Meet the world’s animals.

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• Long-tailed Thrush Zoothera dixoni

  

  The Long-tailed Thrush has an olive-brown back and whitish underparts marked with black scales. It spends summer in high forest and descends to lower elevations in winter.

• Black-faced Munia Lonchura molucca

  The Black-faced Munia is a small finch that eats seeds in open lowland habitats.

• Philby's Partridge Alectoris philbyi

  Philby's Partridge has a red bill and legs and black-and-white bars on its flanks.

• Black-winged Myna Acridotheres melanopterus

  The Black-winged Myna is a black-and-white starling.

• Western House Martin Delichon urbicum

  This swallow breeds across Europe and western Asia and winters south of the Sahara. It has blue-black upperparts, a white rump and underside, and a forked tail. It catches insects in flight and builds mud nests under eaves or on cliffs.

• Band-tailed Fruiteater Pipreola intermedia

  A bird of humid Andean mountain forest, it is identified by the white tip of its tail and scaled markings below.

• Crimson-browed Finch Carpodacus subhimachalus

  This finch lives at high elevations in southwestern China. Males have red markings around the brow and cheeks, while females are olive or yellow-green. It may move to lower elevations in winter.

• Slaty-backed Forest Falcon Micrastur mirandollei

  The Slaty-backed Forest Falcon has a gray back and narrow white tail bars. It is solitary and lives in lowland rainforest and mature secondary forest in Costa Rica.

• Cape Verde Buzzard Buteo bannermani

  The Cape Verde Buzzard occurs in the Cape Verde Islands. One adult described as typical in an article had a dark bib contrasting with a finely barred belly. The 2013 Rui Vaz Natural Park plan says this buzzard eats insects, rats and small birds and nests on rocky escarpments.

• Black Hornbill Anthracoceros malayanus

  The Black Hornbill has a black body with white tips on the outer tail feathers. It forages in the upper and middle canopy of lowland forests.

• Arfak Honeyeater Melipotes gymnops

  Dark grey to sooty black covers the head and upper breast, with yellow bare skin around the eyes. It forages mainly in the canopy for small fruits and insects.

• Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus

  Male Yellow-headed Blackbirds stand out with a yellow head, black body, and white wing patch. They breed in wetlands and gather in large flocks on farmland in winter.

• Line-cheeked Spinetail Cranioleuca antisiensis

  This small bird occurs in the southern Ecuadorian Andes. A nest has been studied in foothill evergreen forest there.

• Upland Pipit Anthus sylvanus

  The Upland Pipit is a large pipit with heavy dark streaks. It is found on grass-covered rocky slopes and in high-altitude meadows.

• Glittering Kingfisher Caridonax fulgidus

  The Glittering Kingfisher, also called the white-rumped kingfisher, has a red bill and white belly and rump. It lives in forest and wooded cultivated areas in the Lesser Sundas and eats insects.

• Large Tree Finch Camarhynchus psittacula

  This finch is endemic to the Galapagos Islands. It has a large, deep bill for searching tree bark and leaves for insects and uses habitats from arid coasts to humid forest.

• Tessmann's Flycatcher Muscicapa tessmanni

  This flycatcher was recorded in a Ghanaian forest survey. The 2009 paper uses the older genus Muscicapa, while a current species page lists it as Fraseria tessmanni.

• Gray-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis

  This small rail lives in wet grass and marshes. It has brown upperparts, a gray head and breast, and pale bars on the flanks. It moves through grass and has records in Ecuador and nearby Amazonian regions.

• Grey-bellied Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis micropterus

  This tyrant-flycatcher occurs in shrub-steppe in Patagonia and northwestern Argentina. It is solitary and has been recorded perching high on shrubs.

• Stresemann's Bush Crow Zavattariornis stresemanni

  Stresemann's Bush Crow is a crow found in a restricted area of southern Ethiopia. It has a gray body with black wings and tail, and searches the ground for insects.

• Bicolored Antpitta Grallaria rufocinerea

  This ground-dwelling antpitta inhabits montane cloud forest in the Colombian Andes and northeastern Ecuador. It searches for insects on the forest floor.

• Claudia's Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus claudiae

  It breeds in forests of central and southwestern China, then winters from southern Yunnan through India and Southeast Asia. It searches for small insects at different forest levels.

• Mulga Parrot Psephotellus varius

  The Mulga Parrot is an Australian parrot whose male has striking yellow and red head markings. It searches for seeds on the ground and in low plants, and nests in tree hollows.

• Western Bearded Greenbul Criniger barbatus

  The Western Bearded Greenbul has conspicuous yellow throat feathers. In West African forest it moves in pairs or small groups and attends ant columns.