Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-throated Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes albicollis

  

  This large woodcreeper inhabits forests in Brazil and neighboring countries. It climbs trunks and peels bark and lichen to find hidden arthropods.

• Cuban Martin Progne cryptoleuca

  The Cuban Martin catches insects while flying. It uses dry lowland scrub, pasture, farmland, and second-growth woodland, and it also occurs in pine forest.

• Orange-necked Hill Partridge Arborophila davidi

  Surveys in southern Vietnam found it on slopes with bamboo and deep leaf litter. Its orange neck and black eye-stripe extending down the lower neck are distinctive.

• Short-billed Gull Larus brachyrhynchus

  A small gull with a thin bill, it breeds in Alaska and northern Canada. Outside the breeding season it uses Pacific coastal waters and fields, feeding on fish, insects, grain, and other available food.

• Tropical Screech-Owl Megascops choliba

  The Tropical Screech-Owl is widespread in South America and has several plumage morphs, including gray, brown, cinnamon and rufous. A Bolivian study detected its calls just after sunset and before dawn along forest edges.

• Guam Kingfisher Todiramphus cinnamominus

  The Guam Kingfisher formerly lived on Guam. It has not lived in the wild since 1986; males have cinnamon head and underparts, while those of females are paler or white.

• Yellow-breasted Brush Finch Atlapetes latinuchus

  The Yellow-breasted Brush Finch lives in Andean forest and highland grassland. Its crown and nape are rufous, the face has a broad black mask, and the belly is bright yellow. It searches foliage for fruit, fresh leaf buds, and insects.

• Baya Weaver Ploceus philippinus

  A bird of grassland and wetland edges that weaves hanging nests from plant fibres.

• Buff-banded Rail Hypotaenidia philippensis

  The Buff-banded Rail is marked by a chestnut-buff breast band and black-and-white barring. In Australia it keeps to cover around wetlands and crops while probing for food in mud.

• Himalayan Cutia Cutia nipalensis

  An older account describes male nominate Himalayan Cutias as flocking in high-elevation forest in summer and moving lower in winter.

• Mao Gymnomyza samoensis

  The Mao is a large honeyeater with a long, curved black bill. It forages for nectar, fruit, and insects in the canopy and upper parts of Samoan forests.

• Jouanin's Petrel Bulweria fallax

  Jouanin's Petrel is a sooty-brown seabird of the northwestern Indian Ocean. It visits breeding sites at night and nests on the coastal cliffs of Socotra Island.

• Rhinomyias brunneatus

  This flycatcher searches for insects in forest undergrowth and along edges. It has brown upperparts, a pale eye-ring, a white throat, a pale brown breast and pink legs. Its breeding range is in southern China, with wintering areas in Southeast Asia. The pool uses Rhinomyias; the consulted account uses Cyornis brunneatus.

• Eurasian magpie Pica pica

  A member of the crow family with a black-and-white body and a long tail. In Britain, its dark feathers show blue or green gloss at close range.

• Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes githagineus

  Bucanetes githagineus is a finch of arid regions. A Spanish specialist encyclopedia describes breeding-plumage males and females separately and records seasonal food examples.

• Coastal Cisticola Cisticola haematocephalus

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

• Northern Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva

  Setophaga aestiva is the migratory northern form of the Yellow Warbler. It breeds in North America and moves to Central and South America for winter; the resident mangrove form is now treated separately.

• Bicolored Antpitta Grallaria rufocinerea

  This ground-dwelling antpitta inhabits montane cloud forest in the Colombian Andes and northeastern Ecuador. It searches for insects on the forest floor.

• Crested Coua Coua cristata

  The Madagascar cuckoo-relative has gray-green plumage, a crest, and blue bare skin around the eyes. It moves between the ground and trees.

• Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri

  A small sandpiper whose breeding adults show rufous and golden markings.

• Black-faced Munia Lonchura molucca

  The Black-faced Munia is a small finch that eats seeds in open lowland habitats.

• Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor

  The Tufted Titmouse is a small gray bird with a crest and large dark eyes. It moves through deciduous branches and also eats seeds and nuts.

• Fischer's lovebird Agapornis fischeri

  A small East African parrot with an orange face, green body and conspicuous white eye-rings.

• Picui Ground Dove Columbina picui

  This small dove lives in open areas and towns in South America and feeds on seeds on the ground. Male and female plumage looks similar to human observers.