Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rennell Shrikebill Clytorhynchus hamlini

  

  The Rennell Shrikebill lives in the Solomon Islands. It is about 19 cm long and searches for small invertebrates in forest understory.

• Ornate Fruit Dove Ptilinopus ornatus

  The Ornate Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon of New Guinea's hill and montane forests. Its crown ranges from wine-red to yellowish olive among subspecies, and the sexes look alike.

• Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera danae

  The Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher lives in moist forest in southeastern New Guinea. Adult males have a brown head and back, pink underparts, and long tail feathers.

• Yellow-throated Bulbul Pycnonotus xantholaemus

  The Yellow-throated Bulbul is a breeding endemic of India and is about 20 cm long. It uses scrub and open forest on rocky hills.

• Socorro Wren Troglodytes sissonii

  The Socorro Wren is a wren of Socorro Island, Mexico. Species accounts record it in dry forest and dry shrubland.

• Japanese wagtail Motacilla grandis

  A black-and-white waterside bird that repeatedly bobs its tail.

• Pallid Cuckoo Heteroscenes pallidus

  The Pallid Cuckoo occurs across Australia and is a brood parasite. Its plumage varies among individuals and between sexes, and it leaves its eggs in host nests.

• Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus

  A long-winged tern with a pointed bill that catches small fish in shallow coastal waters.

• Ethiopian Firefinch Lagonosticta larvata

  The Ethiopian Firefinch, Lagonosticta larvata, occurs in southeastern Sudan, eastern South Sudan and western Ethiopia. This account follows the nominate population.

• Slaty-breasted Rail Lewinia striata

  It is marked by a long red bill, a gray breast, and fine white bars. It hides in thick wetland and grassland vegetation, appearing briefly at its edges.

• Ijima's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus ijimae

  Ijima’s Leaf Warbler is a migratory bird with a milky-white throat, chest, and belly and a yellow brow stripe. It searches forests and bamboo groves for insects and spiders, and also eats seeds.

• Chaco Eagle Buteogallus coronatus

  The Chaco Eagle has a prominent crest and inhabits savannas and open woodland in Argentina.

• Japanese Night Heron Gorsachius goisagi

  A heron of dim lowland forests that walks the forest floor in search of earthworms and other small animals.

• Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus

  It breeds in the Arctic and subarctic of North America, migrates south, and winters in South America. It probes for food in freshwater wetlands.

• Turkestan Short-toed Lark Alaudala heinei

  A small lark of open grassland from Turkey through Central Asia to southern Mongolia. It is partly migratory and is classified as an omnivore.

• Purple-backed Thornbill Ramphomicron microrhynchum

  This small hummingbird uses the canopy and subcanopy of Andean forests. Male and female plumage and tail shape differ.

• Large-tailed Antshrike Mackenziaena leachii

  Both sexes are dotted with white; males are mainly black and females brownish yellow. A paper reports a female carrying a frog in forest in southeastern Brazil.

• Streak-capped Treehunter Thripadectes virgaticeps

  A treehunter of the southern Colombian Andes. The Sibundoy Valley field guide describes a dark head with fine white streaks, a reddish-brown back, and a chestnut tail.

• Western Tragopan Tragopan melanocephalus

  The Western Tragopan is a pheasant that lives in forests of the northwestern Himalaya. Males and females differ greatly in plumage, and males display with calls and their appearance during breeding.

• Nicobar Parakeet Psittacula caniceps

  The pale grey head and dark facial bands are distinctive. This parakeet lives in coastal forest on a small group of Nicobar Islands.

• Xinjiang Ground-Jay Podoces biddulphi

  The Xinjiang Ground-Jay is a ground-dwelling corvid of arid Xinjiang. It has a pale body and long tail and searches for food on foot.

• Bangs's Brush Finch Arremon basilicus

  Bangs's Brush Finch occurs in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. It uses the understory of humid forest and dense secondary growth.

• White-spotted Woodpecker Veniliornis spilogaster

  This 16–20 cm woodpecker uses open forest and woodland and searches bark for invertebrates. Sound recordings include Ubatuba in São Paulo, Brazil.

• Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea

  Verreaux's Eagle-Owl is a large African owl with a white face edged in black and prominent ear tufts.