Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sandy Gallito Teledromas fuscus

  

  The Sandy Gallito lives in the Monte Desert of western Argentina. It walks on the ground and among low vegetation while searching for food.

• Yellow-headed Caracara Milvago chimachima

  The Yellow-headed Caracara has a pale head and chest with dark brown back and wings. It searches for food around pastures and roadsides.

• Band-tailed Fruiteater Pipreola intermedia

  A bird of humid Andean mountain forest, it is identified by the white tip of its tail and scaled markings below.

• Imperial Amazon Amazona imperialis

  The Imperial Amazon is endemic to Dominica, with a green body, red eyes and violet underparts.

• Seaside Sparrow Ammospiza maritima

  The Seaside Sparrow is a small sparrow of North American salt marshes. It searches mudflats for small animals and seeds with its long, heavy bill.

• Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus

  Adults show a strong contrast between black upperparts and wings and a white underside. The cuckoo ranges from sub-Saharan Africa to the Indian subcontinent.

• Boreal Chickadee Poecile hudsonicus

  A small bird of conifer forests in Alaska and northern Canada. It has a brown cap and hides food in autumn for winter.

• Tawny-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus mexicanus

  The Tawny-throated Leaftosser lives in humid Central American forests, walking through leaf litter to find food. It has dark brown upperparts and a rusty throat extending onto the breast. It is seen alone or in pairs; local records describe a burrow nest near the ground.

• Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii

  Bewick's Wren is a small bird that flicks its long tail as it moves from branch to branch. Its bold white eyebrow stands out, and its song strings together short whistles, warbles, and trills.

• Yellow-ringed White-eye Zosterops wallacei

  This white-eye is recorded on Sumba Island, Indonesia, in forest, forest edge, scrub, and cultivated land.

• Black-polled Yellowthroat Geothlypis speciosa

  Males have a black face mask and yellow underparts; females have an olive face without the mask. A wetland survey documented the remaining populations in central Mexico.

• Christmas Island Swiftlet Collocalia natalis

  Endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, this small swiftlet catches insects while flying over forest and settlements.

• Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Acanthagenys rufogularis

  The Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater is widespread on mainland Australia. Adults have distinctive cheek feathers, and a study in inland New South Wales recorded movements associated with flowers and fruit.

• Japanese Yellow Bunting Emberiza sulphurata

  This summer visitor breeds only in Japan, using moist woodland edges and scrub. A male's yellow-green head and the white eye ring of both sexes help identify it.

• Everett's Thrush Zoothera everetti

  A Bornean mountain thrush of mossy forest and track edges, with olive-brown upperparts, a reddish tail and pale orange, scaly-looking underparts.

• Thick-billed Spiderhunter Arachnothera crassirostris

  The Thick-billed Spiderhunter is a forest bird with a notably thick bill. Its range extends from the Thai-Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo.

• Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis

  The Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush lives among mountain rocks. In breeding plumage, the male stands out in blue and orange.

• Restinga Tyrannulet Phylloscartes kronei

  This small flycatcher is recorded in coastal forest in southeastern Brazil. Its habitat includes sandy restinga woodland and nearby riverine forest.

• Rufous-headed Chachalaca Ortalis erythroptera

  A chachalaca with a brown body and rufous head and upper neck. Family groups use the forest mid-canopy but also come to the ground.

• Black-winged Monarch Monarcha frater

  This monarch uses forests in New Guinea and far northeastern Australia. In the nominate New Guinea subspecies, the area around the eye is gray. Migration is reported only for the Australian subspecies.

• Many-banded Aracari Pteroglossus pluricinctus

  This toucan has a long bill and a banded chest. In northwestern South America it feeds mainly on fruit and nuts, sometimes taking insects, and roosts communally in tree cavities.

• Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni

  Ploceus pelzelni breeds in wetlands and also feeds in nearby trees and bushes. A breeding male has a black mask extending from the face to the throat, while the female lacks that mask.

• Pacific Golden-Plover Pluvialis fulva

  In breeding plumage, its black face and underparts are edged by a white stripe, with gold-spangled upperparts. It breeds on tundra and searches the ground for insects.

• Rufous-necked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus ruficollis

  This laughingthrush uses scrub and forest growth across the eastern Himalayan region, from south-central Nepal through Bhutan and northeastern India to northern Myanmar and adjacent southern China.