Meet the world’s animals.

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• Striped Crake Aenigmatolimnas marginalis

  

  The Striped Crake is a rail with white streaks on its back and reddish underparts. It searches among seasonally flooded grassland and marsh edges, including shallow water and mud.

• Buff-bellied Puffbird Notharchus swainsoni

  The Buff-bellied Puffbird lives in Atlantic Forest from southeastern Brazil through eastern Paraguay to northeastern Argentina, including forest and Cerrado edges.

• Pied Cuckoo-Dove Reinwardtoena browni

  This large dove contrasts a silvery head, neck, and chest with a pale belly and dark wings and tail. It lives in forests on islands northeast of New Guinea.

• Knysna Warbler Bradypterus sylvaticus

  This secretive warbler hides in dense grass and scrub. Its plain brown plumage blends into the cover where it searches for spiders and other small invertebrates.

• Black-bibbed Tit Poecile hypermelaenus

  This tit ranges from central and eastern China through southeastern Tibet to western Myanmar. It searches for insects in open woodland and forest edges.

• Black-and-cinnamon Fantail Rhipidura nigrocinnamomea

  This fantail is endemic to Mindanao in the Philippines. It has a black head with a white eyebrow and cinnamon-colored back and rump. It lives in montane forest, feeds mostly on insects, and sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.

• Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea

  This heron has yellow head plumes and a black-and-white face; it searches shallow wetlands for crabs and crayfish.

• Unspotted Saw-whet Owl Aegolius ridgwayi

  The Unspotted Saw-whet Owl has a rounded head without ear-tufts and a brown facial disc edged in white. It is nocturnal and occurs in mountain forests from southern Mexico into Central America. Details of its diet and breeding remain poorly known.

• Mexican Yellow Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysopeplus

  The Mexican Yellow Grosbeak occurs in Mexico and Guatemala. A research paper describes it from open, dry forest at elevations of 300–1,850 m.

• Australian Raven Corvus coronoides

  The Australian Raven is a large black corvid with conspicuous white irises.

• Pale-eyed Blackbird Agelasticus xanthophthalmus

  This bird has glossy black plumage and a pale eye. An adult was recorded at Cocha Cashu, Peru, in 1982; the species account lists wet grasslands and grassy margins of oxbow lakes as habitat.

• Spotted Antpitta Hylopezus macularius

  A ground-dwelling antpitta of humid Amazonian forest. This account follows the populations assigned to Hylopezus macularius in the taxonomic revision.

• Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina

  This sunbird occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. It uses its long curved bill to drink nectar from flowers.

• Canary Islands Chiffchaff Phylloscopus canariensis

  This small leaf warbler is endemic to the Canary Islands. It uses habitats from forests to high mountain scrub, as well as farms and gardens, and is usually sedentary.

• Warbling white-eye Zosterops japonicus

  A small yellow-green bird of Japanese woods and gardens. A white ring around the eye gives it its name.

• Red-crowned Woodpecker Melanerpes rubricapillus

  This small woodpecker has different head patterns in males and females: males have a red crown, while females have a white crown. It excavates its own tree cavity for nesting.

• Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator

  The Piping Hornbill has a black head and wings with white underparts. The account distinguishes three subspecies with differences in the extent of white on the wings and tail. Some taxonomies treat Bycanistes fistulator as a subspecies of the Trumpeter Hornbill.

• Black-collared Apalis Oreolais pulcher

  The species account separates two subspecies, and Kenya is one part of its range. It lives low in dense lowland-forest undergrowth and eats insects and other small invertebrates.

• Russet Nightingale-Thrush Catharus occidentalis

  A thrush of montane forests in Mexico. Its reported body length is 15–18 cm; it forages on the ground by day and takes food including invertebrates.

• Northern Grosbeak-Canary Crithagra donaldsoni

  A bird of dry northeastern African savanna that feeds on seeds on the ground.

• Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike Coracina striata

  This cuckooshrike lives in the humid forests and mangroves of parts of Southeast Asia. Males are grey, while females show bars on the underparts.

• Malaysian Blue Flycatcher Cyornis turcosus

  The male has deep blue upperparts and an orange throat and breast. In lowland forest understory, it catches flying insects in short sallies from a low perch.

• White-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis ruficeps

  This parrotbill ranges from northeast India east of Sikkim to Bhutan and adjacent Tibet. It uses bamboo near broadleaf evergreen forest and may be seen in small groups.

• Cozumel Vireo Vireo bairdi

  This resident vireo occurs only on Cozumel Island, Mexico. It has chestnut-toned head and back, a white eye-ring, and two pale wing-bars, and forages in low to middle vegetation.