Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-necked Eremomela Eremomela atricollis

  

  It has a black face mask, yellow forehead and eyebrow, and yellow chin and throat bordered in black. Hall's Angola field account found it in tall and stunted Brachystegia woodland, where it actively searched leaves for insects.

• Wine-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ellioti

  This small hummingbird lives in the highlands from southern Mexico to northern Central America. Males have a gleaming wine-red throat, and the birds use mountain forest edges and scrub where they feed on nectar.

• Sulphur-bellied Bulbul Iole palawanensis

  This bulbul is endemic to Palawan. Adults have an olive body, fine white crown streaks and a yellow belly; the guide records insects and fruit among its foods.

• Gray-bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa carbonaria

  This flowerpiercer occurs in Bolivia. Its slender bill ends in a prominent hook used to pierce flowers for nectar. A 2021 field study recorded new observation sites in Potosí Department.

• Green-striped Brush Finch Arremon virenticeps

  A Mexico City bird guide describes this Mexican brushfinch among dense shrubs near the ground in mountain forest. Its white throat and olive back help identify it.

• Swierstra's Francolin Pternistis swierstrai

  Swierstra's Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird of the highlands of western Angola. The female is described as smaller and duller than the male.

• Ashy-headed Goose Chloephaga poliocephala

  The Ashy-headed Goose is a small sheldgoose of Chile and southern Argentina. The sexes have similar plumage, and the birds use wetlands and grasslands in different seasons.

• Dusky-capped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes fuscicapillus

  The Dusky-capped Woodcreeper inhabits humid lowland forest in the southern Amazon. Its strongly streaked underside and canopy foraging are described in the species account.

• Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis

  A thrush that visits mountain forests north of Kyushu; females have browner flanks.

• Black Rosy Finch Leucosticte atrata

  The Black Rosy-Finch is a finch of the high mountains of western North America. It uses rocky high elevations for breeding and descends in winter.

• Spot-billed Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola maculirostris

  This small tyrant flycatcher uses rocky slopes and lake margins in the high Andes. It searches for arthropods on the ground and also uses gravelly river edges during the Southern Hemisphere winter.

• Afghan Babbler Argya huttoni

  The Afghan Babbler is a long-tailed babbler found from Iraq and Iran east through Afghanistan to southwestern Pakistan. It inhabits dry scrub and rocky hills.

• Angola Cave Chat Xenocopsychus ansorgei

  This flycatcher occurs in localized rocky mountains in Angola and Namibia. In Namibia, its range is restricted to the northern Zebra Mountains.

• Steller's Jay Cyanocitta stelleri

  A crested jay that searches for food from the forest canopy to the ground and stores food.

• Kikau Foulehaio procerior

  The Kikau, or western wattled honeyeater, lives on islands of Fiji. It uses forests and mangroves and mainly eats flower nectar and insects, often foraging in or just below the canopy. This account follows the current species treatment of Foulehaio procerior.

• 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.

• Saffron-headed Parrot Pyrilia pyrilia

  The Saffron-headed Parrot has a green body, yellow head and throat, and red feathers on parts of the wings. Small groups fly and call in the canopy of humid forest.

• Nicobar Parakeet Psittacula caniceps

  The pale grey head and dark facial bands are distinctive. This parakeet lives in coastal forest on a small group of Nicobar Islands.

• West Peruvian Dove Zenaida meloda

  This sand-gray dove has a white crescent mark on its wings. It picks up seeds from the ground and may fly in flocks.

• Baja Pygmy Owl Glaucidium hoskinsii

  The Baja Pygmy Owl is a small owl of southern Baja California, Mexico. Its yellow eyes and eye-like markings on the back of its head stand out.

• Rio de Janeiro Antbird Cercomacra brasiliana

  This antbird account is based on records from Rio de Janeiro state and nearby areas. Males are grey, females olive-brown, and the birds forage low in humid forest.

• White-throated Hawk Buteo albigula

  The White-throated Hawk has brown-and-white plumage with chestnut on the neck and chest. In Argentina it is recorded in Andean-Patagonian forest and the northwest.

• Ocellated Piculet Picumnus dorbignyanus

  This small woodpecker is recorded in northern Salta, Argentina. Males have red and white spots on the head; females lack the red. It occurs in savanna and scrub habitats.

• Lesser Ground-Cuckoo Morococcyx erythropygus

  The Lesser Ground-Cuckoo lives in arid lowlands from western Mexico to northwestern Costa Rica. It forages on open ground and, more often, in the understory.