Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-throated Woodpecker Piculus flavigula

  

  This woodpecker inhabits Amazonian forest, including northern Peru. It may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Red-breasted Coua Coua serriana

  The red breast and blue bare skin around the eyes stand out on this coua from northeastern Madagascar. It walks on the forest floor for insects and fallen fruit and runs for cover when alarmed.

• Karthala White-eye Zosterops mouroniensis

  The Karthala White-eye is tied to montane heath on Mount Karthala, Grand Comoro. It moves in energetic flocks and has a narrow white eye-ring and yellow underparts.

• Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis

  A black-and-white kingfisher with a long bill. It can hover over water while searching for fish.

• Common Jery Neomixis tenella

  A small bird endemic to Madagascar. It uses woody habitats including forest, scrub, savanna, plantations and vegetation around villages.

• Many-spotted Hummingbird Taphrospilus hypostictus

  This large hummingbird inhabits forest on the eastern slope of the Andes, with records from southern Colombia to Bolivia. Green spots on the white underparts and a white mark behind the eye are key features.

• Charlotte's Bulbul Iole charlottae

  This bulbul occurs in the Sundaic lowlands. BirdLife lists the same scientific taxon as the Buff-vented Bulbul. A 2017 paper describes it as slightly larger, with a longer, heavier bill and paler undertail coverts than Indochinese Iole taxa.

• 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.

• Yellow-eyed Junco Junco phaeonotus

  The Yellow-eyed Junco lives in mountain forests from the southwestern United States through Mexico to Guatemala. Its yellow-orange eyes, gray head, and reddish-brown back stand out.

• Spectacled Whitestart Myioborus melanocephalus

  The center of its crown is black, and it has yellow spectacles and underparts. It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes, from south and east of the Marañón in northern Peru to central Bolivia.

• Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus

  The Sharp-tailed Grouse lives in North American grasslands and shrublands. In spring, males inflate their throat sacs and stamp their feet during courtship.

• Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator

  A large white swan of North America. It feeds on aquatic plants in shallow water and breeds along wetlands and lakes.

• Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis

  A large gull found around the Mediterranean and northwestern Africa. Adults have a gray back and yellowish legs.

• Chestnut-throated Spinetail Synallaxis cherriei

  This furnariid occurs in central and eastern Amazonia. Its wings are black, with chestnut upper coverts. In one northern Peruvian record, a bird called in young secondary growth and responded strongly to playback.

• Creamy-bellied Thrush Turdus amaurochalinus

  The Creamy-bellied Thrush is notable for its yellowish bill and pale belly. An Argentine account describes it feeding alone or in pairs, from the ground to low trees.

• Plumbeous Euphonia Euphonia plumbea

  Male Plumbeous Euphonias have blue upperparts and yellow underparts. They occur in savanna with scattered trees and along woodland edges, where they eat small fruit.

• Grey-and-white Tyrannulet Pseudelaenia leucospodia

  A small tyrant flycatcher of northwestern Peru and Ecuador. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of deciduous forest and in tall scrub.

• Scrub Blackbird Dives warczewiczi

  The Scrub Blackbird is a black bird found in western Peru's Andean foothills and nearby areas. It searches for food in scrub and semi-open places.

• Streaked Laughingthrush Trochalopteron lineatum

  This laughingthrush has fine grey and rufous streaks. It often moves on the ground among shrubs and forest edges around the Himalayas.

• Beck's Petrel Pseudobulweria becki

  Beck's Petrel is a small seabird with contrasting dark-brown and white plumage. It has been recorded at sea, but its breeding grounds have not been found.

• Arnot's Chat Pentholaea arnotti

  This bird inhabits woodlands of central and southern Africa. In the nominate subspecies, the male is black with a white crown and wing patch; small groups search for insects beneath large trees.

• Daurian Starling Agropsar sturninus

  Males have glossy purplish upperparts that contrast with a pale head and underside. The species uses forest edges and open plantations, moving to Southeast Asia for winter.

• Stark's Lark Spizocorys starki

  This small lark inhabits dry country and is nomadic, moving after rain. Outside the breeding season it may gather in large flocks.

• Dwarf Jay Cyanolyca nanus

  This blue-gray jay has a black face, a narrow lavender eyebrow, and a lavender throat. It searches for arthropods in humid mountain forest in eastern Mexico.