Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-billed Cacique Amblycercus holosericeus

  

  The Yellow-billed Cacique ranges from Mexico through Central America into northwestern South America. It lives in thickets and bamboo near forest edges.

• Bell's Sparrow Artemisiospiza belli

  Bell's Sparrow lives in dry scrub and has a greyish head. It searches for seeds and insects near shrubs.

• Brown Bush-hen Zapornia akool

  A rail of wet grass and marsh edges, with brown upperparts and a gray face and breast. It searches for food in damp cover.

• Unicolored Jay Aphelocoma unicolor

  This jay inhabits montane forests in northwestern Central America. It uses pine and oak forests and feeds on invertebrates, including insects.

• Pacific Baza Aviceda subcristata

  A long-tailed, crested hawk that searches the canopy for large insects; females have a browner crown than males.

• White-throated Robin Turdus assimilis

  The pool calls this species the White-throated Robin. Audubon’s species page uses White-throated Thrush and notes that White-throated Robin was its former name.

• Gray-crested Finch Lophospingus griseocristatus

  The Gray-crested Finch searches the ground in pairs or loose groups and uses dry scrub. Juveniles are browner overall, with buffy-white eyebrows and throats.

• Black-crowned Antshrike Thamnophilus atrinucha

  The Black-crowned Antshrike forages in the understory of humid and semi-deciduous forests. Adult males are gray and black, while females are olive-brown; the species is also recorded in Tumbes, northwestern Peru.

• Socotra Warbler Incana incana

  Endemic to Socotra, this small bird occurs widely in habitats with trees and shrubs. The museum description of an adult male records ashy-brown upperparts, pale underparts, and white tips and dark bands on the tail.

• White-bellied Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis albiventris

  This small flycatcher lives in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andes. It forages in the midstory and subcanopy.

• Luzon Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba luzonica

  The Luzon Bleeding-heart is a ground-dwelling dove of forests on Luzon and Polillo. It has a red breast patch against pale plumage, and the sexes look alike.

• Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator

  A diving duck with a long, thin bill and shaggy crest. It catches and eats fish.

• Swierstra's Francolin Pternistis swierstrai

  Swierstra's Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird of the highlands of western Angola. The female is described as smaller and duller than the male.

• Copper-tailed Starling Hylopsar cupreocauda

  A starling of Sierra Leone's forest canopy. Adults have a glossy purple head and breast, a blue-black body, and a coppery-bronze tail.

• Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens

  Leaf-love is a bulbul found from western to central Africa, where it uses woodland and thickets near water.

• Black-necked Woodpecker Colaptes atricollis

  The Black-necked Woodpecker occurs on the western side of the Peruvian Andes. It has a black throat and upper breast, a barred body, and feeds mainly on ants and other insects.

• Red-faced Warbler Cardellina rubrifrons

  A small bird centered in Mexican mountain forests, it is marked by a red face, black cap, and gray body. It occurs in the southwestern United States during breeding.

• Plum-headed Finch Neochmia modesta

  Both sexes have a plum-colored head spot, while only the male has a dark chin spot. The JCU page documents a local occurrence in Townsville.

• Brown Fulvetta Alcippe brunneicauda

  The Brown Fulvetta has a plain brown head, warm brown back, and rufous rump. It searches lower forest branches for insects and fruit.

• Black-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus falcularius

  Its dark body is set off by a long, slender, curved bill. It probes gaps in trees and plants and feeds mainly on small invertebrates.

• Javan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis banyumas

  This small flycatcher has a blue back and orange breast in males, while females have a gray-brown back and rufous tail. It catches insects from perches in the undergrowth of Java's forests.

• Brehm's Tiger Parrot Psittacella brehmii

  Brehm's Tiger Parrot is a green parrot of New Guinea's mountain forests. Barred back feathers and the male's yellow facial crescent are useful field marks.

• Black-chinned Siskin Spinus barbatus

  A small finch of the Andean-Patagonian forest region, it has a black head and throat in males and olive coloring in females.

• Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis

  The Orange-chinned Parakeet is a small green parrot with an orange chin. It ranges from southern Mexico to northern South America in dry forest.