Meet the world’s animals.

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• Botteri's Sparrow Peucaea botterii

  

  Botteri's Sparrow is a small sparrow of dry grassland and coastal prairie. In Arizona sacaton grassland, it searches the ground for insects and grass seeds and nests within a clump of grass.

• Jelski's Black Tyrant Knipolegus signatus

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded on the eastern Andean slope of Peru, foraging along humid montane forest edges and in scrub at 1,800–2,700 m.

• Black-winged Lory Eos cyanogenia

  A lory of islands off Indonesian Papua, with a red body, blue ear patch, and black wings.

• Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus

  A dove of dry savanna woodland and scrub that feeds on grass and other small seeds. It is also found near water.

• Short-bearded Honeyeater Melionyx nouhuysi

  This dark-plumaged honeyeater has a short, white beard-like throat tuft. It lives in high mountains of western New Guinea among trees and shrubs.

• Grey Tit-Flycatcher Myioparus plumbeus

  This flycatcher is widespread across sub-Saharan Africa. It has gray upperparts, a white eye-ring and white outer tail feathers, and feeds on insects in riverine forest, mature woodland and savanna.

• St Lucia Black Finch Melanospiza richardsoni

  The St. Lucia Black Finch is a small bird native only to Saint Lucia. Males are entirely black; females have a buff-brown body and gray head. It lives in dense forest understory and is often seen in pairs feeding on the ground.

• Sulawesi Cuckoo Cuculus crassirostris

  This cuckoo lives in forests on Sulawesi. It has a gray head, a barred belly, and a banded tail, and it feeds on insects.

• Grey-and-buff Woodpecker Hemicircus concretus

  This small woodpecker searches among branches and leaves for invertebrates in humid forests.

• Bare-shanked Screech Owl Megascops clarkii

  The facial disc is cinnamon to tawny brown and the eyes are pale yellow. Its brown upperparts are heavily marked with black, the shoulders show a white band, and the lower tarsi and toes are bare. It is nocturnal, roosting by day in dense foliage or among epiphytes. It hunts large insects and small rodents at dusk and at night, usually along forest edges and clearings. Family-sized groups may roost close together.

• Sumatran Cochoa Cochoa beccarii

  The Sumatran Cochoa is a difficult-to-see bird of the mountain forests of Sumatra.

• Long-winged Antwren Myrmotherula longipennis

  This antwren forages in the middle levels of Amazonian forest. Males are gray with a black throat; females are brown to rufous-brown, and the birds often join mixed-species flocks.

• Sooty-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus aurigaster

  This bulbul has a dark head, brown body, and red undertail. In Thailand it is found around towns, plantations, and forest edges, foraging in pairs or small flocks.

• Red-fronted Rosefinch Carpodacus puniceus

  The Red-fronted Rosefinch is about 20 cm long and eats plant seeds on rocky, shrub-covered high slopes by day. Call-recording sites in western China, including Qinghai and Sichuan, show only part of its range.

• Brown-breasted Parakeet Pyrrhura calliptera

  The Brown-breasted Parakeet is a green parakeet that lives in small flocks in the humid montane forests of Colombia’s Eastern Andes, eating fruit, flowers, and seeds.

• House Crow Corvus splendens

  A crow of South Asian settlements and farmland that feeds on a wide range of animal and plant foods, including human food scraps.

• Western Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei

  The Western Violet-backed Sunbird is a small, short-billed bird. Males show violet on the head, back, and throat. It ranges across sub-Saharan Africa and uses woodland and savanna edges.

• Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans

  The Singing Cisticola is a small bird marked by rufous areas on its head and wings. It lives in scrub, overgrown farmland, and moist savanna, usually in pairs or small groups.

• Plain-breasted Hawk Accipiter ventralis

  This small hawk occurs in Andean mountain forest and cloud forest. Its plumage is variable; one adult-male form in the guide has reddish-brown flanks and thighs.

• Streaked Laughingthrush Trochalopteron lineatum

  This laughingthrush has fine grey and rufous streaks. It often moves on the ground among shrubs and forest edges around the Himalayas.

• Chubut Steamer Duck Tachyeres leucocephalus

  The Chubut Steamer Duck is a flightless sea duck found along the Patagonian coast. A study at a breeding site recorded it feeding on crabs, mussels, and ragworms during low tide.

• Great-billed Hermit Phaethornis malaris

  The Great-billed Hermit lives in lowland forest across much of northern South America. Its long, curved bill and elongated central tail feathers are distinctive.

• Creamy-crested Spinetail Cranioleuca albicapilla

  The Creamy-crested Spinetail occurs in the inter-Andean valleys of central and southern Peru, where it is recorded in scrub and riparian forest.

• White-throated Francolin Campocolinus albogularis

  This ground-dwelling bird walks through savanna with patches of grass. Males and females have different breast patterns.