Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-collared Starling Gracupica nigricollis

  

  The Black-collared Starling is a starling marked by a black-and-white collar and yellow skin around the eyes. It forages on the ground and also occurs in parks and farmland.

• Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis

  The Carolina Chickadee is a small bird with a black cap and bib, gray back, and whitish underside. In winter it may forage in flocks with other small birds.

• Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus

  A leaf warbler with a pale crown stripe that favors the upper parts of forests.

• Spotted Antpitta Hylopezus macularius

  A ground-dwelling antpitta of humid Amazonian forest. This account follows the populations assigned to Hylopezus macularius in the taxonomic revision.

• Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus

  The Pyrrhuloxia lives in dry scrub from the southwestern United States into northern Mexico. Its reddish plumage and stout bill are distinctive, and it searches the ground for seeds and cactus fruit.

• Painted Whitestart Myioborus pictus

  The Painted Whitestart has a bright scarlet belly and black-and-white wings. It fans its tail and moves through branches to flush and catch insects.

• Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus

  The Red-eyed Vireo is a woodland songbird that searches leaves in the canopy for caterpillars and also eats fruit in its South American wintering areas.

• Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris

  The Rufous-bellied Heron is a medium-sized heron with a dark slate-gray head and back and chestnut wings and belly. Its yellow bill and legs are also conspicuous.

• Ceylon Bush-Warbler Elaphrornis palliseri

  This bush-warbler lives in the mountains of Sri Lanka. It stays among low vegetation in damp forest and bamboo.

• Cerulean Kingfisher Alcedo coerulescens

  The Cerulean Kingfisher is a small bird with a blue back and white underside. It hunts from waterside branches and posts and eats small fish and aquatic insects.

• Little Green Pigeon Treron olax

  This small pigeon eats fruit in the canopy. The male has a slate-gray head and maroon wings, while the female is greener.

• Black-headed Waxbill Estrilda atricapilla

  The Black-headed Waxbill is a 10–11 cm bird of forest clearings and lowland, partly open habitats in Central Africa.

• Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola

  A migratory sandpiper that uses shallow freshwater wetlands in Australia, walking through water as it searches for small prey.

• Common Merganser Mergus merganser

  A streamlined diving duck with a long, narrow bill that eats fish. It breeds widely across the north and moves south for winter.

• Black-cowled Oriole Icterus prosthemelas

  This oriole ranges from Mexico through Central America. Males are black and yellow, while females and young birds are olive-toned. It eats fruit, insects, and nectar at woodland edges, orchards, and similar habitats.

• Chestnut-breasted Hill Partridge Arborophila mandellii

  The Chestnut-breasted Hill Partridge is a forest partridge of the eastern Himalayas. A chestnut band across the breast and a grey belly help identify it.

• Smoky-brown Woodpecker Leuconotopicus fumigatus

  A small woodpecker described from Costa Rica's mountain forests. Its brownish body has a small red crown-to-nape patch in males.

• Moluccan Hanging Parrot Loriculus amabilis

  This small parrot lives in the North Moluccas. It feeds on fruit in the forest canopy and is seen alone, in pairs, or in small groups.

• Black Hornbill Anthracoceros malayanus

  The Black Hornbill has a black body with white tips on the outer tail feathers. It forages in the upper and middle canopy of lowland forests.

• Lesser Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis murinus

  The Lesser Shrike-Tyrant is a tyrant flycatcher that catches insects on the ground. A species page from the National University of the Litoral describes it alone or in pairs, making short runs to catch insects and also perching at the tops of shrubs.

• Seychelles Brush Warbler Acrocephalus sechellensis

  This small bird has been conserved across the Seychelles islands. A 2001 action plan describes its olive-brown plumage and leaf-gleaning habits; a 2019 report says populations had become established on five islands.

• Pied-winged Swallow Hirundo leucosoma

  The Pied-winged Swallow is a small blue-and-white swallow with conspicuous white lines at the base of its wings.

• Plain-colored Tanager Tangara inornata

  A small tanager that moves through the canopy and forest edges. In Costa Rica it occurs in Caribbean lowlands, including along streams.

• Green-tailed Bristlebill Bleda eximius

  This bulbul is recorded in forests of Sierra Leone. It has a yellow-tipped green tail and pale yellow underparts, and searches for insects in dense understory.