Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bicknell's Thrush Catharus bicknelli

  

  Bicknell's Thrush is a small thrush that breeds in mountain forests of northeastern North America and spends the nonbreeding season in wet montane forests of the Greater Antilles.

• Chestnut-breasted Whiteface Aphelocephala pectoralis

  A small bird of elevated gibber plains in central to eastern South Australia. It uses dry shrubland and stony hills and plains.

• Gray-headed Chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps

  The Gray-headed Chachalaca has a gray head and neck and a brown body. It lives in groups in secondary woodland and along forest edges in Central America.

• Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens

  The male has a blue-black back and black throat, while the female is olive-brown. It breeds in eastern North America and winters in the Caribbean.

• Ashy-throated Parrotbill Suthora alphonsiana

  The Ashy-throated Parrotbill ranges from west-central China south to northern Vietnam. Greyish and reddish-brown cheek types have been recorded; it is active by day in dense scrub and tall grass and eats invertebrates.

• Large Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys hypoleucos

  The Large Scimitar Babbler has a long, heavy curved bill, dark brown face and back, pale throat and breast, and grey flanks. It forages low in vegetation.

• Northern Emerald-Toucanet Aulacorhynchus prasinus

  The Northern Emerald-Toucanet is a medium-sized green toucanet with cinnamon at the tail tips. Pairs and small groups move through the canopy of humid tropical hills and highlands.

• Red-headed Manakin Ceratopipra rubrocapilla

  This manakin lives in the understory of southern Amazonian forest in Peru. Males stand out with a red head on a black body, while females are green.

• Streak-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus insignis

  It occurs in humid forest understory in Venezuela’s southern tepui highlands. Males and females differ in head color and wing and tail markings.

• Common Woodshrike Tephrodornis pondicerianus

  The Common Woodshrike lives in scrub and open woodland in southeastern India and feeds mainly on insects.

• Rufous-vented Tapaculo Scytalopus femoralis

  The Rufous-vented Tapaculo searches the understory of montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes, including bamboo. Similar species can be difficult to separate by sight in dim cover, so the account recommends their calls as a safer clue.

• Western Parotia Parotia sefilata

  Males are black with a white forehead, an iridescent breast shield, and wire-like head plumes. They eat fruit and arthropods and perform courtship dances in mountain forest.

• Mistletoebird Dicaeum hirundinaceum

  The Mistletoebird is widespread across Australia. Males have striking black, red, and white markings, and the birds use high tree canopies where mistletoe grows.

• Bufflehead Bucephala albeola

  The Bufflehead is a small duck that nests in tree cavities and dives for food. Males and females have different plumage.

• Geelvink Pygmy Parrot Micropsitta geelvinkiana

  The Geelvink Pygmy Parrot is a small parrot from Biak, Supiori, and Numfor off Papua. It uses forests and nests in arboreal termite nests.

• Himalayan Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus

  The Himalayan Cuckoo breeds in eastern Asia and moves from Southeast Asia to northern Australia for the winter. Males are gray, with white spots on the underparts.

• Yellow-cheeked Becard Pachyramphus xanthogenys

  A first record of the Yellow-cheeked Becard in Madre de Dios, southeastern Peru, describes one pair in scrubby landslide vegetation. In that pair, the male had yellow cheeks and breast, while the female had a yellow eye-ring.

• Spotted Crocias Laniellus albonotatus

  The Spotted Crocias is a forest bird of Java with a long tail and white throat. It moves in small groups through the upper parts of lower-montane forest.

• Black-thighed Grosbeak Pheucticus tibialis

  This large finch occurs in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama. Males show a strong yellow-and-black pattern, while females and young birds are more olive. It searches for fruit, seeds, and insects in forest canopies and edges.

• Mascarene Swiftlet Aerodramus francicus

  A swiftlet of Réunion and Mauritius, it has brown upperparts, a pale rump and a shallowly forked tail. It roosts in caves and lava tubes.

• Chestnut-bellied Tit Sittiparus castaneoventris

  This tit is found in Taiwanese forests. It has a white face and deep rufous underparts, and takes seeds, nuts and caterpillars in mixed and bamboo forests on slopes and in valleys.

• Bearded vulture Gypaetus barbatus

  A mountain vulture with beard-like feathers below the beak and a diet centered on bone.

• Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivaceus

  This small grassquit is widespread around the Caribbean. Males have a black face and chest with a yellow eyebrow and throat, while females are dull olive. It feeds on seeds in grassy and weedy open places.

• Eastern yellow robin Eopsaltria australis

  A bird of eastern and southeastern mainland Australia. It pounces from low perches onto insects on the ground.