Meet the world’s animals.

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• Daurian Partridge Perdix dauurica

  

  The Daurian Partridge is a ground-dwelling bird of dry grassland and farmland in China. It forms winter coveys, and males have seasonal facial markings.

• Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis

  A North American diving duck. Males are mainly black and white, females are brown, and the back of the head has a small peak.

• California Gull Larus californicus

  A medium-sized gull of western North America. It breeds at inland lakes and rivers and moves toward the Pacific coast with the seasons.

• Bolivian Earthcreeper Tarphonomus harterti

  The Bolivian Earthcreeper is recorded on rocky slopes within dry scrub in Bolivia. It has a pale line above the eye and a brown underside, and the account says it favors sites with bromeliads growing at ground level.

• Rufous-bellied Thrush Turdus rufiventris

  The Rufous-bellied Thrush has a brown back and reddish belly. It occurs at forest edges and in tree-covered towns in Brazil, feeding on fruit and small invertebrates.

• Blue-crowned Chlorophonia Chlorophonia occipitalis

  The Blue-crowned Chlorophonia is a forest bird with green plumage and a blue crown patch. The sexes differ below, and the bird feeds on berries in the canopy.

• Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus rufigularis

  The Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant is a small bird with a buff throat, olive-green upperparts, and a pale belly. It lives in dry tropical and tropical montane forests and catches invertebrates in bushes.

• Dusky-green Oropendola Psarocolius atrovirens

  Adults are dark olive overall, with paler throat and ear-coverts and darker lores and wings. The species occurs in the Andes of southeastern Peru and northwestern Bolivia, using both dry and wet mountain forest as well as canyons.

• Rufous-chinned Laughingthrush Ianthocincla rufogularis

  It has a black crown, a scaled brown back, and a grey, spotted underside. The amount of rufous on the chin varies among subspecies.

• Malay Whistling-thrush Myophonus robinsoni

  This dark thrush has a bright metallic-blue patch near the shoulder and appears along streams in moist hill forest.

• Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor

  A starling native to the Iberian Peninsula and western Mediterranean. Adults have glossy dark plumage, and bill color and pale feather tips change with season.

• Bornean Black Magpie Platysmurus aterrimus

  This forest corvid is restricted to Borneo. The 2024 Clements treatment separates it from the Malay Black Magpie.

• Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba

  The Green-winged Pytilia has an olive-green back and red bill and tail. It feeds on the ground; males and females have different head and breast colors.

• Dusky Friarbird Philemon fuscicapillus

  This Morotai friarbird has drab brown plumage, pink bare skin around the eye, and a heavy black bill.

• Olive-bellied Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris fuelleborni

  This sunbird lives in forests and more open woodland in eastern Africa. It mainly takes nectar and also gleans small prey among foliage.

• Red-billed Parrot Pionus sordidus

  This parrot is mostly green, with a blue chest and a red bill. In Ecuador, it feeds on fruit and flowers in the canopy of cloudy forests and nests in tree cavities.

• Papuan Lorikeet Charmosyna papou

  A long-tailed parrot of montane forest in northwestern New Guinea, with a red body and green wings.

• Dusky Turtle Dove Streptopelia lugens

  The Dusky Turtle Dove is a dark gray dove with a black patch on the side of its neck. It searches for seeds in forests, bamboo stands, farmland, and other highland places in its range.

• Rufous Owl Ninox rufa

  The Rufous Owl is a large owl with reddish-brown plumage and pale bars. It rests in leafy cover by day and is active at night.

• Snoring Rail Aramidopsis plateni

  The Snoring Rail is a difficult-to-see rail of Sulawesi's forests. It moves on the ground among dense undergrowth.

• Ash-winged Antwren Euchrepomis spodioptila

  The Ash-winged Antwren forages with mixed-species flocks in the canopy of mature Amazonian forest. Adult males are gray with a black cap and white wingbars; the reddish back and rump can be hidden by folded wings.

• Double-toothed Kite Harpagus bidentatus

  This kite lives in forests across the Neotropics. It watches from a perch and hunts mainly lizards and insects.

• Powerful Woodpecker Campephilus pollens

  This large woodpecker occurs in the Andes from Venezuela south to Peru. It excavates decaying trunks for insects and larvae.

• Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius

  A cuckoo of woodland and forest south of the Sahara. It eats hairy caterpillars and lays its eggs in other birds’ nests.