Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lewin's Rail Lewinia pectoralis

  

  Lewin's Rail is a secretive rail that stays hidden among plants in wetlands. It occurs in southeastern mainland Australia and Tasmania.

• Double-toothed Barbet Lybius bidentatus

  This barbet ranges from West to East Africa. Two prominent tooth-like projections mark the upper bill. It eats flying termites as well as fruit and nuts.

• Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus

  Males have black upperparts with white wing patches, while females have a chestnut back and tail. This forest bird catches insects in flight and also picks them from leaves and branches.

• Klages's Antwren Myrmotherula klagesi

  This small antwren lives in the canopy of lowland floodplain forest in northern Brazil. Males are black and white; females have buff streaks.

• Iberian Chiffchaff Phylloscopus ibericus

  The Iberian Chiffchaff is a small leaf warbler, 11 to 12 cm long. It breeds in western Europe and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Marsh Tit Poecile palustris

  The Marsh Tit is a small bird with a glossy black cap and dark bib. In the UK it can be confused with the similar Willow Tit.

• White-crowned Manakin Pseudopipra pipra

  Male White-crowned Manakins are black with a white crown; females and young males are greenish. In wet-forest understory they take fruit and insects from foliage in flight.

• Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis

  This small shorebird breeds in the Northern Hemisphere and migrates to Australia. Its head and neck turn reddish-brown in breeding plumage.

• Spotted Scrubwren Sericornis maculatus

  The Spotted Scrubwren lives in south-western Australian forest and searches leaf litter for insects and seeds. The appearance and life details below are limited to the subspecies described in that region.

• Madagascan Sparrowhawk Accipiter madagascariensis

  The Madagascan Sparrowhawk occurs on Madagascar. It is about 29–42 cm long and uses forest, dry thorn forest, and scrub.

• Strickland's Woodpecker Leuconotopicus stricklandi

  Strickland's Woodpecker lives in the mountains of Mexico. It searches the bark of pine and oak woodland for small invertebrates.

• Northern Emerald-Toucanet Aulacorhynchus prasinus

  The Northern Emerald-Toucanet is a medium-sized green toucanet with cinnamon at the tail tips. Pairs and small groups move through the canopy of humid tropical hills and highlands.

• Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus

  The Plaintive Cuckoo is a small cuckoo with a gray head and breast and reddish underparts. It uses habitats from forest to parks, and brood parasitism on Ashy Tailorbirds is recorded in Singapore.

• Great Egret Ardea alba

  A large white heron with a long neck and legs, often moving slowly in deeper water.

• Sao Tome White-eye Zosterops feae

  The Sao Tome White-eye lives in forest and dense cover on Sao Tome Island. Its plumage description is limited to the island form formerly named as a subspecies.

• Amazonian Antpitta Myrmothera berlepschi

  The Amazonian Antpitta is a lowland-forest bird. In the Peru account, olive upperparts contrast with rusty sides of the head, breast and flanks.

• Chestnut-shouldered Bush-sparrow Gymnoris xanthocollis

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

• Chuuk Flycatcher Myiagra oceanica

  The Chuuk Flycatcher is endemic to the Chuuk Islands in Micronesia. Males have a blue-gray brown crown and rufous breast; birds hunt insects from low perches around forest edges and gardens.

• Blyth's Kingfisher Alcedo hercules

  It is a kingfisher with a blue back, orange underparts, red eyes, and coral-colored legs. The Bangladesh account describes it fishing near streams.

• Barred Wren-Warbler Calamonastes fasciolatus

  This small bird lives in semi-arid savanna in southern Africa. Fine barring and pale cheeks help identify it, and it sings a high trill from a tree top.

• White-whiskered Hermit Phaethornis yaruqui

  This hummingbird feeds on nectar in humid foothill and montane forests and dense scrub.

• Javan Bulbul Ixos virescens

  The Javan Bulbul is a bulbul of Java's highland forests. Its long, slender bill and olive-colored back and wings are distinctive.

• Black-fronted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons

  The Black-fronted Bushshrike lives in mountain forests of eastern and southern Africa. Its underparts occur in several color forms, and it sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.

• Pearly-breasted Conebill Conirostrum margaritae

  This conebill occurs along major rivers in Loreto, northeastern Peru, where it is found in river-created woodland and islands.