Meet the world’s animals.

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• Abyssinian Thrush Turdus abyssinicus

  

  A thrush of eastern African highlands, recorded in forest, scrub, inland wetlands and human-modified habitats. BirdLife International’s 2016 assessment classifies it as an altitudinal migrant.

• Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus

  The Red-fronted Serin is a small finch of mountain slopes and meadows that feeds mainly on seeds. In winter it may descend to lower valleys.

• Brown-capped Tyrannulet Ornithion brunneicapillus

  The Brown-capped Tyrannulet is a small bird of forest canopy, usually seen alone or in pairs. It has a short tail and yellow underparts, with a white eyebrow that curves across the forehead.

• Chinese Rubythroat Calliope tschebaiewi

  A paper reports one vagrant adult male in Uttarakhand, northern India. This single record does not establish a regular range there.

• Turquoise-fronted Amazon Amazona aestiva

  This large parrot has a green body, blue forehead, and yellow face. It lives in South American forests and savannas, eating nuts and other plant foods.

• Gray-headed Lovebird Agapornis canus

  This lovebird is native to Madagascar. Males have a pale gray head and upper chest, while those areas are green in females. Wild birds feed on grass seeds.

• Cinnamon-headed Green Pigeon Treron fulvicollis

  The male is a green pigeon with an orange-rufous head and maroon wings, and it eats fruit. It lives in coastal forest and mangroves of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo.

• Powerful Boobook Ninox strenua

  The Powerful Boobook is a large owl of forests in eastern and south-eastern Australia. It hunts mainly arboreal mammals, often waiting from a tree perch.

• Chestnut-backed Antbird Poliocrania exsul

  The Chestnut-backed Antbird is described as an understory bird of lowland tropical forest from Honduras to Ecuador. The committee page describes five subspecies in two broad groups distinguished in part by white wing spots.

• Egyptian vulture Neophron percnopterus

  A vulture known for a white body, yellow face and occasional use of stones as tools.

• Williamson's Sapsucker Sphyrapicus thyroideus

  Williamson's Sapsucker is a woodpecker of western North American mountains. Males and females look very different, and the birds eat conifer sap and insects.

• Red-fronted Coua Coua reynaudii

  The Red-fronted Coua is often active on the ground in forests of eastern Madagascar. Its rufous head and blue-green wings are distinctive.

• Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus

  Cisticola marginatus occurs in western and eastern sub-Saharan Africa. The nominate subspecies in breeding plumage has a rufous crown and dark dorsal streaks.

• Rainbow-bearded Thornbill Chalcostigma herrani

  This hummingbird occurs in the northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Males have an elongated, multicoloured gorget; both sexes have white-tipped tails.

• Band-tailed Seedeater Catamenia analis

  The Band-tailed Seedeater is a small bird whose male has blue-gray plumage and a white tail band. It feeds in dry montane scrub and other open habitats.

• Green-legged Partridge Tropicoperdix chloropus

  The Green-legged Partridge is a forest-dwelling Asian pheasant. A study in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, recorded ground nests with females incubating alone.

• Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor

  A long-legged duck with fulvous and black plumage that feeds in shallow wetlands.

• Tufted Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura platensis

  It is a small bird of southeastern South America’s shrubland and open woodland. Its crest and long tail stand out, and it searches for food on the ground and low vegetation.

• Aztec Thrush Ridgwayia pinicola

  The Aztec Thrush has dark brown-black upperparts and a white underside. It lives in moist montane forest in Mexico and includes fruit in its diet.

• Golden-browed Chlorophonia Chlorophonia callophrys

  The Golden-browed Chlorophonia is a bright green and yellow bird; adult males add a golden brow.

• Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer

  The Dusky-capped Flycatcher has a gray chest, yellow belly, and rusty highlights in the wings. It forages within tree foliage for insects.

• Chestnut-naped Forktail Enicurus ruficapillus

  This streamside bird is notable for its chestnut head and black-and-white tail. It searches for insects along rivers and streams in humid Southeast Asian forests.

• Cobalt-winged Parakeet Brotogeris cyanoptera

  This small parakeet has a yellow-green body and blue-violet wings. Outside the breeding season it moves through the canopy in flocks and gathers with other parrots at clay licks.

• Pesquet's Parrot Psittrichas fulgidus

  Pesquet’s Parrot has a mostly bare face, dark upperparts, and red lower belly and underwings. Adult males have a red mark behind the eye.