Meet the world’s animals.

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• Crested Argus Rheinardia ocellata

  

  The Crested Argus is a pheasant whose male has exceptionally long tail feathers. It lives in remaining evergreen forests along the Annamite Mountains of Vietnam and Laos.

• Dot-winged Crake Laterallus spiloptera

  The Dot-winged Crake is a small rail of wetlands and flooded grasslands in southeastern South America. It hides in dense vegetation and is active around dusk and at night.

• Blood-colored Woodpecker Veniliornis sanguineus

  The Blood-colored Woodpecker is a woodpecker of the Guianas. A 1953 account from Suriname recorded it in coastal coffee plantations and dry sandy country inland.

• Taiwan Rosefinch Carpodacus formosanus

  An endemic bird of Taiwan's highlands. Nestlings of both sexes are brown; males may turn wine-red the following year, so brown plumage alone does not identify sex.

• Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus

  A small grey-brown goose with a white patch at the base of its pink bill and black belly patches. The East Asian population winters in eastern China and the Korean Peninsula.

• Cream-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus merrilli

  This medium-sized dove lives in forests around Luzon. A field study recorded it feeding on fruit in the forest canopy.

• Black Bushbird Neoctantes niger

  This small antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory. Near Peru’s Manu National Park, a male was recorded attending a nest hung low in dense vegetation.

• Stripe-throated Bulbul Pycnonotus finlaysoni

  This bulbul ranges across central and southern Indochina and the Malay Peninsula. It is mostly brown with olive-yellow wings and tail and distinctive yellow stripes on the face and upper throat.

• Blue-cheeked Amazon Amazona dufresniana

  A green parrot with blue cheeks and a yellow crown; its wild diet and movements remain poorly known.

• Tumbes Sparrow Rhynchospiza stolzmanni

  This sparrow has a finely streaked brown back, a striped head, and a gray underside. It forages on the ground in scrub. Most records cited here are from north-western Peru, with the species also occurring in Ecuador.

• Lesser Roadrunner Geococcyx velox

  This ground-dwelling cuckoo has a long tail and crest. It ranges from Mexico into Central America and eats grasshoppers and caterpillars in dry scrub and open country.

• Rufous-tailed Xenops Microxenops milleri

  This xenops lives in Amazonian forest canopy. It has buff streaks from the head to the underparts and creeps along trunks and branches while searching for food.

• Russet-naped Wren Campylorhynchus humilis

  The Russet-naped Wren inhabits dry lowlands on Mexico's Pacific slope. It uses scrub and open woodland, where it feeds on invertebrates near the ground.

• Pale-bellied White-eye Zosterops consobrinorum

  This white-eye occurs in southeastern Sulawesi. It uses habitats from lowland forest to farms and gardens, foraging in the understorey and canopy in pairs or small groups.

• Red Warbler Cardellina rubra

  Both sexes are vivid red with a gray or silver cheek patch. This warbler lives in the mountains of southern and western Mexico.

• Australian Swiftlet Aerodramus terraereginae

  This swiftlet is resident in north-eastern Queensland and breeds in caves and gorges. It makes echolocation clicks when entering dark caves.

• Banded Honeyeater Cissomela pectoralis

  This honeyeater occurs across northern Australia, visiting open forest and woodland where eucalypts and melaleucas flower. It feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Boulder Chat Pinarornis plumosus

  The Boulder Chat is a terrestrial bird of well-wooded areas with granite outcrops. It eats insects and small lizards.

• Bornean Spiderhunter Arachnothera everetti

  The Bornean Spiderhunter inhabits lowland and submontane forest and forest edges in Borneo. It has an olive back and streaked grey underparts, and feeds mainly on understory nectar.

• Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maurus

  The Siberian Stonechat uses open grassland and scrub. Males change plumage between the breeding season and winter, while females and young birds are browner.

• Black-capped Tyrannulet Tyranniscus nigrocapillus

  This small tyrant flycatcher has a black crown and two pale wing bars. It lives in moist Andean montane forest and often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger

  A bird of African savannas and dry woodland, it forages on the ground and breeds in large groups.

• Chestnut-crowned Laughingthrush Trochalopteron erythrocephalum

  A 24–26 cm laughingthrush of Himalayan forests and bamboo. Its brown body has a chestnut forehead and nape and green-gold wing and tail panels; head color varies among subspecies.

• Magellanic Snipe Gallinago magellanica

  This snipe has a slender olive bill and patterned brown plumage. In Chile it is recorded from Atacama to Cape Horn, using wet grassland and waterside vegetation.