Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pale-vented Thrush Turdus obsoletus

  

  The Pale-vented Thrush is mostly brown, with a pale vent as a field mark. It may eat fruit in forests and at their edges, and gives a flute-like song from the canopy.

• Lesser Greenlet Hylophilus decurtatus

  The Tumbes population in north-western Peru is recorded in humid and semi-deciduous forest, from the canopy to the subcanopy. The local account describes an olive back and grey head.

• Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird Sciaphylax hemimelaena

  This antbird lives in lowland Amazonian forest and forests along the eastern Andes. Males and females differ in color, and it forages near the ground in dense vegetation.

• Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus

  This greenbul is marked by pale whitish eyes. It searches forest canopies and thickets, eating fruit as well as other foods.

• Blue Chaffinch Fringilla teydea

  The Blue Chaffinch uses its short, strong bill to eat seeds. Around Teide it forages from Canary pine woods to high-elevation retama scrub.

• Red-tailed Vanga Calicalicus madagascariensis

  The Red-tailed Vanga is about 13–14 cm long. By day it uses forest, second growth, and brushland in Madagascar and eats invertebrates.

• Plain Parakeet Brotogeris tirica

  The Plain Parakeet is a small green parrot that eats fruit, flowers, and nectar and moves in pairs or flocks. It is native to the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil and also visits gardens where fruit is available.

• Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolor

  The Uniform Crake has dark reddish-brown plumage, red eyes and legs, and a yellowish bill. It uses damp thickets and streamside forest, searching the ground for small animals.

• Thrush-like Wren Campylorhynchus turdinus

  Plumage brightness varies across the Bolivian account: a paler subspecies occurs through most of the country, while another is recorded in several northern areas.

• Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra

  The Corn Bunting is a streaked brown bunting with a sturdy yellow bill. It often uses open farmland and pasture.

• Somali Fiscal Lanius somalicus

  This shrike has a grey back and white underparts and searches for prey in dry grassland.

• Black-fronted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons

  The Black-fronted Bushshrike lives in mountain forests of eastern and southern Africa. Its underparts occur in several color forms, and it sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.

• White-naped Jay Cyanocorax cyanopogon

  The white nape is a useful clue to this jay's identity. In dry scrub and woodland of eastern Brazil, it eats insects and other small animals as well as fruit and berries.

• Masked Yellowthroat Geothlypis aequinoctialis

  This small bird has yellow underparts and yellowish-green upperparts. Males have a black facial mask, which females lack; their facial markings also differ.

• Red-throated Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon rufigula

  The Red-throated Cliff Swallow is a small swallow with a black and glossy blue-black back and rufous markings around the face. It catches flying insects in flocks and nests in colonies near cliffs and gorges.

• Citron-throated Toucan Ramphastos citreolaemus

  This toucan ranges from northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela. It feeds on fruit in the canopy of humid 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.

• White-crowned Lapwing Vanellus albiceps

  The White-crowned Lapwing has a white forehead and crown, gray face, brown back, and white underside. It walks along riversides looking for insects and other small invertebrates.

• Green-eared Barbet Psilopogon faiostrictus

  The Green-eared Barbet has green upperparts and paler underparts. In the source's male description, brown streaks mark the crown and nape, with green ear coverts. Its main food is fruit.

• Rufous-necked Puffbird Malacoptila rufa

  This puffbird lives in Amazonian lowland forest. Its gray head, rufous neck, and white crescent on the chest stand out; it is recorded most often in the understory of várzea forest.

• Cameroon Blue-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra oritis

  This small sunbird lives in highland forests, where it uses flower nectar and dense woodland cover.

• Western Orphean Warbler Curruca hortensis

  The Western Orphean Warbler is a migratory warbler that breeds around the Mediterranean. The male has a gray head and back, a white throat, and pale pinkish underparts.

• Lesser Ground Robin Amalocichla incerta

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in mid-mountain forests on mainland New Guinea. A breeding study in the YUS Conservation Area on the Huon Peninsula recorded a pair carrying food to a nestling. It has a brown head, rufous-brown upperparts, and pale underparts.

• Painted Bunting Passerina ciris

  The Painted Bunting is a small bird that breeds in the south-central and coastal southeastern United States. It searches for seeds during migration and winter.