Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites minutillus

  

  This small cuckoo ranges from Southeast Asia to Australia and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Giant Babax Pterorhinus waddelli

  The Giant Babax lives in the highlands of the Tibetan Plateau. It eats insects and berries during the breeding season; outside that season, reports also list crop seeds and plant rhizomes.

• Black Harrier Circus maurus

  The Black Harrier is a southern African harrier that hunts small mammals and birds while flying low over the ground.

• Yellow-green Bush Tanager Bangsia flavovirens

  This tanager is recorded in montane forest in Colombia and Ecuador, where it moves among foliage in small groups and mixed flocks.

• Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus

  It is a small cisticola of African savannas and grasslands. During breeding, males sing from exposed perches and also perform aerial courtship displays.

• Gray-breasted Partridge Arborophila orientalis

  The Grey-breasted Partridge is a small partridge with a striking black-and-white face. It lives in mountain forests of eastern Java and forages on the ground.

• Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens

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

• Gray-breasted Parakeet Pyrrhura griseipectus

  This parakeet has a green body, a white ear patch, and gray markings across the breast. It is described feeding in the canopy of northeastern Brazil's forests.

• White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos

  The White-backed Woodpecker searches for food in forests with dead trees. It has black-and-white bars across its back and is often solitary outside the breeding season.

• White-crowned Pigeon Patagioenas leucocephala

  The White-crowned Pigeon is a large fruit-eating pigeon of forests in southern Florida and the Caribbean islands.

• African Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys alienus

  This finch occurs in Morocco’s mountains; a localized range in Algeria’s Aurès is reported in the literature. A male specimen from Glaoui had an ashy hindneck, a rosy-white throat, and a brown rump and upper-tail coverts.

• Streak-breasted Honeyeater Territornis reticulata

  This honeyeater is endemic to Timor and Semau islands. Accounts record it in habitats from forest to gardens and mangroves, with more records in lowlands near the coast.

• Giant Kingbird Tyrannus cubensis

  This large tyrant flycatcher has a massive black bill and orange crown feathers that may be raised in display. Its range is restricted to forested parts of Cuba.

• Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula

  The Black-crowned Waxbill is mostly gray, black, and white, with a noticeable red rump. It lives in pairs or flocks in grassland and along woodland edges.

• Swynnerton's Robin Swynnertonia swynnertoni

  Swynnerton's Robin has a blue-grey back and bright orange breast. It searches for insects on the forest floor, tossing aside leaf litter as it forages.

• Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea

  Verreaux's Eagle-Owl is a large African owl with a white face edged in black and prominent ear tufts.

• Blue jay Cyanocitta cristata

  A jay of woodlands and parks in eastern North America. Blue, white and black feathers and a raised crest are conspicuous.

• Band-bellied Crake Zapornia paykullii

  This secretive migrant uses marshes with dense vegetation. It breeds in northern East Asia and winters in Southeast Asia. Black-and-white bars extend from its flanks across the lower belly.

• Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens

  The adult male has a green crown and a black band across the forehead. The species uses forest edges and clearings, farms, plantations and village gardens, feeding on nectar as well as small insects and fruit. Cameroon is one country listed in the profile's range.

• Sagebrush Sparrow Artemisiospiza nevadensis

  This sparrow breeds in open sage-dominated shrubsteppe in western North America. During migration and winter it also uses dry scrub with creosote or saltbush.

• Grey-bellied Spinetail Synallaxis cinerascens

  The Grey-bellied Spinetail is described in reference data as a forest bird of dense understory that eats invertebrates. A 1997 specimen study recorded streaking on the breast of a bird considered juvenile.

• Straight-billed Hermit Phaethornis bourcieri

  A hummingbird of the Amazon lowlands that uses forest undergrowth and feeds on nectar.

• Russet Nightingale-Thrush Catharus occidentalis

  A thrush of montane forests in Mexico. Its reported body length is 15–18 cm; it forages on the ground by day and takes food including invertebrates.

• Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum

  This small songbird has a long, pointed bill and striped head. It searches for caterpillars and other insects in dense forest understory.