Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lina's Sunbird Aethopyga linaraborae

  

  The male Lina’s Sunbird has a narrow throat patch, a red breast patch, a long graduated tail, and metallic blue-green markings. In July 2015, birds visited roadside trees and males displayed at one high-altitude forest site in eastern Mindanao.

• Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus

  The lark sparrow walks through open grassland and scrub, searching on the ground for seeds and insects.

• Black-capped Foliage-gleaner Philydor atricapillus

  This furnariid is covered in a regional guide to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Its dark crown and rufous eyebrow stand out as it searches among foliage in the lower forest.

• Dusky Hummingbird Phaeoptila sordida

  This hummingbird occurs in Mexico. Its upperparts are pale green, with a whitish stripe and dark patch behind the eye. It uses dry areas with scattered trees or shrubs and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Amami Thrush Zoothera major

  A large thrush found on Amami-Oshima, with records also from nearby Kakeroma Island. It searches for animal prey and fruit in mature evergreen forest around humid valleys.

• Three-striped Warbler Basileuterus tristriatus

  This warbler lives in mountain forests on the eastern Andean slope. Its yellow-olive body and black-and-white head stripes are distinctive. The Peru account notes duller birds in Puno than farther north.

• Large-billed Antwren Herpsilochmus longirostris

  This antwren occurs in forests and scrub on the Brazilian plateau and in northeastern Bolivia. A white eyebrow and spotted gray breast help identify it.

• South African Shelduck Tadorna cana

  The South African Shelduck breeds at shallow freshwater and brackish wetlands in southern Africa. It uses holes in the ground for nesting.

• Seychelles Black Parrot Coracopsis barklyi

  Despite its name, the Seychelles Black Parrot is pale brown-grey, not black. It lives on Praslin, where native palm fruits are a preferred food.

• Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus

  The Chestnut-winged Cuckoo has a long tail, chestnut plumage, and a black crest. It breeds in temperate Eurasia and passes through or winters in Southeast Asia from autumn to spring.

• Elliot's Laughingthrush Trochalopteron elliotii

  This laughingthrush occurs in central Chinese mountains. It walks through forest and scrub in small groups, searching low vegetation for food.

• Steller's sea eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus

  An eagle with a massive yellow bill. It breeds along the northern Sea of Okhotsk and winters in places including northern Japan.

• Black-chested Mountain Tanager Cnemathraupis eximia

  This tanager inhabits high-elevation forests and scrub in the northern Andes. It eats fruit and insects and moves through the canopy in small or mixed flocks.

• Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis

  It is the largest cisticola in southern Africa. It lives in moist grasslands, where breeding males call from exposed perches and make display flights.

• Edward's Pheasant Lophura edwardsi

  Edward's Pheasant is a pheasant of the forests of central Vietnam. Males have a white crest on the head.

• Asian Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus brunneus

  This bulbul lives in forests, at their edges, and in secondary growth. Adults are especially noticeable for their red eyes.

• Red-billed Parrot Pionus sordidus

  This parrot is mostly green, with a blue chest and a red bill. In Ecuador, it feeds on fruit and flowers in the canopy of cloudy forests and nests in tree cavities.

• Japanese pygmy woodpecker Yungipicus kizuki

  A small woodpecker with black-and-white markings, seen throughout the year in Japan from lowlands to low mountains.

• Pallid Dove Leptotila pallida

  This brown-toned dove has white tips on its tail. It uses humid forest and older secondary growth, walking on the ground to feed on plant seeds and other material.

• Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica

  This small, social finch has a bright yellow face and belly set off by black lines on its head. In its native African range, it forages in flocks.

• Plain Honeyeater Pycnopygius ixoides

  The Plain Honeyeater lives in New Guinea's forests and feeds on fruit and nectar. Plumage ranges from gray-green to brown among its subspecies.

• Great Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis lividus

  This large tyrant occurs in dry hills of central Chile. Breeding records describe slopes with thorny shrubs, cacti, and Puya bromeliads.

• Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava

  A small passerine with an orange-red breast, it feeds on grass seeds in wetlands and dry savannas of equatorial Africa.

• Sentinel Rock Thrush Monticola explorator

  Males have blue-gray and orange plumage, while females are gray-brown with pale mottling. It lives in grassland and rocky slopes and forages on the ground.