Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chinese Thrush Turdus mupinensis

  

  The Chinese Thrush is a thrush that breeds in central China. Dark spotting stands out on its underparts. It is usually unobtrusive and shy, though it can be easier to see in cold weather.

• Chestnut-bellied Mountain Tanager Dubusia castaneoventris

  This tanager ranges in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Its blue upperparts contrast with a chestnut belly, and it forages in the canopy of mountain forest.

• Black-bellied Cuckoo Piaya melanogaster

  This reddish cuckoo has a long tail. In Peru it is found in the canopy of tropical forest.

• Little Kingfisher Ceyx pusillus

  A tiny blue-and-white kingfisher of rivers, wetlands, and mangroves. It watches for prey from a perch near the water.

• Yellow-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Woodpecker is a woodpecker with striking yellow and red on the head. It probes bark crevices and eats mainly plant foods, as well as insects.

• Bolivian Tapaculo Scytalopus bolivianus

  A small, secretive bird of humid mountain forests from southeastern Peru into Bolivia. It forages on or close to the ground and uses forest understory and edges.

• White-eyed Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla leucophthalma

  This small antbird occurs in Amazonian forest in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia. Males are brown and gray, females are mainly brown, and both forage in the lower forest strata.

• Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus

  A starling with metallic blue-green plumage and yellow eyes, it eats fruit and insects.

• Yellow-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna elata

  The Yellow-casqued Hornbill lives in lowland evergreen forests of West Africa. Males have a cream-coloured casque, while females have a brown head and a smaller casque.

• Emperor Goose Anser canagicus

  A goose with a striking white head and gray body. It feeds on coastal plants and shellfish; Alaska’s Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta is one part of its breeding range.

• Grey-throated Babbler Stachyris nigriceps

  The Grey-throated Babbler lives in the lower growth of Southeast Asian forests. White streaks mark its dark crown, and throat color varies among regional subspecies.

• Bugun Liocichla Liocichla bugunorum

  This liocichla was documented around Eaglenest in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Observations included sites from roadside scrub to primary forest.

• Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater

  The Brown-headed Cowbird feeds on the ground in open habitats. Females do not build their own nests; they lay eggs in the nests of other birds.

• Collared Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza cirrocephala

  A small hawk of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea that uses trees or tall shrubs as cover before striking at small birds.

• Dusky Leaftosser Sclerurus obscurior

  Sclerurus obscurior searches leaf litter on the forest floor. Peru Aves calls it the South American Leaftosser and notes that Tawny-throated Leaftosser was used formerly.

• Cuban Vireo Vireo gundlachii

  The Cuban Vireo is a small, slow-moving bird of shrubby forest edges. It has a yellow spot in front of the eye and a white crescent behind it; a Macaulay Library record documents it at Viñales, Cuba.

• Melodious Lark Mirafra cheniana

  This lark occurs in open grassland in South Africa. A study comparing it with a close relative describes color differences that are clearest in fresh plumage.

• Rufous-vented Yuhina Yuhina occipitalis

  A field guide describes a small bird with grey and rufous in its crest. It lives in eastern Himalayan evergreen forest and forages in the canopy and among mossy trunks and branches.

• Collared Falconet Microhierax caerulescens

  The Collared Falconet is a small falcon of South and parts of Southeast Asia. It is active by day and catches insects and other small prey in flight, using open woodland, forest edges and farmland near water.

• American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea

  The American Tree Sparrow has a rounded body, long tail, and rusty cap. In winter, small flocks forage for seeds on the ground in fields and yards from southern Canada into the northern United States, then migrate to northern tundra as snow melts.

• Plain Parakeet Brotogeris tirica

  The Plain Parakeet is a small green parrot that eats fruit, flowers, and nectar and moves in pairs or flocks. It is native to the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil and also visits gardens where fruit is available.

• Chatham Islands Gerygone Gerygone albofrontata

  This small forest bird is endemic to the Chatham Islands. It gleans small invertebrates from leaves and crevices in branches and trunks, and sometimes feeds on the ground.

• Snow-capped Manakin Lepidothrix nattereri

  The Snow-capped Manakin lives in lowland humid forest in Brazil and Bolivia. Males are marked by white on the crown, nape, and rump.

• Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike Coracina striata

  This cuckooshrike lives in the humid forests and mangroves of parts of Southeast Asia. Males are grey, while females show bars on the underparts.