Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sunda Laughingthrush Garrulax palliatus

  

  This laughingthrush lives in moist forests on Sumatra and Borneo and is often seen in small groups.

• Brazilian Teal Amazonetta brasiliensis

  This small duck has a red bill in males and a black bill in females. It feeds on aquatic plants, small animals, and grains in marshes and small water bodies.

• Violet-green Swallow Tachycineta thalassina

  The Violet-green Swallow breeds in western North America. Its green and violet sheen and white facial markings make it distinctive.

• Long-tailed Meadowlark Leistes loyca

  This meadowlark inhabits open country in southern South America. The male's red breast is conspicuous, and the species nests on the ground.

• Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea

  This small African bird occurs in eastern Africa, including Kenya, and parts of western Africa. It uses montane forest, woodland, and thickets.

• Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi

  Its gray plumage has buff wing patches and a white eyering. In western North American mountain forests, it eats mostly insects while breeding and fruit, especially juniper berries, in winter.

• Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea

  The Grey Petrel ranges widely over the Southern Hemisphere's oceans. It has a grey body and white belly, and uses burrows on its breeding islands.

• Dusky White-eye Zosterops finschii

  This small white-eye occurs in Palau. A Palau Important Bird Areas report describes it as a resident of the islands' forests that travels through the canopy in conspicuous flocks.

• Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra

  A finch of North American conifer forests. Its crossed bill opens cones to reach seeds, and it moves in search of cone crops.

• White-sided Flowerpiercer Diglossa albilatera

  This flowerpiercer inhabits Andean forest edges and scrub. Males are black and females brown, with white tufts on the sides in both; juveniles may show little or no white.

• Strong-billed Honeyeater Melithreptus validirostris

  Endemic to Tasmania and the Bass Strait Islands, this honeyeater has a white crescent across the back of its black head and olive-gray upperparts. It moves up and down tree trunks, using its strong bill to pull bark away while searching for insects.

• Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata

  Its understated plumage ranges from grey to olive-green, and the orange crown patch is usually hidden by feathers. It searches low shrubs and leaves for insects.

• Stuhlmann's Starling Poeoptera stuhlmanni

  This starling lives in East African montane forest. Males have a blue-black sheen, while females are greyer. It eats fruit.

• Venezuelan Parakeet Pyrrhura emma

  This parakeet occurs in the hills of northern Venezuela, in humid and wet forest and at forest edges. It feeds at different levels of the canopy, often in flocks.

• Sula Fruit Dove Ptilinopus mangoliensis

  This pigeon occurs on Indonesia’s Sula Islands. Its 1898 description records grey underpart feathers edged broadly in greenish yellow and narrow yellow lines on the crown feathers.

• American Pygmy Kingfisher Chloroceryle aenea

  It is the smallest kingfisher in Costa Rica, with a rufous neck and flanks, white belly, and dark green head and wings. It waits near water and catches small animals in shallow pools.

• Cream-striped Bulbul Ixos leucogrammicus

  The Cream-striped Bulbul lives in the foothills and lower mountains of western Sumatra. It searches for food in the middle and upper levels of forest and visits fruiting trees.

• Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius

  The Great Spotted Cuckoo searches for food in open areas with scattered trees and eats caterpillars and grasshoppers. It lays eggs in the nests of other birds.

• Blue Noddy Anous ceruleus

  The Blue Noddy is a small tern with bluish-gray plumage. It breeds on Pacific islands and forages in waters near land.

• Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata

  The Cut-throat Finch is a small finch occurring in separate areas along the Sahel and in southern Africa. It forages on the ground for seeds and termites. Males have a red throat band.

• Russet-naped Wood Rail Aramides albiventris

  This rail stands out for its gray head and neck, russet-brown breast and wings, and long yellow bill. It uses wet forest and stream edges, feeding on mollusks, frogs, fruit, seeds, and other small prey.

• White-tailed eagle Haliaeetus albicilla

  An eagle widespread in northern Eurasia. Some winter in northern Japan, while others breed in Hokkaido.

• Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris

  A sandpiper that breeds in northeastern Siberia and winters along coasts in Southeast Asia and Australia. Adults in breeding plumage have a breast band and orange-brown shoulder feathers.

• Asian Short-toed Lark Alaudala cheleensis

  The Asian Short-toed Lark is a small lark with streaks on its breast and back. It favors open, dry ground with sparse vegetation, and its appearance and range vary by region.