Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pesquet's Parrot Psittrichas fulgidus

  

  Pesquet’s Parrot has a mostly bare face, dark upperparts, and red lower belly and underwings. Adult males have a red mark behind the eye.

• Torresian Crow Corvus orru

  The Torresian Crow is distinguished by glossy black plumage and a white eye.

• Seaside Sparrow Ammospiza maritima

  The Seaside Sparrow is a small sparrow of North American salt marshes. It searches mudflats for small animals and seeds with its long, heavy bill.

• Mombasa Woodpecker Campethera mombassica

  The Mombasa Woodpecker lives in coastal forests of East Africa. It searches among trunks and leafy branches, feeding mainly on ants and their larvae.

• Romblon Boobook Ninox spilonotus

  An owl recorded on Tablas and Sibuyan in the Philippines. The studied island birds had a relatively plain head pattern.

• White-crested Elaenia Elaenia albiceps

  A white crown, olive-grey back and pale wing bars identify this flycatcher. In Chile it occurs from the north of the country to Magallanes, in woods, scrub and gardens.

• Chorister Robin-Chat Cossypha dichroa

  The Chorister Robin-Chat is marked by its black hood and orange underparts. In southern Africa it lives in moist forests and searches for food on the ground and in trees.

• Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus

  This sunbird occurs in East-Central Africa. Dave Richards's 2013 Wildlife of East Africa guide uses the former genus name Nectarinia erythrocerca and describes waterside habitat and different male and female plumage.

• Black-crowned Barwing Actinodura sodangorum

  This barwing is documented in high-elevation forest around Mount Ngoc Linh in central Vietnam. The account here is limited to the documented locality.

• Torrent Duck Merganetta armata

  The torrent duck lives on fast rivers in the Andes. It dives into the current to catch aquatic insect larvae and other small prey.

• Scarlet-headed Blackbird Amblyramphus holosericeus

  The Scarlet-headed Blackbird ranges from Bolivia and Paraguay through Brazil and Uruguay to Argentina. It is associated with wetlands, lakes and riverbanks bordered by marsh vegetation.

• Ashy Cisticola Cisticola cinereolus

  This cisticola is about 13–14 cm long. The account lists acacia woodland and thornbush, with ground foraging for invertebrates. Sound recordings include the Amboseli area in Kenya.

• Sumatran Cochoa Cochoa beccarii

  The Sumatran Cochoa is a difficult-to-see bird of the mountain forests of Sumatra.

• Dark-rumped Rosefinch Carpodacus edwardsii

  In the Chinese records summarized here, the Dark-rumped Rosefinch occurs in small groups among rhododendron and bamboo undergrowth. Males are redder, while females are mainly brown.

• Yellow-throated Tanager Iridosornis analis

  The Yellow-throated Tanager forages alone or in pairs in the middle and lower levels of humid montane forest on the eastern Andes.

• Orange-breasted Myzomela Myzomela jugularis

  The Orange-breasted Myzomela is a small, common nectar-feeding bird in Fiji. It also eats spiders and insects and is usually alone or in small groups. Larger gatherings form at flowering trees. On Lakeba in the Lau Group, a field study recorded relatively high nectarivore abundance in coastal coconut plantations.

• Golden-browed Warbler Basileuterus belli

  This warbler ranges from Mexico into northern Central America and lives in humid montane forest. It also occurs in pine and pine-oak forest and along edges.

• Madagascar Starling Hartlaubius auratus

  Adult males have a dark-brown head and throat, a white chest and belly, and white-edged wings. A historical account describes groups feeding on the ground in open areas near streams in Madagascar.

• Hispaniolan Amazon Amazona ventralis

  A mostly green parrot marked by a white forehead and blue on the head. Its native range is Hispaniola and nearby islands.

• Bar-tailed Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia nigrirostris

  This brown dove has a long tail and a stout black bill. It is usually seen alone or in pairs at forest edges, but may gather at fruiting trees.

• Sumatran Bulbul Ixos sumatranus

  Sumatran Bulbul occurs in the mountains of western Sumatra. Its species account records olive-brown upperparts and a white throat and breast.

• Moluccan Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis aeruginosus

  The Moluccan Brush Cuckoo has a dark gray head and throat, with chestnut underparts extending onto the breast. It is recorded in hill forest on the Maluku Islands.

• Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus

  The Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu is a small African bird notable for blue plumage and a red cheek patch. It searches for seeds on the ground and also uses open scrub and places near people.

• Henderson Crake Zapornia atra

  The Henderson Crake is a small rail of Henderson Island's forest floor. A 1992 study recorded it searching for small land animals by moving leaf litter.