Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chameleon Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx lepidus

  

  This small kingfisher is marked by a white bar on the side of its neck and an orange spot beside the base of its bill.

• Nocturnal Curassow Nothocrax urumutum

  The Nocturnal Curassow lives in lowland forest of upper and middle Amazonia. Despite its name, it searches for food on the ground by day and is also active around dawn and dusk.

• Sooty-capped Babbler Malacopteron affine

  The Sooty-capped Babbler has a dark cap that contrasts with its brown body. It moves close to the forest floor in Bornean lowland forest while searching for insects.

• Yellow-bellied Tit Pardaliparus venustulus

  The Yellow-bellied Tit is a small tit that forms flocks in mountain forests. Males have black-and-white heads and yellow underparts; females are duller greenish grey.

• 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.

• Black-winged Saltator Saltator atripennis

  The Black-winged Saltator occurs in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. It has a black head with a bold white eyebrow and throat, a gray belly, and an olive back. A study in northwestern Ecuador described nests placed in dense shrubs.

• Barred Fruiteater Pipreola arcuata

  The Barred Fruiteater is an Andean bird with a black head and a yellow, barred belly. It feeds in the canopy and middle levels of humid montane forest.

• Brown-headed Gull Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus

  The Brown-headed Gull develops a brown head in breeding plumage. It moves between its breeding range and wintering areas with the seasons.

• Halmahera Cuckooshrike Coracina parvula

  The Halmahera Cuckooshrike lives in forest and mountain habitat and searches trees for small invertebrates. The colour description is limited to one distant observation on Halmahera.

• Gurney's Pitta Hydrornis gurneyi

  Gurney's Pitta is a pitta whose males and females differ in head and belly color. It feeds on small animals on the forest floor in forests of southern Myanmar and southern Thailand.

• Spot-breasted Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys mcclellandi

  This bird ranges from eastern Bhutan to Myanmar. It has a brown body, white throat and belly, and dark spots on the upper breast. It searches for food in low forest cover.

• Scaled Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus squamiger

  This rare, terrestrial cuckoo inhabits rainforest between the Xingu and Tapajós rivers in Brazil. Its behavior is still poorly known.

• Madagascan Kestrel Falco newtoni

  This small falcon occurs in many open habitats and towns across Madagascar, while avoiding dense forest.

• Ladder-backed Woodpecker Dryobates scalaris

  This small woodpecker lives in dry places in the southwestern United States. Its back has black-and-white bars that resemble a ladder.

• Leaden Flycatcher Myiagra rubecula

  The male is leaden blue-gray, while the female has a rusty throat and breast. The species occurs in woodland and along waterways in eastern Australia.

• Spot-breasted Ibis Bostrychia rara

  This ibis occurs in African forests. Adults have a crest and a slightly downcurved red bill. Pairs occur in Semliki Forest, western Uganda.

• Crissal Thrasher Toxostoma crissale

  A bird that searches near the ground in dry scrub and desert washes, it has a long downcurved bill and cinnamon under the tail.

• Elegant Trogon Trogon elegans

  The Elegant Trogon lives in Central American forests. Males have bronzy-green upperparts and a red belly, while females are gray-brown and differ in color.

• Kidepo Lark Corypha kidepoensis

  The Kidepo Lark lives in dry grassland around north-eastern Uganda. It searches for insects on the ground, and a rufous panel shows on the wing in flight.

• Rüppell's Weaver Ploceus galbula

  Rüppell's Weaver lives in dry parts of the Horn of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula and often searches for food in groups.

• Fulvous Owl Strix fulvescens

  This owl has a rounded, ear-tuftless head and a pale ochre face. It hunts at night and rests in shade or a cavity by day.

• White-crowned Tapaculo Scytalopus atratus

  This small bird lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes of Peru. It forages near the ground and can be difficult to see.

• Glossy-black Thrush Turdus serranus

  The Glossy-black Thrush lives in humid Andean mountain forests. Adult males are glossy black, while females are brownish, making the sexes look quite different.

• Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus

  The Red-eyed Vireo is a woodland songbird that searches leaves in the canopy for caterpillars and also eats fruit in its South American wintering areas.