Meet the world’s animals.

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• Striated Thornbill Acanthiza lineata

  

  The Striated Thornbill is a medium-sized thornbill with greenish upperparts, an orange-brown crown, and a streaked pale underside. It searches branches for insects in southeastern Australian eucalypt woodland.

• Nocturnal Curassow Nothocrax urumutum

  The Nocturnal Curassow lives in lowland forest of upper and middle Amazonia. Despite its name, it searches for food on the ground by day and is also active around dawn and dusk.

• Fan-tailed Warbler Basileuterus lachrymosus

  This warbler lives in the understory of woods in Mexico and Central America. It moves near the ground and flicks or fans its long tail to show the white tips.

• Slender-billed Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus superciliaris

  This babbler has a long, sharply downcurved bill. It uses bamboo thickets in montane forest and feeds on insects and plant foods.

• Yellow-headed Manakin Chloropipo flavicapilla

  The male has a yellow head and olive back. It lives in the lower growth of Andean forest and feeds on fruit.

• Alagoas Antwren Myrmotherula snowi

  This small antwren is recorded in humid forest in northeastern Brazil. Males are gray and females are rufous-brown; a 2005 survey documented one male in a forested valley with a stream and dense lianas.

• 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.

• Ringed Teal Callonetta leucophrys

  The Ringed Teal is a small duck of South American wetlands and ponds, with different facial patterns in males and females.

• Musk Lorikeet Glossopsitta concinna

  This lorikeet lives in eucalypt woodland in southeastern Australia. Red facial markings and a blue crown stand out against its green body.

• Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor

  The Mangrove Cuckoo is a secretive bird of coastal forests in the Caribbean and Central America. It searches among leaves for insects and small lizards.

• Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush Pterorhinus mitratus

  A laughingthrush of forests from southern Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. It searches for food in montane and secondary forest.

• 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.

• Australian Swiftlet Aerodramus terraereginae

  This swiftlet is resident in north-eastern Queensland and breeds in caves and gorges. It makes echolocation clicks when entering dark caves.

• Palawan Tit Pardaliparus amabilis

  This small tit lives in Palawan's forests and searches among branches for small invertebrates.

• White-tailed eagle Haliaeetus albicilla

  An eagle widespread in northern Eurasia. Some winter in northern Japan, while others breed in Hokkaido.

• Black-backed Tanager Stilpnia peruviana

  The Black-backed Tanager is about 14 cm long and endemic to Atlantic Forest along southeastern Brazil. It mainly occupies coastal sandbank forest and lowland forest.

• Masatierra Petrel Pterodroma defilippiana

  The Masatierra Petrel is a seabird of the open Pacific off South America. It has a grey crown and back, a black eye patch, and a thick bill.

• Green Longtail Urolais epichlorus

  This small bird has yellowish-green plumage and a long tail. It is recorded in Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Bioko Island offshore. It lives in montane and eucalypt forests and mostly eats insects and caterpillars.

• Stripe-throated Wren Cantorchilus leucopogon

  The Stripe-throated Wren has a striped throat and reddish-brown tail. The account distinguishes a darker Pacific form from a paler, greyer Caribbean form.

• Chinese Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola thoracicus

  A rounded partridge with a short tail that lives in thickets and grassy places.

• Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus

  This sparrow is marked by its grey head and white throat, and occurs in the grasslands, farmland, and settled areas of western and central Africa.

• Wrinkled Hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus

  A lowland-forest hornbill known for the male's red wrinkled casque; it often feeds on fruit in the canopy.

• Fox Kestrel Falco alopex

  The Fox Kestrel is a small falcon with an almost wholly russet adult plumage, a long tail, and narrow wings. It occurs around the Sahel, south of the Sahara Desert.

• Australian Fairy Tern Sternula nereis

  A small tern that nests on sandy beaches and dives into shallow water to catch fish.