Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sickle-winged Chat Emarginata sinuata

  

  A sickle-shaped outer wing tip and a dark triangle at the end of the tail help identify this chat. It searches the ground for invertebrates and also eats fruit.

• Pied Crow Corvus albus

  The Pied Crow is a large crow found across much of Africa. Its black head and wings contrast with a white body patch.

• 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.

• Black-throated Prinia Prinia atrogularis

  This long-tailed prinia lives in scrub on hills and mountains. Breeding adults show a gray head, white moustachial stripe, and black throat and chest.

• St. Lucia Warbler Setophaga delicata

  The St. Lucia Warbler has a yellow face and underparts, blue-gray upperparts, and white wing bars. It searches leaves and branches for insects on Saint Lucia.

• Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus

  The Oriental Cuckoo is a migratory cuckoo that breeds in forests. Females include both grey and rufous plumage forms.

• White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata

  The white-rumped munia is a small bird marked by its white rump. Wild birds eat grass seeds and form flocks near grassland and farmland.

• Varied Lorikeet Psitteuteles versicolor

  This small parrot inhabits woodlands of northern Australia. It feeds on nectar and pollen and gathers in flowering trees.

• Spot-breasted Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia mackinlayi

  This island-dwelling dove ranges from the Solomon Islands to Vanuatu. The nominate subspecies has rufous and grey color forms.

• Black-faced Hawk Leucopternis melanops

  A small, stocky hawk with a black facial marking and orange cere, it searches for small prey in wet forest.

• Copper-throated Sunbird Leptocoma calcostetha

  Males stand out for their copper-red throat. The species feeds on flower nectar in coastal mangroves, and an observation also recorded it eating an arthropod.

• Vermilion Tanager Calochaetes coccineus

  This tanager occurs on the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It has a deep red body with a black facial mask, throat, upper breast, wings, and tail, and joins mixed flocks in mountain-forest canopies.

• Baird's Flycatcher Myiodynastes bairdii

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It has a gray head and back, rufous wings and tail, and a pale yellow underside, and forages in semi-open places.

• Principe Thrush Turdus xanthorhynchus

  The Príncipe Thrush is recorded on Príncipe Island, São Tomé and Príncipe. Its account describes a white, streaked throat; field records include both primary forest and mature secondary forest.

• Andaman Teal Anas albogularis

  Endemic to the Andaman Islands, this teal is greyish-brown with a white eye-ring and throat. It has been observed in coastal wetlands near Port Blair.

• Slender Antbird Rhopornis ardesiacus

  This antbird is recorded in Brazil's Bahia and Minas Gerais states. In the paper, the pale-purple bare skin around the eye was a narrow ring on the adults observed. The paper spells the scientific name Rhopornis ardesiaca.

• Puff-throated Bulbul Alophoixus pallidus

  The Puff-throated Bulbul is a bulbul of the forest understory. Its rufous crest and conspicuous, puffy white throat stand out.

• Metallic Starling Aplonis metallica

  The Metallic Starling is a starling with glossy black adult plumage that reflects green or purple. Birds travel from New Guinea to breed in coastal lowlands of northern Queensland.

• Rüppell's Parrot Poicephalus rueppellii

  Rüppell’s Parrot is a dark brown parrot with yellow markings. Its diet changes with the season and includes seeds, buds, and fruits.

• Fiery Topaz Topaza pyra

  The male has a copper-colored body and long tail feathers, and differs in color and tail shape from the female. It occurs in the canopy of northern Amazonian forest.

• Red-throated Wryneck Jynx ruficollis

  The Red-throated Wryneck is a woodpecker relative with a patchy sub-Saharan African range. It searches for ants on the ground and elsewhere, and its subspecies differ in chest markings and plumage.

• Variable Oriole Icterus pyrrhopterus

  The Variable Oriole occurs from eastern and southeastern Brazil through Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay to northern Argentina. It uses woodland, scrub, and gardens.

• Spix's Spinetail Synallaxis spixi

  A small South American bird recorded at woodland edges, grasslands, and savannas. Its rufous crown and wings contrast with its darker throat.

• 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.