Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rusty-bellied Fantail Rhipidura teysmanni

  

  This fantail lives on Sulawesi. An old specimen account describes one unsexed individual with a cinnamon-brown forehead, back, rump, and basal tail, and an olive-brown head and neck. It searches for invertebrates in forest and thickets.

• Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis

  The Northern Waterthrush is a streaked bird that walks along wetland edges in search of small aquatic animals.

• Rose Robin Petroica rosea

  This small bird occurs in southeastern Australia, in wet sclerophyll forest and rainforest. It often stays in the canopy alone or in pairs, catching insects and spiders in flight.

• Arrowhead Piculet Picumnus minutissimus

  The Arrowhead Piculet is a small woodpecker of the coastal lowlands of the Guianas. Its underparts have an arrowhead-like scaly pattern; males have broad red feather tips on the crown.

• Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis

  The Black-throated Canary has a yellow rump and a black throat mark that varies in prominence and can be absent. It forages in small flocks on grass and weed seeds.

• Asian Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus brunneus

  This bulbul lives in forests, at their edges, and in secondary growth. Adults are especially noticeable for their red eyes.

• Crestless Curassow Mitu tomentosum

  A large curassow of the northern Amazon. Its mostly black plumage has a blue gloss, and two nests were recorded in white-sand forest in northern Brazil.

• Olive Ibis Bostrychia olivacea

  An African ibis of forest and river landscapes. In southeastern Nigeria, pairs and small groups move along streams and rivers in lowland forest and mangroves.

• New Zealand King Shag Leucocarbo carunculatus

  The New Zealand King Shag is a large cormorant restricted to the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand. It dives for fish living near the sea floor.

• Rufous-tailed Weaver Histurgops ruficauda

  This weaver lives in and around Tanzania’s Serengeti. Its brown plumage looks scaly where pale feather edges overlap, and a dry-season study found it using open grassland.

• Rock Bush Quail Perdicula argoondah

  The Rock Bush Quail is a small quail of dry scrub in the western Indian subcontinent. It forages in small groups and may take dust baths.

• Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus

  The Northern Red-billed Hornbill has a long, curved red bill. In sub-Saharan Africa it eats fruit, insects, and small animals in savanna and woodland.

• White-throated Tinamou Tinamus guttatus

  The White-throated Tinamou lives in forests. Its mainly brown plumage has small white spots, and its pale throat stands out.

• Rachel's Malimbe Malimbus racheliae

  Rachel's Malimbe occurs in lowland forest around the Gulf of Guinea. Males have a red crown and black face, with yellow on the lower breast and undertail coverts.

• Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus

  The Grey-backed Shrike has a grey back, a black facial mask, and a chestnut tail. It breeds at high elevations, and winter movements differ between subspecies.

• Striated Thornbill Acanthiza lineata

  The Striated Thornbill is a medium-sized thornbill with greenish upperparts, an orange-brown crown, and a streaked pale underside. It searches branches for insects in southeastern Australian eucalypt woodland.

• Rufous Babbler Argya subrufa

  This babbler has rich brown upperparts and rufous underparts. In forests and thickets of the Western Ghats, groups forage on the ground.

• Channel-billed Toucan Ramphastos vitellinus

  The Channel-billed Toucan lives in the canopy of lowland forests in South America. It may be seen alone, in pairs, or in small flocks around fruiting trees.

• Aztec Thrush Ridgwayia pinicola

  The Aztec Thrush has dark brown-black upperparts and a white underside. It lives in moist montane forest in Mexico and includes fruit in its diet.

• Collared Forest Falcon Micrastur semitorquatus

  This raptor ambushes prey from cover in forest. Its dark head and back contrast with a pale belly and black-and-white tail.

• Bridled Quail-Dove Geotrygon mystacea

  This pigeon lives in forests on Caribbean islands and searches the forest floor for seeds and fruit. A white line below the eye and reddish underparts help identify it.

• Cinereous Mourner Laniocera hypopyrra

  This mourner occurs in Amazonian lowland forest and elsewhere. A nest was reported in mature floodplain forest in Peru, and a Brazilian study documented a distinctive juvenile plumage.

• Andaman Flowerpecker Dicaeum virescens

  This small bird is endemic to the Andaman Islands. It has olive-green upperparts, pale underparts, and a yellow vent, and moves quickly around fruiting trees high in the canopy.

• White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus

  A kite with a white body and tail and gray wings. It hovers over grassland while searching for small mammals.