Meet the world’s animals.

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• Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis

  

  The Buff-throated Apalis is a small forest warbler with grey upperparts, white underparts and a short tail. It occurs in forest from western to central and eastern Africa.

• Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and western Venezuela. The male is golden green with coppery tones, while the female has gray underparts; it feeds in scrub and forest edges.

• Stripe-throated Bulbul Pycnonotus finlaysoni

  This bulbul ranges across central and southern Indochina and the Malay Peninsula. It is mostly brown with olive-yellow wings and tail and distinctive yellow stripes on the face and upper throat.

• Chestnut-bellied Seed Finch Sporophila angolensis

  This seed finch is recorded in Amazonia, including Bolivia. It forages in tall grass by rivers, overgrown fallow fields, and scrub, and males and females look quite different.

• Bolivian Brush Finch Atlapetes rufinucha

  A brushfinch of montane forest in Bolivia and far southern Peru, also using edges and second growth.

• Grey-throated Warbler Myiothlypis cinereicollis

  This warbler is recorded in the northeastern Colombian and western Venezuelan Andes. It has olive upperparts, a yellow belly, and a grey throat and chest.

• Blue Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon auritum

  The Blue Eared Pheasant is a large pheasant of China's mountains, notable for its blue-gray body and white ear tufts.

• African Rock Pipit Anthus crenatus

  This pipit lives in rocky highlands of South Africa and Lesotho. Its plumage differs with sex and age.

• Eaton's Pintail Anas eatoni

  This small duck is endemic to the Crozet and Kerguelen islands. It breeds in pairs in summer and may gather in flocks of hundreds in winter.

• Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea

  A tern that travels from Arctic breeding grounds to Antarctic waters with the seasons. In Britain, it breeds along northern coasts.

• Campo Miner Geositta poeciloptera

  This ground-dwelling bird inhabits Brazilian grasslands. A study at one Minas Gerais site examined the soils where it nested.

• Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica

  A thrush with different male and female plumage that breeds in mountain forests north of central Honshu.

• Grey-chested Greenlet Hylophilus semicinereus

  This small bird occurs in forests of northern South America and the Amazon region. It uses the canopy, forest borders, and secondary woodland, where it feeds on small insects.

• 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.

• Sulu Hornbill Anthracoceros montani

  A hornbill with a black body and white tail, living in forests of the Sulu Archipelago in the southern Philippines.

• Parrot Crossbill Loxia pytyopsittacus

  The Parrot Crossbill is a crossbill of northern Europe that searches for pine seeds. In Britain it is scarce, with small numbers sometimes arriving from the north in winter.

• Grey-breasted Flycatcher Lathrotriccus griseipectus

  This flycatcher lives in forest understory from southwestern Ecuador to northern Peru. It has a gray head and breast, whitish belly, and white wingbars.

• Yellow-rumped Marshbird Pseudoleistes guirahuro

  The Yellow-rumped Marshbird is an icterid of open grassland and wet habitats in southeastern South America. A nest study in northeastern Argentina and Paraguay recorded birds other than the parents helping raise chicks.

• Barred Fruiteater Pipreola arcuata

  The Barred Fruiteater is an Andean bird with a black head and a yellow, barred belly. It feeds in the canopy and middle levels of humid montane forest.

• Red-faced Liocichla Liocichla phoenicea

  This babbler was rediscovered in Nepal's Chitwan region. A 2018 report confirmed by photograph a bird with crimson markings on its body; birds moved quickly through dark thickets and the canopy.

• Eurasian Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria

  In breeding plumage, a golden-spangled back contrasts with a black breast and belly. It uses uplands in summer and lowlands in winter.

• Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea

  A dark-brown seabird of the open ocean, with silvery flashes under its wings. It nests on Southern Hemisphere islands and dives to catch fish and other marine prey.

• Lesser Shortwing Brachypteryx leucophris

  The Lesser Shortwing is a small brown flycatcher with very short wings and tail and a white eyebrow that can become conspicuous when excited. It stays secretive in forest undergrowth.

• Indian Cuckooshrike Coracina macei

  The Indian Cuckooshrike occurs on the Indian peninsula and Sri Lanka. The male described from India has gray upperparts, a dark face mask, and fine gray bars on its white belly.