Meet the world’s animals.

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• Marsh Seedeater Sporophila palustris

  

  This small bird eats seeds and lives in wetlands and damp grasslands with many seed-bearing plants. Outside breeding activity it may join mixed flocks with other Sporophila.

• Collared Towhee Pipilo ocai

  This large sparrow-family bird lives in the highlands of central and southern Mexico. It is marked by a rufous crown, black face and breast band, white throat, and olive back. It searches through leaf litter and low vegetation.

• Moorland Francolin Scleroptila psilolaema

  This francolin occurs on mountaintops in the Ethiopian highlands, in Afroalpine and sub-Afroalpine environments.

• Andean Duck Oxyura ferruginea

  This diving duck lives in the Peruvian Andes. Males have a reddish-brown body and blue bill, while females are dark brown.

• Itatiaia Spinetail Asthenes moreirae

  This small ovenbird lives in high-elevation grasslands of southeastern Brazil. Its long, frayed tail is distinctive, and it forages among grass and shrubs.

• Pale thrush Turdus pallidus

  A thrush mainly seen in Japan in winter. It favors dim woodland with undergrowth and forages on the ground.

• Tibetan Serin Spinus thibetanus

  The Tibetan Serin is a small finch with noticeable yellow in males and fine streaks on females. It forms flocks in Chinese mountain forests.

• Black-throated Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus granadensis

  This small bird lives in humid Andean forests and has a black throat patch. Peru Aves records it on the eastern Andean slope, including Peru.

• Rufous-fronted Laughingthrush Garrulax rufifrons

  This Javan laughingthrush has a rufous forehead and chin. It eats fruit and insects, and may forage in noisy small groups or mixed-species flocks.

• Buff-streaked Chat Campicoloides bifasciatus

  The Buff-streaked Chat lives in rocky highland grassland in southern Africa. It searches for food on the ground and on rocks, and males and females differ in plumage.

• California Scrub Jay Aphelocoma californica

  The California Scrub-Jay is a blue, white, and gray-brown jay. It lives in dry shrubland, oak woodland, and some urban areas along the Pacific coast, and caches acorns for later.

• Black Honeyeater Sugomel niger

  A bird of open woodland and shrubland in dry parts of Australia. Males are black and white, females are mainly brown, and it feeds on nectar and insects.

• Príncipe Sunbird Anabathmis hartlaubii

  This sunbird is endemic to Príncipe Island in São Tomé and Príncipe. It uses lowland forest, scrub and cultivated areas, where it gleans small invertebrates.

• Jamaican Parakeet Eupsittula nana

  The Jamaican Parakeet is a small green parakeet with olive coloring on the throat and upper breast. This account focuses on the Jamaican native form and on the habitat and food described for the species.

• Nicobar Parakeet Psittacula caniceps

  The pale grey head and dark facial bands are distinctive. This parakeet lives in coastal forest on a small group of Nicobar Islands.

• Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes

  The Crested Pigeon is marked by a thin black crest and a whistle-like sound from its wings when startled into flight.

• Javan Owlet Glaucidium castanopterum

  A small owl with a rounded head, chestnut back, and white underparts marked by long brown streaks. It is mainly nocturnal and lives in forest and forest edge on Java.

• White-shouldered Fire-eye Pyriglena leucoptera

  This antbird occurs in eastern Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. Males are black and females brown; both have red eyes. It searches for insects and other prey near the forest floor.

• Frances's Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza francesiae

  Frances's Sparrowhawk is a small hawk endemic to Madagascar. Females are larger than males, and the birds dash from open perches to catch prey.

• Scaled Piculet Picumnus squamulatus

  A small woodpecker of Colombia and Venezuela, found in forest edges, secondary growth, and gallery forest.

• Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris

  The Groove-billed Ani is a black bird with a high-ridged bill. It forages on the ground in flocks, searching for insects.

• Cricket Warbler Spiloptila clamans

  The Cricket Warbler is a pale, long-tailed bird of the Sahel. It lives in dry acacia scrub and savanna, often in pairs or small family groups.

• Green-crowned Brilliant Heliodoxa jacula

  This hummingbird inhabits wet montane forest from Central America into Colombia and Ecuador. Its green plumage differs between sexes, and it takes nectar from long flower bracts.

• Styan's Bulbul Pycnonotus taivanus

  This Taiwanese endemic bulbul occurs in eastern Taiwan and the Hengchun Peninsula. Its black head, pale cheeks, and orange or yellow mark at the bill base are distinctive.