Meet the world’s animals.

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• Arfak Robin Heteromyias albispecularis

  

  The Arfak Robin lives in mountain forests of northwestern New Guinea. Its ash-grey head and white cheeks and throat stand out, and it mainly eats insects.

• Atlantic Petrel Pterodroma incerta

  The Atlantic Petrel breeds on South Atlantic islands and spends the non-breeding season at sea. A study of birds at sea found cephalopods such as squid among their main foods.

• Sharpe's Apalis Apalis sharpii

  This warbler inhabits lowland forest in West Africa. It has slate-colored upperparts and a dark brown-black head and neck, and gleans insects from leaves and branches.

• Whiskered Wren Pheugopedius mystacalis

  The Whiskered Wren is recorded in foothills and subtropical areas from Venezuela to western Ecuador. It has rufous upperparts, a striped black-and-white face, and pale gray underparts, and it keeps to thickets at forest edges.

• Gray Junglefowl Gallus sonneratii

  The Gray Junglefowl is a pheasant relative of forests and scrub in peninsular India. The sexes differ in plumage and leg colour, and males also have a seasonal plumage change.

• Slaty-breasted Tinamou Crypturellus boucardi

  The Slaty-breasted Tinamou searches for fruits, seeds, and ants on the floor of wet forest. Its breast is dark gray, its throat is white, and females have bars on their wings.

• Antarctic Shag Leucocarbo bransfieldensis

  This seabird breeds on the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, and Elephant Island. Its upperparts are glossy black and its throat and belly white; it feeds on fish and benthic animals near coasts and pack ice.

• Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus

  This weaver occurs in tropical Africa. Adult males have a chestnut crown and broad white eyebrow, and the assessment lists dry savanna and other habitats as suitable.

• Damara Hornbill Tockus damarensis

  This hornbill ranges from central and northeastern Namibia into southwestern Angola. It has black-and-white plumage and a long, slender red bill.

• Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus

  The Loggerhead Shrike hunts in open brushy country. It scans from exposed perches and may impale captured prey on thorns or barbed wire.

• Sooty Barbet Caloramphus hayii

  Recorded in forests and forest edges of Peninsular Malaysia, this barbet is dark-backed with a rusty orange head and breast.

• American Kestrel Falco sparverius

  A small falcon found in North America. It hunts insects and other small prey in open country, perching on posts or hovering into the wind.

• Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus

  A long-winged tern with a pointed bill that catches small fish in shallow coastal waters.

• Toro Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus hypochloris

  The Toro Olive Greenbul lives in forest undergrowth and streamside scrub, where it searches for small invertebrates in trees. An adult photographed in Kibale Forest, Uganda, has fine yellow streaks on its belly.

• Green-thighed Parrot Pionites leucogaster

  The Green-thighed Parrot feeds on fruit and seeds in the Amazonian canopy. Adults are marked by an orange head and white belly.

• White-naped Monarch Carterornis pileatus

  It occurs on Halmahera and Buru in moist lowland forest. Salvadori's description of a male from Halmahera records a black forehead, back, wings and tail against a white crown, pale eye-area patches, white cheeks, chest and belly. A field report recorded small groups in logged forest and forest edges.

• Striped Wren-Babbler Kenopia striata

  The Striped Wren-Babbler is a small bird with white streaks on its dark head and chestnut back. It searches for small insects close to the ground in moist lowland forest, especially swampy areas.

• Manchurian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus tangorum

  The Manchurian Reed Warbler breeds in northeastern China and the Russian Far East and migrates to Southeast Asia. A wintering study in Thailand found it mainly in mature reed beds.

• Red-winged Fairywren Malurus elegans

  A fairywren of southwestern Australia that lives in small groups in scrub and mainly eats insects.

• Cream-colored Woodpecker Celeus flavus

  The Cream-colored Woodpecker lives in Amazonian floodplain forest. The sexes look similar, but the male has a red malar stripe.

• Golden Dove Ptilinopus luteovirens

  The Golden Dove is a Fijian fruit dove that feeds in the forest canopy. Males are golden while females and young are green; a 1970 field report often noted its bark-like call.

• Yellow-throated Seedeater Crithagra flavigula

  This gray-brown seedeater has a pale yellow throat and a yellow rump visible in flight. It occurs locally in dry savanna, favoring rocky hillsides.

• Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus

  The Red-rumped Tinkerbird lives in forest from southern Senegal to the western Congo Basin and western Uganda. It uses humid forest and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Black-chinned Whistler Pachycephala mentalis

  The Black-chinned Whistler is a whistler of the North Maluku islands. This account is limited to the subspecies Pachycephala mentalis obiensis, described from Obi and Bisa islands in Indonesia.