Meet the world’s animals.

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• Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus

  

  A small sunbird of West and East Africa, found in habitats such as savanna and dry woodland. Males have iridescent plumage and long tail streamers, and both sexes feed at flowers.

• Belding's Yellowthroat Geothlypis beldingi

  This warbler has a fragmented range on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. BirdLife describes freshwater marshes with reeds and cattails as its main habitat.

• African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae

  The African Grey Woodpecker lives in wooded habitats across parts of western, eastern, and central Africa and feeds mainly on insects such as termites.

• Syrian Serin Serinus syriacus

  A small finch with a bright yellow face. It nests in trees in Middle Eastern mountains and eats grass and herb seeds.

• Western Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla tephrolaema

  This bulbul occurs in the Cameroonian highlands and on Bioko. Records include montane forest, secondary and gallery forest, clearings, and bamboo.

• Silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera

  A pheasant whose male has white-and-black patterned feathers on its back and long tail.

• Oriental Pied Hornbill Anthracoceros albirostris

  The Oriental Pied Hornbill is marked by black-and-white plumage and a large pale yellow bill. During breeding, the female stays in a tree cavity while the male brings food from outside.

• Cape Weaver Ploceus capensis

  Breeding males are bright yellow and weave hanging nests on branches or reeds near water. After a female accepts a nest, she lines it with grass and leaves.

• Moustached Laughingthrush Ianthocincla cineracea

  The Moustached Laughingthrush inhabits high-elevation forest and humid montane scrub in the eastern Himalayan region. It has a black crown and nape, a broad white eyebrow, and a black moustache-like cheek stripe.

• Creamy-bellied Thrush Turdus amaurochalinus

  The Creamy-bellied Thrush is notable for its yellowish bill and pale belly. An Argentine account describes it feeding alone or in pairs, from the ground to low trees.

• African Hobby Falco cuvierii

  The African Hobby is a small falcon found in sub-Saharan Africa. It has rufous underparts, and regional field material notes that much of its ecology remains poorly known.

• Madagascar Green Pigeon Treron australis

  The Madagascar Green Pigeon is an arboreal pigeon found in forests of Madagascar. It feeds on fruit.

• White-backed vulture Gyps africanus

  A vulture that gathers with others and searches for carcasses in African savannas.

• Mishana Tyrannulet Zimmerius villarejoi

  This small tyrannulet occurs in a restricted part of northern Peru. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid forest and in secondary growth, sometimes alone.

• Guam Kingfisher Todiramphus cinnamominus

  The Guam Kingfisher formerly lived on Guam. It has not lived in the wild since 1986; males have cinnamon head and underparts, while those of females are paler or white.

• Dunn's Lark Eremalauda dunni

  A lark of arid land along the southern Sahara margin; it may move after rain.

• Cozumel Vireo Vireo bairdi

  This resident vireo occurs only on Cozumel Island, Mexico. It has chestnut-toned head and back, a white eye-ring, and two pale wing-bars, and forages in low to middle vegetation.

• White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata

  The white-rumped munia is a small bird marked by its white rump. Wild birds eat grass seeds and form flocks near grassland and farmland.

• Fischer's Starling Lamprotornis fischeri

  This starling lives in wooded savanna and dry open thornveld in East Africa. It forages on the ground for insects and berries, in pairs or small flocks.

• Reunion Cuckooshrike Coracina newtoni

  The Reunion Cuckooshrike is endemic to Réunion. Males and females differ in plumage, and the national park account places it in the La Roche Écrite area.

• Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides

  The Squacco Heron is a small heron whose head and back feathers lengthen in breeding plumage. It waits for prey in shallow water.

• Rusty Sparrow Aimophila rufescens

  This sparrow ranges from Mexico to northwestern Costa Rica. It is recorded in shrubby secondary woodland, forest edges, and pine or oak woodland.

• Tawny Pipit Anthus campestris

  The Tawny Pipit walks through dry, open country and searches for food on the ground.

• Yellow-bellied Dacnis Dacnis flaviventer

  This dacnis occurs in Amazonian rainforest near rivers and in wetlands. Males have a yellow belly and red eye; females are olive-brown above.