Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chihuahuan Raven Corvus cryptoleucus

  

  The Chihuahuan Raven lives in dry grasslands and desert scrub. It forms flocks year-round and searches widely for food.

• Black-throated Thrush Turdus atrogularis

  The adult male stands out for its black face and throat. The female is duller and has fine streaks on the flanks.

• Verditer Flycatcher Eumyias thalassinus

  The Verditer Flycatcher is a flycatcher with striking blue-green plumage. It hunts insects in the middle and upper canopy and breeds from the Himalayas into Southeast Asia.

• Stripe-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca pyrrhophia

  This ovenbird occurs in southern South America, where it searches for food on tree trunks and branches.

• Chestnut-fronted Macaw Ara severus

  The Chestnut-fronted Macaw is a green macaw with a long tail and blue and red markings. It can be quiet and hard to spot in the canopy, and is usually in pairs or small flocks outside communal roosts.

• Yellow-browed Sparrow Ammodramus aurifrons

  This small bird is recorded in Bolivia's Amazonian regions and on lower eastern Andean slopes. It uses grassy and shrubby areas near rivers and roads and forages on the ground.

• Yellow-spotted Honeyeater Meliphaga notata

  The yellow-spotted honeyeater is marked by a yellow ear patch. In northern Queensland it uses rainforest and mangroves and feeds on nectar, fruit, and insects.

• Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus

  Males and females have different plumage: males are black-and-pale-grey barred, while females are rufous. Pairs move through low trees in search of small arthropods.

• Koepcke's Hermit Phaethornis koepckeae

  Koepcke's Hermit is a hummingbird that uses the forest understory. It follows regular routes between flowers for nectar and also eats small arthropods.

• Mindanao Miniature-babbler Micromacronus sordidus

  This small bird lives on Mindanao in the Philippines. The Mindanao population, formerly treated as a subspecies of a close relative, is grayer above and pale yellow-gray to greenish olive below.

• Henst's Goshawk Astur henstii

  A large hawk 52–62 cm long. It lives in Madagascar's forests, including eastern rainforest and western dry forest. It is active by day and hunts vertebrates.

• Black-bellied Malkoha Phaenicophaeus diardi

  The Black-bellied Malkoha often moves alone among leafy parts of the canopy and feeds on insect larvae.

• Red-billed leiothrix Leiothrix lutea

  A small woodland bird with a red bill and an orange-yellow throat.

• Andean Pygmy Owl Glaucidium jardinii

  The Andean Pygmy Owl is a small owl. A Bogotá bird guide notes that it may also be seen by day; it has brown plumage with bars and spots and perches in shaded trees.

• Regal Sunbird Cinnyris regius

  This sunbird is found in and around mountain forest in the Albertine Rift. Males have green, yellow, and red plumage, while females are dull brown; the species also uses high-elevation scrub.

• Northern Grosbeak-Canary Crithagra donaldsoni

  A bird of dry northeastern African savanna that feeds on seeds on the ground.

• Ring-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas caribaea

  The Ring-tailed Pigeon is a large pigeon endemic to Jamaica. Its tail has a dark band and a broad pale tip, and it lives in forest.

• Black-and-white Mannikin Lonchura bicolor

  This small African finch has striking black-and-white markings. In the wild it feeds mainly on seeds and occurs in small groups around grassland and forest edges.

• Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata

  The Yellow-billed Duck is an African duck with a bright yellow bill marked by a black patch.

• Bar-backed Hill Partridge Arborophila brunneopectus

  A hill partridge of evergreen forest and bamboo. The nominate subspecies recorded in China has a barred back and chestnut breast.

• Grey-crowned Woodpecker Colaptes auricularis

  This woodpecker lives in the foothills of western Mexico. It has a green back and barred underparts; the male has a red cheek stripe.

• Horned Parakeet Eunymphicus cornutus

  The Horned Parakeet is endemic to New Caledonia, where pairs and small groups move through forest canopy.

• Southern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum

  This small tyrannulet is recorded in wooded habitats in Argentina and Bolivia. An Argentine account gives a length of about 11 cm.

• Rufous-browed Hemispingus Poospiza rufosuperciliaris

  This small tanager inhabits high elevations in Peru's eastern Andes. Its broad rufous eyebrow contrasts with the gray plumage, and it occurs in humid montane forest and scrub.