Meet the world’s animals.

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• Copper pheasant Syrmaticus soemmerringii

  

  A pheasant of Japan’s mountain forests, with a conspicuously long tail in males.

• Lettered Aracari Pteroglossus inscriptus

  The Lettered Araçari is a toucanet with letter-like markings on its upper bill. Males have a black head, females a chestnut head, and the species uses the Amazonian forest canopy.

• Madagascan Kestrel Falco newtoni

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

• Slaty Bunting Emberiza siemsseni

  The Slaty Bunting breeds in central China and moves southeast for winter. Males and females have different plumage.

• Boyer's Cuckooshrike Coracina boyeri

  Boyer’s Cuckooshrike lives in forests of New Guinea. It occurs in moist lowland forest and mangroves, and compiled diet data classify it as frugivorous.

• White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis

  A small bird of forests and scrub in eastern Australia. Its white eyebrow is a useful field mark, and it searches among leaf litter for small prey.

• Stripe-breasted Creeper Rhabdornis inornatus

  The Stripe-breasted Creeper lives in Philippine forests. Its white throat and belly, brown back, and broadly white-streaked sides are useful field marks; it may perch on dead branches.

• Yellow-eyed Babbler Chrysomma sinense

  The Yellow-eyed Babbler is a small bird with a conspicuous yellow eye-ring that searches for food among shrubs.

• Buff-collared Nightjar Antrostomus ridgwayi

  The Buff-collared Nightjar is a nocturnal bird marked by a cinnamon-colored neck collar. It uses its huge mouth to catch flying insects in the dark.

• Rufous-winged Illadopsis Illadopsis rufescens

  The Rufous-winged Illadopsis searches the ground and low growth of West African evergreen forest. Its rufous-brown head and back contrast with pale underparts.

• Togian Golden Bulbul Hypsipetes aureus

  The Togian Golden Bulbul is restricted to Indonesia’s Togian Islands off central Sulawesi. A study comparing museum plumage, measurements, and vocal samples separated it from the related Golden Bulbul complex.

• Golden-spangled Piculet Picumnus exilis

  The Golden-spangled Piculet is a tiny woodpecker ranging across northern and eastern Brazil, eastern Venezuela and Colombia, and Guyana. It lives in forest and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata

  The Myrtle Warbler is a small woodland bird with noticeable yellow and white markings. It moves south in fall and also eats berries in winter.

• Lanceolated Warbler Locustella lanceolata

  Its breeding range extends from northern Europe across Siberia to northeastern China. Another subspecies breeds on islands in the Sea of Okhotsk and in northern Hokkaido.

• White-collared Yuhina Yuhina diademata

  This small bird occurs in the mountains of southern China and nearby parts of Asia. Its white collar and long crest help identify it.

• Arfak Astrapia Astrapia nigra

  The Arfak Astrapia is a bird-of-paradise of montane forest in western New Guinea. The male has iridescent plumage and a long tail; the female is smaller and darker.

• Lattice-tailed Trogon Trogon clathratus

  This trogon lives in very wet mountain-slope forest in Costa Rica. Males are green and red, females are gray and brown, and the birds use the lower and middle forest levels.

• Red-eared Firetail Stagonopleura oculata

  This finch lives in forests in southwestern Australia. It has a red bill and ear patch and black-and-white spots on the belly.

• Tooth-billed Tanager Piranga lutea

  The Tooth-billed Tanager ranges from the highlands of Costa Rica and Panama through the Andes and the tepui region of Venezuela. In Bolivia, the lutea group is recorded at forest edges and shade-coffee farms in the Yungas and foothills.

• Crozet Shag Leucocarbo melanogenis

  The Crozet Shag occurs on the Crozet Islands, the Prince Edward Islands, and Marion Island. It forms small breeding colonies on coastal cliffs and pursues fish underwater.

• Bicolored Flowerpecker Dicaeum bicolor

  The Bicolored Flowerpecker is a small species endemic to the Philippines. The male has a black head and back with silvery-white underparts, and the species is found in forest canopy.

• Tarictic Hornbill Penelopides panini

  On Panay and Negros, this small hornbill stands out by the blue bare skin around the eye and its pale tail with a black tip.

• Dimorphic Fantail Rhipidura brachyrhyncha

  This fantail inhabits montane forest and subalpine scrub in the New Guinea highlands. It has two tail-color forms, and mixed-form pairs may occur.

• Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius

  A shorebird of North America. Breeding adults show dark spots on the belly, and the bird teeters as it walks by water.