Meet the world’s animals.

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• Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita

  

  Adults have a red bare face and a crest extending from the back of the head down the neck. Their black feathers can shine green or purple, and they live in groups.

• Rufous-vented Chachalaca Ortalis ruficauda

  The Rufous-vented Chachalaca has brown to olive plumage and a bare, reddish-brown throat. It moves in small flocks, active in the morning and evening, and eats fruit and leaves.

• African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis

  A small gray-brown owl that blends into tree trunks, it is active at night. It uses wooded areas and dry savannas where trees provide cavities.

• Northern Shrike Lanius borealis

  The Northern Shrike is a large shrike that catches small birds and animals with its hooked bill. It breeds in far northern North America, with some birds moving south for winter.

• Agile Tit-Tyrant Uromyias agilis

  The Agile Tit-Tyrant occurs in the mountains of Colombia, western Venezuela and Ecuador. It has olive-brown upperparts, black lores and a white throat streaked with brown. It searches for insects and fruit in moist montane forest edges and thickets.

• Blue-breasted Blue Flycatcher Cyornis herioti

  A Luzon flycatcher whose male has dark blue upperparts. It uses forest, and one nest was reported in a shallow rock cavity beside a river in Aurora National Park in 2009.

• Fire-tailed Myzornis Myzornis pyrrhoura

  The Fire-tailed Myzornis has green-and-gold plumage, a dark face mask, and a red tail. It searches flowering shrubs for food in the Himalayas.

• Biscutate Swift Streptoprocne biscutata

  It ranges through eastern Brazil into northeastern Argentina. In southern Brazil it nests on cave walls and in crevices, and its chicks grow gray first feathers.

• Caatinga Puffbird Nystalus maculatus

  A puffbird of Brazil's Caatinga. The ICMBio regional guide uses the English name Spot-backed Puffbird for the same scientific name.

• Sakhalin Grasshopper Warbler Locustella amnicola

  The Sakhalin Grasshopper Warbler has olive-brown upperparts and a white throat and belly. It uses wetlands, shrubland, and other semi-open habitats, and the species is listed for Sakhalin Oblast.

• Many-banded Aracari Pteroglossus pluricinctus

  This toucan has a long bill and a banded chest. In northwestern South America it feeds mainly on fruit and nuts, sometimes taking insects, and roosts communally in tree cavities.

• Ashy-headed Babbler Pellorneum cinereiceps

  This small babbler occurs on Palawan and Balabac in the southern Philippines. It searches for food on or near the ground, usually alone or in pairs.

• Large-billed Reed-warbler Acrocephalus orinus

  A reed warbler with a relatively long bill and tail. Museum research supports breeding in Central Asia, although the precise breeding range and habitat remain unresolved.

• White-headed Buffalo Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli

  The White-headed Buffalo Weaver is a stocky bird with a white head and brown back that forages on the ground near acacia trees.

• Apo Sunbird Aethopyga boltoni

  The Apo Sunbird occurs in mountain forest on Mindanao in the Philippines. Males have a dark grey head and olive-green upperparts.

• Elliot's Laughingthrush Trochalopteron elliotii

  This laughingthrush occurs in central Chinese mountains. It walks through forest and scrub in small groups, searching low vegetation for food.

• Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator

  A large white swan of North America. It feeds on aquatic plants in shallow water and breeds along wetlands and lakes.

• Red-backed Fairywren Malurus melanocephalus

  Bright males have a black body and a red-orange back. Females and young are browner, and the species uses grassy habitats.

• New Zealand Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa

  Extant New Zealand populations include pied and black morphs. The fantail eats small invertebrates and fans its tail while searching foliage for prey.

• Madagascar Blue Vanga Cyanolanius madagascarinus

  The Madagascar Blue Vanga lives in forests on Madagascar. Males have a blue head and back, a black stripe through the eye, and white throat and underparts. Females are duller. It searches among leaves for insects and sometimes eats berries.

• Fiery-throated Fruiteater Pipreola chlorolepidota

  The Fiery-throated Fruiteater has a green body and a red throat in males and feeds on fruit in wet forests on the eastern Andes.

• Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii

  The Wire-tailed Swallow has fine outer tail feathers that extend like wires. It is seen alone, in pairs, or in small flocks over open areas near water.

• Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta

  This grassland bird is known for a black V on its yellow breast and a flutelike song. It searches the ground for seeds and insects.

• Olive-backed Tailorbird Orthotomus sepium

  Males have a dull gray body and rusty face; females have a less rusty head and whitish throat. It searches for small invertebrates in lowland scrub and mangroves.