Meet the world’s animals.

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• Horned Curassow Pauxi unicornis

  

  The Horned Curassow is a large bird of central Bolivian forests. A blue-grey casque rises above its red bill, and it feeds on fruit.

• Collared Scops Owl Otus lettia

  This nocturnal owl has mottled brown plumage and ear tufts. It uses tree holes and other cavities for nesting and catches insects and small animals.

• Guatemalan Tyrannulet Zimmerius vilissimus

  A small tyrannulet ranging from southern Mexico to northwestern Colombia. It forages in the canopy and along forest edges, including second-growth woodland.

• Large Blue-flycatcher Cyornis magnirostris

  The Large Blue-flycatcher breeds in eastern Himalayan foothill forests and winters in lowlands of the Thai-Malay Peninsula. The sexes have different plumage.

• Mossy-nest Swiftlet Aerodramus salangana

  A small swiftlet that builds nests containing moss and other plant matter.

• Little Rush Warbler Bradypterus baboecala

  The Little Rush Warbler lives in wetlands with reeds and sedges. The broad taxonomic treatment includes several subspecies, some of which are treated as separate species elsewhere.

• Spot-throated Babbler Pellorneum albiventre

  By day, it walks through scrub, dense grass, and bamboo while searching the ground for small invertebrates. It also occurs on hills, and its recorded weight is about 21–22 g.

• Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola

  This warbler breeds in eastern Europe and winters in West Africa. Its yellow crown stripe and yellow-brown streaked plumage help identify it.

• Katanga Masked Weaver Ploceus katangae

  Katanga Masked-Weavers live in wetlands with reeds and nearby woodland. Breeding males have a black facial mask, and the width of the yellow forehead band varies by region.

• Grey-hooded Sunbird Aethopyga primigenia

  Males have a grey head and throat, metallic bronze-green forehead and ear-coverts, yellow rump, white breast, and yellow flanks. On Mindanao it uses forest and edges and visits banana flowers.

• Dark-backed Sibia Heterophasia melanoleuca

  The Dark-backed Sibia is a slender, long-tailed bird of mountains in Myanmar, northwestern and western Thailand, and northwestern Laos. It has a black head and white underparts.

• Speckled Teal Anas flavirostris

  The Speckled Teal is a small duck that feeds at the water's surface. Dark spots mark its neck and breast, while plumage and bill color vary with subspecies, sex, and age.

• Scaled Fruiteater Ampelioides tschudii

  Its back has black-edged scales, its crown is black, and its eyes are yellow. In Andean montane forest it forages at several heights.

• Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis

  The Southern Rough-winged Swallow catches insects in flight over open country and near water in Central and South America.

• Austral Blackbird Curaeus curaeus

  This blackbird occurs in Chile and Argentina. It uses woodland, scrub, fields, and towns, and searches on the ground for small animals and plant foods.

• Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans

  The Singing Cisticola is a small bird marked by rufous areas on its head and wings. It lives in scrub, overgrown farmland, and moist savanna, usually in pairs or small groups.

• Chestnut-bellied Thrush Turdus fulviventris

  The male is a thrush with a black head, gray back and breast, and chestnut belly. It forages on the ground near edges of Andean montane forest.

• Fluttering Shearwater Puffinus gavia

  The Fluttering Shearwater is a small shearwater with dark brown upperparts, white throat and belly, and a partial dark collar.

• Yellowish White-eye Zosterops nigrorum

  This white-eye inhabits forests and wooded areas in northern and central Philippines. Its yellowish belly helps identify it, and it feeds on tiny invertebrates and fruit.

• Black-headed Greenfinch Chloris ambigua

  The Black-headed Greenfinch is a small finch found in parts of the Indomalayan region. It feeds on plant seeds in open woodland, fields, and scrub.

• Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops

  This small plover lives around fresh water in Australasia. It has a black face pattern and breast band with chestnut shoulder feathers. It walks along the water's edge looking for insects and small molluscs.

• Great hornbill Buceros bicornis

  A bird with a large raised structure on top of its massive bill.

• Orange-crested Manakin Heterocercus aurantiivertex

  This manakin occurs in the Peruvian Amazon. Peru Aves describes it foraging in the midstory and understory of floodplain forest along blackwater rivers.

• Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis

  The Spanish Sparrow breeds in southern Europe; males are notable for their black chest.