Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush Ianthocincla konkakinhensis

  

  Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush is a laughingthrush recorded in montane forest in central Vietnam. Reports from Laos remain uncertain.

• Red-and-black Thrush Geokichla mendeni

  A thrush recorded on islands of eastern Indonesia. A survey on Peleng found birds in hill forest and also documented fledglings.

• Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta

  The Bar-breasted Firefinch has pink markings on the face and belly. It ranges from western Africa to parts of eastern Africa and forages in grassland and savanna near rivers.

• Mikado Pheasant Syrmaticus mikado

  The Mikado Pheasant lives in Taiwan's mountain forests. Males have blue-purple plumage and a long tail.

• Bank Myna Acridotheres ginginianus

  The Bank Myna is a starling with a dark tufted cap and orange around the eyes, bill and legs. A study in northern Bangladesh found breeding colonies along riverbanks and similar sites.

• Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera

  The Black Saw-wing is a dark swallow with a long forked tail. It flies over forests and plantations and is native to wooded parts of Africa. The amount of pale color on the underwing varies geographically.

• Red-ruffed Fruitcrow Pyroderus scutatus

  This large cotinga inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peruvian account describes it moving alone in the canopy.

• Red-throated Ant Tanager Habia fuscicauda

  This bird occurs in the understory of lowland tropical forest and woodland, often in small groups. It may join army-ant swarms. Males have a small dark mask between eye and bill, while females have a contrasting buff throat. Current eBird uses Driophlox fuscicauda; the AOU account uses Habia fuscicauda.

• Black-eared Seedeater Crithagra mennelli

  The Black-eared Seedeater is a small, streaked finch marked by a broad black band through the eye and a white eyebrow. It feeds in miombo and mopane woodland.

• Nankeen Kestrel Falco cenchroides

  The Nankeen Kestrel is a small falcon with a rufous back and pale, dark-streaked underparts. It hunts in open country such as grassland and farmland.

• African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro

  The African Goshawk is a widespread medium-sized African hawk. Its plumage varies by sex, age, and region.

• Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus

  The crowned hornbill has a white eyebrow and belly and a red-orange bill. In moist evergreen forest it lives in pairs or small family groups and eats fruit and insects.

• Pied Honeyeater Certhionyx variegatus

  This Australian honeyeater moves in search of flowering shrubs in dry country. Males are black and white; females are grey-brown and white.

• Spot-breasted Oriole Icterus pectoralis

  The Spot-breasted Oriole ranges from southern Mexico to Costa Rica. It is marked by black breast spots and builds a long hanging nest from grasses or fine roots.

• Red-billed Curassow Crax blumenbachii

  The Red-billed Curassow is an Atlantic Forest bird in Brazil. Both sexes have a crest, but their plumage and bill colors differ.

• Curve-billed Reedhaunter Limnornis curvirostris

  This bird occurs in wetlands of Argentina and Uruguay. An 1888 natural-history account describes it in dense reeds rising from water, where it remains concealed.

• White-hooded Babbler Gampsorhynchus rufulus

  The White-hooded Babbler lives along forest edges and in bamboo in the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China, moving in noisy groups.

• Sharpe's Pipit Macronyx sharpei

  Sharpe's Pipit lives in the short grasslands of Kenya's highlands. Its yellow belly and black streaks across the breast are useful field marks.

• Perija Tapaculo Scytalopus perijanus

  A small bird of the Serranía de Perijá on the Colombia–Venezuela border. It occurs in humid montane and elfin forest and páramo; one nest was found in low growth at a forest edge.

• Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon

  A crested kingfisher with a large bill that watches for fish from a perch beside the water.

• Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola

  The Bay-headed Tanager has a chestnut head, green back, and blue-green rump and underparts. It eats fruit in forest canopies and edges and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Chinese Blue-flycatcher Cyornis glaucicomans

  A small flycatcher that breeds in western China and winters farther south in Southeast Asia. It is a rare passage migrant and winter visitor in Hong Kong.

• Clapper Rail Rallus crepitans

  The Clapper Rail is a large rail of salt marshes and mangroves in eastern North America, the Caribbean, and northeastern Central America. Its chestnut-and-gray body stays hidden among marsh grasses as it searches along mudflat edges.

• Ochre-lored Flatbill Tolmomyias flaviventris

  This small flycatcher has an olive back, yellow wing-bars, and yellow throat and belly. It ranges from Central America into northern South America.