Meet the world’s animals.

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• Oriole Blackbird Gymnomystax mexicanus

  

  This large bird is bright yellow from head to belly and black on the back and wings. It walks across pastures and savanna in northern South America to forage.

• Chaco Sparrow Rhynchospiza strigiceps

  This sparrow uses dry grassland and scrub in South America. It breeds in north-central Argentina, and some birds move seasonally into Bolivia and Paraguay.

• Bicolored Babbler Cyanoderma bicolor

  This small forest bird is also called Gray-hooded Babbler in the source. It has gray-brown plumage with a chestnut wing patch and moves in small groups in the forest understory.

• Watercock Gallicrex cinerea

  The Watercock is a rail of wet grasslands, marshes, and well-vegetated ponds. Northern breeding populations may move south.

• American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica

  The American Golden-Plover breeds on Arctic and subarctic tundra and winters from eastern Brazil to Argentina.

• Yap Monarch Monarcha godeffroyi

  The Yap Monarch is a monarch flycatcher endemic to Yap in Micronesia. It uses lowland forest, mangroves, and coastal scrub, moving slowly as it searches leaves and branches for food.

• Antarctic Prion Pachyptila desolata

  The Antarctic Prion is a small seabird with a blue-gray back and white belly. It gathers over the Southern Ocean and feeds on small crustaceans near the water's surface.

• Grey-throated Martin Riparia chinensis

  This small swallow ranges from Central to Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong, records are from above open country.

• Sandstone Shrikethrush Colluricincla woodwardi

  The Sandstone Shrike-thrush lives among sandstone rocks in northern Australia. It walks between rocks while searching for small lizards, grasshoppers, and spiders.

• Blue-backed Manakin Chiroxiphia pareola

  The Blue-backed Manakin lives in forests of northern South America. Males have a black body, blue back, and red crown, and perform courtship dances on low perches.

• 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.

• Rufous-bellied Kookaburra Dacelo gaudichaud

  The Rufous-bellied Kookaburra lives in lowland New Guinea and nearby islands. The male has a blue rump and tail and deep reddish-brown underparts.

• Melodious Lark Mirafra cheniana

  This lark occurs in open grassland in South Africa. A study comparing it with a close relative describes color differences that are clearest in fresh plumage.

• White-winged Cotinga Xipholena atropurpurea

  The White-winged Cotinga is a fruit-eating bird of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. The male stands out with a black body and white wings.

• Mantled Hawk Pseudastur polionotus

  The Mantled Hawk is a large hawk with white and slate-grey plumage and a short tail. It lives in humid hilly forest and hunts reptiles, small mammals, and birds.

• Socorro Wren Troglodytes sissonii

  The Socorro Wren is a wren of Socorro Island, Mexico. Species accounts record it in dry forest and dry shrubland.

• Sunda Thrush Zoothera andromedae

  The Sunda Thrush is a thrush with a scaly-looking pattern on its back. It occurs mainly on Indonesian islands and also in the Philippines, searching for food on the forest floor and in undergrowth.

• Plumbeous Sierra Finch Geospizopsis unicolor

  This finch inhabits the Andean highlands. It forages on rocky ground and steppe slopes and may move to lower ground in winter.

• Southern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus xanthopterus

  The Southern Brown-throated Weaver builds its nest in reedbeds by water. The breeding male is bright yellow with a chestnut face and throat.

• Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius

  The Blue-headed Vireo searches for insects among trees in North American forests. Its blue-grey head and white eye rings are distinctive.

• 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.

• Yellow-throated Bush-sparrow Gymnoris superciliaris

  The Yellow-throated Bush-sparrow lives in open woodland and savanna in eastern and southern Africa, where it may be seen in loose groups.

• Black-tailed Cisticola Cisticola melanurus

  The Black-tailed Cisticola is recorded at scattered sites from eastern Angola to western Democratic Republic of Congo. An Angolan survey found it foraging in mature miombo woodland from near the ground to the canopy.

• Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe

  A small flycatcher of eastern North America, the Eastern Phoebe often launches from a low perch to catch flying insects.