Meet the world’s animals.

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• New Zealand Scaup Aythya novaeseelandiae

  

  The New Zealand Scaup is a diving duck. Large flocks can gather along lakeshores, sometimes close to people.

• Antarctic Tern Sterna vittata

  The Antarctic Tern occurs on southern subantarctic islands and exposed rocky areas of Antarctica. New Zealand birds belong to subspecies bethunei.

• Black-tailed Leaftosser Sclerurus caudacutus

  This ovenbird ranges across northern South America and the Amazon region. It has a reddish-brown face and dark brown crown and lives in tropical lowland evergreen forest. It digs a tunnel into an earth bank and builds its nest cup at the far end.

• Bare-eyed Thrush Turdus tephronotus

  This thrush lives in dry East African scrub and other open habitats. Gray, rufous, and white plumage is set off by an orange bill and bare skin around the eye.

• White-vented Euphonia Euphonia minuta

  The White-vented Euphonia lives in humid tropical forest and nearby vegetation. Males have a dark throat and yellow belly, while females are olive above; the birds mainly search for fruit in the canopy.

• Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua

  The Boat-billed Flycatcher is a large flycatcher ranging from Mexico into South America. It hunts from mid to upper levels of tropical forest, taking insects and small animals.

• Crested Oropendola Psarocolius decumanus

  A large bird with a black body, slim crest, pale bill, and long yellow tail.

• Orange-breasted Laughingthrush Garrulax annamensis

  This laughingthrush is restricted to a small area of southern Vietnam. It has a dark throat and an orange breast marked with dark spots, and forages near the ground.

• Tibetan Sand Plover Charadrius atrifrons

  This plover breeds in Asian mountains and plateaus and winters along the coasts of Asia, the Middle East and Africa. In breeding plumage it has an orange breast and clean white flanks.

• Galapagos Shearwater Puffinus subalaris

  This seabird is endemic to the Galápagos and often occurs near shore. A 1965 field study, using the then-current name Audubon's Shearwater subspecies subalaris, recorded it feeding around shoals of fish.

• Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina

  A pale, sandy-colored wheatear of Kazakhstan’s steppe and semi-desert. It nests in disused mammal burrows.

• Indochinese Cuckooshrike Coracina polioptera

  This cuckooshrike uses semi-open habitats and lower mountains in the Indo-Malay region. Oiseaux.net lists the pool name Coracina polioptera as Lalage polioptera.

• Chestnut-cheeked Starling Agropsar philippensis

  The Chestnut-cheeked Starling breeds in Japan and Sakhalin and moves south for the winter. Males have chestnut cheek patches, and the species eats insects and fruit.

• Thekla Lark Galerida theklae

  A lark with a rounded crest and dark streaks on the chest. Its food changes with the season, and it searches the ground for seeds and insects.

• Javan Green Magpie Cissa thalassina

  The Javan Green Magpie is a corvid whose adult green plumage contrasts with the blue feathers of newly hatched young. It eats insects and lizards in Java's mountain forests.

• Red-headed Finch Amadina erythrocephala

  A chunky gray-brown finch with scalloped underparts and white-tipped outer tail feathers, it breeds in pairs in dry thorn scrub and forms flocks at other times.

• Palau Swiftlet Aerodramus pelewensis

  This swiftlet occurs on Palau. It is blackish brown above, grey below, and has a short, shallowly forked tail.

• Yellow-tufted Honeyeater Lichenostomus melanops

  This honeyeater lives in eucalypt forests and open woodland of eastern Australia. Its black face and yellow ear tufts stand out; it feeds on nectar and insects from leaves and bark.

• Bannerman's Weaver Ploceus bannermani

  Bannerman's Weaver lives in mountains of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon, using forest edges and shrubby openings.

• Short-tailed Nighthawk Lurocalis semitorquatus

  In Argentina, the Short-tailed Nighthawk is recorded flying above forest canopy and nearby open areas. The national account covers only a regional part of the species' range.

• Seychelles Sunbird Cinnyris dussumieri

  This small sunbird has a slender, curved bill. In breeding plumage, the male shows an iridescent blue throat and yellow tufts; the female is subdued grey-brown.

• Blue-throated Macaw Ara glaucogularis

  The Blue-throated Macaw is a large parrot of Bolivia's Beni region, with a blue throat and golden-yellow underparts.

• Blue-fronted Lorikeet Charmosynopsis toxopei

  A small lorikeet confined to Buru Island in Indonesia, it remains poorly known in the wild.

• Flores Green Pigeon Treron floris

  A fruit-eating pigeon of Indonesia's Nusa Tenggara Islands. Males show a grayish face and pale yellow wing fringes, and flocks gather at fruiting trees.