Meet the world’s animals.

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• Meller's Duck Anas melleri

  

  Meller’s Duck is a duck found only on Madagascar. The sexes look alike, and its grey bill helps distinguish it from a female Mallard.

• Altai Snowcock Tetraogallus altaicus

  A large pheasant-family bird of rocky alpine meadows. Breeding is recorded in the southern Altai of Kazakhstan, where details of its breeding biology remain poorly known.

• Darjeeling Woodpecker Dendrocopos darjellensis

  A boldly marked woodpecker of high-elevation Himalayan foothill forest. Its belly is finely yellow-streaked, and males have a red patch on the rear crown.

• Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans

  The Crimson Rosella lives in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia. Alongside red adults, yellow and orange color forms occur in parts of its range.

• Orange-banded Flycatcher Nephelomyias lintoni

  This flycatcher occurs in the humid mountains of Ecuador and Peru. It has a pale eye and orange lower mandible, and takes insects from leaves or in flight.

• Tawny-bellied Seedeater Sporophila hypoxantha

  A small seedeater of southern South American grasslands. It takes grass seeds and places its nest in low shrubs during the breeding season.

• Stripe-cheeked Greenbul Arizelocichla milanjensis

  This bulbul lives in the mountains of southern Malawi, western Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe. It is about 19 cm long and uses montane and submontane forest, riverine woodland and scrub.

• New Caledonian Crow Corvus moneduloides

  A crow of Grande Terre in New Caledonia that uses tools to extract food from dead wood.

• Rufous-backed Thrush Turdus rufopalliatus

  It resembles an American Robin but lacks a white eye-ring, and has rufous on the back and wings. It often hides in woods and dense thickets.

• Chinese Blue-flycatcher Cyornis glaucicomans

  A small flycatcher that breeds in western China and winters farther south in Southeast Asia. It is a rare passage migrant and winter visitor in Hong Kong.

• Little Thornbird Phacellodomus sibilatrix

  This ovenbird is recorded from thorny woods and open woodland in northern Argentina. It has dull olive-brown upperparts, with chestnut on the forehead and part of the wing. An old account describes a large twig-and-thorn nest placed in a tree branch.

• Blaze-winged Parakeet Pyrrhura devillei

  Adult Blaze-winged Parakeets are mostly green, with a gray-brown crown and red feathers at the bend of the wing. Wild birds eat fruit and other plant foods, including seeds, nuts, and flowers.

• Olive Sparrow Arremonops rufivirgatus

  The Olive Sparrow forages on the ground in dense thorn scrub, staying close to cover. In the United States it is limited to southern Texas, and it also occurs in Mexico and Central America.

• White-chinned Myzomela Myzomela albigula

  A myzomela of the Louisiade Islands. Nominate albigula on Rossell Island has dark grey-brown upperparts and a red chin-and-throat streak.

• Pacific Antwren Myrmotherula pacifica

  The Pacific Antwren is a small bird with different male and female plumage. It occurs on the Pacific side of Central America and north-western South America, using vine-rich forest.

• Purple-crowned Plovercrest Stephanoxis loddigesii

  This hummingbird lives in the Atlantic Forest of South America. Males raise a purple-blue crest during courtship, while females lack the crest and are green and grayish-white. It feeds on nectar and insects.

• Dambo Cisticola Cisticola dambo

  The Dambo Cisticola has a very long black tail, and the breeding male gives a distinctive song and aerial display. In a 1931 survey along the Congo–Zambezi divide, birds bred in open flats with short grass; records extended from Nasondoye to eastern Angola.

• Brahminy Kite Haliastur indus

  An adult kite with a white head and breast and chestnut body. It is recorded as resident in Singapore and occurs from mangroves to urban areas.

• Sirkeer Malkoha Taccocua leschenaultii

  This cuckoo has rufous-brown, finely streaked plumage and a long white-tipped tail. The museum account describes the Indian nominate subspecies walking and feeding on the ground in dry scrub.

• Chestnut-crowned Laughingthrush Trochalopteron erythrocephalum

  A 24–26 cm laughingthrush of Himalayan forests and bamboo. Its brown body has a chestnut forehead and nape and green-gold wing and tail panels; head color varies among subspecies.

• Long-eared owl Asio otus

  An owl with conspicuous long head tufts, using woods and dense cover near grassland.

• Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris

  The current eBird name for this taxon is Yellow-chinned Sunbird. It ranges from Sierra Leone to Ghana in West Africa; the related gray-chinned taxon is now listed separately.

• Clapper Rail Rallus crepitans

  The Clapper Rail is a large rail of salt marshes and mangroves in eastern North America, the Caribbean, and northeastern Central America. Its chestnut-and-gray body stays hidden among marsh grasses as it searches along mudflat edges.

• Thick-billed Siskin Spinus crassirostris

  The Thick-billed Siskin is a small high-Andean bird with a very broad-based bill. Males have black heads, while females have grey heads; both have yellow rumps.