Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hainan Hill Partridge Arborophila ardens

  

  The Hainan Hill Partridge is a pheasant-family bird found only on Hainan Island, where it lives in remaining mountain evergreen forests.

• Auckland Islands Teal Anas aucklandica

  The Auckland Island teal is a flightless duck found only in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand. Both sexes are brown, with differences in plumage.

• Large-billed Tern Phaetusa simplex

  Its long yellow bill and black cap stand out. It lives mainly along rivers and lakes in South America.

• Uniform Treehunter Thripadectes ignobilis

  The Uniform Treehunter is a brown ovenbird of forest on the western Andean slope. It searches among branches and vines for arthropods, earthworms and larvae.

• White-collared Blackbird Turdus albocinctus

  The White-collared Blackbird is a thrush whose male has a broad white collar against black plumage. It searches for food among leaf litter and moves in pairs or small groups. It occurs in Himalayan mountain forests and alpine meadows.

• Olive-backed Euphonia Euphonia gouldi

  Olive tones and a chestnut belly mark this euphonia. Adult males have a yellow forehead and females a rufous one; the bird uses the upper layers and edges of wet forest.

• Cocos Tyrannulet Nesotriccus ridgwayi

  This small tyrant flycatcher is endemic to Cocos Island off Costa Rica. It has greyish olive plumage and a relatively long bill, and forages in the rainforest canopy and subcanopy. A breeding study recorded hidden nests on outer branch tips.

• Altamira Oriole Icterus gularis

  The Altamira Oriole has a bright orange body and a contrasting black face. It weaves a long, hanging bag-shaped nest from a tree branch.

• Golden-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron ngoclinhense

  This laughingthrush is restricted to a few mountains in central Vietnam. It forages on the ground in montane evergreen forest understory and has golden wing markings.

• Barau's Petrel Pterodroma baraui

  Barau’s Petrel spends most of its life at sea and breeds in the highlands of Réunion.

• Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter

  The nominate form has a white eyebrow, blue sheen on the wings, and orange underparts. It searches for food in dense forest undergrowth, and the account describes separate western and central/eastern ranges.

• Small Minivet Pericrocotus cinnamomeus

  A small bird that moves through woodland in flocks; males show orange and females yellow.

• Socotra Starling Onychognathus frater

  The Socotra Starling is a glossy black starling with reddish-brown wings, found only on Socotra Island. It feeds on fruit and insects and forages in small groups.

• Raso Lark Alauda razae

  The Raso Lark is a small lark known from Raso Islet in Cabo Verde. In 2018, BirdLife reported a translocation to Santa Luzia, part of its historical range.

• New Caledonian Crow Corvus moneduloides

  A crow of Grande Terre in New Caledonia that uses tools to extract food from dead wood.

• Chestnut Munia Lonchura atricapilla

  The Chestnut Munia has chestnut and glossy black plumage with a large pale bill. It feeds on seeds from grass heads in flocks and is native to grasslands, rice fields, and wetlands in southeastern Asia.

• White-chested Swift Cypseloides lemosi

  The White-chested Swift is a small swift with a black body and a white triangular breast patch. Its full range remains poorly understood.

• White-eared Honeyeater Nesoptilotis leucotis

  This honeyeater occurs in eastern and southern mainland Australia. It is common in dry eucalypt forest and woodland, where it searches mainly for insects beneath bark and in crevices.

• Juba Weaver Ploceus dichrocephalus

  This weaver was recorded along rivers in southern Ethiopia. Breeding males have black heads, red eyes, rufous chests, and yellow bellies; females and nonbreeding males are duller.

• Blackish Nightjar Nyctipolus nigrescens

  The Blackish Nightjar inhabits lowlands and foothills of northern South America. Its finely patterned brown and gray plumage blends with rocky ground near forest edges.

• Orange-tufted Spiderhunter Arachnothera flammifera

  This Philippine spiderhunter lives in lowland forest and mangroves, feeding on nectar.

• Black-winged Parrot Hapalopsittaca melanotis

  The Black-winged Parrot is a small parrot of eastern-slope forests in Bolivia's Andes. Parts of its wings are black, with blue visible on the undersides. It eats fruit and occurs in pairs or small flocks.

• Mindanao Lorikeet Saudareos johnstoniae

  This green lorikeet inhabits montane forest on Mindanao. Adults have a reddish face and a purple eye-band, and the species feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Brown Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia phasianella

  The Brown Cuckoo-Dove has a long tail and lives in woodland and forest edges in eastern Australia, where it feeds on fruit and seeds.