Meet the world’s animals.

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• African Black Coucal Centropus grillii

  

  The African Black Coucal walks through wet grassland in search of small animals. Breeding adults have a black body and chestnut wings.

• Romblon Boobook Ninox spilonotus

  An owl recorded on Tablas and Sibuyan in the Philippines. The studied island birds had a relatively plain head pattern.

• European Greenfinch Chloris chloris

  This finch flashes yellow and green in flight. In the UK it visits gardens and eats seeds and insects.

• Philippine Collared Dove Streptopelia dusumieri

  A dove of the Philippine islands, it uses open woodland and farmland. Its pale underparts have a pink wash and its neck bears a greenish half-collar.

• 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.

• Green pheasant Phasianus versicolor

  A long-tailed bird of open woods, grassland and farmland in Japan. Males and females differ markedly in colour.

• Scaled Piculet Picumnus squamulatus

  A small woodpecker of Colombia and Venezuela, found in forest edges, secondary growth, and gallery forest.

• Mindoro Racket-tail Prioniturus mindorensis

  The Mindoro Racket-tail is a green parrot from Mindoro Island in the Philippines. The 1890 original description records a violet crown and nape and yellow-green face on an adult male.

• Torrent Tyrannulet Serpophaga cinerea

  The Torrent Tyrannulet is a small tyrant flycatcher recorded along Andean streams and rivers. The El Oro guide gives an elevation range of 700–3,100 m.

• Cinnamon Warbling Finch Poospiza ornata

  This small finch has a gray face and back, a chestnut patch on the mid-back, and cinnamon tones on its eyebrow and underparts. It breeds in Argentina’s Monte Desert and moves north-east in winter.

• Varied Thrush Ixoreus naevius

  Male Varied Thrushes have striking blue-gray and orange markings, while females and young birds are browner. The species breeds in Pacific Coast forests and changes its diet with the seasons.

• Tanimbar Flycatcher Ficedula riedeli

  A flycatcher of the Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia, using both primary and secondary lowland forest. The adult's white eyebrow and richer rufous breast are noted as identification characters.

• White-browed Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia amaurotis

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. It has a white eyebrow and throat, rufous-brown upperparts, a bright rufous tail, and pale streaking on the upper breast. It forages low to the ground.

• Tucuman Amazon Amazona tucumana

  The Tucuman Amazon is a large parrot of montane forest in southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. Its scaly plumage and green crown stand out.

• Planalto Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus pelzelni

  The Planalto Slaty Antshrike is an antbird of the lower forest layers in Brazil. A 2015 record from Sergipe described a nest at a forest edge where both sexes incubated and fed the chick.

• Mexican Violetear Colibri thalassinus

  A green hummingbird with shining violet-blue markings, it visits flowers along highland forest edges and clearings.

• Red-winged Grey Warbler Drymocichla incana

  This small warbler has a grey head and back with a red wing patch. It searches for small insects in savanna, riparian woodland and thickets.

• Collared Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza cirrocephala

  A small hawk of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea that uses trees or tall shrubs as cover before striking at small birds.

• Channel-billed Cuckoo Scythrops novaehollandiae

  The Channel-billed Cuckoo is a large cuckoo with a massive pale, down-curved bill. It migrates to Australia from New Guinea and Indonesia and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Black-and-white Owl Strix nigrolineata

  The Black-and-white Owl is a nocturnal owl with bold black-and-white bars across its chest and neck.

• White-vented Euphonia Euphonia minuta

  The White-vented Euphonia lives in humid tropical forest and nearby vegetation. Males have a dark throat and yellow belly, while females are olive above; the birds mainly search for fruit in the canopy.

• Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea

  The Vinaceous Dove is marked by a black patch on the back of the neck edged in white, with a pale pink-grey head and breast. It uses dry scrub and savanna south of the Sahara, foraging on the ground for seeds and other vegetation.

• Bronze-winged Duck Speculanas specularis

  The Bronze-winged Duck has a chocolate-brown head and neck, a white throat and facial patch, and a violet wing marking. The Argentine SIB lists the Andean-Patagonian region and Chile as its range.

• Reeves's Pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii

  A pheasant endemic to China, living in evergreen forest and open woodland. It scratches leaf litter for seeds, berries, leaves, and invertebrates.