Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brown Teal Anas chlorotis

  

  The Brown Teal is endemic to New Zealand. Breeding males show a green sheen on the head and a dark chestnut breast; the species is now mostly restricted to the northern North Island.

• Violet-headed Hummingbird Klais guimeti

  The Violet-headed Hummingbird is a small hummingbird found locally in humid foothill and lower Yungas forests in Bolivia. Males have violet-blue on the forehead and throat.

• Cream-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes albiventris

  This cinclodes occurs in the high Andes. It has a brown back, pale eyebrow, spotted breast and pale wing stripe, and walks on the ground to forage in grassland and by water.

• Cabot's Tragopan Tragopan caboti

  Cabot's Tragopan is a pheasant relative whose male has inflatable blue and red ornaments on its throat and head. Females look quite different. The species lives in mountain forests of southeastern China and eats plant foods.

• Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima

  A stocky wader seen on rocky shores in Britain in winter, with distinctive yellow legs.

• Zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata

  In Australia, this small bird forms flocks in dry grassland and eats grass seeds.

• Pale-headed Brush Finch Atlapetes pallidiceps

  A 2003 paper described this brush-finch as confined to one valley in southern Ecuador and reported variation in adult head markings.

• Short-tailed Field Tyrant Muscigralla brevicauda

  It has a gray head, white wing bars, long legs, and a short tail. It searches for food on the ground in open places and occurs in western Peru and nearby areas.

• Kuhl's Lorikeet Vini kuhlii

  This small lorikeet is native to Rimatara. It is often recorded in plantations and around villages where flowers and fruit are plentiful, and feeds on nectar.

• Papuan Mountain Pigeon Gymnophaps albertisii

  The red bare skin around its eyes and gray head help identify this pigeon. It is active by day and eats fruit in New Guinea’s mountain forests.

• Dark-eared Honeyeater Myza celebensis

  This honeyeater has fine dark streaks across its brownish plumage and a curved black bill. The sexes look alike in plumage, but males are larger in the Lore Lindu study.

• Scopoli's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea

  A seabird that glides low over the sea on long wings. It breeds on Mediterranean islands; around Malta, birds gather offshore in the evening during the breeding season and return to their colony after dark.

• Golden-winged Cacique Cacicus chrysopterus

  The Golden-winged Cacique has glossy black plumage with yellow patches on the rump and wings. It searches trees for fruit and insects.

• Long-billed White-eye Rukia longirostra

  This white-eye is distinctive for its long, slender bill that curves downward. It is restricted to Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia.

• Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis

  Western Reef Herons occur in pale and dark plumage forms; the dark form is marked by a white throat. They hunt along coasts and estuaries.

• Bradfield's Hornbill Lophoceros bradfieldi

  Bradfield's Hornbill lives in dry woodlands and nearby habitats of southern Africa. It is usually in pairs or family groups, but local flocks can form toward the end of the dry season when food is scarce.

• Blackthroat Luscinia obscura

  Field surveys in the Qinling Mountains in 2011-2012 confirmed breeding birds in Shaanxi nature reserves. Males have black throats and breasts, and breeding sites included dense dwarf bamboo on mountain slopes. The paper uses Calliope obscura; the pool uses Luscinia obscura.

• Paramo Pipit Anthus bogotensis

  The Paramo Pipit searches for food on the ground in high grasslands. The Bolivia account reports subspecies that differ in the color of the underside and in their flank markings.

• Hook-billed Kingfisher Melidora macrorrhina

  A large kingfisher of New Guinea and nearby islands, it searches the forest floor for prey at night or around dusk and dawn.

• Red-billed Curassow Crax blumenbachii

  The Red-billed Curassow is an Atlantic Forest bird in Brazil. Both sexes have a crest, but their plumage and bill colors differ.

• Rufous-crowned Babbler Malacopteron magnum

  The Rufous-crowned Babbler lives in humid lowland forests of Southeast Asia. It has a rufous crown and tail and, at Krau Wildlife Reserve in Peninsular Malaysia, foraged among foliage and suspended dead leaves 4–8 m above the ground.

• Yellow Tit Machlolophus holsti

  The Yellow Tit is endemic to Taiwan’s mountains and uses the canopy of primary broadleaf forest. Males are strikingly black and yellow, while females and juveniles differ in color and crest shape.

• Scrubtit Acanthornis magna

  A small scrubbird from Tasmania and King Island. It is secretive but searches bark, litter, and foliage for small invertebrates near the forest floor.

• Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater Sporophila torqueola

  The Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater inhabits western Mexico’s grassy areas; males show a white collar above a dark breast band.