Meet the world’s animals.

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• Olrog's Cinclodes Cinclodes olrogi

  

  Olrog’s Cinclodes is a highland ovenbird found in central Argentina. It walks through rocky grassland and hills while searching for invertebrates on the ground.

• Pale Martin Riparia diluta

  This small swallow flies over open country near rivers and other water. Its pale breast band and shallowly forked tail help identify it.

• Spruce Grouse Canachites canadensis

  The Spruce Grouse is a grouse of evergreen forests in northern and western North America. It feeds mainly on conifer needles, and males and females have very different plumage.

• Gray Gull Leucophaeus modestus

  The Gray Gull changes head color by season. In Chile it feeds along the coast and breeds inland in the Atacama Desert.

• Blue-banded Toucanet Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis

  This green toucanet has a blue breast band and a chestnut-red rump. It forages for fruit and other food in humid mountain forest on the eastern Andes.

• African Barred Owlet Glaucidium capense

  The African Barred Owlet is a small owl that hunts in woodlands of southern and eastern Africa.

• Little Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera hydrocharis

  This kingfisher has elongated central tail feathers. It lives in lowland forests on the Aru Islands and southern New Guinea, where it searches for insects on foliage and the ground.

• White-rimmed Brush Finch Atlapetes leucopis

  This bird lives in humid mountain forest in Colombia and Ecuador. Adults have a chestnut crown and a conspicuous white eye-ring extending behind the eye.

• Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha

  Glossy black plumage and pale eyes stand out on this weaver. In adults, white feather bases on the nape show as a pale patch.

• King Rail Rallus elegans

  A large rail of North American wetlands, it has a chestnut back, gray face, and black-and-white bars on its flanks. It walks through reeds and grasses to find food.

• White-throated Laughingthrush Pterorhinus albogularis

  Adults are described with olive-brown upperparts, a rufous crown, and a white throat. Oiseaux.net distinguishes a western whistleri population from eastern populations.

• Scarlet-bibbed Myzomela Myzomela sclateri

  The Scarlet-bibbed Myzomela (called Sclater's Myzomela by BirdLife) has a red-throated male and a drabber female with little or indistinct red on the throat. It feeds on nectar, insects, fruit, and flower parts in forests on islands of Papua New Guinea.

• Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii

  This all-dark seabird spends most of its life at sea and breeds on remote volcanic islands. In warm waters, it typically feeds on bioluminescent fish that surface at night.

• Javan Shortwing Brachypteryx montana

  Males have dark olive-brown upperparts and wings, a rusty-brown throat, chest, and flanks, and a gray belly. On Java's mountains, the species uses forest and eats insects and berries.

• Black-fronted Flowerpecker Dicaeum igniferum

  The Black-fronted Flowerpecker occurs in Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands. A male of the nominate subspecies has scarlet upperparts, dark wings and tail, and a white chin.

• White-billed Crow Corvus woodfordi

  The White-billed Crow has a large pale bill with a dark tip and glossy black plumage with a green sheen. It moves through rainforest singly, in pairs, or in small groups.

• Australian Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis

  Adult male Australian Golden Whistlers have a yellow belly and black head, while females have a grayish back. They search lower and middle tree levels for insects and spiders and also eat berries.

• Black Rosy Finch Leucosticte atrata

  The Black Rosy-Finch is a finch of the high mountains of western North America. It uses rocky high elevations for breeding and descends in winter.

• Abbott's Babbler Malacocincla abbotti

  A babbler of forests in South and Southeast Asia, Abbott's Babbler forages for insects and other small invertebrates near the ground.

• Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea

  This small African bird occurs in eastern Africa, including Kenya, and parts of western Africa. It uses montane forest, woodland, and thickets.

• 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.

• Slaty-crowned Antpitta Grallaricula nana

  The Peru Aves account of subspecies G. n. nana describes a gray crown and nape, brown upperparts, and rusty coloring on the face and underparts. In Peru it is recorded in humid montane forest.

• Amazonian Black-throated Trogon Trogon rufus

  The current species Trogon rufus is the Amazonian Black-throated Trogon. Males have a green head and breast, a black face and throat, and a yellow belly; females are brown above with a yellow belly.

• Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius

  A cuckoo of woodland and forest south of the Sahara. It eats hairy caterpillars and lays its eggs in other birds’ nests.