Meet the world’s animals.

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• Carpentarian Grasswren Amytornis dorotheae

  

  This bird inhabits spinifex grassland and rocky areas in northern Australia, around the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.

• Blue-and-white Mockingbird Melanotis hypoleucus

  This resident bird ranges through mountain areas from southeastern Mexico into northern Central America. Its slate-blue upperparts, black facial mask, and white underparts form a clear contrast.

• Plumbeous-backed Thrush Turdus reevei

  The Plumbeous-backed Thrush has a blue-gray back and tail. It occurs in Ecuador and extreme northwestern Peru; in Peru, it is recorded in semideciduous forest up to 1,500 meters.

• Golden Tanager Tangara arthus

  The Golden Tanager combines golden plumage with a black ear patch and chestnut throat. It forages in the canopy of montane forest on the eastern Andes.

• Kilombero Weaver Ploceus burnieri

  The Kilombero Weaver lives in Tanzania's Kilombero River floodplain. Breeding males are bright yellow with a black face pattern, and the birds nest on reeds.

• Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus

  The Red-eyed Vireo is a woodland songbird that searches leaves in the canopy for caterpillars and also eats fruit in its South American wintering areas.

• Northern Scrub Robin Drymodes superciliaris

  The Northern Scrub Robin lives in scrub in north-eastern Australia. It often stays near the ground and nests there.

• Glossy Antshrike Sakesphorus luctuosus

  This antshrike occurs in Amazonian Brazil. The white tips of its tail feathers vary geographically, tending to be more extensive in northern populations.

• Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus

  The Dead Sea Sparrow is a small bird with a gray head and brown body. It is found around waterside vegetation, and at some breeding sites it nests in loose colonies.

• White-tailed Cisticola Cisticola anderseni

  A cisticola of wetlands in the Kilombero floodplain of southwestern Tanzania. Its outer tail feathers and tips are white, and its back is streaked.

• Forest Elaenia Myiopagis gaimardii

  The Forest Elaenia is widespread in the Amazon region. It forages in the canopy and sub-canopy of humid forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Tatama Tapaculo Scytalopus alvarezlopezi

  This tapaculo lives in cloud forest in Colombia's western Andes. The original description covers male plumage, and an observation recorded two birds searching for arthropods while walking through leaf litter.

• Metallic Pigeon Columba vitiensis

  The Metallic Pigeon has purple and green sheen on the crown, a yellow bill, and red skin around the eye. It searches for fruit and other foods in island forests and nearby areas.

• 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.

• Black-breasted Puffbird Notharchus pectoralis

  This puffbird lives in humid forest from eastern Panama to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It takes centipedes and scorpions among other prey and excavates a nest hole in an arboreal termite mound.

• Emperor Goose Anser canagicus

  A goose with a striking white head and gray body. It feeds on coastal plants and shellfish; Alaska’s Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta is one part of its breeding range.

• Jungle Bush Quail Perdicula asiatica

  The Jungle Bush Quail is a small quail of dry grassland and scrub in India and Sri Lanka. It feeds on seeds and insects on the ground.

• Blue-banded Toucanet Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis

  This green toucanet has a blue breast band and a chestnut-red rump. It forages for fruit and other food in humid mountain forest on the eastern Andes.

• Gray Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus

  The Gray Kestrel is a small raptor widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. It searches for insects and lizards from a perch.

• Bare-faced Ibis Phimosus infuscatus

  The Bare-faced Ibis occurs in South America and feeds on small animals such as beetles in wetlands.

• Striolated Bunting Emberiza striolata

  The Striolated Bunting is a small bunting of dry rocky ground and wadis. Its reddish wings and fine markings across the face and chest help distinguish it.

• Sunda Cuckooshrike Coracina larvata

  This dark gray bird lives in highland forest and sometimes moves through the upper forest with mixed-species flocks.

• Tiger Shrike Lanius tigrinus

  The male Tiger Shrike has a gray head, a black facial mask, and a reddish-brown, barred back. Most individuals migrate seasonally.

• White-throated Gerygone Gerygone olivacea

  The White-throated Gerygone is a small bird with gray-brown upperparts and bright yellow underparts.