Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops

  

  The Red-headed Quelea lives around wetlands and damp grassland; breeding males stand out with red heads.

• Marsh Owl Asio capensis

  The Marsh Owl is an owl of grassland and wetland. It is brown above and searches for prey while flying over open grassland.

• 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.

• Bare-eyed Thrush Turdus tephronotus

  This thrush lives in dry East African scrub and other open habitats. Gray, rufous, and white plumage is set off by an orange bill and bare skin around the eye.

• Jamaican Vireo Vireo modestus

  The Jamaican Vireo is a small, rounded bird with gray-green to olive plumage, a white iris, white wing bars, pale yellow underparts, and bluish-gray legs. It hides in dense vegetation, eats insects and small fruit, and occurs at forest edges and roadsides across elevations in Jamaica.

• Ocellated Antbird Phaenostictus mcleannani

  The Ocellated Antbird is an antbird of humid tropical-forest understory. Its blue bare facial skin is conspicuous; at a Panama study site it followed army-ant swarms to feed.

• Penan Bulbul Alophoixus ruficrissus

  This bulbul-family bird is endemic to Borneo. Adults are olive-brown with a conspicuous puffy white throat. It uses lowland and montane forest and feeds on fruit.

• Golden-browed Chlorophonia Chlorophonia callophrys

  The Golden-browed Chlorophonia is a bright green and yellow bird; adult males add a golden brow.

• Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis

  The Orange-chinned Parakeet is a small green parrot with an orange chin. It ranges from southern Mexico to northern South America in dry forest.

• Ruddy Crake Laterallus ruber

  A small crake of wetlands and wet forests. Its head is dull black, its wings and back are reddish brown, and the male has a rusty breast. It searches for food at shallow water and mud surfaces.

• Nava's Wren Hylorchilus navai

  This wren lives among limestone outcrops in lowland evergreen forest in Mexico. It searches for small invertebrates on rocks and in crevices.

• Rook Corvus frugilegus

  A social black crow that often feeds in flocks on farmland.

• Pirre Warbler Basileuterus ignotus

  The Pirre Warbler is a small warbler recorded in the Pirre mountains of eastern Panama. Museum and current species accounts place it in humid high-elevation forest.

• Blue Swallow Hirundo atrocaerulea

  An African migrant with glossy blue-black plumage and a long tail. At its breeding grounds it nests in holes in the ground.

• Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius

  This small plover searches along water for prey. It breeds in the UK in summer and has a yellow ring around the eye.

• Socotra Sunbird Chalcomitra balfouri

  The Socotra Sunbird lives in places with trees or bushes on Socotra. Both sexes have brown upperparts, a black throat, and a white cheek stripe.

• Rose-throated Tanager Piranga roseogularis

  This tanager occurs at edges of dry forest in the Yucatán region. Adult males have a rose-colored throat; females have yellow there instead.

• White-eared Tailorbird Orthotomus cinereiceps

  This resident bird occurs in the Philippines. BirdLife lists moist lowland forest as its main habitat and records it up to 1,000 m.

• Philippine Spine-tailed Swift Mearnsia picina

  This Philippine spinetail has long wings and a short tail. It catches insects while flying above forest.

• Chachapoyas Antpitta Grallaria gravesi

  Birds of the World describes the Chachapoyas Antpitta as a recently recognized Peruvian endemic that remains little studied.

• Andaman Nightjar Caprimulgus andamanicus

  A nightjar resident on the Andaman Islands. It has a bold black central crown streak, a white throat, and dark bars on the tail.

• Golden-collared Manakin Manacus vitellinus

  This manakin ranges from western Panama to western Colombia. At a Panamanian breeding site, males prepare small courts on the forest floor and court with wing snaps.

• 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.

• Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos

  This large vulture occurs in dry parts of Africa south of the Sahara. It has a dark body, white down on the belly and thighs, and a bare head with prominent folds of skin.