Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-lored Cisticola Cisticola nigriloris

  

  The Black-lored Cisticola is a highland cisticola with a reddish-brown head and brown back. It searches for small invertebrates by day in grassland and scrub near forest.

• Snowy-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia edward

  Its glossy green plumage and white belly are distinctive. The distribution entry here is one 2021 observation in Panama.

• Flavescent Bulbul Pycnonotus flavescens

  The Flavescent Bulbul is a 21–22 cm bulbul. Its species account lists forest and semi-open habitat at 800–2,100 m.

• 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.

• White-eared Ground Sparrow Melozone leucotis

  This ground-dwelling bird occurs in the highlands of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. It searches on or near the ground for insects, spiders, and seeds.

• Orange-necked Hill Partridge Arborophila davidi

  Surveys in southern Vietnam found it on slopes with bamboo and deep leaf litter. Its orange neck and black eye-stripe extending down the lower neck are distinctive.

• Torrent Duck Merganetta armata

  The torrent duck lives on fast rivers in the Andes. It dives into the current to catch aquatic insect larvae and other small prey.

• Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia variegaticeps

  A foliage-gleaner ranging from Central America to the western Andes, where it searches branches and leaves for small invertebrates.

• Bassian Thrush Zoothera lunulata

  The Bassian Thrush lives in forests of Australia and Tasmania and searches beneath leaf litter on the forest floor. Pale spots and dark crescent-like markings pattern its plumage; it eats insects, worms, and fruit.

• Olivaceous Siskin Spinus olivaceus

  A small finch with bright yellow areas, it lives in forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes. Males have a black hood.

• Lesser Elaenia Elaenia chiriquensis

  The Lesser Elaenia uses open scrub and forest edges. In Bolivia it occurs alone or in pairs and eats fruit and arthropods.

• Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush Garrulax monileger

  This laughingthrush ranges through South and Southeast Asia. It is diurnal and gregarious, and the described subspecies has a dark breast necklace and a white eyebrow.

• Dusky-blue Flycatcher Muscicapa comitata

  The Dusky-blue Flycatcher (Bradornis comitatus) occurs in the Afrotropical region. It uses forest edges, secondary growth and farmland, and catches invertebrates in the air.

• White-tailed Jay Cyanocorax mystacalis

  The White-tailed Jay is a large jay with striking white, blue, and black plumage. It searches forests and scrub in pairs or family groups from northwestern Peru into Ecuador.

• Black-throated Honeyeater Caligavis subfrenata

  This honeyeater lives in the mountains of New Guinea. Its black throat and yellow-and-white ear patches are useful identification features.

• Scarlet-tufted Sunbird Nectarinia johnstoni

  A sunbird of East Africa’s high mountains, it feeds on Lobelia nectar in Kenya’s alpine moorlands. Males have iridescent green plumage and scarlet pectoral tufts.

• Bonaparte's Parakeet Pyrrhura lucianii

  Bonaparte's Parakeet is mostly green, with dark red on the forehead, around the eyes, and on the abdomen. It inhabits lowland humid and semi-humid forest and nests in abandoned woodpecker holes. Older classifications included it within the Pyrrhura picta complex.

• Blue-naped Parrot Tanygnathus lucionensis

  The Blue-naped Parrot is a green parrot native to Philippine islands and Indonesia's Talaud Islands. The pattern of blue on the head and back varies by subspecies.

• Oriental turtle dove Streptopelia orientalis

  A dove of East Asian woods, farmland and towns. In Japan, fine striped patches on the sides of the neck help identify it.

• Rinjani Scops Owl Otus jolandae

  This scops owl is known from around Mount Rinjani on Lombok. Researchers heard it in undisturbed forest, degraded forest, and beside quiet roads.

• Ferruginous Antbird Drymophila ferruginea

  This antbird lives in humid forest and bamboo thickets in southeastern Brazil. Its black head has a white eyebrow and cheeks; its black tail has broad white bars, and its underparts are rusty.

• Forest Buzzard Buteo trizonatus

  A buzzard of southern African forests. It watches for prey from a perch, then drops down to catch it.

• Helmeted Woodpecker Celeus galeatus

  The Helmeted Woodpecker lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern South America. A study reports that its plumage resembles that of a larger, co-occurring woodpecker, and tracked birds used cavities in large trees as roosts.

• Running Coua Coua cursor

  The Running Coua is a ground-dwelling bird of dry woodland and scrub in southwestern Madagascar. It walks while searching for insects and fallen fruit.