Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus

  

  The lark sparrow walks through open grassland and scrub, searching on the ground for seeds and insects.

• Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet Phylloscartes ventralis

  The Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet has a long tail and two pale wingbars. It searches for prey in middle and upper forest layers, changing its foraging behavior with forest structure.

• Australian King Parrot Alisterus scapularis

  The Australian King Parrot is a large parrot whose plumage differs between males and females. It feeds on fruits and seeds in forests and forest edges of eastern Australia.

• Hill Pigeon Columba rupestris

  The Hill Pigeon lives in mountains from Central Asia to the Himalayas and also visits towns.

• Fuscous Honeyeater Ptilotula fusca

  This olive-brown honeyeater has a yellow patch on the side of its neck and uses dry eucalypt forest and woodland in eastern Australia. Some birds move to lower elevations in winter.

• Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maurus

  The Siberian Stonechat uses open grassland and scrub. Males change plumage between the breeding season and winter, while females and young birds are browner.

• Rufous-chested Tanager Thlypopsis ornata

  This small tanager occurs in Andean scrub and along humid-forest edges in Peru and Ecuador.

• Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo Carpococcyx renauldi

  A ground-dwelling cuckoo with a red bill and long tail, living in the forest undergrowth of Southeast Asia.

• White-headed Woodpecker Leuconotopicus albolarvatus

  This woodpecker has a white head and neck against a black body. It feeds heavily on pine seeds in mountainous forests of western North America.

• Asian Barred Owlet Glaucidium cuculoides

  The Asian Barred Owlet is a small owl with white bars across a brown to olive body. It is also active by day.

• Geomalia Zoothera heinrichi

  Geomalia is restricted to Sulawesi, Indonesia. The account identifies it as Zoothera heinrichi and notes that it was formerly placed in its own genus, Geomalia.

• Band-tailed Antshrike Thamnophilus melanothorax

  Male Band-tailed Antshrikes are black, with white shoulder and wing spots and a broad white band near the end of the tail. The species occurs in the northeastern Amazon and uses forest undergrowth with vines.

• Cachar Bulbul Iole cacharensis

  A bulbul of northeastern India and southeastern Bangladesh. Its plumage is similar to a close relative, while its call offers an identification clue.

• Black-chinned Siskin Spinus barbatus

  A small finch of the Andean-Patagonian forest region, it has a black head and throat in males and olive coloring in females.

• Crimson-fronted Parakeet Psittacara finschi

  The Crimson-fronted Parakeet is a Central American parakeet with a green body and red forehead. It eats fruit and flowers, travels in flocks, and gathers at communal roosts in the evening.

• Clark's Nutcracker Nucifraga columbiana

  Clark's Nutcracker is a corvid of western North American mountains. It carries conifer seeds and caches them in the ground.

• Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema

  A sunbird ranging from western and central Africa into eastern Africa. Males have metallic blue-green on the forehead, chin and throat.

• Cloud Cisticola Cisticola textrix

  This small cisticola lives in grasslands of southern Africa. The western Cape nominate form has streaking on the underside that can help identify it.

• Black Harrier Circus maurus

  The Black Harrier is a southern African harrier that hunts small mammals and birds while flying low over the ground.

• Spectacled Barwing Actinodura ramsayi

  This barwing lives in mountain regions from Southeast Asia to southern China. It has a bold white eye-ring and barred wings and tail; the crown and mantle colors differ among described subspecies.

• Laysan Duck Anas laysanensis

  The Laysan Duck is a small duck that hides under vegetation by day and forages around a salt lake at night. Its native range is Laysan Island, with translocated populations on other atolls.

• Black-bellied Thorntail Discosura langsdorffi

  The Black-bellied Thorntail occurs in Amazonia and in a separate range on the coast of eastern Brazil. Each region has a different subspecies.

• Red-shouldered Spinetail Synallaxis hellmayri

  This spinetail occurs in dry scrub and open woodland. A 2017 observation is documented in northeastern Brazil.

• Western Tragopan Tragopan melanocephalus

  The Western Tragopan is a pheasant that lives in forests of the northwestern Himalaya. Males and females differ greatly in plumage, and males display with calls and their appearance during breeding.