Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little Pied Flycatcher Ficedula westermanni

  

  Males have bold black-and-white plumage, while females are subdued gray-brown. The flycatcher sallies from forest perches to catch insects; some Himalayan populations descend to lower foothills in winter.

• Chestnut-tailed Starling Sturnia malabarica

  The Chestnut-tailed Starling is a small, pale starling with chestnut on the tail tips and sides near the vent.

• Thick-billed Raven Corvus crassirostris

  The Thick-billed Raven is a highland corvid with glossy black plumage, a large white nape patch, and a massive bill.

• Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina

  The Western Bluebill is a small finch with black-and-red males and brown-and-red females. It feeds on seeds and fruits in forests and at woodland edges from West to Central Africa.

• Malagasy Palm Swift Cypsiurus gracilis

  This swift occurs in Madagascar and the Comoros. It inhabits open lowland secondary vegetation, uses palms for nesting, and catches insects in flight.

• White-gaped Honeyeater Stomiopera unicolor

  The White-gaped Honeyeater is recorded in northern Australia. A 1977 Northern Territory account says it is common in dense vegetation and mangroves in the far north, while farther south it is confined to waterside vegetation.

• Common Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus

  This sunbird is seen from forest to savanna. Males show iridescent green plumage with maroon and blue breast bands; females are paler.

• Yellow-lored Amazon Amazona xantholora

  The Yellow-lored Amazon is a green parrot whose adult male has a white forehead, yellow lores, and red around the eyes. The birds live in flocks and feed mostly in treetops.

• Masked Shining Parrot Prosopeia personata

  The Masked Shining Parrot lives on Viti Levu in Fiji. Adults are marked by a black face and yellow to orange coloring across the breast and belly.

• Pallid Dove Leptotila pallida

  This brown-toned dove has white tips on its tail. It uses humid forest and older secondary growth, walking on the ground to feed on plant seeds and other material.

• Rusty-barred Owl Strix hylophila

  The Rusty-barred Owl inhabits Atlantic Forest in southern and southeastern Brazil and nearby parts of Paraguay and Argentina. It is nocturnal and hunts small animals in forest.

• Nkulengu Rail Himantornis haematopus

  The Nkulengu Rail walks through dense vegetation beside streams in lowland rainforest.

• Streak-capped Antwren Terenura maculata

  A small antbird of the Atlantic Forest. It searches leafy middle and upper forest layers in pairs or family groups.

• Rufous Crab Hawk Buteogallus aequinoctialis

  The Rufous Crab-hawk has a rufous belly and yellow feet. It searches for crabs in coastal mangroves and swoops down from a branch to catch them.

• Red-headed Flameback Chrysocolaptes erythrocephalus

  The Red-headed Flameback occurs around Palawan in the Philippines. It uses forest and woodland and is treated as a species distinct from the Greater Flameback group.

• Giant Coua Coua gigas

  This large ground-dwelling bird lives in forests of western and southern Madagascar. The bare blue skin around its eyes is conspicuous, and it forages on the forest floor.

• Mangaia Kingfisher Todiramphus ruficollaris

  This kingfisher is endemic to Mangaia in the Cook Islands. An orange neck band is a field mark, and surveys have recorded it in primary and secondary forest and other island habitats.

• Banded Prinia Prinia bairdii

  The Banded Prinia skulks in undergrowth at forest edges and clearings, usually in pairs. It has barred underparts; eastern mountain birds may have a dark throat while other birds have a barred throat.

• Rufous-shafted Woodstar Chaetocercus jourdanii

  This small hummingbird occurs in the mountains of Colombia and Venezuela. The male has a rosy-magenta or purple throat above a white breast band.

• Bare-faced Bulbul Nok hualon

  The Bare-faced Bulbul is known from limestone country in Laos. Bare pale-blue skin surrounds the eyes and bill, and fine hair-like feathers run along the crown. It feeds on berries and is usually seen alone or in pairs.

• Green-and-gold Tanager Tangara schrankii

  The Green-and-gold Tanager is a small bird of western Amazonian forest. Its bright colors are shared by both sexes. A National Aquarium account says it forages in the canopy and descends to lower places to nest.

• Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni

  Nelson's Sparrow is a short-tailed bird with a yellow-orange face. It breeds in northern marshes and winters in coastal marshes of the southeastern United States.

• Pink-headed Warbler Cardellina versicolor

  This small bird is about 13 cm long and uses pine–oak and montane evergreen forest. The account describes gleaning invertebrates from vegetation. Sound recordings include Chiapas, Mexico.

• Greater Sage Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus

  The Greater Sage-Grouse lives in sagebrush plains of western North America. During the breeding season, males gather and display to females.