Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mountain Robin Turdus plebejus

  

  Adult males and females look alike, with olive-brown upperparts and a pale buff throat. Outside the nesting period, it may forage in small flocks.

• Brown-rumped Seedeater Crithagra tristriata

  A small brown finch with fine streaks on the head. It feeds on seeds in highland scrub and woodland edges from Ethiopia to northern Somalia.

• Olive-green Tyrannulet Phylloscartes virescens

  This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in the Guianas and northern and eastern Amazonia. It is olive green with a white eye-ring and pale wing markings, joins canopy flocks, and eats fruit and insects. Its full distribution remains incompletely known.

• Spiny Babbler Turdoides nipalensis

  The Spiny Babbler is endemic to Nepal, with a gray-brown body and white on parts of the face and chin. It hides in scrub along field edges and streams and moves alone or in small parties.

• Himalayan Bush-robin Tarsiger rufilatus

  This flycatcher breeds in the high Himalaya and moves to lower elevations in winter. eBird and other references also call it the Himalayan Bluetail.

• Mexican Jay Aphelocoma wollweberi

  The Mexican Jay ranges from Mexico into the southwestern United States, inhabiting mountain woodlands in family groups.

• Kandt's Waxbill Estrilda kandti

  A small estrildid finch of a restricted part of Central and East Africa. It uses both dry tropical grassland and humid forest, searching for seeds on the ground or among trees.

• Alor Myzomela Myzomela prawiradilagae

  This honeyeater is known only from Alor Island, Indonesia. Its original description reports that it is mainly recorded in montane eucalypt woodland, mostly above 900 m.

• White-breasted Sunbird Cinnyris talatala

  A small sunbird whose breeding male has a white belly and iridescent throat and back, feeding mainly on nectar.

• Yellow-faced Amazon Alipiopsitta xanthops

  This parrot is marked by a yellow face and orange flanks or belly. In northern Bolivia it is usually seen in pairs and may form flocks in the austral winter.

• Geelvink Pygmy Parrot Micropsitta geelvinkiana

  The Geelvink Pygmy Parrot is a small parrot from Biak, Supiori, and Numfor off Papua. It uses forests and nests in arboreal termite nests.

• Grey-chested Dove Leptotila cassinii

  Grey-chested Doves have muted gray-brown upperparts with a slight purplish cast and pale underparts. They usually forage on foot, alone or in pairs, in forests from southern Mexico through Central America to northern Colombia.

• Mantanani Scops Owl Otus mantananensis

  This small owl lives in island forests and woodland. Its plumage varies from gray to rufous-brown, and it has a dark-edged facial disc and short ear tufts.

• Pale-vented Bush-hen Amaurornis moluccana

  A rail that hides in dense vegetation near wetlands. Its body is dull blue-gray, with a reddish-brown undertail, and its call is loud.

• Bamboo Antshrike Cymbilaimus sanctaemariae

  The Bamboo Antshrike is a bamboo specialist of southwestern Amazonia. Males are barred black and white, while females have orange-buff underparts.

• Brown Goshawk Tachyspiza fasciata

  A hawk that hunts in forests and woodlands, mainly in Australia. It uses its long tail and broad wings as it pursues birds and small animals.

• White-naped Woodpecker Chrysocolaptes festivus

  The White-naped Woodpecker is marked by a white nape and dark back. It searches bark for invertebrates in open woodland.

• Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus

  This African cuckoo stands out for its heavy yellow bill and greenish-blue back and tail. It searches the forest for insects and small animals.

• Saffron-breasted Prinia Prinia hypoxantha

  This small bird lives in highland grassland in southern Africa. It has a brown back and yellowish-white, lightly streaked underparts.

• Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird Chrysuronia lilliae

  This hummingbird occurs on Colombia’s northern coast. A 1992 BirdLife account often associates it with coastal mangroves, while also noting a record from dry scrub.

• Sjöstedt's Greenbul Baeopogon clamans

  At about 19 cm long, Sjöstedt's Greenbul is active by day and eats fruit in forest and riverside habitats.

• Indigo Flowerpiercer Diglossa indigotica

  This tanager inhabits humid forest on the lower western Andean slopes of Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Its brilliant indigo-blue plumage is distinctive.

• Bell's Sparrow Artemisiospiza belli

  Bell's Sparrow lives in dry scrub and has a greyish head. It searches for seeds and insects near shrubs.

• Spruce Grouse Canachites canadensis

  The Spruce Grouse is a grouse of evergreen forests in northern and western North America. It feeds mainly on conifer needles, and males and females have very different plumage.