Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chestnut Teal Anas castanea

  

  In breeding plumage, the male has a chestnut head and neck with a green sheen on the crown, while the female is mottled brown. The species searches shallow water in Australian wetlands and estuaries.

• Longuemare's Sunangel Heliangelus clarisse

  Longuemare’s Sunangel is a hummingbird of the Perijá Mountains in Colombia and Venezuela. Males have a violet-red throat set off from the chest by a white band. The habitat assessment includes forest edges and secondary vegetation but says some forest is still needed.

• Rusty-headed Spinetail Synallaxis fuscorufa

  This ovenbird is restricted to Colombia's Santa Marta mountains. It searches among branches in montane forest understory and scrub.

• Fawn-breasted Whistler Pachycephala orpheus

  This whistler is recorded on Timor and Rote. On Timor it prefers lower elevations, although it was observed beside Pachycephala calliope on Mount Mutis up to 1,850 m. The Rote population was reported to be larger than the Timor population.

• Orange-necked Hill Partridge Arborophila davidi

  Surveys in southern Vietnam found it on slopes with bamboo and deep leaf litter. Its orange neck and black eye-stripe extending down the lower neck are distinctive.

• Olive-backed Oriole Oriolus sagittatus

  The Olive-backed Oriole lives in semi-open woodland and eucalypt forest. It has an olive back, red eye, and streaked pale underparts.

• Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus

  The Spotted Redshank is a slim wader with a long bill. Adults are black with white spots in summer and grey above with white underparts in winter.

• Eastern Rock Nuthatch Sitta tephronota

  This diurnal nuthatch uses cliffs and rocky gorges and searches tree bark for invertebrates. Where it overlaps with the Western Rock Nuthatch, the black eye-stripe widening behind the eye is a useful clue.

• Beautiful Firetail Stagonopleura bella

  The Beautiful Firetail has an olive-brown body, a white-barred breast, and a red bill and rump. It searches the ground for seeds and lives in pairs.

• Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina

  The Chipping Sparrow is a small North American bird with a conspicuous rufous crown as an adult. It searches for seeds in grassy places with trees and eats many insects during the breeding season.

• Lesser Antillean Flycatcher Myiarchus oberi

  A flycatcher recorded on Dominica. The account describes it at forest edges and fruit plantations, where it catches insects by darting from a perch.

• Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris

  A widespread reed warbler of sub-Saharan wetlands, it moves through reeds while feeding on insects and spiders.

• Ceylon Bush-Warbler Elaphrornis palliseri

  This bush-warbler lives in the mountains of Sri Lanka. It stays among low vegetation in damp forest and bamboo.

• Blue-eared Lory Eos semilarvata

  This parrot occurs in the montane forests of Seram, Indonesia. Its dark-red body contrasts with purplish-blue cheeks and ear-coverts and black streaks on the wings. Flowers are part of its diet.

• Barking Imperial Pigeon Ducula latrans

  This large pigeon lives in Fiji's forests. Its gray head and breast contrast with a reddish-brown belly. It eats fruit and uses the forest canopy.

• Curl-crested Manucode Manucodia comrii

  The Curl-crested Manucode is a bird-of-paradise with curled crown feathers and crinkled neck feathers. It lives on islands east of New Guinea and eats fruit.

• New Caledonian Friarbird Philemon diemenensis

  This large honeyeater is found only in New Caledonia. It eats flower nectar, fruit, and insects, and also uses open places where flowers grow.

• Chestnut-crowned Becard Pachyramphus castaneus

  This brown becard uses humid forest edges and floodplain forest. It feeds on fruit and insects.

• Juan Fernandez Petrel Pterodroma externa

  The underside of the wings is white with dark tips and edges. It breeds on the Juan Fernández Islands and ranges over the open Pacific outside the breeding season.

• White-browed Meadowlark Leistes superciliaris

  This icterid lives in open grasslands of South America. The male is black with red patches and a white eyebrow, while the female is brown-toned and looks different.

• African Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis

  A yellow face and belly, with a narrow white eye-ring, help identify this small bird. It searches leaves and flowers for insects, nectar, and fruit.

• Rock Sparrow Petronia petronia

  The Rock Sparrow is a sparrow found mainly around the Mediterranean. It may gather near mountain villages and grasslands and nests in cavities in rocks or buildings.

• Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta

  The Hairy-breasted Barbet lives in African lowland forest. Males have yellow spots on the black upperparts and yellow edges to the wing feathers.

• Goliath Heron Ardea goliath

  A large heron that waits for fish in shallow water. Its grey body contrasts with its chestnut head, neck, and belly.