Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis

  

  The Black-throated Canary has a yellow rump and a black throat mark that varies in prominence and can be absent. It forages in small flocks on grass and weed seeds.

• Sooty Tyrannulet Serpophaga nigricans

  This small bird catches insects among riverside and wetland shrubs, moving between perches. Its white crown patch is usually concealed unless it is excited.

• Scaly Laughingthrush Trochalopteron subunicolor

  The Scaly Laughingthrush occurs in eastern Himalayan mountain forest and scrub, and may move to lower elevations in winter. A museum specimen is also recorded from Mount Fansipan in northern Vietnam.

• Common Stonechat Saxicola torquatus

  A southern African species account says male and female African Stonechats differ in plumage. The adult male has a black head and throat with white neck patches.

• Mariana Crow Corvus kubaryi

  The Mariana Crow is black with green and blue gloss across its feathers. Its native range includes Guam and Rota, and it searches for food from forest trees down to the ground.

• Gouldian finch Erythrura gouldiae

  A small bird with a green back, purple breast and yellow belly.

• White-fronted Chat Epthianura albifrons

  The White-fronted Chat occurs across southern Australia, including Tasmania, from Shark Bay to the Queensland–New South Wales border. It uses damp, open places with low vegetation.

• Purple Sunbird Cinnyris asiaticus

  The Purple Sunbird is small; breeding males are bluish-black, while females are olive-brown above and pale yellow below.

• Lilac-crowned Amazon Amazona finschi

  A large green parrot native to Mexico. Adults show blue to lilac tones across the 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.

• Brush Bronzewing Phaps elegans

  A dark brown pigeon with iridescent wing patches. In coastal South Australia it uses dense woodland and scrub and feeds mainly on plant seeds.

• Sandy Scops Owl Otus icterorhynchus

  The Sandy Scops Owl is a small owl with a white shoulder stripe and yellow eyes and bill. It is nocturnal in lowland evergreen forest and feeds on crickets and grasshoppers.

• Ocellated Crake Rufirallus schomburgkii

  The Ocellated Crake hides in grassland and mixed grass-and-shrub habitat. In Peru, the Peru Aves account reports it from Pampas del Heath in the southeast.

• White-throated Antbird Oneillornis salvini

  This antbird lives in lowland Amazonian forest. The male is gray with a white throat, while the female is reddish brown with black barring; in Peru it uses the forest understory.

• Gurney's Eagle Aquila gurneyi

  Gurney's Eagle is a large forest eagle of New Guinea and nearby islands. Adults are dark brown and search for food on slow, low flights, usually alone or in pairs.

• Red-throated Wryneck Jynx ruficollis

  The Red-throated Wryneck is a woodpecker relative with a patchy sub-Saharan African range. It searches for ants on the ground and elsewhere, and its subspecies differ in chest markings and plumage.

• Gabon Coucal Centropus anselli

  This west-central African cuckoo has rufous wings and a pale rufous underside. It searches for food on the ground and in low bushes.

• Levaillant's Cisticola Cisticola tinniens

  In breeding plumage, an adult Levaillant’s Cisticola shows a rufous crown and a scaled-looking back. It searches for insects in wet grass and males sing during summer display flights.

• Puerto Rican Emerald Riccordia maugaeus

  This small hummingbird is found only on Puerto Rico, mainly in mountain forests and shade-grown coffee plantations.

• Black-browed Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla fusciceps

  The Black-browed Mountain Greenbul lives in montane forest in southeastern Africa. Its species account describes dense highland forest and fruit in its diet; a Tanzania photo page records birds in Poroto Ridge forest.

• Golden-collared Honeycreeper Iridophanes pulcherrimus

  This tanager-family bird occurs in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Males are strikingly patterned in black, blue, and gold.

• Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis

  The Savannah Sparrow lives in grasslands and is marked by a short tail and fine breast streaks. It eats more insects in the breeding season and more seeds in winter.

• Red-bellied Hill Partridge Arborophila rubrirostris

  The Red-bellied Hill Partridge lives in Sumatra's moist montane forests and searches for food on the forest floor among fallen leaves.

• Speckled Teal Anas flavirostris

  The Speckled Teal is a small duck that feeds at the water's surface. Dark spots mark its neck and breast, while plumage and bill color vary with subspecies, sex, and age.