Meet the world’s animals.

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• Golden-cheeked Warbler Setophaga chrysoparia

  

  The Golden-cheeked Warbler is a small bird whose adult male has golden cheeks against black plumage. Its breeding grounds are juniper-oak woodlands in central Texas.

• Udzungwa Forest Partridge Xenoperdix udzungwensis

  The Udzungwa Forest Partridge was described from restricted montane forest in Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains. It walks on the forest floor in small groups while searching for food.

• Cape Longclaw Macronyx capensis

  The adult has an orange throat and a black band across the upper breast. In Southern African grasslands it searches on the ground and among low vegetation for food.

• Laysan Duck Anas laysanensis

  The Laysan Duck is a small duck that hides under vegetation by day and forages around a salt lake at night. Its native range is Laysan Island, with translocated populations on other atolls.

• Gray Gull Leucophaeus modestus

  The Gray Gull changes head color by season. In Chile it feeds along the coast and breeds inland in the Atacama Desert.

• Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus

  The Rufous Hornero is a rufous bird found in open habitats, including urban areas.

• Song Thrush Turdus philomelos

  A thrush with brown upperparts and a spotted breast that repeats short phrases in its song.

• Yucatan Vireo Vireo magister

  This vireo occurs on the Yucatan Peninsula and nearby islands. It has a white eyebrow and dark eye-stripe and feeds in lowland forest and mangroves.

• Black Caracara Daptrius ater

  Adults are almost entirely black, with a white rump, bright bare facial skin, and bright legs. They use forest edges and rivers and travel in pairs or groups, sometimes near human activity.

• Western Red-billed Hornbill Tockus kempi

  This small hornbill lives in savannas and open woodland in West Africa. Its pied plumage and long, slender red bill stand out.

• Papyrus Canary Crithagra koliensis

  The Papyrus Canary uses papyrus swamps and nearby habitats. The sexes look similar, though the male has more strongly marked facial patterning.

• Short-tailed Scimitar Babbler Napothera danjoui

  This babbler occurs in evergreen forest in Vietnam and southern Laos. It searches for invertebrates on or just above the ground in dense cover.

• Slaty-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon superciliaris

  This small flycatcher inhabits humid montane forest from Central America into the northern Andes. It forages below the canopy, catching insects in flight or from foliage.

• Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus

  A grackle found mainly in Central and South America, with its range extending into parts of North America. Males have long tails and a purple gloss, while females are brown.

• Spangled Cotinga Cotinga cayana

  The Spangled Cotinga is a forest bird of northern South America. Males are brilliant blue, while females are brownish.

• Rufous-vented Laughingthrush Pterorhinus gularis

  The Rufous-vented Laughingthrush ranges from the eastern Himalayas into northern Indochina. It has a black facial mask, yellow throat and rufous-chestnut on the belly and outer tail feathers.

• Three-banded Plover Charadrius tricollaris

  The Three-banded Plover is a small shorebird with a red eye-ring and black-and-white breast bands that searches for prey beside inland water.

• Zino's Petrel Pterodroma madeira

  This seabird has a grey back and white underparts. It breeds in Madeira’s central mountains and feeds at sea on squid, small fish and other prey.

• Blue-capped Rock Thrush Monticola cinclorhynchus

  A thrush whose male has a blue head and orange body. It is recorded in forests and edges within Great Himalayan National Park.

• Orange-breasted Bunting Passerina leclancherii

  The Orange-breasted Bunting forages for seeds in dry scrub and rural areas on Mexico’s Pacific slope. Males show blue, green, orange, and yellow; females are grey-green and pale yellow.

• Long-tailed Triller Lalage leucopyga

  This triller occurs on Makira, in Vanuatu, and in New Caledonia. Males are dark brown-black with a white wing patch, while females are browner; it uses habitats from edges and scrub to forest.

• Makira Starling Aplonis dichroa

  This starling lives on Makira in the Solomon Islands. Its dark body has blue and purple sheen, and it occurs in forest and along forest edges.

• Rufous-capped Lark Calandrella eremica

  This small lark occurs in southwestern Arabia and the northern Horn of Africa. Its crown is rufous and is sometimes raised into a small crest.

• Maghreb Magpie Pica mauritanica

  The Maghreb Magpie is a magpie distinguished by blue bare skin around the eye. It searches the ground for insects and small animals, and also eats fruit and seeds.