Meet the world’s animals.

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• Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus

  

  A small bird with a blue crown and yellow underside, found from woodland to parks and gardens.

• Kagu Rhynochetos jubatus

  

  The flightless Kagu lives in the humid forests of New Caledonia's Grande Terre. During the day it searches leaf litter and soil for small live prey.

• African Hoopoe Upupa africana

  

  The African Hoopoe uses open woodland, short grass, and places with exposed ground. A southern African species account describes it probing the ground with its long bill to find insects.

• Common Crane Grus grus

  

  A large crane that breeds from Europe across northern Asia and winters in southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia and other regions.

• Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis

  

  This small honeybird is about 10 cm long. It lives in the Afrotropical region and searches for invertebrates in trees.

• Purple-backed Fairywren Malurus assimilis

  

  The Purple-backed Fairywren inhabits dense inland Australian scrub and saltbush. It moves close to the ground and through grasses while searching for arthropods and seeds.

• Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres

  Ruddy Turnstones flip stones and seaweed along shorelines to find insects and small crustaceans underneath.

• Slender-billed Prion Pachyptila belcheri

  This small seabird breeds on islands near the southern tip of South America and in the southern Indian Ocean. Some reach New Zealand waters in winter.

• Cockatiel Nymphicus hollandicus

  A bird of open Australian country, recognized by its crest, long pointed tail and orange cheek patches.

• Eurasian sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus

  A pigeon-sized hawk with a conspicuous pale eyebrow marking.

• Sulphur-billed Nuthatch Sitta oenochlamys

  This Philippine endemic nuthatch has violet-blue upperparts and pale orange underparts. It searches trees for insects and spiders.

• Pale-winged Trumpeter Psophia leucoptera

  A ground-walking bird of Amazonian forest, with glossy black plumage and a broad rounded white area on the back.

• Common cuckoo Cuculus canorus

  A bird arriving in Japan in late spring, when males give the familiar cuckoo call.

• Hoatzin Opisthocomus hoazin

  The Hoatzin has a long tail and crest; young birds have claws on their wings that help them grip branches.

• Crested Bellbird Oreoica gutturalis

  The Crested Bellbird is a mainland Australian bird whose male stands out for its raised black crest and black breast. It searches for small prey and seeds on the ground and in low shrubs.

• Little egret Egretta garzetta

  A white heron that catches fish in shallow watersides. A black bill and legs with yellow feet are identifying features.

• Grey Tit-Flycatcher Myioparus plumbeus

  This flycatcher is widespread across sub-Saharan Africa. It has gray upperparts, a white eye-ring and white outer tail feathers, and feeds on insects in riverine forest, mature woodland and savanna.

• Crab-plover Dromas ardeola

  This coastal bird has black-and-white plumage and a heavy bill, and feeds on crabs. A field study in India’s Gulf of Kachchh recorded wintering birds foraging at low tide.

• Eurasian oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus

  A stocky black-and-white shorebird with an orange-red bill.

• Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel

  The Lesser Frigatebird is a seabird with long narrow wings and a deeply forked tail. It ranges over tropical oceans and is recorded as a vagrant in New Zealand.

• Visayan Fantail Rhipidura albiventris

  The Visayan Fantail is a resident fantail of the central Philippines. It occurs in forest and semi-open habitats, and molecular taxonomic work treats it as a distinct species.

• House sparrow Passer domesticus

  A small bird of towns and farms. Males and females differ in facial and chest markings; males have a black throat bib.

• Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula

  A tiny, active North American bird that searches for insects among leaves and branches and flicks its wings often.

• 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.