Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous-winged Buzzard Butastur liventer

  

  The Rufous-winged Buzzard is a raptor that searches for prey in wooded grassland and farmland. By day, it watches open ground from a perch.

• Brown Hornbill Anorrhinus tickelli

  Tickell’s Brown Hornbill lives in forests of southern Myanmar and western Thailand, usually in groups of about five to seven, feeding on fruit and small animals.

• Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala

  The Noisy Miner is a grey bird with yellow bare skin around the eye and feeds on nectar and insects.

• Boat-tailed Grackle Quiscalus major

  The Boat-tailed Grackle is a coastal bird with striking differences between the sexes. Males are blue-black with extremely long tails, while females are much smaller and dark brown.

• Rufous-vented Chachalaca Ortalis ruficauda

  The Rufous-vented Chachalaca has brown to olive plumage and a bare, reddish-brown throat. It moves in small flocks, active in the morning and evening, and eats fruit and leaves.

• Lineated Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla subalaris

  This ovenbird occurs in Costa Rican forests. Adults are olive-brown with fine streaks below, and they search the lower forest for small invertebrates.

• Bornean Black-capped Babbler Pellorneum capistratoides

  The Bornean Black-capped Babbler is endemic to Borneo. eBird describes it moving quickly on the forest floor and rummaging through leaf litter in lowland and foothill forest.

• Australian Pipit Anthus australis

  The Australian Pipit forages on the ground in open country across Australia.

• Marquesan Kingfisher Todiramphus godeffroyi

  The Marquesan Kingfisher was recorded on Tahuata in the Marquesas Islands by a 2011 survey. In forest it eats insects and small lizards and nests in tree cavities.

• Tawny-crested Tanager Tachyphonus delatrii

  Tawny-crested Tanagers may move in flocks through moist lowland and montane forest, usually at lower or middle levels. They can join mixed-species flocks.

• White-throated Redstart Phoenicurus schisticeps

  The White-throated Redstart is a mountain bird whose food changes with the season. In breeding plumage, the male is strikingly marked with a white throat patch, a dark face, and chestnut underparts.

• Andaman Crake Rallina canningi

  This rail has chestnut head and upperparts and black-and-white bars on the belly. It hides in wet forest and marsh vegetation, so it is difficult to see.

• Planalto Tyrannulet Phyllomyias fasciatus

  This small bird has gray to olive-brown upperparts and a pale eye-ring. It occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, feeding on insects and small fruits in the canopy of humid lowland forest.

• White-throated Jay Cyanolyca mirabilis

  This small jay is dark blue with a striking black-and-white head pattern. It lives in mountain forests of southwestern Mexico and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Stripe-headed Antpitta Grallaria andicolus

  A terrestrial antpitta of the high Andes in Peru and Bolivia. It uses Polylepis woodland and nearby scrub, watching for insects from raised perches.

• Kamchatka Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus examinandus

  This leaf-warbler moves seasonally between eastern Russia and Japan and parts of East and Southeast Asia. Its habitats vary with season, from high-elevation shrubland to lowland forest.

• Golden-shouldered Parrot Psephotellus chrysopterygius

  The Golden-shouldered Parrot lives in open woodland with grassy ground in northern Australia. It feeds on grass seeds on the ground and nests in old termite mounds.

• Little Greenbul Eurillas virens

  This small bulbul is common in Gabon's wooded habitats and scrub. It often skulks in cover and sings during the heat of the day.

• Rufous Fieldwren Calamanthus campestris

  This rusty-brown ground bird inhabits arid southern Australia. A 2009 NSW Government determination treated it as a full species separate from the Striated Fieldwren and restricted its NSW range to the far-west arid zone.

• Anjouan Sunbird Cinnyris comorensis

  This sunbird is endemic to Anjouan in the Comoros. Males have glossy blue-green upperparts, and the species uses forest and thickets and eats insects and spiders.

• Wing-banded Antbird Myrmornis torquata

  This ground-foraging antbird was documented in a French Guiana breeding study. The paper notes a throat-color difference between the sexes and records birds searching leaf litter in humid mature forest.

• Henslow's Sparrow Centronyx henslowii

  This small bird hides near the ground in dense grass. Its olive-washed face and fine black breast streaks are useful clues.

• Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius

  A migratory bird with a dark cap and sandy plumage that travels between Central Asia and regions including South Asia.

• Fiery-shouldered Parakeet Pyrrhura egregia

  The Fiery-shouldered Parakeet uses humid mountain forest and edges, foraging for plant material in trees. The male is described with a brownish-red head, green body, and orange-yellow wing edge.