Meet the world’s animals.

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• Gray Falcon Falco hypoleucos

  

  A pale gray falcon with faint dark streaks on its white underside and feathered legs, it occurs in inland Australia.

• Black-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata

  A hornbill with a large black casque that moves through forest trees in search of fruit.

• Golden-naped Finch Pyrrhoplectes epauletta

  Male Golden-naped Finches are glossy black with an orange nape and white rump; females are yellowish-brown. They breed in Himalayan forests and are also recorded lower down in winter.

• Buff-breasted Babbler Pellorneum tickelli

  This small babbler keeps near dense cover and the ground. A study in northern Thailand found nests along creeks, where both sexes incubated eggs and cared for nestlings.

• Grey-hooded Flycatcher Mionectes rufiventris

  This flycatcher breeds in forests of southeastern Brazil. Records from Minas Gerais describe nests hanging over small streams from roots or fern leaves, and blue-toned plumage in young birds near fledging.

• Black Oropendola Psarocolius guatimozinus

  The Black Oropendola is a large bird of restricted humid lowlands in eastern Panama and northwestern Colombia. It searches high in trees and is thought to take nectar from flowers.

• Black-and-gold Cotinga Lipaugus ater

  The Black-and-gold Cotinga lives in mountain forests of southeastern Brazil and feeds in the canopy. Males are black with yellow patches on the wings.

• Red-tailed Laughingthrush Trochalopteron milnei

  This laughingthrush ranges through southern China and mainland Southeast Asia, in a fragmented mountain distribution. Some plumage details differ among subspecies.

• Banded Lapwing Vanellus tricolor

  The Banded Lapwing lives in short grassland and farmland in Australia. Its black breast band and white throat stand out. It is nomadic and searches for invertebrates on the ground.

• Tahiti Petrel Pseudobulweria rostrata

  This seabird has a dark upper surface and a white belly. Outside the breeding season it spends time at sea, feeding on squid and other prey near the surface. Breeding areas differ between subspecies.

• Little Rock Thrush Monticola rufocinereus

  The Little Rock Thrush lives around rocky hills and wooded ravines. Its blue-gray throat extends onto the breast, and its tail is rufous.

• Ultramarine Grosbeak Cyanocompsa brissonii

  The Ultramarine Grosbeak occurs in South America. In Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, a paper reports it in native grassland, areas with trees and shrubs, and along agricultural edges. Females are pale sandy brown above and paler below.

• Oriental Cuckooshrike Coracina javensis

  The Oriental Cuckooshrike is a 28 cm cuckooshrike found discontinuously from the Himalayan foothills through parts of southern China and Southeast Asia, and also on Java and Bali.

• Copper-tailed Starling Hylopsar cupreocauda

  A starling of Sierra Leone's forest canopy. Adults have a glossy purple head and breast, a blue-black body, and a coppery-bronze tail.

• Malabar Lark Galerida malabarica

  This lark lives in western India. It has reddish-brown plumage with dark streaks and a white belly, and uses open country, farms, and scrub to find seeds and insects.

• Diamantina Tapaculo Scytalopus diamantinensis

  This small tapaculo is restricted to mountains in northeastern Brazil. Males and females differ in the tone of their upperparts, and the species lives in dense forest-floor vegetation.

• White-winged Magpie Urocissa whiteheadi

  Adult White-winged Magpies have dark head and upperparts, a gray underside, pale wing markings, a long tail, and a heavy red bill.

• Green-faced Parrot-Finch Erythrura viridifacies

  This small finch is about 12 cm long. It often eats bamboo seeds and may gather where bamboo is seeding.

• Germain's Swiftlet Aerodramus germani

  Germain's Swiftlet is a swiftlet whose taxonomic treatment varies among sources. A southern Thailand foraging study treated it as Aerodramus inexpectatus germani and reported foraging over water, forest and open paddy.

• Sulawesi Myzomela Myzomela chloroptera

  This honeyeater occurs on Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Males have a vivid red head, neck, and breast with black wings and tail; females are mostly brown with red on the face and throat. It feeds on nectar in mountain forest and tall secondary growth.

• Scaled Chachalaca Ortalis squamata

  This arboreal bird lives in forests of southern Brazil. A regional account describes it in family groups or small flocks and notes its fruit diet.

• Chestnut-winged Babbler Cyanoderma erythropterum

  The Chestnut-winged Babbler ranges from southern Myanmar and Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. It forages in small groups in the middle storey of evergreen forests.

• Principe Weaver Ploceus princeps

  This weaver is endemic to Príncipe Island. A breeding male has a bright orange head and golden underparts; females have a yellow head and breast with a paler belly. It also uses farms, gardens, and forest edges.

• Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius

  A desert nightjar that rests under low bushes by day and catches flying insects at night. The nominate subspecies aegyptius occurs in Arabia.