Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia castaneiventris

  

  A hummingbird endemic to Colombia, with a bronze-red back, chestnut belly, and iridescent green throat. It takes nectar and may defend sites where flowers are abundant.

• Scale-feathered Malkoha Dasylophus cumingi

  This Philippine cuckoo lives in forest and searches for insects in trees.

• Silver-crowned Friarbird Philemon argenticeps

  A honeyeater of northern Australia. Adults have a silvery-white crown, black bare facial skin and casque, and males are slightly larger than females.

• Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum

  The Pearl-spotted Owlet has white spots on its back and eye-like markings on the back of its head. It catches small animals in open savanna and woodland.

• Grey-hooded Sunbird Aethopyga primigenia

  Males have a grey head and throat, metallic bronze-green forehead and ear-coverts, yellow rump, white breast, and yellow flanks. On Mindanao it uses forest and edges and visits banana flowers.

• Black-cowled Oriole Icterus prosthemelas

  This oriole ranges from Mexico through Central America. Males are black and yellow, while females and young birds are olive-toned. It eats fruit, insects, and nectar at woodland edges, orchards, and similar habitats.

• Black-headed Brush Finch Arremon atricapillus

  The Black-headed Brush Finch occurs in eastern Panama and the Colombian Andes. A comparative study found a mostly solid black head, a larger bill and higher, faster song than in the related A. assimilis. It is recorded in evergreen, secondary and elfin forest.

• Sora Porzana carolina

  A secretive wetland bird with a yellow bill and short tail. It breeds in North America and moves south for winter.

• Rook Corvus frugilegus

  A social black crow that often feeds in flocks on farmland.

• Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos

  This large vulture occurs in dry parts of Africa south of the Sahara. It has a dark body, white down on the belly and thighs, and a bare head with prominent folds of skin.

• Mountain Robin Turdus plebejus

  Adult males and females look alike, with olive-brown upperparts and a pale buff throat. Outside the nesting period, it may forage in small flocks.

• Opal-rumped Tanager Tangara velia

  This tanager lives in lowland tropical forest in northern and central South America. Its vivid blue-green body and iridescent rump give it its name.

• Bluish-slate Antshrike Thamnomanes schistogynus

  This antshrike inhabits forests in the southern Amazon basin. Males are uniformly bluish gray; females have gray heads, breasts, and upperparts with a rufous belly. It forages in the forest midstory, usually with mixed-species flocks.

• Rufous Cisticola Cisticola rufus

  This cisticola was recorded as a resident species in a bird study in northern Ghana. It has dull rust-brown upperparts, and at Mole National Park it was reported in dry woodland and in unburnt grass patches during the dry season.

• Smoky-fronted Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus fumifrons

  A tiny, roughly 9 cm tyrant flycatcher. It forages inconspicuously in low bushes, and pendant pouch-like nests have been recorded in French Guiana.

• Wompoo Fruit Dove Ptilinopus magnificus

  The Wompoo Fruit Dove is a large green pigeon with a purple throat and chest and a yellow belly. It feeds in rainforest canopies and moves locally between fruiting trees.

• Ashy-headed Goose Chloephaga poliocephala

  The Ashy-headed Goose is a small sheldgoose of Chile and southern Argentina. The sexes have similar plumage, and the birds use wetlands and grasslands in different seasons.

• Chukar Alectoris chukar

  Native to southern Eurasia, the Chukar also has introduced populations in rocky, dry country of western North America.

• Styan's Bulbul Pycnonotus taivanus

  This Taiwanese endemic bulbul occurs in eastern Taiwan and the Hengchun Peninsula. Its black head, pale cheeks, and orange or yellow mark at the bill base are distinctive.

• Cream-backed Woodpecker Campephilus leucopogon

  The Cream-backed Woodpecker inhabits open woodland and savanna in South America. It is marked by a black body, red head and pale triangular patch on the back.

• Masked Yellowthroat Geothlypis aequinoctialis

  This small bird has yellow underparts and yellowish-green upperparts. Males have a black facial mask, which females lack; their facial markings also differ.

• Chad Firefinch Lagonosticta umbrinodorsalis

  The Chad Firefinch occupies a narrow area between northern Cameroon and southern Chad. Its identification account places it in dry, rocky habitat with grass and bushes, usually in pairs or small groups.

• White-browed Laughingthrush Pterorhinus sannio

  Its main range extends from northeastern India through Myanmar, northern Laos, and Vietnam to central and southern China. An isolated population also occurs in Hong Kong.

• Tapajos Scythebill Campylorhamphus probatus

  A scythebill occurring in the lowland Amazon of Brazil. The appearance and foraging details here apply only to subspecies cardosoi under the current treatment.