Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Orange-billed Babbler Argya rufescens

  The Orange-billed Babbler lives in flocks in Sri Lanka's wet-zone forests. Its reddish-brown body contrasts with a bright orange bill and legs.

• Sentinel Rock Thrush Monticola explorator

  Males have blue-gray and orange plumage, while females are gray-brown with pale mottling. It lives in grassland and rocky slopes and forages on the ground.

• 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.

• Little Raven Corvus mellori

  The Little Raven is a black raven with a blue-green to blue-purple sheen and white eyes. It occurs in southeastern Australia and uses places with abundant food, including farms and pastures.

• Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes

  The Black-rumped Waxbill is a small bird of tall grass and scrub. It mainly eats plant seeds, and adults have a red line behind the eye.

• Yellow-tinted Honeyeater Ptilotula flavescens

  A honeyeater found in northern Australia and New Guinea. It occurs in open tropical forests and woodlands, often near rivers or wetlands.

• Southern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris chalybeus

  Males have a narrow red breast band and pale gray belly; females are gray-brown. At Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, records describe it as common in coastal thicket, feeding mainly on insects while also taking nectar.

• Painted Parakeet Pyrrhura picta

  The Painted Parakeet is a South American parrot with a mostly green body, reddish-brown areas on the rump and tail, and blue outer wing feathers. It eats fruits, flowers, and seeds in humid forest.

• Kuhl's Lorikeet Vini kuhlii

  This small lorikeet is native to Rimatara. It is often recorded in plantations and around villages where flowers and fruit are plentiful, and feeds on nectar.

• Amboyna Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia amboinensis

  A slender reddish-brown dove with different plumage in males and females, ranging from the Moluccas to the New Guinea region.

• Philippine Eagle-Owl Ketupa philippensis

  The Philippine Eagle-Owl has yellow eyes and a streaked brown head. It is nocturnal and uses lowland forest.

• Virginia Rail Rallus limicola

  Virginia Rails forage by probing shallow water and mud in marshes, where emergent plants such as cattails and bulrushes provide cover.

• Guianan Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis cantator

  This small antbird, about 12 cm long, occurs on the Guiana Shield. It searches for insects around vine tangles and forest edges.

• Madagascar Buzzard Buteo brachypterus

  The Madagascar Buzzard is a medium-sized raptor endemic to Madagascar. It searches for prey on the ground in places such as forest edges and savannah.

• Speckle-throated Woodpecker Campethera scriptoricauda

  This East African woodpecker has a green, yellow-barred back and black spots that continue from the throat down the pale underside.

• Ash-colored Cuckoo Coccycua cinerea

  This cuckoo has a red eye ring and bluish-gray head. It uses the middle levels of trees, and breeding birds studied in native woodland in east-central Argentina nested in trees.

• Chapin's Apalis Apalis chapini

  This apalis was surveyed in Mdando Forest in Tanzania's Southern Highlands. A recent field survey recorded birds moving through the canopy in pairs or small parties.

• Rufous-capped Thornbill Chalcostigma ruficeps

  The Rufous-capped Thornbill is a small hummingbird of mountain regions from Colombia to Bolivia. Males have dark green upperparts and reddish-green underparts and feed on nectar and insects by woodland edges.

• Uluguru Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla neumanni

  This bulbul is restricted to Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains. An adult photograph shows a dark gray head and gray-olive body. Species accounts record it in dense highland forest and as a fruit eater.

• Sharp-beaked Ground Finch Geospiza difficilis

  A Darwin’s finch of the Galápagos highlands. Among related ground finches, its relatively stout, sharply pointed bill is a useful clue.

• Brewer's Sparrow Spizella breweri

  The Brewer's Sparrow has black streaks on its back and a slim white eye-ring. It searches dry shrublands for insects and also eats seeds in winter or during migration.

• Flame-throated Warbler Oreothlypis gutturalis

  This small warbler lives in cloud forest in Costa Rica and western Panama. The sexes look similar, with a grey back, orange throat and breast, and a pale belly.

• Ferruginous Partridge Caloperdix oculeus

  This partridge is striking for its orange head and breast and black-and-white scaling on the back and sides. It forages on the ground in lowland and middle-elevation forests.