Meet the world’s animals.

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• Scaly Francolin Pternistis squamatus

  

  The Scaly Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird with dull-brown plumage, a red bill, and red legs. It stays in thick cover and can be hard to see.

• Javan Fulvetta Alcippe pyrrhoptera

  This small bird lives in evergreen broadleaf forest in western and central Java. It has a brown crown and back, rufous-chestnut rump and wings, and eats insects.

• Black Thrush Turdus infuscatus

  This thrush ranges from eastern and southern Mexico into Central America. Males are dark, while females are browner and differ in appearance.

• African Collared Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea

  The African Collared Dove has a pale rosy-grey head and neck and a narrow dark half-collar on the nape. It searches for seeds on the ground.

• Papuan Eagle Harpyopsis novaeguineae

  A large eagle of New Guinea’s forests, it hunts arboreal cuscuses and other animals.

• Pelzeln's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus inornatus

  This small tyrant flycatcher is patchily recorded around Brazil's Rio Negro basin, including white-sand campinarana.

• Black-headed Munia Lonchura malacca

  The Black-headed Munia is a small Asian finch with a dark head and chest and a chestnut back. It gathers in wet grasslands and rice fields to search for seeds.

• Antioquia Brush Finch Atlapetes blancae

  This bird is restricted to the Altiplano Norte de Antioquia in Colombia. Its 2007 description was based on three museum specimens; a live bird was found in the field in 2018.

• Greater Flowerpiercer Diglossa major

  This large flowerpiercer occurs in southeastern Venezuela and adjacent northern Brazil. It has a broad black mask, bluish-slate plumage, and a pale blue-gray bill with a strongly hooked tip. It feeds on nectar and insects.

• Herero Chat Namibornis herero

  The Herero Chat lives on rocky hills and escarpment slopes from western Namibia into south-western Angola. It often eats ants and termites.

• Himalayan Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus

  The Himalayan Cuckoo breeds in eastern Asia and moves from Southeast Asia to northern Australia for the winter. Males are gray, with white spots on the underparts.

• Siberian Jay Perisoreus infaustus

  A jay with a grayish body and conspicuous pale rusty patches on the tail and wings. It uses dense conifer forest for breeding.

• Socotra Scops Owl Otus socotranus

  This small, pale-gray owl lives on Socotra in arid places with trees, including palms. It is more often detected by its voice than seen.

• South Island Takahe Porphyrio hochstetteri

  The South Island Takahe is a large flightless rail with stout red legs and a strong bill. In the wild it feeds on grassland plants and may move into forest when snow is deep.

• Rufous-throated Sapphire Hylocharis sapphirina

  This small hummingbird ranges across South America, including Bolivia. Its rufous throat and blue gorget help identify it.

• Alagoas Antwren Myrmotherula snowi

  This small antwren is recorded in humid forest in northeastern Brazil. Males are gray and females are rufous-brown; a 2005 survey documented one male in a forested valley with a stream and dense lianas.

• Superb Parrot Polytelis swainsonii

  The Superb Parrot uses woodlands and grasslands in southeastern Australia. Males have yellow foreheads and throats and a red crescent between the throat and breast.

• Eye-ringed Thistletail Asthenes palpebralis

  This thistletail is reported as restricted to the eastern Andes of Peru’s Junín region. The pictured bird is of unknown sex; its broad white eye-ring and long graduated tail are conspicuous.

• Ornate Honeyeater Melidectes torquatus

  The Ornate Melidectes is a honeyeater of New Guinea's mountains. A nominate-subspecies male has conspicuous yellow-orange bare skin around the eye and a white-scaled back, and searches for food in the canopy.

• Rose-faced Parrot Pyrilia pulchra

  Adults are mainly green with a rose-pink face, a dark crown, and a blue-tipped tail. Juveniles have pink confined to a smaller area around the eyes and ear coverts.

• Common Merganser Mergus merganser

  A streamlined diving duck with a long, narrow bill that eats fish. It breeds widely across the north and moves south for winter.

• Socotra Warbler Incana incana

  Endemic to Socotra, this small bird occurs widely in habitats with trees and shrubs. The museum description of an adult male records ashy-brown upperparts, pale underparts, and white tips and dark bands on the tail.

• Crimson Sunbird Aethopyga siparaja

  The Crimson Sunbird is a small bird that takes nectar, spiders, and insects. Males are red, while females are olive-colored, so the sexes look different.

• Lewis' Woodpecker Melanerpes lewis

  Lewis's Woodpecker has a green-glossed black back and red belly. It catches insects in flight and may store acorns in tree crevices.