Meet the world’s animals.

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• Madagascar Martin Riparia cowani

  

  This martin occurs in Madagascar. An older field report records birds drinking at a pool and one bird flushed from a nest tunnel in a roadside bank.

• Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus

  The Chestnut-capped Blackbird lives in South American wetlands. The male has a black body with a rufous-brown head, neck, and chest; the female is olive-brown with black streaks.

• Chubb's Cisticola Cisticola chubbi

  A cisticola of tropical African highlands. It occurs in grassy openings and forest edges, often in pairs or small groups, and gives a scratchy, rapidly changing song.

• Rufous-throated Solitaire Myadestes genibarbis

  The Rufous-throated Solitaire is a year-round resident of Caribbean mountain forests. It is mostly gray, with a rufous throat and white outer tail feathers; plumage varies among islands.

• Fea's Petrel Pterodroma feae

  The Cape Verde Petrel spends most of its life at sea and returns to the highlands of the Cape Verde Islands to breed. It nests in rocky crevices and cavities.

• Lowland White-eye Zosterops meyeni

  A white-eye recorded in the Philippines. An old museum catalogue describes the color of Luzon specimens, while Philippine Museum field notes describe small groups on Calayan Island.

• 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.

• Pacific Golden-Plover Pluvialis fulva

  In breeding plumage, its black face and underparts are edged by a white stripe, with gold-spangled upperparts. It breeds on tundra and searches the ground for insects.

• Austen's Brown Hornbill Anorrhinus austeni

  Austen's Brown Hornbill lives in closed forest. It eats fruit and small animals, and travels through the canopy in vocal social groups.

• White-collared Manakin Manacus candei

  This small manakin occurs in lowland forest edges and thickets on the Caribbean side of Central America. Adult males are black, white, and yellow; females and young males are olive green with yellow bellies.

• Tucuman Mountain Finch Poospiza baeri

  This finch occurs in the Tucuman Mountain area of Argentina and Bolivia. Its grayish body is marked with orange-rufous on the forehead, eyebrow, and throat.

• Band-winged Nightjar Systellura longirostris

  Its grey plumage with black and ochre markings camouflages it on the ground. It catches flying insects in open areas at dusk and at night, and rests on the ground by day. The range recorded here follows Argentina's national parks information system.

• 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.

• Flame-throated Warbler Oreothlypis gutturalis

  This small warbler lives in cloud forest in Costa Rica and western Panama. The sexes look similar, with a grey back, orange throat and breast, and a pale belly.

• Moluccan Cuckooshrike Coracina atriceps

  Glossy black head and breast stand out against the grey back and white belly. This cuckooshrike uses the upper forest canopy on the northern Moluccas and Seram.

• 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.

• Southern Hill Myna Gracula indica

  Adults have glossy black plumage, a white wing patch, yellow skin wattles behind the eyes, and an orange-to-red bill. They feed mainly on fruit and nectar and are usually seen in pairs or small groups.

• Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius

  The Blue-headed Vireo searches for insects among trees in North American forests. Its blue-grey head and white eye rings are distinctive.

• Slaty-crowned Antpitta Grallaricula nana

  The Peru Aves account of subspecies G. n. nana describes a gray crown and nape, brown upperparts, and rusty coloring on the face and underparts. In Peru it is recorded in humid montane forest.

• Bald Parrot Pyrilia aurantiocephala

  This parrot occurs in Brazil. Its 2002 original description used the genus name Pionopsitta aurantiocephala; the current candidate name in this dataset is Pyrilia aurantiocephala.

• Melanesian Flycatcher Myiagra caledonica

  This flycatcher occurs in New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. Adult males are glossy black; females combine grey and rufous-orange plumage.

• Oriental turtle dove Streptopelia orientalis

  A dove of East Asian woods, farmland and towns. In Japan, fine striped patches on the sides of the neck help identify it.

• Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera sylvia

  This kingfisher has a shining blue back and long white tail feathers. It moves from New Guinea to northeastern Australia, where it nests in ground termite mounds.

• Striated Thornbill Acanthiza lineata

  The Striated Thornbill is a medium-sized thornbill with greenish upperparts, an orange-brown crown, and a streaked pale underside. It searches branches for insects in southeastern Australian eucalypt woodland.