Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brown Sicklebill Epimachus meyeri

  

  The Brown Sicklebill shows a strong difference between adult males and females in plumage and ornamentation. It eats fruit and small animals in New Guinea's mountain forests.

• Thick-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum agile

  The Thick-billed Flowerpecker ranges from the Indian subcontinent into Southeast Asia. This small bird takes fruit and nectar with its thick bill and forages in tree canopies and village groves.

• Auckland Islands Teal Anas aucklandica

  The Auckland Island teal is a flightless duck found only in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand. Both sexes are brown, with differences in plumage.

• Golden-shouldered Parrot Psephotellus chrysopterygius

  The Golden-shouldered Parrot lives in open woodland with grassy ground in northern Australia. It feeds on grass seeds on the ground and nests in old termite mounds.

• Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia

  The Striped Cuckoo ranges from southern Mexico into a broad part of South America. It is brown with a crest and lays its eggs in the nests of other birds.

• Speckled Mourner Laniocera rufescens

  This forest bird is reddish brown with fine markings. It perches within humid forest or second growth and may be seen alone.

• Taiwan Liocichla Liocichla steerii

  The Taiwan Liocichla is endemic to Taiwan and uses the understory of mid-elevation forest. In winter it also moves into lower forests.

• Blue-black Grosbeak Cyanocompsa cyanoides

  The AOS classification treats the Blue-black Grosbeak as Cyanoloxia cyanoides. A report from northwestern Peru documents the subspecies C. c. cyanoides in scrub that differs from its usual humid-forest setting.

• White-rumped Swift Apus caffer

  A swift that catches insects in flight. In southern Africa, it may breed in nests taken over from other birds.

• Acacia Tit Melaniparus thruppi

  This small tit inhabits dry savanna from Ethiopia and Somalia south to northeastern Tanzania. It is associated with acacia woodland and scrub.

• White-tailed Hawk Geranoaetus albicaudatus

  The White-tailed Hawk uses its broad wings to hang in the wind as it searches grasslands for prey.

• Seven-colored Tanager Tangara fastuosa

  This tanager has noticeable violet and orange plumage. It eats fruit and arthropods and also uses forest edges and gardens.

• Canary Flyrobin Microeca papuana

  This small flyrobin lives in New Guinea’s mountain forests. The research paper calls it the Papuan Flyrobin, while the pool name is Canary Flyrobin. The main reported elevation band is 1,800–2,500 m, with records beyond it.

• Barau's Petrel Pterodroma baraui

  Barau’s Petrel spends most of its life at sea and breeds in the highlands of Réunion.

• Cisticola cherina

  This small cisticola occurs in Madagascar. It uses grassland, savanna, farms, wetlands, and scrub, and searches near the ground for small invertebrates.

• Cobb's Wren Troglodytes cobbi

  This wren is now confined to small offshore islands in the Falklands. It searches for small animals in grassland near the tide line and on rocky shores.

• Chinese Francolin Francolinus pintadeanus

  The Chinese Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird often found in cover. It searches for berries, insects and other food in the morning and evening.

• Brown Tinamou Crypturellus obsoletus

  This tinamou has reddish-brown plumage. In the eastern Andes of Peru it uses the undergrowth of humid montane forest and is reported to eat mainly seeds.

• Spotted Shag Phalacrocorax punctatus

  The Spotted Shag catches fish in coastal waters around New Zealand. Adults in breeding plumage have spots and a crest.

• Chestnut-shouldered Bush-sparrow Gymnoris xanthocollis

  The Chestnut-shouldered Bush-sparrow is a small sparrow, about 12–14 cm long.

• Hemprich's Hornbill Lophoceros hemprichii

  A dark-brown hornbill with a white belly; the male’s large red bill is distinctive. It uses wooded, semi-arid country and river corridors in East Africa.

• Northern Shrike Lanius borealis

  The Northern Shrike is a large shrike that catches small birds and animals with its hooked bill. It breeds in far northern North America, with some birds moving south for winter.

• Blue-throated Barbet Psilopogon asiaticus

  The Blue-throated Barbet has a green body and blue throat and ranges through forests from South Asia to northern mainland Southeast Asia.

• Black-thighed Falconet Microhierax fringillarius

  A small falcon of tropical Asian forest and forest edges. It hunts small birds and insects from perches and is marked by a pale eyebrow, rufous underparts, and black thighs.