Meet the world’s animals.

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• Trindade Petrel Pterodroma arminjoniana

  

  The Trindade Petrel glides over the sea and feeds on fish and squid, returning to oceanic islands to breed.

• Baudo Oropendola Psarocolius cassini

  This large oropendola lives in the lowlands of Chocó, northwestern Colombia. Records place it in humid forest and forest edge up to about 365 m.

• Islet White-eye Zosterops griseotinctus

  This white-eye occurs on Papua New Guinea's offshore islands. A 2015 study examined populations across the Louisiade and other archipelagos.

• Little Bittern Botaurus minutus

  European birds are pigeon-sized herons with pale wing panels. They hide in reedbeds and are active at dawn and dusk.

• Palawan Hornbill Anthracoceros marchei

  The Palawan Hornbill is endemic to the Palawan island group. It mainly eats fruit, as well as recorded insects and lizards.

• Ussher's Flycatcher Muscicapa ussheri

  This flycatcher lives in West African lowland forest. It hunts insects from high dead branches near forest edges and clearings.

• Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava

  A wagtail with a yellow underside and greenish back. It visits Britain in spring and summer and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Collared Kingfisher Todiramphus chloris

  The Collared Kingfisher has turquoise upperparts and a white collar and underside. In Singapore it is a resident found throughout the country, from coastal areas to parks.

• Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens

  The Crested Guan is a large bird with a prominent crest. A Belize Zoo guide describes it in Belizean forests and as an arboreal species.

• Large Wren-Babbler Turdinus macrodactylus

  This large babbler forages close to the forest floor in Southeast Asia. It has a streaked brown back and a white throat and upper breast bordered by a dark band, absent in the Javan subspecies.

• Iriomote Tit Sittiparus olivaceus

  The Iriomote Tit occurs on Iriomote and Ishigaki islands in Japan's Yaeyama Islands. The sexes have similar plumage: a black head and throat, chestnut forehead, cheeks and nape, reddish-brown breast and belly, and olive flanks. It lives in evergreen broadleaf forest.

• Grey Gerygone Gerygone igata

  A small bird endemic to New Zealand that gleans insects while hovering at the outer canopy.

• Band-tailed Sierra Finch Porphyrospiza alaudina

  The Band-tailed Sierra Finch forages on the ground in open Andean country. Males are gray with a white tail band, while females are brown and streaked.

• Chestnut-capped Piha Lipaugus weberi

  This cotinga is known from a restricted area of Colombia's Central Cordillera. Its chestnut crown and gray body are distinctive.

• Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii

  A large tern with a shaggy black crest and cap. It feeds mainly on small fish, searching from above the water and diving head-first to catch them.

• White-bellied Cuckooshrike Coracina papuensis

  This cuckooshrike has a gray body, white belly, and a dark line through the eye. The Australian account describes birds feeding on insects and fruit in trees.

• Chestnut-rumped Babbler Stachyris maculata

  The Chestnut-rumped Babbler is a small bird studied in lowland forests of Borneo and the Malay Peninsula. Researchers recorded it foraging among suspended dead leaves and showing bluish skin on the head while calling.

• Pavonine Cuckoo Dromococcyx pavoninus

  The Pavonine Cuckoo is a forest cuckoo with a rufous head and neck and a long tail. On the ground it spreads its wings and tail to flush insects, then chases and catches them.

• Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus

  Prairie Falcons glide over grasslands and shrubby deserts, searching for small mammals and birds. Their pale plumage is marked by a dark triangle at the base of each wing.

• Yucatan Woodpecker Melanerpes pygmaeus

  This woodpecker occurs on the Yucatán Peninsula and nearby areas. It inhabits dry lowland scrub and deciduous forest and feeds on insects under bark.

• Malagasy Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone mutata

  On Madagascar, this flycatcher hunts insects and spiders in forests, edges, and gardens. Males change from a red immature plumage to a white adult morph, and their central tail feathers lengthen during breeding.

• Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix signatus

  The male Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark is recognizable by its chestnut-colored head. By day, it feeds on seeds on the ground in dry grassland and acacia scrub.

• Orange Weaver Ploceus aurantius

  The Orange Weaver has an orange throat and bright yellow plumage in the male, while the female is duller greenish-yellow. It nests colonially around wetlands.

• Rusty-barred Owl Strix hylophila

  The Rusty-barred Owl inhabits Atlantic Forest in southern and southeastern Brazil and nearby parts of Paraguay and Argentina. It is nocturnal and hunts small animals in forest.