Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Newtonia Newtonia brunneicauda

  

  The Common Newtonia is endemic to Madagascar. It has grey-brown upperparts and pale underparts, and searches forests for small invertebrates.

• Little Minivet Pericrocotus lansbergei

  In the 1886 description from Bima on Sumbawa, the male had a green-blue sheen on its black head and throat, with red-orange on the breast and part of the wing. A 1993 survey recorded the bird in forests on Flores and Sumbawa and reported that Flores males looked darker.

• Black-headed Parrotbill Paradoxornis margaritae

  The Black-headed Parrotbill is recorded in southern Annam, in southern Vietnam and adjacent Cambodia. It has a black cap and pale cheek area, and small flocks move through scrub along forest edges from lower vegetation to the canopy.

• Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

  A large reed warbler that lives in wetlands. In Britain, its loud song can help observers find birds arriving during spring passage.

• Buff-breasted Babbler Pellorneum tickelli

  This small babbler keeps near dense cover and the ground. A study in northern Thailand found nests along creeks, where both sexes incubated eggs and cared for nestlings.

• Scrubtit Acanthornis magna

  A small scrubbird from Tasmania and King Island. It is secretive but searches bark, litter, and foliage for small invertebrates near the forest floor.

• Ashy Bulbul Hemixos flavala

  This bulbul lives in Asian forests. A Bangladesh account reports it in pairs or mixed flocks, feeding on nectar, fruit, and insects. The museum specimen is one male of a Laos subspecies.

• Blue-tailed Bee-eater Merops philippinus

  A bee-eater described in a Malaysian regional profile, where it occurs around sandy coasts, riverbanks, and farmland. It catches flying insects in the air.

• Rusty-belted Tapaculo Liosceles thoracicus

  The Rusty-belted Tapaculo is a South American bird with a rusty back and breast band. It walks on the forest floor in search of small insects.

• Collared Falconet Microhierax caerulescens

  The Collared Falconet is a small falcon of South and parts of Southeast Asia. It is active by day and catches insects and other small prey in flight, using open woodland, forest edges and farmland near water.

• Banded Cotinga Cotinga maculata

  The Banded Cotinga has shimmering blue and purple plumage in males; females are much less conspicuous and brown. Records from Brazil's eastern coast place it high in forest canopies.

• Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus

  This large parrot lives in South African mountain forests. It uses its large bill to crack the hard kernels of yellowwood fruit while they are still unripe.

• Saffron-billed Sparrow Arremon flavirostris

  This resident sparrow lives in the forest understory of South America. It uses dry Chaco forest, moist Atlantic Forest and river gallery forest, feeding on fruit, grain and invertebrates.

• Pied Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites crassirostris

  This cuckoo occurs on the Tayandu and Kai islands and the Tanimbar Islands of eastern Indonesia. The current Clements checklist treats it as a distinct species split from Little Bronze-Cuckoo.

• Acacia Tit Melaniparus thruppi

  This small tit inhabits dry savanna from Ethiopia and Somalia south to northeastern Tanzania. It is associated with acacia woodland and scrub.

• Olive-backed Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus triangularis

  This woodcreeper occurs in humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. Its rufous tail and buff spotting on the throat and chest help identify it; it forages from the midstory to the canopy.

• Spotted Wren Campylorhynchus gularis

  The Spotted Wren is a brown wren marked with spots. It searches for animal and plant food in dry scrub and woodland in Mexico.

• Bonin White-eye Apalopteron familiare

  The Bonin White-eye is a small bird endemic to the Ogasawara Islands and now lives on Hahajima and nearby small islands. Historical records also describe a population with yellow, green, and black markings.

• St. Lucia Thrasher Ramphocinclus sanctaeluciae

  The St. Lucia Thrasher occurs only on Saint Lucia. It searches for food among leaf litter in lowland and coastal dry forest.

• Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina

  The Tennessee Warbler is a small bird that breeds in Canada’s boreal forests. Breeding males show a gray head and pale eyebrow, while females and nonbreeding birds look more yellow-green overall.

• Queen Carola's Parotia Parotia carolae

  Queen Carola's Parotia lives in mountain forests of central New Guinea. The male has a dark body with iridescent green-blue tones and white flank plumes; the brown female has a finely patterned underside.

• Madagascan Spinetail Zoonavena grandidieri

  This small swift is about 12 cm long and occurs on Madagascar and Grand Comoro in the Comoro Islands. It catches insects in the air by day.

• Black-breasted Myzomela Myzomela vulnerata

  This small honeyeater is about 10 cm long. It lives in forests, edges, and shrubland on Timor and feeds on nectar.

• Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra

  The Corn Bunting is a streaked brown bunting with a sturdy yellow bill. It often uses open farmland and pasture.