Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cape Francolin Pternistis capensis

  

  This southern African spurfowl has pale cheeks and a dark cap, and searches for food on the ground.

• Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra

  This waterbird is a rail with mostly black plumage, red eyes and legs, and a yellow bill. It is active by day in freshwater marshes, eating water insects, small fish, frogs, and seeds.

• White-winged Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucopterus

  The White-winged Woodpecker occurs in Central Asia, including Kyrgyzstan. Breeding-plumage males have a red nape mark, and the local account describes nesting in tree cavities in Kyrgyzstan.

• Plumbeous Euphonia Euphonia plumbea

  Male Plumbeous Euphonias have blue upperparts and yellow underparts. They occur in savanna with scattered trees and along woodland edges, where they eat small fruit.

• Philippine Duck Anas luzonica

  The Philippine Duck is endemic to the Philippines and has a cinnamon-brown head with a black crown and eye stripe. It feeds at shallow wetlands.

• Olive-backed Quail-Dove Leptotrygon veraguensis

  The Olive-backed Quail-Dove lives in wet forests from Central America to Colombia and Ecuador, foraging on or near the forest floor.

• Streak-headed Antbird Drymophila striaticeps

  The Streak-headed Antbird occurs in forests on the eastern Andean slopes and forages in dense bamboo undergrowth.

• Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Campephaga phoenicea

  The Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike lives in forest from West Africa through the Congo Basin. Males are blue-black with a red shoulder patch; females are olive with barred white underparts.

• Bornean Black-capped Babbler Pellorneum capistratoides

  The Bornean Black-capped Babbler is endemic to Borneo. eBird describes it moving quickly on the forest floor and rummaging through leaf litter in lowland and foothill forest.

• Golden-bellied Gerygone Gerygone sulphurea

  The Golden-bellied Gerygone is a small bird with a gray-brown back and yellow underparts. It occurs in many tree-filled places, including cities, across parts of Southeast Asia.

• Toro Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus hypochloris

  The Toro Olive Greenbul lives in forest undergrowth and streamside scrub, where it searches for small invertebrates in trees. An adult photographed in Kibale Forest, Uganda, has fine yellow streaks on its belly.

• Silvery-fronted Tapaculo Scytalopus argentifrons

  The Silvery-fronted Tapaculo occurs from Costa Rica into western Panama, in dense understory of wet montane forest and bamboo.

• Lined Forest Falcon Micrastur gilvicollis

  The Lined Forest Falcon is a forest-dwelling falcon of humid tropical woods. Adults have gray heads and backs, pale barred underparts, and conspicuously pale eyes.

• Red-crested Cotinga Ampelion rubrocristatus

  This cotinga ranges through the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. It has a grey body, dark head, wings, and tail, a brown crest that it rarely raises, bright red eyes, and a white tail band visible in flight.

• Barred Parakeet Bolborhynchus lineola

  This parakeet has a green body crossed by black bars. Subspecies differ in color intensity and range, and wild birds may form groups in trees.

• Dusky-headed Brush Finch Atlapetes fuscoolivaceus

  It lives on the eastern side of the Colombian Andes, moving in small groups through dense vegetation at forest edges and in second growth. The cited source does not report its diet.

• Yellow-billed Malkoha Rhamphococcyx calyorhynchus

  The Yellow-billed Malkoha is a large cuckoo endemic to Sulawesi. Its rusty upperparts, long tail, and thick red-and-yellow bill are distinctive.

• Yellow-bellied Tit Pardaliparus venustulus

  The Yellow-bellied Tit is a small tit that forms flocks in mountain forests. Males have black-and-white heads and yellow underparts; females are duller greenish grey.

• Ivory-billed Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus flavigaster

  The Ivory-billed Woodcreeper has a long, pale bill and conspicuous white streaks on its back. In Mexican and Central American forests, it searches tree trunks as it climbs.

• Buff-breasted Wren Cantorchilus leucotis

  It lives in secondary lowland forest along rivers from central Panama through northern South America. Pairs sing duets, and the birds search the understory for terrestrial invertebrates.

• Plain White-eye Zosterops hypolais

  The Plain White-eye is a small bird recorded in forests and open grassy places on Yap. A 1977 field account described dull gray-white plumage with a pale yellow wash below, small flocks, and feeding in both the canopy and short grass.

• Lucy's Warbler Leiothlypis luciae

  Lucy's Warbler is found in mesquite woodland along streams in the arid Southwest. Adult males show cinnamon on the crown and rump, while females and young birds can be duller.

• Tahiti Swiftlet Aerodramus leucophaeus

  This swiftlet occurs on Tahiti. The sexes look alike; the bird is dark with a grey rump. It catches insects in flight and nests colonially in wet, rocky, wooded valley canyons.

• Silver-crowned Friarbird Philemon argenticeps

  A honeyeater of northern Australia. Adults have a silvery-white crown, black bare facial skin and casque, and males are slightly larger than females.