Meet the world’s animals.

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• Vinaceous Rosefinch Carpodacus vinaceus

  

  The mainland population ranges from the central Himalaya to mountain areas of western and southwestern China. It uses forest and semi-open habitats and feeds on plant seeds.

• Planalto Tyrannulet Phyllomyias fasciatus

  This small bird has gray to olive-brown upperparts and a pale eye-ring. It occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, feeding on insects and small fruits in the canopy of humid lowland forest.

• Gray-spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta

  The Gray-spotted Flycatcher is a small migratory bird with streaks from the breast to the belly. It sallies from an exposed perch to catch flying insects.

• Akun Eagle-Owl Ketupa leucosticta

  The Akun Eagle-Owl is a large owl with conspicuous white spots and a pale rufous face. It inhabits lowland forests in western and central Africa.

• Lark-like Brushrunner Coryphistera alaudina

  The Lark-like Brushrunner occurs in the Chaco, Espinal, and Monte regions of southern South America. A field study observed flock members helping to build nests and feed young.

• Olive-spotted Hummingbird Talaphorus chlorocercus

  The Olive-spotted Hummingbird is recorded in scrub and secondary vegetation on islands along Amazonian rivers. It has green upperparts, gray underparts, and olive spots on the throat and chest.

• Orange Ground Thrush Geokichla gurneyi

  The Orange Ground Thrush lives in mountain forests of eastern and southeastern Africa. Its orange face and chest contrast with a white belly, and it searches for small animals and fruit in the lower forest.

• Ash-throated Antwren Herpsilochmus parkeri

  This antwren lives in humid montane forest in northeastern Peru. A protected-area guide records it in mixed flocks in the canopy and middle levels at Alto Mayo.

• Baer's Pochard Aythya baeri

  This duck breeds at lakes with rich vegetation and uses freshwater lakes and reservoirs in winter. Breeding males have a green gloss on the head.

• Rock Parrot Neophema petrophila

  The Rock Parrot is a small parrot of coastal and offshore-island habitats along southern Australia. It searches for seeds and fruit in coastal grassland and scrub.

• Gray-bellied Cuckoo Cacomantis passerinus

  The Grey-bellied Cuckoo lives in woodlands, gardens, and plantations across the Indian subcontinent. It moves among trees and shrubs, taking flying insects and other small prey.

• Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar

  The Gabar Goshawk is a small hawk with a pale gray-and-white form and an all-dark form.

• Azure-shouldered Tanager Thraupis cyanoptera

  This tanager lives in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. It favors forested areas and may join other tanagers in the treetops.

• Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis

  The Buff-throated Apalis is a small forest warbler with grey upperparts, white underparts and a short tail. It occurs in forest from western to central and eastern Africa.

• Sand Partridge Ammoperdix heyi

  The Sand Partridge walks on rocky slopes and in valleys, feeding on seeds, berries, and insects on the ground. Males have white facial marks; females and young birds are sandy-colored.

• Blue-cheeked Amazon Amazona dufresniana

  A green parrot with blue cheeks and a yellow crown; its wild diet and movements remain poorly known.

• Fire-bellied Woodpecker Chloropicus pyrrhogaster

  This woodpecker lives in lowland forests of West Africa. Its account gives a length of about 24 cm, but the plumage description available here is for males only.

• Black-banded Fruit Dove Ptilinopus alligator

  The Black-banded Fruit Dove is marked by a white head and upper chest, a black breast band, and a grey back. It has a limited range on Australia's Arnhem Land Plateau.

• Yemen Linnet Linaria yemenensis

  A small finch of the highlands of southwestern Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It may gather in flocks at higher elevations.

• Streamer-tailed Tyrant Gubernetes yetapa

  Adults have strikingly elongated central tail feathers. In southern Brazil, a breeding study found that fledged young first foraged independently, then joined mixed-species flocks.

• White-vented Shama Copsychus niger

  The White-vented Shama inhabits forests around Palawan. Adults are glossy black, with white feathers on the outer tail and undertail.

• Whiskered Screech Owl Megascops trichopsis

  The Whiskered Screech-Owl is a small owl of Mexican canyon and foothill woodlands. It has fine gray, black, and white markings and feeds mainly on insects.

• Delta Amacuro Softtail Thripophaga amacurensis

  A softtail known from seasonally flooded forest in the southern Orinoco Delta of Venezuela. Fine pale streaks mark its back and underparts.

• White-bellied Emerald Chlorestes candida

  The White-bellied Emerald moves quickly among leaves, flowers and forest clearings in Guatemala’s Laguna del Tigre National Park. The local biological station also notes its role in pollination.