Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mexican Duck Anas diazi

  

  The Mexican Duck is found mainly in Mexico. It uses temporary wetlands during the rainy season and agricultural areas around water in the dry season.

• Mouse-colored Antshrike Thamnophilus murinus

  An antshrike that often forages with mixed-species flocks in the middle levels of Amazonian evergreen forest.

• African Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus nigricans

  The African Red-eyed Bulbul is a southern African bulbul marked by a red eye wattle. It lives in dry woodland, savanna, and Karoo scrub.

• Golden-winged Parakeet Brotogeris chrysoptera

  The Golden-winged Parakeet is a small green parakeet with a golden wing patch. Outside the breeding season it travels in flocks and may gather at fruiting trees.

• Rivoli's Hummingbird Eugenes fulgens

  A large hummingbird of mountain forests, it feeds at flowers and the male shows glossy colors on its crown and throat.

• Common Flameback Dinopium javanense

  A tree-climbing woodpecker, it braces with its tail while excavating ants and larvae. In Singapore it also occurs in parks and mangroves.

• Tawny-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus mexicanus

  The Tawny-throated Leaftosser lives in humid Central American forests, walking through leaf litter to find food. It has dark brown upperparts and a rusty throat extending onto the breast. It is seen alone or in pairs; local records describe a burrow nest near the ground.

• Green-legged Partridge Tropicoperdix chloropus

  The Green-legged Partridge is a forest-dwelling Asian pheasant. A study in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, recorded ground nests with females incubating alone.

• Koepcke's Screech Owl Megascops koepckeae

  This small owl lives in the Peruvian Andes. Its iris is yellow, and plumage varies from mostly grey to brown in some populations.

• Rufous-winged Sparrow Peucaea carpalis

  A small sparrow of the Sonoran Desert, from the southwestern United States into northwestern Mexico. It uses dry scrub and grassland, and breeds around the start of the summer rains.

• Sakalava Rail Zapornia olivieri

  The Sakalava Rail inhabits lowland wetlands in western Madagascar. Its chestnut-washed back contrasts with dark grey underparts, and it searches for small animals among aquatic plants.

• Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush Garrulax castanotis

  The Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush occurs on Hainan in China, in northern Vietnam, and in eastern Laos. Some older treatments grouped it with the Grey Laughingthrush; this account follows the current treatment of Garrulax castanotis as a separate species.

• Black-chinned Honeyeater Melithreptus gularis

  This honeyeater inhabits eucalypt forest and woodland on mainland Australia. It can move locally as its food plants flower.

• Arnot's Chat Pentholaea arnotti

  This bird inhabits woodlands of central and southern Africa. In the nominate subspecies, the male is black with a white crown and wing patch; small groups search for insects beneath large trees.

• Florida Scrub Jay Aphelocoma coerulescens

  The Florida scrub-jay is blue-gray with a long tail. It lives in Florida's low oak scrub, where young birds may help their parents raise another brood.

• Hispaniolan Euphonia Euphonia musica

  The Hispaniolan Euphonia (Chlorophonia musica) is resident on Hispaniola, including Gonâve Island. It uses forest and semi-open habitats and feeds on fruit.

• Sao Tome Prinia Prinia molleri

  This prinia is endemic to São Tomé. The study reports it as common in disturbed and edge habitats such as savanna, plantations, farmland and gardens, but rare and locally distributed in the primary-forest sites surveyed. It feeds low in the vegetation, from leaf undersides or the ground.

• Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia

  The Magnolia Warbler is a small bird that breeds in dense conifer stands. Males and females have different facial and breast patterns, and the species uses a range of forests during migration.

• White-eared Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites meyerii

  The White-eared Bronze Cuckoo lives in mountain forests of New Guinea and searches for insects in the middle levels of trees. White ear patches and green barring help identify it.

• Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta

  The Bar-breasted Firefinch has pink markings on the face and belly. It ranges from western Africa to parts of eastern Africa and forages in grassland and savanna near rivers.

• Alexandrine Parakeet Psittacula eupatria

  The Alexandrine Parakeet is a large parakeet native to parts of South and Southeast Asia, including wooded and cultivated areas.

• White-fronted Ground Dove Pampusana kubaryi

  This dove occurs on Chuuk and Pohnpei. Adult males have a sooty-black crown and hindneck, with violet gloss on the upper back and parts of the wings.

• Chinese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza soloensis

  The Chinese Sparrowhawk is a migratory raptor with narrow, pointed wings. Adult males and females differ in the color of their upperparts and underparts as it moves between East and Southeast Asia.

• Grey-throated Sunbird Anthreptes griseigularis

  The Grey-throated Sunbird is a small Philippine endemic recorded in lowland woods, mangroves, coastal second growth, and coconut groves.