Meet the world’s animals.

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• Melanesian Cuckooshrike Coracina caledonica

  

  c. caledonica in forest and savanna. Its range and life-history details here refer to that local form.

• Buff-bellied Monarch Neolalage banksiana

  This monarch flycatcher is endemic to Vanuatu. Its black-and-white plumage contrasts with yellow underparts, and the 2014 survey found it in forest understory with vine tangles, often in pairs or small family groups.

• Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii

  Temminck's Stint is a small wader seen in the UK mainly on passage; breeding records in northern Scotland are exceptional.

• Silver Teal Spatula versicolor

  The silver teal is a small duck with a dark brown cap and a blue-green wing patch. It is recorded at lakes and rivers in Argentina.

• Gray's Lark Ammomanopsis grayi

  This lark lives around the Namib Desert and prefers gravel plains to dunes. Its pale plumage blends with the ground.

• Collared Scops Owl Otus lettia

  This nocturnal owl has mottled brown plumage and ear tufts. It uses tree holes and other cavities for nesting and catches insects and small animals.

• Channel-billed Cuckoo Scythrops novaehollandiae

  The Channel-billed Cuckoo is a large cuckoo with a massive pale, down-curved bill. It migrates to Australia from New Guinea and Indonesia and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Coastal Cisticola Cisticola haematocephalus

  A cisticola of East African wetlands and moist grassland. It has a streaked back and a relatively long tail.

• Little Heron Butorides atricapilla

  A small heron found around wetlands from Africa through Asia to Australia. Plumage varies, though many birds appear mostly gray.

• Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush Pterorhinus pectoralis

  The Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush has brown upperparts, pale underparts, and a dark necklace-like band. In its native range it lives in damp forests in small flocks.

• Andean Slaty Thrush Turdus nigriceps

  Males are bluish grey and females brown; in the Peruvian Andes it forages on the ground at forest edges and openings

• Masked Finch Poephila personata

  The Masked Finch lives in grassy areas and near water in northern Australia. Its heavy yellow bill and black facial markings are distinctive.

• Moorland Francolin Scleroptila psilolaema

  This francolin occurs on mountaintops in the Ethiopian highlands, in Afroalpine and sub-Afroalpine environments.

• Cape Starling Lamprotornis nitens

  This starling has glossy blue-green plumage. In the Zambia regional account, it is found in a range of habitats, including savannas and dry areas.

• Forest Swallow Atronanus fuliginosus

  The forest swallow is a small swallow of Central African lowland forests. It is dark brown and makes a mud nest in forest.

• Palkachupa Cotinga Phibalura boliviana

  The Palkachupa Cotinga is endemic to Bolivia. It has deep yellow plumage with green streaks and bluish-black feather tips.

• Plain Mountain Finch Leucosticte nemoricola

  This finch lives in high mountains from the Himalayas across the Tibetan Plateau into central China. It forages for seeds on the ground and may form flocks outside the breeding season.

• Black Caracara Daptrius ater

  Adults are almost entirely black, with a white rump, bright bare facial skin, and bright legs. They use forest edges and rivers and travel in pairs or groups, sometimes near human activity.

• Madagascar Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vociferoides

  The Madagascar Fish Eagle is a large raptor associated with Madagascar’s coasts and freshwater. Its wingspan is about 1.65–1.80 m, and it hunts around water by day.

• Monteiro's Hornbill Tockus monteiri

  This hornbill lives in dry areas from Namibia into southwestern Angola. It hops along the ground to find insects, and males and females differ in bill and throat color.

• Olive Honeyeater Lichmera argentauris

  The Olive Honeyeater is an Indonesian honeyeater associated with humid tropical shrubland and farmland. It feeds on nectar from trees and shrubs.

• Orange-crowned Oriole Icterus auricapillus

  Its yellow-orange plumage is brightest on the head, contrasting with its black face, breast, and tail; each black wing has an orange shoulder patch.

• Tawny-winged Woodcreeper Dendrocincla anabatina

  This woodcreeper lives in Central American forest. Tawny flight feathers and a rufous tail stand out, and it may forage near army-ant swarms.

• Short-billed Pipit Anthus furcatus

  The Short-billed Pipit searches short grass and dry grassland. It has a mottled brown back and dark breast streaks, and has been recorded in several parts of Argentina.