Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cook's Petrel Pterodroma cookii

  

  Cook’s Petrel breeds on islands off New Zealand and ranges widely over the open ocean outside the breeding season.

• Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni

  This seed-eating bird lives in montane forests, including parts of East Africa. It has a conspicuously heavy bill and pale wingbars. The guide notes geographic variation in the pale forehead area and streaking.

• Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri

  Males are blue-black with reddish-brown flight feathers and red eyes, while females have gray heads and breasts. They forage for fruit and animal food in the canopy of montane forest.

• Hartert's Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus goodsoni

  Hartert's Leaf-warbler breeds in southern China and winters in places including Hong Kong. It searches tree trunks for food.

• Pink-headed Warbler Cardellina versicolor

  This small bird is about 13 cm long and uses pine–oak and montane evergreen forest. The account describes gleaning invertebrates from vegetation. Sound recordings include Chiapas, Mexico.

• Azure Kingfisher Ceyx azureus

  The Azure Kingfisher is a small kingfisher with blue to violet upperparts and orange sides to the neck. It dives from a waterside perch to catch prey.

• Henderson Fruit Dove Ptilinopus insularis

  The Henderson Fruit Dove lives in forests on Henderson Island, where it is endemic. Adults have a purplish-crimson crown and eat fruit.

• White-collared Oliveback Nesocharis ansorgei

  The male has a white collar between its throat and breast, with olive upperparts and grey underparts. It takes small seeds in wet thickets and along streams.

• Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea

  A small shorebird with a spoon-shaped bill. It migrates between breeding grounds in Russia and wintering wetlands in South Asia.

• Eastern spot-billed duck Anas zonorhyncha

  A duck seen on rivers and ponds across Japan. Its black bill has a yellow tip, and males and females have similar body colours.

• Hispaniolan Oriole Icterus dominicensis

  This oriole lives on Hispaniola and nearby islands. It occurs mainly in lowlands, including dry forest, mangroves, and plantations, and nests in palms or banana plants.

• Red-wing Francolin Scleroptila levaillantii

  The Red-wing Francolin lives in scattered grassland populations in eastern and southern Africa. It has a rufous head and neck and mottled plumage.

• Himalayan Woodpecker Dendrocopos himalayensis

  A white shoulder patch stands out against this woodpecker's black back. Males have a red crown, and it searches tree trunks for food.

• Musk Lorikeet Glossopsitta concinna

  This lorikeet lives in eucalypt woodland in southeastern Australia. Red facial markings and a blue crown stand out against its green body.

• Shear-tailed Grey Tyrant Muscipipra vetula

  This gray tyrant has a long, deeply forked tail and occurs in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern South America.

• Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis

  The Southern Rough-winged Swallow catches insects in flight over open country and near water in Central and South America.

• Emerald Tanager Tangara florida

  The Emerald Tanager searches for fruit in the canopy of humid montane forest and also finds small invertebrates in moss on branches.

• Streak-eared Bulbul Pycnonotus conradi

  The Streak-eared Bulbul is recorded from Thailand through southern Indochina and the northern and central Malay Peninsula. Accounts describe moist lowland forest as well as open edges and human-modified places.

• Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike Coracina striata

  This cuckooshrike lives in the humid forests and mangroves of parts of Southeast Asia. Males are grey, while females show bars on the underparts.

• Cape Crow Corvus capensis

  The Cape Crow is a glossy black crow. It usually lives as a territorial pair and searches the ground for food in grasslands and dry savannas.

• Russet-tailed Thrush Zoothera heinei

  A brown, finely scaled-looking thrush, it searches among leaf litter on the floor of wet forest.

• Brown-chested Alethe Pseudalethe poliocephala

  This forest flycatcher searches for invertebrates near the forest floor. The current Oiseaux.net account uses Chamaetylas poliocephala; the pool had the older genus Pseudalethe.

• Grey-bellied Spinetail Synallaxis cinerascens

  The Grey-bellied Spinetail is described in reference data as a forest bird of dense understory that eats invertebrates. A 1997 specimen study recorded streaking on the breast of a bird considered juvenile.

• Amazonian Parrotlet Nannopsittaca dachilleae

  The Amazonian Parrotlet is a small parrot recorded in bamboo and nearby forest in the southwestern Amazon. Its green body contrasts with a blue forehead.