Meet the world’s animals.

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• Long-eared owl Asio otus

  

  An owl with conspicuous long head tufts, using woods and dense cover near grassland.

• Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus

  The Chestnut-winged Cuckoo has a long tail, chestnut plumage, and a black crest. It breeds in temperate Eurasia and passes through or winters in Southeast Asia from autumn to spring.

• Anchieta's Barbet Stactolaema anchietae

  This small barbet is recorded in miombo woodland on Angola's interior plateau. It has a brown body, a pale yellow face, and similar-looking sexes.

• Chirping Cisticola Cisticola pipiens

  The Chirping Cisticola is a small bird of wetlands and flooded grassland in south-central Africa. It has a greyish-brown back, brown head and grey throat.

• Olive Whistler Pachycephala olivacea

  The Olive Whistler occurs in southeastern Australia and Tasmania, using wet forests and alpine heath. It has a dark grey head and olive-brown back. Females are duller and lack the throat barring, while juveniles are more rufous-brown. It feeds mainly on insects, foraging in trees, shrubs, and on the ground.

• Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides

  The Squacco Heron is a small heron whose head and back feathers lengthen in breeding plumage. It waits for prey in shallow water.

• Malayan Laughingthrush Trochalopteron peninsulae

  This laughingthrush lives in montane forest on the Malay Peninsula. Its cinnamon-brown body, olive-yellow wings, and narrow white eye-ring stand out.

• Forest Thrush Turdus lherminieri

  The Forest Thrush has russet upperparts, a yellow bill and legs, and a scaly-looking breast. It searches leaf litter for small prey and also eats fruit.

• Painted Finch Emblema pictum

  A small finch with a red face and white-spotted flanks, living in arid inland Australia. A 2007 field report also recorded nesting-related observations farther east in New South Wales.

• Mountain Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola fytchii

  The Mountain Bamboo Partridge has a brown head and olive-toned back, with chestnut spots across its breast. It uses forest, scrub, grassland, and bamboo cover.

• Chestnut-bellied Starling Lamprotornis pulcher

  The Chestnut-bellied Starling lives in Sahelian savanna and shrubland. It has glossy blue-green upperparts and breast, a chestnut belly, and searches for food in small flocks on the ground.

• White-browed Purpletuft Iodopleura isabellae

  A small cotinga of the upper canopy in northern Amazonian and Andean foothill forests. The male's purple breast tufts may be hidden at rest.

• Lesser Ground Robin Amalocichla incerta

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in mid-mountain forests on mainland New Guinea. A breeding study in the YUS Conservation Area on the Huon Peninsula recorded a pair carrying food to a nestling. It has a brown head, rufous-brown upperparts, and pale underparts.

• Blue-rumped Pitta Hydrornis soror

  The Blue-rumped Pitta is a forest-dwelling pitta.

• Tawny-headed Swallow Alopochelidon fucata

  This small swallow has a tawny head and pale underside. It is migratory and catches flying insects in the air.

• Three-wattled Bellbird Procnias tricarunculatus

  This bird uses the high canopy of humid Central American forests and mainly eats fruit. Males have three long wattles around the bill.

• Red Tanager Piranga flava

  The Red Tanager occurs in open woodland and forest edges across eastern and southern South America, with a northern population in southern Guyana and adjacent far northern Brazil. In Bolivia, lowland forms are recorded south of the Cochabamba basin and in the Santa Cruz lowlands.

• Vietnamese Greenfinch Chloris monguilloti

  This small finch has a dark head and bright yellow wing panels. It lives in pine forests in southern Vietnam's highlands and forages in small flocks.

• Dickinson's Kestrel Falco dickinsoni

  A gray kestrel with a pale head, rump, and underwing that stand out in flight. It ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa.

• Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii

  A large eagle with a striking white V on its black back. It lives among rocky landscapes in Africa and hunts hyraxes as its main prey.

• Yellow-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna elata

  The Yellow-casqued Hornbill lives in lowland evergreen forests of West Africa. Males have a cream-coloured casque, while females have a brown head and a smaller casque.

• Andean Ibis Theristicus branickii

  The head is rufous, paling toward the neck, and the back is blue-grey. It has a long, downcurved bill and occurs in flocks in highland wetlands and open grassland.

• Yellow-spotted Honeyeater Meliphaga notata

  The yellow-spotted honeyeater is marked by a yellow ear patch. In northern Queensland it uses rainforest and mangroves and feeds on nectar, fruit, and insects.

• Red-shouldered Blackbird Agelaius assimilis

  This blackbird occurs in western Cuba and the Isle of Youth. Adult males have red and yellow patches on the shoulders.