthenes perijana

  This thistletail is restricted to the Sierra de Perijá on the Colombia–Venezuela border. Its long tail and rufous-brown back stand out; it searches for small prey in high-elevation scrub.

• Anteater Chat Myrmecocichla aethiops

  Its dark brown body has a broad white patch on the open wing, and it is often seen on termite mounds or low perches. It feeds mainly on insects and ranges across sub-Saharan Africa.

• Pohnpei Lorikeet Trichoglossus rubiginosus

  The adult Pohnpei Lorikeet has deep maroon plumage, with olive to yellow on the wings and tail. It visits flowering trees in small groups.

• Rufous-faced Warbler Abroscopus albogularis

  The Rufous-faced Warbler is a small bird of forests from the eastern Himalayas to southern China and northern Indochina. It quietly searches for insects in the middle and lower canopy.

• Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus

  The Dusky Warbler is a plain brown, inconspicuous bird that moves through brush and low vegetation.

• Black-billed Barbet Lybius guifsobalito

  Red forehead, face and throat stand out against this barbet’s black plumage. It lives in fairly dry, open woodland in eastern and central Africa and eats fruit and insects.

• Andean Guan Penelope montagnii

  The Andean Guan lives mainly in trees in Andean cloud forest. Its subspecies vary in plumage across the range.

• Scarlet Finch Carpodacus sipahi

  Adult males are bright scarlet from head to belly, while females are mainly olive and look very different. The finch feeds on plant matter in Himalayan mountain forests.

• Blue-and-yellow macaw Ara ararauna

  A large South American parrot with bright blue upperparts and yellow underparts.

• Black-breasted Plovercrest Stephanoxis lalandi

  This small crested hummingbird occurs in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. A 2014 taxonomic study restored the boundary between two forms that earlier authors had treated as one species.

• Yellow-browed Tit Sylviparus modestus

  The Yellow-browed Tit is a small mountain bird; the Himalayan nominate form has olive and yellow plumage.

• Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus

  The Oriental Cuckoo is a migratory cuckoo that breeds in forests. Females include both grey and rufous plumage forms.