Meet the world’s animals.

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• Band-tailed Sierra Finch Porphyrospiza alaudina

  

  The Band-tailed Sierra Finch forages on the ground in open Andean country. Males are gray with a white tail band, while females are brown and streaked.

• Rock Bush Quail Perdicula argoondah

  The Rock Bush Quail is a small quail of dry scrub in the western Indian subcontinent. It forages in small groups and may take dust baths.

• Velvet Scoter Melanitta fusca

  The male is black with a white marking, while the female has pale patches on the head. It breeds in northern Europe and uses coastal waters in winter.

• Buff-throated Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus guttatus

  A forest woodcreeper that moves along trunks and branches, with a buff throat and long streaks below.

• 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.

• Great Rosefinch Carpodacus rubicilla

  A finch about 20 cm long, found in mountain regions from the Caucasus to Central Asia and seen in Georgia in winter.

• Velvety Black Tyrant Knipolegus nigerrimus

  An eastern Brazilian tyrant flycatcher found in open grassy and rocky habitats, as well as dry forest. Its range has two separated populations.

• Marico Flycatcher Bradornis mariquensis

  The Marico Flycatcher is a small brown flycatcher with a pale eye-ring. It searches for insects in open acacia woodland and may drop from a perch to catch prey on the ground.

• Golden-collared Macaw Primolius auricollis

  This green macaw has a yellow band on its neck and nests in tree cavities.

• Bluebonnet Northiella haematogaster

  This Australian parrot has a blue face and throat and a gray-brown body. Its wing colors vary among subspecies.

• Henderson Fruit Dove Ptilinopus insularis

  The Henderson Fruit Dove lives in forests on Henderson Island, where it is endemic. Adults have a purplish-crimson crown and eat fruit.

• New Britain Boobook Ninox odiosa

  Adult New Britain Boobooks have reddish-brown upperparts and yellow-orange eyes; females are larger than males. They are nocturnal, living alone or in pairs and hunting from forest perches.

• Giant Antshrike Batara cinerea

  A large, robust antshrike with distinct male and female plumage; the Argentina account records it in forest habitats.

• Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli

  A large African vulture that soars over open country and feeds on carrion.

• Lewis' Woodpecker Melanerpes lewis

  Lewis's Woodpecker has a green-glossed black back and red belly. It catches insects in flight and may store acorns in tree crevices.

• Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis

  The Greater Coucal has red eyes, glossy black plumage and chestnut wings. In Singapore it often hides in dense forest undergrowth and gives a deep booming call.

• Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis

  This small bird lives in sub-Saharan African savanna and open woodland. It has a grey-tinged olive back and a belly whose yellow varies in intensity, and it moves actively among foliage.

• Perija Metaltail Metallura iracunda

  The Perija Metaltail is a small hummingbird restricted to the Perija Mountains on the Colombia–Venezuela border.

• Gold-ringed Tanager Bangsia aureocincta

  The Gold-ringed Tanager is restricted to the western Colombian Andes. In a Montezuma survey, most records were above 1,850 m and at forest edges, with many birds foraging alone. Nest information comes from a small number of observations.

• Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta

  Rock Ptarmigan live in Arctic and alpine habitats and change plumage with the seasons. The population in Japan is the subspecies known as the Japanese Rock Ptarmigan.

• Cape Teal Anas capensis

  This African duck has a grey body and a reddish bill. It moves in response to changes in rainfall and water levels, and feeds on small aquatic animals and plants in shallow waters.

• Grey-bellied Spinetail Synallaxis cinerascens

  The Grey-bellied Spinetail is described in reference data as a forest bird of dense understory that eats invertebrates. A 1997 specimen study recorded streaking on the breast of a bird considered juvenile.

• Andean Solitaire Myadestes ralloides

  The Andean Solitaire often lives alone in Andean forests and has a gray face and breast with a brown back.

• Thick-billed Siskin Spinus crassirostris

  The Thick-billed Siskin is a small high-Andean bird with a very broad-based bill. Males have black heads, while females have grey heads; both have yellow rumps.