Meet the world’s animals.

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• Crimson-breasted Shrike Laniarius atrococcineus

  

  A black shrike with a white wing stripe and vivid red underparts, it lives in dry scrub and savanna of southern Africa, where pairs defend territories.

• Black-headed Sibia Heterophasia desgodinsi

  This mountain forest bird occurs from southwestern and central-southern China through Myanmar, northern Thailand and parts of Indochina. It is arboreal and searches for food in trees.

• Striped Pipit Anthus lineiventris

  The Striped Pipit has a patchy range east and south of the equatorial rainforest belt. Bold streaks below and pale lemon edges on the wings and tail help identify it.

• Planalto Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla dimidiata

  This furnariid is widely distributed in the Brazilian Cerrado and is also recorded in northeastern Paraguay. It occurs in the understory of preserved gallery and riparian forest.

• White-vented Shama Copsychus niger

  The White-vented Shama inhabits forests around Palawan. Adults are glossy black, with white feathers on the outer tail and undertail.

• Stella's Lorikeet Charmosyna stellae

  Stella's Lorikeet inhabits montane forest on New Guinea. It feeds on flowers and fruit, and local movement as food supplies change is considered possible.

• Balkan Warbler Phylloscopus orientalis

  The Balkan Warbler is a small, pale leaf warbler. It breeds in Mediterranean scrub and forest, and outside the breeding season also uses vegetated dry valleys, open woodland, and scrub while searching for tiny insects and other prey.

• Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala

  The Black-throated Barbet lives in dry parts of eastern Africa. It uses trees and shrubs and eats fruit and insects.

• White-crested Guan Penelope pileata

  This guan lives in humid lowland forests south of the Amazon in Brazil. Its white crest and chestnut neck and breast are distinctive, while detailed records of its behavior and diet remain limited.

• Blue-crowned Chlorophonia Chlorophonia occipitalis

  The Blue-crowned Chlorophonia is a forest bird with green plumage and a blue crown patch. The sexes differ below, and the bird feeds on berries in the canopy.

• Pileated Parrot Pionopsitta pileata

  The Pileated Parrot lives in humid forests of southeastern Brazil and nearby areas. Males have red on the head; females do not.

• Hook-billed Hermit Glaucis dohrnii

  The Hook-billed Hermit lives in a limited part of Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest. It drinks flower nectar and also eats small arthropods.

• Pere David's Tit Poecile davidi

  Pere David's Tit is a tit of high-elevation forests in China. It has a black head and throat, white cheeks, and bright cinnamon underparts, and is reported from subalpine woodland.

• Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas

  Klaas's Cuckoo lives in forests and woodlands of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. It searches among leaves for caterpillars and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Watkins's Antpitta Grallaria watkinsi

  Watkins's Antpitta lives in forests of south-western Ecuador and north-western Peru. It calls in greener, shaded ravines, especially around dawn and dusk.

• Crimson Chat Epthianura tricolor

  This Australian bird lives in dry inland areas and open country in the west and south. Adult males stand out with red on the head, breast and rump and a black facial mask.

• Stripe-backed Bittern Botaurus involucris

  The Stripe-backed Bittern is a heron relative whose streaked back helps it blend into wetland vegetation. It moves alone and slowly through dense reeds in lowland freshwater wetlands, feeding on small invertebrates.

• Forest Owlet Athene blewitti

  A small, diurnal owl of localized forests in central and western India. Its plumage helps distinguish it from similar owls.

• Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis

  A large tern with a long, bright-orange bill. It lives along tropical and subtropical coasts and catches small fish and shrimp in shallow water.

• Northern Orange-tufted Sunbird Cinnyris osea

  Males show orange tufts at the sides of the chest and have a long, down-curved bill. It feeds mainly on nectar and also brings insects to its nestlings.

• Greyish Baywing Agelaioides badius

  This icterid lives in central and southern South America, using open woodland, scrub, and grassland with scattered trees.

• Grassland Sparrow Ammodramus humeralis

  The Grassland Sparrow searches for food on the ground in open habitats in Brazil. A study near Campinas found nests at the bases of grass clumps, with two or three eggs.

• Brown-crowned Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus phayrei

  An older bird account describes a form now included in Pomatorhinus phayrei under a historical subspecies name. It records olive-brown upperparts, rufous underparts, and movement beneath dense cover.

• Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolor

  The Uniform Crake has dark reddish-brown plumage, red eyes and legs, and a yellowish bill. It uses damp thickets and streamside forest, searching the ground for small animals.