Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sulawesi Babbler Pellorneum celebense

  

  This babbler lives in forest and surrounding habitats on Sulawesi. Its plumage varies geographically, and it forages close to the ground with a running movement.

• Spot-breasted Woodpecker Colaptes punctigula

  This woodpecker is marked by a spotted black breast and red nape. In the Amazon it uses flooded and riverside forests.

• Chatham Islands Gerygone Gerygone albofrontata

  This small forest bird is endemic to the Chatham Islands. It gleans small invertebrates from leaves and crevices in branches and trunks, and sometimes feeds on the ground.

• Yellowish White-eye Zosterops nigrorum

  This white-eye inhabits forests and wooded areas in northern and central Philippines. Its yellowish belly helps identify it, and it feeds on tiny invertebrates and fruit.

• Chestnut-bellied Hill Partridge Arborophila javanica

  The Chestnut-bellied Hill Partridge is a ground-dwelling pheasant of Java’s mountain forests. A study in fragmented forest found it more often inside natural high-elevation forest than near the edges.

• Rhinoceros hornbill Buceros rhinoceros

  A black-and-white bird with a horn-like structure above its bill.

• Paddyfield Warbler Acrocephalus agricola

  A relatively long, rounded tail and broad pale eyebrow distinguish the Paddyfield Warbler. It eats insects in reeds by lakes and rivers, breeding from Romania to Mongolia and wintering from Iran to China.

• Saltmarsh Sparrow Ammospiza caudacuta

  The Saltmarsh Sparrow lives in coastal salt marshes in the United States. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service page uses the older name Ammodramus caudacutus; this entry retains the pool's scientific name, Ammospiza caudacuta.

• Sucre Antpitta Grallaricula cumanensis

  This antpitta occurs in the Turimiquire and Paria mountains of northeastern Venezuela. It stays close to the ground in dense or more open undergrowth.

• Victoria's Riflebird Ptiloris victoriae

  The male Victoria’s Riflebird is black with an iridescent blue-green crown and breast. Females are brown, and the species eats small animals and fruit.

• Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri

  This small swift is about 14 cm long. It catches insects in flight by day and uses the airspace over forest and woodland.

• Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus

  This small owl lives in North American forests. It hunts small mammals at night and hides in dense conifers by day.

• Turquoise Jay Cyanolyca turcosa

  This jay ranges through the Andes from southwestern Colombia, across Ecuador, to northern Peru. It has a black face and turquoise-blue plumage and forages in small flocks in the forest canopy and subcanopy.

• Black-necked Red Cotinga Phoenicircus nigricollis

  Males are large cotingas with vivid red and black plumage. In northern Peruvian Amazon records, the birds forage at different heights in terra firme forest where fruit is available.

• Fulvous Parrotbill Suthora fulvifrons

  This parrotbill inhabits dense bamboo in or near forest in the Himalaya. A buff head and breast, dark crown stripe, and rufous wings and tail help identify it; it feeds on buds, seeds, and insects.

• Gray-throated Chat Granatellus sallaei

  This small bird occurs in forests of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. It has a gray head and throat with a white eyebrow and searches low vegetation for insects.

• Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata

  Masked Tityras range from Mexico through Central America into South America. They use forests, edges, clearings and cultivated areas, feeding in pairs or small flocks on insects, small vertebrates and fruit.

• Black-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita cabanisi

  This locally distributed East African weaver inhabits dry thornveld and forages on the ground, mainly for seeds; it also eats insects.

• Pechora Pipit Anthus gustavi

  The Pechora Pipit is marked by bold white stripes on its back and fine streaks on the chest. It hides in dense grass and flushes only at close range.

• Short-tailed Lark Spizocorys fremantlii

  The Short-tailed Lark is a small lark, about 14–15 cm long. It walks on rocky ground and short-grass plains to eat seeds, and may also occur near human habitation.

• Black-mandibled Toucan Ramphastos ambiguus

  The Yellow-throated Toucan has a yellow face and chest and a long, two-colored bill. It forages for fruit in the canopy and nests in cavities in decaying trees.

• Tataupa Tinamou Crypturellus tataupa

  This ground-dwelling tinamou occurs in South America. It walks through forest undergrowth and may use more open grassland and scrub.

• Burmese Shrike Lanius collurioides

  The Burmese Shrike has a blue-grey head and upper back, with chestnut across the rest of the upperparts. Yunnan records also describe it taking insects and small animals such as lizards.

• Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata

  The Half-collared Kingfisher is small, with a blue back, pale orange underparts and a white throat.