Meet the world’s animals.

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• Coal-crested Finch Charitospiza eucosma

  

  A small finch of Brazil's Cerrado. In Bolivia it has been recorded at a few scattered sites in the north, where it also searches the ground in young growth after fires.

• Cameroon Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis

  A greenbul of the Cameroon Highlands. A field account near Bamenda describes it searching for insects and fruit among mosses, lichens, and peeling bark.

• San Blas Jay Cyanocorax sanblasianus

  The San Blas Jay lives along Mexico's southwestern Pacific coast and uses dry woodland and scrub. A study near Acapulco recorded year-round groups in the southern population.

• Javan Cochoa Cochoa azurea

  A thrush relative of Java's mountain forests. Males are conspicuously blue, and the bird keeps to the middle and upper forest canopy.

• Jerdon's Bush Chat Saxicola jerdoni

  This bush chat lives in grassland and other semi-open habitats. It is active by day and takes invertebrates from the ground.

• Plain Softtail Thripophaga fusciceps

  This ovenbird occurs in river-edge and floodplain forests in Bolivia. Accounts describe a long tail and a reddish iris.

• Yellow-fronted Parrot Poicephalus flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Parrot is recognizable by its green body and yellow face and crown. Its wild diet is poorly known, though leaves, seeds, and fruit are thought to be part of it.

• Rufous-winged Sparrow Peucaea carpalis

  A small sparrow of the Sonoran Desert, from the southwestern United States into northwestern Mexico. It uses dry scrub and grassland, and breeds around the start of the summer rains.

• Pied Honeyeater Certhionyx variegatus

  This Australian honeyeater moves in search of flowering shrubs in dry country. Males are black and white; females are grey-brown and white.

• Scaled Antbird Drymophila squamata

  This antbird inhabits the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. Males are mainly black and white, females brown and buff, and crown spotting varies among birds.

• Glowing Puffleg Eriocnemis vestita

  This hummingbird lives in montane forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes. Males are green with a purple throat and undertail; their plumage differs from that of females.

• Cisticola chiniana

  The Rattling Cisticola is a small passerine of dry savanna and open grassland. It has a rufous crown and streaked back and searches for insects in low cover or near the ground.

• African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus

  Males are smaller and greyer, while females are larger and mainly brown. It flies low over coastal and inland wetlands in search of prey and ranges from eastern to southern Africa.

• Sahul Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis variolosus

  The Sahul Brush Cuckoo often waits quietly on a branch for hairy caterpillars and other insects. It lays eggs in other birds’ nests, leaving the hosts to raise its young.

• Grey-cheeked Fulvetta Alcippe morrisonia

  The Taiwanese population described by the Ministry's bird guide is a forest bird with a grey head and a white eye-ring. Outside the breeding season it forages in mixed-species flocks.

• Wallace's Scops Owl Otus silvicola

  A small owl of forests on Flores and Sumbawa. Its gray-brown body has ear tufts.

• Olive-bellied Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris fuelleborni

  This sunbird lives in forests and more open woodland in eastern Africa. It mainly takes nectar and also gleans small prey among foliage.

• Syrian Serin Serinus syriacus

  A small finch with a bright yellow face. It nests in trees in Middle Eastern mountains and eats grass and herb seeds.

• Taiwan Green Pigeon Treron formosae

  In the Taiwan account, the male has a rusty-orange crown and nape, with some purple feathers on the shoulder. It eats fruit in the forest canopy.

• African Black Duck Anas sparsa

  A duck strongly associated with rivers, especially fast-flowing rivers and streams. It eats aquatic plants and small animals.

• Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui

  The Coqui Francolin lives on the ground in woodland and savanna. When alarmed it may freeze in cover, and it is often found in pairs.

• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius

  A woodpecker that drills rows of shallow holes in bark to lick sap. It breeds in eastern North American forests and migrates south for winter.

• Mustard-capped Lorikeet Saudareos meyeri

  Saudareos meyeri is a small parrot of Sulawesi's mountains. Its English name refers to the yellow on the head. The World Parrot Trust account uses the older combination Trichoglossus meyeri.

• White-throated Spadebill Platyrinchus mystaceus

  The White-throated Spadebill is a small bird with a broad, flat bill and a white throat. In Peru, it searches for food in the understory of humid montane forest.