Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-billed Nuthatch Sitta solangiae

  

  The Yellow-billed Nuthatch has a yellow bill and violet-blue upperparts. It has a scattered, local range in Vietnam, Hainan, and Laos, where it moves through forest while searching for insects.

• Olivaceous Flycatcher Muscicapa olivascens

  

  This small flycatcher lives in humid forests of West and Central Africa. It launches from a perch to catch insects in the air.

• White-bellied Fantail Rhipidura euryura

  

  The White-bellied Fantail lives in moist mountain forests on Java. Its gray body has a white belly and a broad white stripe above each eye.

• Flame-colored Tanager Piranga bidentata

  

  This tanager lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Panama. Adult males are orange-red and females are yellow, and the birds search for food in the canopy.

• White-bellied Cuckooshrike Coracina papuensis

  

  This cuckooshrike has a gray body, white belly, and a dark line through the eye. The Australian account describes birds feeding on insects and fruit in trees.

• Common Myna Acridotheres tristis

  

  A brown bird with a black head and a yellow bare patch behind the eye. In Singapore, it is an introduced resident of urban areas.

• White-banded Mockingbird Mimus triurus

  The White-banded Mockingbird is marked by a white wing band and a cinnamon-colored rump. It walks through dry scrub and grassland in Argentina while searching for insects and other small prey.

• Bengal Bush Lark Plocealauda assamica

  A lark of open country in South Asia. It forages on the ground and also occurs on dry, stony ground and cultivated land.

• Black Pitohui Melanorectes nigrescens

  This whistler relative inhabits mid-mountain forest on mainland New Guinea. Males are black, females olive-brown to rufous, and the birds forage for arthropods.

• Evergreen Forest Warbler Bradypterus lopezi

  The Evergreen Forest Warbler is a small bird recorded in moist forests and wet shrubland across scattered African highlands. It is about 15 cm long and weighs 15–21 g.

• Stiles's Tapaculo Scytalopus stilesi

  Stiles's Tapaculo lives in humid montane forest in Colombia's Central Cordillera. It has dark plumage and searches for food in undergrowth and near the forest floor.

• Black-crowned Tityra Tityra inquisitor

  It ranges from Middle America through the northern two-thirds of South America east of the Andes. In Costa Rica it is a resident of lowlands, where it eats fruit and insects and nests in tree cavities.

• White-billed Crow Corvus woodfordi

  The White-billed Crow has a large pale bill with a dark tip and glossy black plumage with a green sheen. It moves through rainforest singly, in pairs, or in small groups.

• Fawn-breasted Waxbill Estrilda paludicola

  A waxbill widespread from western to eastern Africa. It searches grassy savanna for seeds and is marked by a red bill and rump with a fawn breast.

• Gray Swiftlet Aerodramus vanikorensis

  Long wings and gray-brown plumage identify this swiftlet. It glides through the air and builds a nest using moss.

• Tawny-crowned Honeyeater Gliciphila melanops

  This honeyeater lives mainly along the coasts and shrublands of southern Australia. Adults have a tawny crown separated from the black face by a white line, and eat nectar and insects. Juveniles have different facial markings.

• Brünnich's Guillemot Uria lomvia

  An Arctic seabird. In Svalbard, it breeds on narrow cliff ledges; chicks head to sea with a parent before they can fly.

• Yellow-billed Spoonbill Platalea flavipes

  This white waterbird has a yellow face, spatulate bill, and yellow legs. In shallow water it sweeps its bill from side to side, searching mainly for aquatic insects.

• African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus

  The African Golden Oriole breeds in tree-rich savannas south of the Sahara and moves seasonally between regions.

• Przevalski's Parrotbill Suthora przewalskii

  Suthora przewalskii is a parrotbill of the mountains of central China. It has an ash-grey crown, chestnut throat and upper breast, and pale grey-buffy belly, and searches for insects in open coniferous forest with bamboo.

• South Georgia Shag Leucocarbo georgianus

  This seabird breeds around South Georgia. During a chick-rearing study on Bird Island, feeding trips involved diving, and males and females differed in the timing of their trips.

• Black Guan Chamaepetes unicolor

  The Black Guan is a large highland bird found from Costa Rica to western Panama. Its black plumage, red eye, and blue bare skin around the face are distinctive.

• Crow-billed Drongo Dicrurus annectans

  Singapore's National Parks Board describes winter records in the country. The bird is mostly black with a black bill and uses shaded understory in wooded parks and waterside trees.

• Grey-sided Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys swinhoei

  The Grey-sided Scimitar Babbler lives in forest and scrub in eastern and southeastern China. It probes near the ground for insects and plant matter. Its account gives a broad March–June breeding period for much of its range.