Meet the world’s animals.

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• Golden Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysogaster

  

  Males are conspicuously yellow with black wings. The species uses dry, semi-open country and forest edges, where it eats seeds, insects, and fruit.

• Little Crow Corvus bennetti

  This crow lives in dry woodland and shrubland in Australia. It is active by day and eats a varied diet.

• Olive Oropendola Psarocolius bifasciatus

  This large oropendola occurs in the Peruvian Amazon canopy; its red bill tip and pink cheek patch are distinctive.

• Chami Antpitta Grallaria alvarezi

  The eBird/Merlin account places the Chami Antpitta in high-elevation cloud forest in Colombia’s western Andes. It also notes that the species was once treated as one form within the broader Rufous Antpitta group.

• Long-billed Sunbird Cinnyris notatus

  A sunbird of Madagascar's forests. Males are larger and darker than females and use a long, strong bill to feed on nectar; they also take spiders and insects from flowers.

• Grey-cheeked Warbler Seicercus poliogenys

  This leaf warbler occurs in mountains from China and the Himalayas into northern Indochina. Its head and cheeks are gray, and it searches for insects in montane broadleaf forest.

• Black-crowned White-eye Zosterops atrifrons

  This small white-eye occurs in Indonesia. It has a green body, bold white eye-ring, black forehead, and yellow throat and undertail; it is seen in groups along forest edges and in cultivated areas.

• Blood-colored Woodpecker Veniliornis sanguineus

  The Blood-colored Woodpecker is a woodpecker of the Guianas. A 1953 account from Suriname recorded it in coastal coffee plantations and dry sandy country inland.

• Wrinkled Hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus

  A lowland-forest hornbill known for the male's red wrinkled casque; it often feeds on fruit in the canopy.

• Common Tailorbird Orthotomus sutorius

  A small Asian bird with a greenish back; in breeding season the male has elongated central tail feathers.

• Red-legged Thrush Turdus plumbeus

  The Red-legged Thrush has blue-grey to slate-grey upperparts and bright reddish-orange legs. Its plumage varies among islands, and some subspecies have conspicuous white tail tips.

• Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes githagineus

  Bucanetes githagineus is a finch of arid regions. A Spanish specialist encyclopedia describes breeding-plumage males and females separately and records seasonal food examples.

• Andaman Cuckoo-shrike Coracina dobsoni

  The Andaman Cuckooshrike is endemic to India's Andaman Islands and uses moist lowland and mangrove forest canopies. Males and females differ in their underpart pattern.

• Slaty-backed Flycatcher Ficedula erithacus

  The Slaty-backed Flycatcher lives in hilly and montane forest, and males and females have different plumage.

• Black-capped Vireo Vireo atricapilla

  The Black-capped Vireo is a small bird that moves between breeding and wintering areas. Adult males have black caps, while females have olive-colored heads; both forage for insects and spiders among leaves.

• Rusty-bellied Brush Finch Atlapetes nationi

  This brush finch occurs in scrub on the western Peruvian Andes. The rusty belly varies among populations.

• 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.

• Trilling Tapaculo Scytalopus parvirostris

  This tapaculo forages in the understory of humid Andean forest and bamboo patches. Adult males are dark gray; females have rufous-brown and black bars on the lower back, rump, and vent.

• Monkey-eating Eagle Pithecophaga jefferyi

  The Philippine Eagle is a large eagle of Philippine forests, found on Luzon, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao. A pair nests in a large tree and raises one egg.

• Grey-cheeked Tit-Babbler Mixornis flavicollis

  This small babbler occurs in Java's lowlands. It searches through foliage in small groups and eats insects, including beetle eggs.

• Gray-fronted Honeyeater Ptilotula plumula

  This small honeyeater is endemic to Australia. It feeds on nectar and is marked by a pale grey front and a yellow tuft near the ear coverts.

• Black-faced Monarch Monarcha melanopsis

  This tree-dwelling bird lives in forests and woodlands along eastern Australia and catches insects among foliage or in flight.

• White-throated Swallow Hirundo albigularis

  This swallow lives in Africa south of the equator and catches insects in flight. Some birds that breed in South Africa are thought to move north after breeding.

• Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla

  This bird has brown plumage with bold streaking and stays near moving water. The Cornell Lab account describes it as one of the first signs of spring in eastern North America.