Meet the world’s animals.

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• Copperback Quail-thrush Cinclosoma clarum

  

  The Copperback Quail-thrush is a ground-dwelling bird of dry scrub in southern Australia. It was separated from the western population of a species once treated as a single Chestnut Quail-thrush.

• Gray-breasted Seedsnipe Thinocorus orbignyianus

  

  The Gray-breasted Seedsnipe lives on the ground in the high Andes. Males are gray, while females have mottled brown plumage.

• Racket-tailed Roller Coracias spatulatus

  

  The Racket-tailed Roller has spatula-shaped tips on its outer tail feathers. It perches among the middle branches of trees and searches for insects and small animals.

• Canyon Wren Catherpes mexicanus

  

  A small bird of dry, rocky places, with a cinnamon-colored body and a conspicuous white throat.

• Marmora's Warbler Curruca sarda

  

  This small warbler occurs on western Mediterranean islands. It moves through low scrub and catches insects and spiders.

• Rufous-fronted Wood Quail Odontophorus erythrops

  

  The Rufous-fronted Wood Quail searches through leaf litter on the forest floor in the Andes.

• Blue-grey Robin Peneothello cyanus

  A blue-grey robin of New Guinea's mountains, it searches for insects low in forest and secondary growth.

• Pale-billed Sicklebill Drepanornis bruijnii

  A bird-of-paradise of lowland rainforest in northern New Guinea. Its long, pale curved bill is distinctive, and males and females differ in plumage.

• White-backed Stilt Himantopus melanurus

  A South American wetland stilt. Adults often show a white crown and a white bar across the upper back. A Brazilian study documented nests made with salt-marsh vegetation, mud, and shells.

• Red-chested Swallow Hirundo lucida

  The Red-chested Swallow lives in tropical Africa and catches insects in flight. Compared with similar swallows, it has a narrower breast band and larger white panels in the tail.

• Colima Pygmy Owl Glaucidium palmarum

  This tiny owl is endemic to western Mexico. It occurs in pine and semi-deciduous forests and is also reported from coffee plantations.

• Violet Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus damarensis

  This bird searches trees along dry rivers for insects and small geckos. A Namibian subspecies has coppery and violet iridescence on its mantle feathers.

• Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus

  This small grebe lives in shallow ponds and wetlands and swims underwater in search of food.

• Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii

  A bird that runs through dry grassland and open woodland and feeds on insects on the ground. It occurs across much of sub-Saharan Africa.

• Radde's Accentor Prunella ocularis

  Radde's Accentor is a small mountain bird with a white eyebrow and a dark-streaked back. It searches for insects and seeds on the ground.

• Gray-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis

  This small rail lives in wet grass and marshes. It has brown upperparts, a gray head and breast, and pale bars on the flanks. It moves through grass and has records in Ecuador and nearby Amazonian regions.

• Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui

  The Yellow-spotted Barbet is a small forest barbet in Africa. It has yellow spots on a black body and eats small fruits.

• Rufous-winged Philentoma Philentoma pyrhoptera

  This bird inhabits evergreen and peat-swamp forests in Southeast Asian lowlands and hills. The cited page describes male plumage. Its diet is poorly known, and suggested insect prey is explicitly an inference.

• Madagascar Bee-eater Merops superciliosus

  Despite its English common name, the Madagascar Bee-eater occurs across Africa and Asia. The nominate subspecies found on Madagascar and nearby islands is mainly olive green.

• Pied Butcherbird Cracticus nigrogularis

  The Pied Butcherbird is an Australian bird with black-and-white plumage and a hooked bill. It swoops from a perch to catch prey on the ground.

• Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicus

  The Magellanic Penguin breeds along southern South American coasts and islands. It catches fish and squid at sea and raises chicks in nests on land.

• Dot-backed Antbird Hylophylax punctulatus

  This small antbird inhabits Amazonian lowland forest, especially in northeastern Peru. It searches for food along stream edges and within the forest.

• Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus

  Pallas's Leaf Warbler is a tiny bird identified by crown stripes and a yellow rump. It breeds in northern Asia and occurs as far as central China and the Himalayas.

• Grey-backed Storm Petrel Garrodia nereis

  A very small storm petrel of the Southern Ocean, with a grey back, dark head and wings, and a white belly.