Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura fuliginiceps

  

  This small ovenbird-family species occurs in Bolivia and northern Argentina. It has been observed on open hillsides.

• Gray Junglefowl Gallus sonneratii

  The Gray Junglefowl is a pheasant relative of forests and scrub in peninsular India. The sexes differ in plumage and leg colour, and males also have a seasonal plumage change.

• Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus

  This small owl lives in North American forests. It hunts small mammals at night and hides in dense conifers by day.

• Black-throated Sparrow Amphispiza bilineata

  Two white lines frame the gray face of this North American sparrow, and a black triangular throat patch stands out. It searches for insects or seeds on the ground in dry scrub, with its diet changing by season.

• Buffy Laughingthrush Pterorhinus berthemyi

  The Buffy Laughingthrush occurs in southeastern China, where it uses broadleaf evergreen and bamboo forests as well as plantations. Its head to breast is ochre-brown, with black lores and chin and blue bare skin around the eyes.

• Rufous-banded Honeyeater Conopophila albogularis

  It has a gray head, white throat, and broad rufous breast band. It occurs in mangroves, swamps, and riparian forest.

• White-crowned Wheatear Oenanthe leucopyga

  The White-crowned Wheatear is a black-and-white desert bird that watches for prey from a perch before dropping to the ground.

• Rufous Treepie Dendrocitta vagabunda

  A bird with a dark head, rufous-brown body, and long gray tail tipped in black. It moves through trees and eats a wide variety of foods.

• Black-headed Canary Serinus alario

  Males combine black, white, and chestnut, while females have a gray-brown head with a chestnut back and tail. This canary moves through arid scrub following rain and seeding events.

• Luapula Cisticola Cisticola luapula

  This bird uses wetlands and seasonally flooded grasslands in south-central Africa. Its upperparts are streaked, with rufous on the crown and wings.

• 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.

• Citrine Lorikeet Saudareos flavoviridis

  The Citrine Lorikeet has a green back and yellow, dark-scaled underparts. Small flocks gather at flowering trees along forest edges.

• Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea

  The Speckled Pigeon is an African pigeon with rows of white spots on its closed wings. It lives in savannas, open woodlands and gardens, and mainly eats seeds and grain.

• Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina

  The lesser spotted eagle searches from the air on long wings and catches small mammals and amphibians.

• Loveridge's Sunbird Cinnyris loveridgei

  Loveridge’s Sunbird is restricted to the mountains of Tanzania. Males have a golden-green head, a narrow violet breast band, and an orange-red breast; they visit flowers in montane forest.

• Yellow-bellied Dacnis Dacnis flaviventer

  This dacnis occurs in Amazonian rainforest near rivers and in wetlands. Males have a yellow belly and red eye; females are olive-brown above.

• Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus

  The male Vermilion Flycatcher has a bright red head and underparts. It perches low in open areas near water and catches flying insects.

• Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush Catharus dryas

  The Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush lives in Central American cloud forests. Its dark face and throat, yellow-orange eye-ring, and spotted pale underparts are useful identification marks.

• Whooper swan Cygnus cygnus

  A swan widely distributed in northern Eurasia. Adults have white plumage and bills with yellow bases and black tips.

• Chestnut-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus palliatus

  The Chestnut-backed Antshrike is recorded from southeastern Peru through Bolivia and Brazil. It occurs at forest edges and in secondary growth.

• Brown-cheeked Bulbul Alophoixus bres

  A bulbul found on Java and Bali. Its white beard-like throat feathers contrast with a mostly brown body and yellow lower belly.

• Brown-backed Parrotlet Touit melanonotus

  This small parrot occurs in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. A study at Ubatuba, São Paulo, in January–February 2011 recorded birds eating unripe Clusia criuva fruit. These feeding notes come from one study area.

• Golden-bellied Starfrontlet Coeligena bonapartei

  The Golden-bellied Starfrontlet is a hummingbird of cloud forests and other wooded openings in Colombia's eastern Andes. It has a black head and a long, straight black bill, and feeds on nectar.

• Tullberg's Woodpecker Campethera tullbergi

  A woodpecker of montane forests from southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon east to the highlands of East Africa. Males have a red forecrown and nape and spotted or barred yellow-green underparts.