Meet the world’s animals.

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• New Britain Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx sacerdotis

  

  A very small kingfisher of New Britain and Umboi in Papua New Guinea. It is usually seen alone near streams and rivers.

• Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops

  The Red-faced Cisticola lives by water and in marshes, searching for insects in low vegetation. At the Namibian sites described, it has pale olive-gray upperparts and a white throat.

• Mountain Avocetbill Opisthoprora euryptera

  The Mountain Avocetbill occurs in the eastern Andes of Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador. It has green upperparts, a copper-toned head, and a bill whose tip turns upward.

• Yellow-bellied Greenbul Chlorocichla flaviventris

  A bulbul of sub-Saharan Africa, it is marked by a yellow underside and reddish eyes. It feeds on fruit and insects in trees.

• Deep-blue Flowerpiercer Diglossa glauca

  A flowerpiercer of wet Andean montane forest from Colombia to Bolivia.

• Green-backed Sparrow Arremonops chloronotus

  This sparrow ranges from southeastern Mexico to Belize and Honduras. Its upperparts are olive to grass green, and the head is black-striped. A study in Campeche found three nests on the ground near thickets.

• Bahama Warbler Setophaga flavescens

  This warbler occurs on Grand Bahama and Abaco in the Bahamas. A 2018 survey on Grand Bahama recorded birds searching pine trunks and palm leaves for small invertebrates.

• Crimson-headed Partridge Haematortyx sanguiniceps

  This partridge lives in the hills and mountains of Borneo. Its crimson head and breast stand out, while the rest of the plumage differs between males and females.

• Brazilian Teal Amazonetta brasiliensis

  This small duck has a red bill in males and a black bill in females. It feeds on aquatic plants, small animals, and grains in marshes and small water bodies.

• Damara Tern Sternula balaenarum

  The Damara Tern breeds along the coast of southwestern Africa and moves north along the West African coast seasonally. It may plunge-dive for small fish.

• Band-tailed Earthcreeper Ochetorhynchus phoenicurus

  The Band-tailed Earthcreeper is a ground-dwelling bird of arid shrub steppe. It walks through low vegetation with its tail raised and sometimes makes short flights between shrubs.

• Puaiohi Myadestes palmeri

  This thrush is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi. It lives in remote forest ravines, and its main foods vary with the season.

• Japanese grosbeak Eophona personata

  A bird with a large yellow bill and clear, ringing calls.

• Grey-capped Tyrannulet Phyllomyias griseocapilla

  The Grey-capped Tyrannulet is a small bird with a gray head, green back, and yellowish flanks. In eastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest highlands, it takes insects from outer tree branches and also eats small fruit.

• Streak-backed Oriole Icterus pustulatus

  It ranges from western Mexico into western Central America, and its head and back patterns vary among subspecies groups.

• Spotted Laughingthrush Ianthocincla ocellata

  The Spotted Laughingthrush has a black crown, nape, and throat, with pale wing and tail patches. It occurs in mountain regions from the Himalayas to central and southwestern China.

• Fluttering Shearwater Puffinus gavia

  The Fluttering Shearwater is a small shearwater with dark brown upperparts, white throat and belly, and a partial dark collar.

• Tanimbar Flycatcher Ficedula riedeli

  A flycatcher of the Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia, using both primary and secondary lowland forest. The adult's white eyebrow and richer rufous breast are noted as identification characters.

• Slender-billed Starling Onychognathus tenuirostris

  The Slender-billed Starling is an East African starling with a long, narrow bill and glossy dark plumage.

• Indian Bush Lark Plocealauda erythroptera

  This lark inhabits dry lowlands in India and southeastern Pakistan. A pale eyebrow, heavily streaked upperparts, and a spotted breast help identify it.

• Large-billed crow Corvus macrorhynchos

  A crow with a thick bill and a raised forehead. In Japan it occurs in forests, towns and other habitats.

• Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus

  This finch has black and dark red plumage, and individuals differ in bill size. Adults eat seeds, while parents feed nestlings a soft diet made mostly of insects.

• Mascarene Swiftlet Aerodramus francicus

  A swiftlet of Réunion and Mauritius, it has brown upperparts, a pale rump and a shallowly forked tail. It roosts in caves and lava tubes.

• Orange Chat Epthianura aurifrons

  This chat lives in dry Australian shrubland and other open, stony places. Males show orange and black facial markings; females are paler.