Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chirinda Apalis Apalis chirindensis

  

  The Inyanga National Park survey recorded Chirinda Apalis specimens in forest on the upper slopes of Pungwe Gorge. The account notes pale yellow-brown irises and small insects in stomach contents.

• Violet-bellied Hummingbird Chlorestes julie

  A small hummingbird whose male has a violet-glowing belly. It feeds mainly on nectar in humid lowland and foothill forests of northwestern Colombia.

• Toro Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus hypochloris

  The Toro Olive Greenbul lives in forest undergrowth and streamside scrub, where it searches for small invertebrates in trees. An adult photographed in Kibale Forest, Uganda, has fine yellow streaks on its belly.

• Long-tailed Reed Finch Donacospiza albifrons

  This finch is patchily distributed across south-central South America in open habitats. Its plumage varies with age, feather wear, and geography, so the regional color pattern is described as a tendency rather than a rule.

• Botteri's Sparrow Peucaea botterii

  Botteri's Sparrow is a small sparrow of dry grassland and coastal prairie. In Arizona sacaton grassland, it searches the ground for insects and grass seeds and nests within a clump of grass.

• Red-faced Warbler Cardellina rubrifrons

  A small bird centered in Mexican mountain forests, it is marked by a red face, black cap, and gray body. It occurs in the southwestern United States during breeding.

• Blue Grouse Dendragapus obscurus

  The Dusky Grouse lives in western North American mountain forests. In spring, males display their neck sacs and red eye combs.

• Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata

  The Surf Scoter is a sea duck that nests in northern North America and spends the rest of its annual cycle mostly near ocean coasts.

• Royal Cinclodes Cinclodes aricomae

  This large ovenbird is recorded in high-altitude woodlands of the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, including Polylepis woodland. Its large bill is conspicuous.

• Chestnut-bellied Thrush Turdus fulviventris

  The male is a thrush with a black head, gray back and breast, and chestnut belly. It forages on the ground near edges of Andean montane forest.

• House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus

  Adult males can show red or orange plumage. House Finches also often live near people.

• White-throated Flycatcher Empidonax albigularis

  This small flycatcher is identified by its whitish throat and pale wingbars. It uses marshes and semi-open areas with shrubs, and winters mainly in lowland marshes.

• Grey-sided Laughingthrush Pterorhinus caerulatus

  This laughingthrush lives in forests of the eastern Himalayas. It has a brown crown and back, a white throat and breast, and broad gray flanks.

• Blue-and-white flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana

  A forest bird whose male has blue upperparts and a strong song.

• Black-throated Jay Cyanolyca pumilo

  A dark-blue jay with a black face and throat edged by a narrow whitish eyebrow. It inhabits humid mountain forests from Mexico into northern Central America.

• Beautiful Firetail Stagonopleura bella

  The Beautiful Firetail has an olive-brown body, a white-barred breast, and a red bill and rump. It searches the ground for seeds and lives in pairs.

• Eastern Spinebill Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris

  This small bird drinks nectar with its long, slender bill. Males have glossy black plumage, while females are more olive gray.

• Tsavo Sunbird Cinnyris tsavoensis

  Tsavo Sunbird occurs in Somalia, eastern Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania. Males are blue-green and black, while females are mainly gray-brown.

• Pearly Parakeet Pyrrhura lepida

  The Pearly Parakeet is a parrot of north-central Brazil. Groups of up to about ten may gather at good food sources.

• Ultramarine Lorikeet Vini ultramarina

  The Ultramarine Lorikeet is a small parrot surviving in the Marquesas on Ua Huka. It moves through the forest canopy and feeds on flowers, fruit and other foods.

• Comoro Blue Pigeon Alectroenas sganzini

  The Comoro Blue Pigeon is a dark blue pigeon with a pale gray hood. It feeds in fruiting trees in wooded habitats and may fly in small flocks.

• Oriental scops owl Otus sunia

  A small owl that breeds in deep forest and hunts insects from dusk into the night.

• Giant Coot Fulica gigantea

  The giant coot has a red bill and legs and a yellow frontal shield. It lives on high Andean lakes and builds a large nest platform from aquatic plants.

• Rufous-throated Antbird Gymnopithys rufigula

  An antbird of northeastern South American lowland forest, including the Guianas and northeastern Brazil. It follows army-ant swarms to catch insects fleeing from the ants.