Meet the world’s animals.

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• Green-throated Mango Anthracothorax viridigula

  

  The Green-throated Mango ranges from northeastern Venezuela through the Guianas to northern Brazil. It is a hummingbird whose male has a green throat while the female has reddish upperparts.

• Black-capped Bulbul Rubigula melanictera

  The Black-capped Bulbul is endemic to Sri Lanka. The Ceylon Bird Club page uses the older combination Pycnonotus melanicterus; Clements uses the current spelling Rubigula melanictera.

• Three-striped Hemispingus Microspingus trifasciatus

  This tanager inhabits high-elevation forest on the eastern Andes. It takes small invertebrates and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Santa Marta Brush Finch Atlapetes melanocephalus

  Endemic to Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, this brushfinch has a black head, silver-gray cheek patch, slate-gray upperparts, yellow underparts, and olive flanks. It uses montane forest thickets and feeds on seeds.

• Crescent-chested Warbler Oreothlypis superciliosa

  This small warbler is common in Mexico's mountain pine forests and sometimes moves to lower elevations in winter.

• Bornean Partridge Arborophila hyperythra

  The Bornean Partridge is a pheasant-family bird of hill and montane forest on Borneo. It uses bamboo and thickets on the forest floor and eats both plant and animal matter.

• Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis

  This large waterbird lives around wetlands and eats mainly plant matter.

• Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus

  A tern that ranges widely over tropical oceans. It breeds on small islands and catches fish near the water surface while flying.

• Many-striped Canastero Asthenes flammulata

  A nesting study documented four nests of the nominate subspecies in the high Andes of northeastern Ecuador. Newly hatched chicks look different from adults.

• Orange-headed Thrush Geokichla citrina

  The Orange-headed Thrush has an orange head and underparts, with plain gray or brown upperparts. Facial markings vary among subspecies; in Singapore it searches wooded ground for insects and also eats fruit.

• African Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys alienus

  This finch occurs in Morocco’s mountains; a localized range in Algeria’s Aurès is reported in the literature. A male specimen from Glaoui had an ashy hindneck, a rosy-white throat, and a brown rump and upper-tail coverts.

• McConnell's Flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli

  This small flycatcher inhabits Amazonian forest. A 1978 paper, using the former genus name Pipromorpha, recorded it singing by creeks and taking insects from foliage near Manaus.

• Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus

  Red-winged Blackbirds differ greatly in plumage between the sexes. They nest in wetlands during breeding; the North American account describes a diet of mainly insects in summer and seeds in fall and winter.

• Variegated Laughingthrush Trochalopteron variegatum

  This olive-and-buff laughingthrush has a black throat stripe and a broad gray band near the end of its tail. It searches for insects and fruit in Himalayan woodland and scrub.

• Kerguelen Petrel Aphrodroma brevirostris

  The Kerguelen Petrel is a medium-sized, all-dark petrel with a broad range across the Southern Ocean. It nests in deep burrows on islands and feeds mainly on squid.

• Slaty-backed Forktail Enicurus schistaceus

  This forktail lives along rocky streams from the eastern Himalayas into Southeast Asia, where it searches among stones for aquatic insects.

• White-shouldered Triller Lalage sueurii

  A small triller of open woodland and lowland forest in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

• Fischer's Starling Lamprotornis fischeri

  This starling lives in wooded savanna and dry open thornveld in East Africa. It forages on the ground for insects and berries, in pairs or small flocks.

• Hume's Short-toed Lark Calandrella acutirostris

  Hume's Short-toed Lark breeds on dry, gravelly high ground and winters mainly in the northern and central Indian subcontinent. One bird recorded at Eilat in 1986 was described as rounder-headed and shorter-tailed than the related Short-toed Lark.

• Kashmir Nutcracker Nucifraga multipunctata

  The Kashmir Nutcracker lives in coniferous forests of the western Himalaya and eastern Hindu Kush. It eats seeds of blue pine and chilgoza pine, among other foods, and is reported mainly at 2,000–3,000 m.

• Yellow-rumped Mannikin Lonchura flaviprymna

  A finch of northwestern Australia. Adults have a pale gray head and yellow-brown rump, unlike the brown head and rump of juveniles.

• Plume-toed Swiftlet Collocalia affinis

  A small swiftlet of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Thai–Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sundas, it flies over forests and nearby wooded areas in Singapore.

• Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata

  The Red Wattlebird is a large honeyeater with a reddish fleshy wattle at the side of its neck. It feeds mainly on nectar, along with insects and fruit.

• Seychelles Fody Foudia sechellarum

  This small bird occurs in the Seychelles. Breeding males show yellow feathers on the crown and chin, unlike females, nonbreeding males, and juveniles.