Meet the world’s animals.

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• Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus

  

  The world’s largest grouse lives mainly in pine woodland. In Britain, it remains in northern Scotland.

• Relict Gull Ichthyaetus relictus

  The Relict Gull breeds in Central and East Asia and moves to the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea region for winter. Wintering first-year birds have been recorded on the mudflats of Deep Bay, Hong Kong.

• Spot-billed Toucanet Selenidera maculirostris

  This toucanet is endemic to Atlantic Forest in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. It usually lives alone or in pairs in humid forest and eats fruit, along with invertebrates and small vertebrates.

• Barred Eagle-Owl Ketupa sumatrana

  A large owl of forests in Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, and nearby islands, it is marked by ear-like tufts and bars across its body.

• Blue-eared Kingfisher Alcedo meninting

  The blue-eared kingfisher is a small kingfisher of rivers and hill streams that hunts small fish from the water's edge.

• Arabian Green Bee-eater Merops cyanophrys

  This bee-eater occurs in the Middle East, including the Arabian Peninsula. It uses open areas with scattered trees or scrub and catches flying insects in short sallies from a perch.

• Prevost's Ground Sparrow Melozone biarcuata

  This ground-dwelling sparrow uses forest edges and coffee plantations in Central America. The male has a white face, dark forehead, and rufous crown.

• Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei

  A weaver of East African scrub and woodland near water; breeding males have striking yellow and black plumage.

• Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata

  This waterbird lives in marshes and ponds across the Americas. It swims and walks on floating plants with its long toes.

• Arabian Babbler Argya squamiceps

  This brown babbler has a long tail. It searches the ground for small invertebrates by day and lives in dry scrub and other open habitats.

• Cryptic Honeyeater Microptilotis imitatrix

  This honeyeater occurs in the Wet Tropics of north-eastern Queensland, Australia. In a comparative study, the form called imitatrix looked darker and more olive-green than the other Graceful Honeyeater form.

• Streaked shearwater Calonectris leucomelas

  A seabird that flies low over the water and visits Japanese islands to breed.

• Bahama Mockingbird Mimus gundlachii

  The Bahama Mockingbird is an island bird with gray-brown plumage and dark streaks on the flanks. Its song has varied notes and phrases, but it does not mimic other species.

• Rüppell's Black Chat Myrmecocichla melaena

  Rüppell's Black Chat is entirely black, with a large white wing patch that becomes conspicuous in flight. It lives in rocky northern Abyssinian highlands and feeds on invertebrates on the ground.

• 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.

• Violaceous Jay Cyanocorax violaceus

  The Violaceous Jay has a black head and face contrasting with a pale nape. In Bolivia it is recorded in small flocks near rivers and forest edges.

• Eastern Shrike-tit Falcunculus frontatus

  The Eastern Shrike-tit uses its thick, hooked bill to probe bark for insects in eastern Australia. Its short crest and boldly striped head are distinctive.

• Lemon-breasted Canary Crithagra citrinipectus

  The male has a lemon-yellow breast patch over a white belly; the female's breast is buff. The species occurs locally in lowland southeastern Africa and uses palm savanna and grassland.

• Horsfield's Babbler Malacocincla sepiaria

  Horsfield's Babbler is a brown babbler that lives low in evergreen forests of Southeast Asia.

• Rufous Cisticola Cisticola rufus

  This cisticola was recorded as a resident species in a bird study in northern Ghana. It has dull rust-brown upperparts, and at Mole National Park it was reported in dry woodland and in unburnt grass patches during the dry season.

• Grey-and-gold Warbler Myiothlypis fraseri

  A wood-warbler of humid forest in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It searches for food in shrubs and dense lower vegetation.

• Red-and-white Antpitta Grallaria erythroleuca

  Both sexes have similar rufous-brown and white plumage. In southeastern Peru's moist mountain forests, it searches near the ground for beetles, ants, and spiders.

• Amazonian Trogon Trogon ramonianus

  A trogon of mature Amazonian rainforest. Males are strongly blue and green, while females are mostly gray, so the sexes look different.

• Common Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx varius

  The Common Hawk-Cuckoo uses forest and farmland edges. It feeds on invertebrates in trees and moves seasonally.