Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-headed Manakin Ceratopipra rubrocapilla

  

  This manakin lives in the understory of southern Amazonian forest in Peru. Males stand out with a red head on a black body, while females are green.

• Demoiselle crane Grus virgo

  

  A crane with pale plumes behind the eyes and long black breast feathers.

• Willet Tringa semipalmata

  

  The Willet is a large shorebird with long legs and a straight bill. In flight, it shows a bold black-and-white wing stripe.

• Anhinga Anhinga anhinga

  

  The Anhinga is a fish-eating waterbird. When swimming, it may show only its long neck and head above the surface.

• Rockwarbler Origma solitaria

  

  This small bird is restricted to the Sydney region of New South Wales. It occurs in sclerophyll forest and tall woodland associated with sandstone outcrops.

• White-breasted Wood-Swallow Artamus leucoryn

  

  This bird has dark bluish-gray head, back, wings, and tail with white underparts. It ranges from northern and eastern Australia to New Guinea, Fiji, and the Philippines, and mainly catches insects in flight.

• Blue-masked Leafbird Chloropsis venusta

  The Blue-masked Leafbird is a small bird of humid montane forest in the foothills of Sumatra. Males show violet-blue and deep indigo markings, while females have bright blue markings on the face and throat.

• Papuan Harrier Circus spilothorax

  The Papuan Harrier is a raptor of grasslands and wetlands on New Guinea. A 2009 paper reports fieldwork in Papua New Guinea under the historical subspecies name Circus spilonotus spilothorax.

• Maleo Macrocephalon maleo

  The Maleo lives in Sulawesi forests. Adults have a hard black knob on the head, and eggs are buried in sand warmed by geothermal heat.

• Jamaican Woodpecker Melanerpes radiolatus

  The Jamaican Woodpecker has a relatively long bill. It eats both plant and animal matter and forages by probing bark and bromeliads.

• Ivory-billed Aracari Pteroglossus azara

  This toucan occurs in the humid lowland forests of western Amazonian Bolivia. It has a pale bill and red, black, and yellow breast bands; fruit-feeding has been recorded in the canopy.

• Kai Coucal Centropus spilopterus

  The Kai Coucal is endemic to the Kai Islands. A field account records it mainly singly or in pairs, in tall alang-alang grass, village gardens, coconut plantations, and mangrove edges.

• South American Painted Snipe Nycticryphes semicollaris

  A painted-snipe of southern South American wetlands, with a reddish-brown head, neck and upper breast and white-marked dark wings. It feeds along muddy water margins.

• Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher Terenotriccus erythrurus

  This small flycatcher ranges from tropical Mexico through Central America and northern South America to central Bolivia. The account describes it as often still in the lower levels of humid forest.

• Northern Cassowary Casuarius unappendiculatus

  The Northern Cassowary is a large flightless bird with a casque and neck wattles that lives in lowland New Guinea.

• Olive-green Tanager Orthogonys chloricterus

  This tanager inhabits the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Its back, wings, and tail are uniformly olive, while its belly is dull yellow.

• Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda

  The Eastern Cattle Egret is mostly white, but its head, neck, and breast turn orange during breeding. It uses open grassland, fields, and wetlands and moves seasonally.

• 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.

• Grey-lored Broadbill Serilophus rubropygius

  This bird occurs in parts of northeastern India and nearby countries. The 2023 eBird taxonomy update distinguishes it from the Silver-breasted Broadbill by its gray lores and rounded wing tips with only tiny white tips.

• White-winged Warbler Xenoligea montana

  A grey head, olive upperparts, white underparts, and white wing feathers are distinctive. It feeds on seeds and insects in the mountain forests of Hispaniola.

• Red-headed Barbet Eubucco bourcierii

  The Red-headed Barbet is sometimes found in pairs or mixed-species flocks in the forest canopy. Males have bright red heads, green backs, and yellow bellies; females have blue cheeks and orange sides to the neck.

• African Broadbill Smithornis capensis

  This small bird has two separated ranges: coastal West Africa and a larger area from Uganda to southern Africa. It perches quietly in forest and feeds on invertebrates.

• Muisca Antpitta Grallaria rufula

  This antpitta ranges from Colombia's eastern Andes into western Venezuela. It uses bamboo in moist montane forest, secondary growth, and nearby disturbed areas, and is seen on or near the ground.

• Chatham Oystercatcher Haematopus chathamensis

  The Chatham Island Oystercatcher is a black-and-white shorebird found only on the Chatham Islands. Pairs defend coastal territories throughout the year.