Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-throated Whistler Pachycephala macrorhyncha

  

  This whistler lives in forest and wooded areas of the Moluccas. Males have yellowish underparts, and throat color varies among island populations.

• Pin-tailed Manakin Ilicura militaris

  Males are mainly green, black, and white with a red tail, while females are olive-colored and shorter-tailed. Males perform courtship dances and make sounds with their wing feathers.

• Azure-winged magpie Cyanopica cyanus

  A long-tailed bird seen mainly in eastern Honshu woods and residential areas in Japan. It lives in flocks throughout the year.

• Sulawesi Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx fallax

  A small kingfisher with a reddish-brown back and blue rump. It hunts insects and small animals on Sulawesi and nearby Lembeh.

• Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris

  A small bird of open country in North America that searches the ground for seeds and insects. Short feathers on the male’s head can rise like tiny horns.

• Red-crested Cotinga Ampelion rubrocristatus

  This cotinga ranges through the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. It has a grey body, dark head, wings, and tail, a brown crest that it rarely raises, bright red eyes, and a white tail band visible in flight.

• White-necked Hawk Buteogallus lacernulatus

  The White-necked Hawk is a raptor of Brazil's Atlantic Forest.

• Black-throated Wren Pheugopedius atrogularis

  The Black-throated Wren is a resident of lowlands and foothills in Costa Rica. Adults have a black face, throat, and chest, with chestnut-brown upperparts.

• Luzon Island Thrush Turdus thomassoni

  The Luzon Island Thrush inhabits mountains on Luzon. It is black with a browner, hood-like head. Current taxonomy includes the northern form and the southern subspecies mayonensis.

• Cochabamba Mountain Finch Poospiza garleppi

  This small finch occurs in the mountains around Cochabamba, Bolivia, including shrub-filled ravines and Polylepis woodland.

• Scaly-feathered Weaver Sporopipes squamifrons

  The Scaly-feathered Weaver is a small bird with bold black-and-white head markings. It forages in groups on seeds in dry open woodland and grass patches of southern Africa.

• Choco Vireo Vireo masteri

  It is recorded in humid montane primary cloud forest in western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It searches the upper forest for small invertebrates.

• Serra Antwren Formicivora serrana

  This small antwren occurs in southeastern Brazil. A studied coastal population of subspecies F. s. littoralis maintained territories.

• Iago Sparrow Passer iagoensis

  The Iago Sparrow lives in towns and dry savannas of the Cape Verde archipelago. It is accustomed to people and may visit café terraces.

• Rufous-eared Warbler Malcorus pectoralis

  Its face and ear coverts are bright chestnut, while the head and back are buff-gray with black streaks. It lives in arid and semi-arid shrubland and searches for small invertebrates low in bushes or on the ground. It may move locally in response to rain.

• Hammond's Flycatcher Empidonax hammondii

  This small flycatcher occurs in western North America and nests mainly in mature evergreen forests, often in the mountains.

• Large-footed Tapaculo Scytalopus macropus

  This tapaculo lives in streamside forest in the central Peruvian Andes. Adults are uniformly blackish gray and are often encountered on the ground.

• Blue-headed Quail-Dove Starnoenas cyanocephala

  This pigeon lives in Cuba's forests. Its bluish head and black-and-white facial markings stand out, and it searches for food on the ground.

• Island Swiftlet Aerodramus inquietus

  A swiftlet of Micronesian islands, with blackish-brown upperparts and dark grey-brown underparts. It nests in caves using plant material and saliva.

• Upland Goose Chloephaga picta

  A goose of Patagonian grasslands: males are white, while females have brown barred plumage, and both graze on plants.

• Gray-winged Francolin Scleroptila afra

  A finely patterned bird that blends into grassland, endemic to South Africa and Lesotho and found in mountains and rocky hills.

• White-rumped Falcon Polihierax insignis

  A small falcon found from Myanmar across mainland Southeast Asia. It uses dry, open woodland and savanna and mainly takes large insects.

• Rock Bunting Emberiza cia

  The male Rock Bunting has a grey head with dark stripes and a warm-toned underside. It searches the ground for seeds and insects and lives around field edges and woodland margins.

• White-rumped Cuckooshrike Coracina leucopygia

  This gray bird has a black face and tail, with a white belly and rump. It is restricted to Sulawesi and nearby islands and moves through the canopy in small groups.