Meet the world’s animals.

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• Malagasy Bulbul Hypsipetes madagascariensis

  

  This bulbul has a gray body, a black cap, and a bright orange bill. It occurs in woodland, scrub, villages, and plantations and may join mixed flocks.

• Masked Saltator Saltator cinctus

  This bird lives in humid montane forest in the northern Andes and is often associated with bamboo thickets.

• 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.

• Kirtland's Warbler Setophaga kirtlandii

  This small bird has gray-and-yellow plumage. It breeds in young jack-pine forests and winters in scrubby parts of the Bahamas.

• Chinese Monal Lophophorus lhuysii

  The Chinese Monal lives in the mountains of southwestern China; males have metallic green and purplish plumage.

• Yellow-billed Pintail Anas georgica

  This duck has a yellow bill and a long neck and tail. The account here describes the subspecies recorded in the Patagonia region.

• Orange-eyed Thornbird Phacellodomus erythrophthalmus

  This thornbird lives along forest edges in eastern Brazil and has a chestnut-colored tail.

• Pale-breasted Thrush Turdus leucomelas

  The Pale-breasted Thrush is a brownish bird with a grayish crown, streaked throat, and yellowish bill. It occurs across much of lowland South America.

• Red Siskin Spinus cucullatus

  Males are red and black, while females are much duller. This small finch eats fruit, seeds, and buds, and may move with seasonal rains.

• Eared Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis auricularis

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher is reported from Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. It has a black patch behind the eye on a grey head and feeds mostly on insects.

• Pale Baywing Agelaioides fringillarius

  The Pale Baywing lives in semi-open habitats in northeastern Brazil. It is sandy brown with rufous wings and a heavy black bill. In a Minas Gerais study, 4–6 adults fed and defended six nests containing nestlings.

• Black-browed Fulvetta Alcippe grotei

  This small bird has a gray head and shoulders, a black eyebrow, rufescent back, and pale underparts. It searches for insects in evergreen and secondary forest, sometimes joining mixed flocks.

• Brown-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa williamsoni

  Brown-streaked Flycatcher occurs in Southeast Asia and is recorded in forests as well as parks and gardens.

• Yellow-eyed Starling Aplonis mystacea

  In one observation from Central Province, Papua New Guinea, a flock of dark adult birds with very pale irises fed on fruit in lowland forest.

• Alpine Chough Pyrrhocorax graculus

  Glossy black plumage, a yellow bill, and red legs distinguish this mountain corvid. In Triglav National Park it lives above the treeline and descends to valley settlements in winter.

• Black-faced Munia Lonchura molucca

  The Black-faced Munia is a small finch that eats seeds in open lowland habitats.

• Lewin's Honeyeater Meliphaga lewinii

  This honeyeater lives in forests of eastern Australia. Its dark greenish-gray body has large yellow crescent-shaped ear patches, and it feeds mostly on fruit.

• Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris

  The current eBird name for this taxon is Yellow-chinned Sunbird. It ranges from Sierra Leone to Ghana in West Africa; the related gray-chinned taxon is now listed separately.

• Orange-cheeked Parrot Pyrilia barrabandi

  An Amazonian parrot with orange cheeks against a black head and olive throat and breast.

• Superb Parrot Polytelis swainsonii

  The Superb Parrot uses woodlands and grasslands in southeastern Australia. Males have yellow foreheads and throats and a red crescent between the throat and breast.

• Ruddy Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia emiliana

  This dove has a rusty-brown body and a paler, yellowish head. It forages quietly in the middle and lower forest, eating fruits and seeds.

• Eurasian Scops Owl Otus scops

  The Eurasian Scops Owl is a small grey or reddish-brown owl. It is nocturnal and feeds mainly on large insects.

• Spotless Crake Zapornia tabuensis

  In New Zealand, this small rail hides among dense wetland vegetation. Its red eyes stand out, and it is most active at dim times of day.

• Long-winged Antwren Myrmotherula longipennis

  This antwren forages in the middle levels of Amazonian forest. Males are gray with a black throat; females are brown to rufous-brown, and the birds often join mixed-species flocks.