Meet the world’s animals.

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• African Thrush Turdus pelios

  

  The African Thrush has a gray-brown back and yellow bill; its underparts range from buff and gray to rufous. It uses wooded places from forest edges to gardens.

• Many-colored Chaco Finch Saltatricula multicolor

  This finch is recorded in Argentina’s low woods and grasslands. Adult males have a striking gray, orange, and white pattern, and the birds may hide among dense plants.

• Pied Coucal Centropus ateralbus

  The Pied Coucal occurs in the Bismarck Archipelago. Its plumage varies from mostly black birds to individuals with much more white or pearly grey.

• Black-bodied Woodpecker Dryocopus schulzii

  An Argentine biodiversity page records the species in open woodland and savanna. It describes the male with a red crest, a pale throat, and a mostly black body.

• Grey-bellied Antbird Ammonastes pelzelni

  This antbird is documented at Mitú, Colombia. The male has a black chest; the female lacks it. A field report found two birds in the understory of white-sand forest there.

• Cape Starling Lamprotornis nitens

  This starling has glossy blue-green plumage. In the Zambia regional account, it is found in a range of habitats, including savannas and dry areas.

• Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis

  With a white face and black neck, this goose migrates from Arctic breeding areas to UK coasts and estuaries for winter.

• Elliot's Laughingthrush Trochalopteron elliotii

  This laughingthrush occurs in central Chinese mountains. It walks through forest and scrub in small groups, searching low vegetation for food.

• Yellow-hooded Blackbird Chrysomus icterocephalus

  A blackbird that nests in freshwater wetlands during the breeding season. Males have glossy black plumage with a yellow head and chest; females are olive-brown with a faded yellow hood.

• Fiji Goshawk Tachyspiza rufitorques

  This diurnal hawk is reported from open woodland, well-wooded farmland, suburbs, and parks. Audio records on Oiseaux.net are from Fiji.

• Flammulated Treehunter Thripadectes flammulatus

  This large ovenbird forages in the understory of humid Andean montane forest. The Peru Aves account describes it as uncommon to rare on the eastern slope north of the Marañón Valley.

• Five-striped Sparrow Amphispizopsis quinquestriata

  The Five-striped Sparrow lives on dry hillsides with dense thorny vegetation in northwestern Mexico and southeastern Arizona. Its black breast spot and striped head and throat are distinctive.

• Dusky-headed Parakeet Aratinga weddellii

  The Dusky-headed Parakeet is a green parrot with a grey head and white eye-ring. It uses forest edges and other partly open habitats in the western Amazon Basin.

• Reeves's Pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii

  A pheasant endemic to China, living in evergreen forest and open woodland. It scratches leaf litter for seeds, berries, leaves, and invertebrates.

• Purple-naped Lory Lorius domicella

  The Purple-naped Lory has a red body, black and purple head, and green wings.

• Black-throated Grey Warbler Setophaga nigrescens

  In breeding plumage, male Black-throated Gray Warblers have a black throat, gray back, a black-and-white face pattern, and a yellow spot near the eye. The species breeds west of the Rocky Mountains and winters in Mexico.

• White-throated Robin-Chat Cossypha humeralis

  This bird has dark upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and a rufous belly. It lives in wooded thickets in southern Africa and searches for food on the ground, flicking leaves aside.

• African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis

  This wetland bird has long legs, a red bill and frontal shield, and a blue-violet body. It feeds on plant material in slow-moving waters with tall aquatic vegetation.

• Violet-tailed Sunbird Anthreptes aurantius

  This sunbird uses wooded habitats near water in Central Africa and takes nectar and fruit. A study in the Republic of the Congo documented several adults feeding young both before and after they fledged.

• Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava

  The Tawny-flanked Prinia is a small bird with a long graduated tail and short, rounded wings. In northern Namibia it uses grass and waterside shrubs, searching for insects on the ground and in bushes.

• Helmeted Friarbird Philemon buceroides

  In northeastern Australia it uses lowland forest, forest edges, woodland, and mangroves. James Cook University records it as common on its Townsville campus.

• Scottish Crossbill Loxia scotica

  The Scottish Crossbill extracts seeds from conifer cones. It has a large head and thick bill, but can be difficult to distinguish from similar crossbills.

• Green Jay Cyanocorax luxuosus

  The jay has a green body, blue crown, black throat and facial markings, and yellow outer tail feathers. Family groups search woodland and scrub for food. This account is scoped to the northern Cyanocorax luxuosus group recognized in the AOS proposal.

• Blue-headed Sapphire Chrysuronia grayi

  This hummingbird is recorded in dry areas of Colombia and Ecuador. A 2015 paper uses the older genus name Amazilia grayi and compares the male's tail and the female's underside with a related species.