Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bimaculated Lark Melanocorypha bimaculata

  

  The Bimaculated Lark walks across dry, open grasslands. Dark patches on both sides of its chest stand out, and breeding males sing long songs in flight.

• Mountain Illadopsis Illadopsis pyrrhoptera

  This small forest bird has a grayish head and rufous-brown back. It stays in the lower forest growth and searches for food in pairs or small groups.

• Ashy-headed Greenlet Hylophilus pectoralis

  This greenlet occurs in northern South America, especially along coastal areas. It uses mangroves, forest, and forest edges, and feeds on insects.

• Magellanic Tapaculo Scytalopus magellanicus

  This small tapaculo lives year-round in the Andean-Patagonian forest of northwestern Patagonia. It uses humid forest, forest transitions, and dense marsh vegetation.

• Ward's Trogon Harpactes wardi

  Ward's Trogon is a mountain forest bird with strikingly different male and female plumage. It lives in evergreen forests of the eastern Himalayas.

• Black-billed Sicklebill Drepanornis albertisi

  Male black-billed sicklebills court by displaying the purple sheen and ornamental feathers on the head. They live in New Guinea's mountain forests and eat mainly insects.

• Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda

  This small bird has a grey face, orange cheeks, and a red bill. It eats seeds and insects in grasslands and scrub in western and central Africa.

• Asian Glossy Starling Aplonis panayensis

  An adult Asian Glossy Starling is dark green-black with red eyes. It eats fruit and insects and is often seen in flocks.

• Sahul Cicadabird Coracina tenuirostris

  The Sahul Cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre) is the current Clements taxon split from the broad Cicadabird. An adult male was recorded along a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in May 2010.

• Yellow Bittern Botaurus sinensis

  A small heron that hides in reeds and freezes with its neck stretched when it senses danger.

• Styan's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella pleskei

  The sexes look alike, with olive-brown upperparts, grayish-white underparts, and a rounded tail. It breeds on islands near Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East, then winters farther south.

• Guadalupe Junco Junco insularis

  This junco is endemic to Guadalupe Island. It has a grayish head, white underparts and white outer tail sides, and forages in trees and on the ground.

• Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus

  The Yellow-throated Longclaw walks on the ground to search for prey. An adult male of the nominate subspecies has a conspicuous yellow throat and breast.

• Slaty Tanager Creurgops dentatus

  This tanager uses humid Andean forests. Males are dusky gray with a rufous cap; females have rufous throat and underparts, and the species may forage in mixed flocks.

• Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis

  The Great Shearwater breeds on South Atlantic islands and moves to the North Atlantic during boreal summer.

• Rüppell's Black Chat Myrmecocichla melaena

  Rüppell's Black Chat is entirely black, with a large white wing patch that becomes conspicuous in flight. It lives in rocky northern Abyssinian highlands and feeds on invertebrates on the ground.

• Black Pitohui Melanorectes nigrescens

  This whistler relative inhabits mid-mountain forest on mainland New Guinea. Males are black, females olive-brown to rufous, and the birds forage for arthropods.

• Blue-headed Pitta Hydrornis baudii

  The Blue-headed Pitta is endemic to Borneo. An adult male has a blue-violet head and reddish-brown back and searches for food on the forest floor.

• Albertine Sooty Boubou Laniarius holomelas

  This bush-shrike occurs in montane forest of the Albertine Rift. This entry follows the catalogue treatment of Laniarius holomelas.

• Blackish-blue Seedeater Amaurospiza moesta

  This small bird lives in South America's Atlantic Forest and is closely associated with bamboo. It eats bamboo buds, shoots and insects, and may move as bamboo conditions change.

• White-crowned Cuckoo Caliechthrus leucolophus

  The White-crowned Cuckoo is a New Guinea bird with a glossy black body and a broad silvery-white crown band. It uses the forest canopy and feeds mainly on large insects and fruit.

• Silver-rumped Spinetail Rhaphidura leucopygialis

  The Silver-rumped Spinetail is a small swift of Southeast Asian forests and their surroundings. Its dark body and silvery-white rump stand out, and it catches insects in flight.

• Purplish Jay Cyanocorax cyanomelas

  This jay is recognizable by its bluish-purple body and black facial mask. Family groups search for food in forests and along their edges.

• Chocolate Boobook Ninox randi

  The Chocolate Boobook is an owl of the main Philippine islands. It is recorded in lowland and foothill forest and along forest edges.