Meet the world’s animals.

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• Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola

  

  This yellow finch searches for seeds on the ground. Males have orange heads, while plumage differences in females vary by region.

• Grey-olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus cerviniventris

  This greenbul occurs in eastern and south-central Africa. It is recorded in streamside thickets, gallery forest, bamboo thickets, and moist evergreen forest, and eats insects and fruit.

• Clark's Nutcracker Nucifraga columbiana

  Clark's Nutcracker is a corvid of western North American mountains. It carries conifer seeds and caches them in the ground.

• Red-backed Thrush Geokichla erythronota

  The adult male is a thrush with a chestnut back and striking black-and-white markings on the face and breast. On Buton Island it searches for food in shaded lower forest and on the ground.

• Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher Cyornis rubeculoides

  This small flycatcher is about 14–15 cm long. Males have blue throats and upperparts with an orange breast; females have brown upperparts and a rufous tail. It uses dense undergrowth in hill forests.

• Russet-bellied Spinetail Synallaxis zimmeri

  This ovenbird occurs in the mountains of west-central Peru. A grey crown, rufous upper tail-coverts, and russet underparts help identify it.

• Crimson-bellied Parakeet Pyrrhura perlata

  The Crimson-bellied Parakeet is green with a red belly and eats fruit and flowers. Wild birds may be seen in small flocks.

• Pale-naped Brush Finch Atlapetes pallidinucha

  The Pale-naped Brush Finch forages in the understory of Andean montane forest. It has grey upperparts and tail, a broad yellow-orange forehead that fades toward the crown and nape, and a yellow throat.

• Vogelkop Honeyeater Melidectes leucostephes

  This honeyeater is restricted to western New Guinea. It occurs in the mountains of the Vogelkop Peninsula and also in the Fakfak and Kumawa ranges of the Bomberai Peninsula.

• Band-tailed Antwren Myrmotherula urosticta

  This small antwren lives in tall forests of eastern Brazil and often forages with mixed-species bird flocks.

• Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae

  Costa's Hummingbird breeds in dry shrublands of the southwestern United States and nearby Mexico. Adult males show violet on the head and throat, while females are more subdued green-gray.

• Rufescent Prinia Prinia rufescens

  The Rufescent Prinia is recorded at forest edges, in scrub, bamboo, and upland grassland in Bangladesh. The country's bird Red List describes it in small daytime flocks and foraging near the ground for insects.

• Sanford's Sea Eagle Icthyophaga sanfordi

  Sanford’s Sea Eagle is a large raptor found in the Solomon Islands. Observations recorded birds, flying foxes, and large skinks among its prey.

• Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx pectoralis

  The Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo is a Philippine endemic with a rufous breast and white belly. It eats insects, especially caterpillars, and is a brood parasite.

• Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush Garrulax monileger

  This laughingthrush ranges through South and Southeast Asia. It is diurnal and gregarious, and the described subspecies has a dark breast necklace and a white eyebrow.

• Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides

  A medium-sized Arctic-breeding gull whose adult wingtips vary from pale to dark among regional forms.

• Oriental scops owl Otus sunia

  A small owl that breeds in deep forest and hunts insects from dusk into the night.

• Usambara Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris usambaricus

  This sunbird lives in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains. A study around Mazumbai Forest Reserve found it mainly in areas with limited crown cover; most recorded food came from non-native plants.

• Giant Coot Fulica gigantea

  The giant coot has a red bill and legs and a yellow frontal shield. It lives on high Andean lakes and builds a large nest platform from aquatic plants.

• Red-headed Bullfinch Pyrrhula erythrocephala

  The Red-headed Bullfinch inhabits highland forests of the Himalayas. Males are orange-red from head to breast, while females are mainly yellow-green. It eats seeds in trees.

• Sharpe's Starling Pholia sharpii

  A starling of eastern African highlands, from Ethiopia south to Tanzania, associated with wet montane forest.

• Russet-crowned Warbler Myiothlypis coronata

  In the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia, this warbler is reported at elevations of 1,500–3,000 metres.

• Sulawesi Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx fallax

  A small kingfisher with a reddish-brown back and blue rump. It hunts insects and small animals on Sulawesi and nearby Lembeh.

• Rufescent Imperial Pigeon Ducula chalconota

  The Rufescent Imperial Pigeon has glossy green upperparts and a chestnut-red belly. It feeds on fruit in the mountain forests of New Guinea.