Meet the world’s animals.

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• Darwin's Nothura Nothura darwinii

  

  Nothura darwinii is a ground-dwelling tinamou of dry parts of South America. The nominate subspecies is recorded in the high, dry country of southern Argentina.

• Southern Scrub Robin Drymodes brunneopygia

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in scrub in southern Australia. It searches among leaf litter for small prey.

• Pollen's Vanga Xenopirostris polleni

  This vanga is endemic to humid evergreen forest in eastern Madagascar. It is recorded from sea level to 2,000 m, though its distribution is patchy.

• Boyer's Cuckooshrike Coracina boyeri

  Boyer’s Cuckooshrike lives in forests of New Guinea. It occurs in moist lowland forest and mangroves, and compiled diet data classify it as frugivorous.

• Reed Parrotbill Paradoxornis heudei

  It has a thick, hooked yellow bill and a pale gray head. Small groups move through reedbeds.

• Australian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus australis

  The Australian Reed Warbler is a small olive-brown bird with a pale eyebrow. It moves south in summer to breed and nests among reeds in wetlands.

• Rufous-vented Grass Babbler Laticilla burnesii

  The Rufous-vented Grass Babbler lives in wetlands and reedbeds. It is brown above, with fine streaks below and rich rufous feathers under the tail.

• Brown Gerygone Gerygone mouki

  This small bird lives in forests and mangroves along Australia's east coast. Its muted grey-brown plumage includes a white eyebrow and patterned tail.

• Charlotte's Bulbul Iole charlottae

  This bulbul occurs in the Sundaic lowlands. BirdLife lists the same scientific taxon as the Buff-vented Bulbul. A 2017 paper describes it as slightly larger, with a longer, heavier bill and paler undertail coverts than Indochinese Iole taxa.

• Neblina Tapaculo Scytalopus altirostris

  Endemic to Peru, this gray tapaculo has variable rufous markings and forages near the ground in humid montane forest and scrub with bunchgrass.

• New Zealand Falcon Falco novaeseelandiae

  The New Zealand Falcon is endemic to New Zealand. Its regional forms differ in size and color, from a small dark forest form to a larger, paler form in dry open country.

• Spangled Cotinga Cotinga cayana

  The Spangled Cotinga is a forest bird of northern South America. Males are brilliant blue, while females are brownish.

• Red-tailed Amazon Amazona brasiliensis

  The Red-tailed Amazon is a green parrot of coastal forest and mangroves in southeastern Brazil. It eats fruits and flowers and nests in tree cavities in flooded forest.

• Tepui Brush Finch Atlapetes personatus

  This brushfinch lives in wet tepui forest in the Guiana Highlands; the male has a cinnamon-rufous nape and yellow underparts and forages near the ground.

• Coppery-tailed Coucal Centropus cupreicaudus

  The Coppery-tailed Coucal is a large cuckoo relative of wetlands and dense cover in central and southern Africa. It searches for small animals on the ground.

• Southern Black Tit Melaniparus niger

  The Southern Black Tit lives in dry open woodland and scrub in southern Africa. It searches among branches and leaves for small invertebrates.

• Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus

  A small woodcreeper with a wedge-shaped bill that feeds in the understory of humid Amazonian forests.

• Antioquia Wren Thryophilus sernai

  This wren is known from the dry Cauca River canyon in northwestern Colombia. Its description paper records small patches of semideciduous forest and dry scrub, often along watercourses, and calls it uncommon within its range.

• Black-capped Speirops Zosterops lugubris

  This white-eye occurs throughout São Tomé in forest and plantations. Cornell Lab's eBird account says it prefers highland forest above 900 m.

• LeConte's Thrasher Toxostoma lecontei

  LeConte's Thrasher is a pale, sand-colored bird of the dry deserts of southwestern North America. It stays near the ground in brush for much of the year, while males sing from high perches during the breeding season.

• MacGillivray's Warbler Geothlypis tolmiei

  MacGillivray's Warbler is a small warbler that breeds in western North America and migrates to Central America.

• Ribbon-tailed Astrapia Astrapia mayeri

  The male Ribbon-tailed Astrapia has striking, narrow white tail feathers. The species lives in high mountain forests and eats fruit and small animals.

• Little Swift Apus affinis

  The Little Swift catches food in the air. In southern Africa it also nests in colonies on bridges and buildings.

• New Holland Honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae

  The New Holland Honeyeater is a small bird found in southern Australia’s forests and gardens. It feeds mainly on nectar, as well as insects and other foods.