Meet the world’s animals.

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• Longuemare's Sunangel Heliangelus clarisse

  

  Longuemare’s Sunangel is a hummingbird of the Perijá Mountains in Colombia and Venezuela. Males have a violet-red throat set off from the chest by a white band. The habitat assessment includes forest edges and secondary vegetation but says some forest is still needed.

• Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus

  This greenbul lives in forests from West to Central Africa. It moves in small groups and mixed flocks, gleaning arthropods from branches and thickets.

• Three-striped Hemispingus Microspingus trifasciatus

  This tanager inhabits high-elevation forest on the eastern Andes. It takes small invertebrates and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Prevost's Ground Sparrow Melozone biarcuata

  This ground-dwelling sparrow uses forest edges and coffee plantations in Central America. The male has a white face, dark forehead, and rufous crown.

• Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica

  The Chestnut-sided Warbler is a small bird of young deciduous woods and thickets. Its plumage changes between breeding and nonbreeding seasons.

• Blood Pheasant Ithaginis cruentus

  The Blood Pheasant is a plump, short-tailed pheasant whose plumage ranges from grey-olive to bright crimson. It searches for food in groups during the day.

• Wandering Whistling Duck Dendrocygna arcuata

  The Wandering Whistling Duck is a large, red-brown duck. In Kakadu it uses deep wetlands and flooded plains; its whistling call and wing noise may be heard as it flies to roost at dusk.

• Snowy-crowned Tern Sterna trudeaui

  This medium-sized tern has a white head and body with a gray back. It catches fish and lives around marshes and shallow waters in South America.

• Many-striped Canastero Asthenes flammulata

  A nesting study documented four nests of the nominate subspecies in the high Andes of northeastern Ecuador. Newly hatched chicks look different from adults.

• Orange-headed Thrush Geokichla citrina

  The Orange-headed Thrush has an orange head and underparts, with plain gray or brown upperparts. Facial markings vary among subspecies; in Singapore it searches wooded ground for insects and also eats fruit.

• African Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys alienus

  This finch occurs in Morocco’s mountains; a localized range in Algeria’s Aurès is reported in the literature. A male specimen from Glaoui had an ashy hindneck, a rosy-white throat, and a brown rump and upper-tail coverts.

• Greenish Tyrannulet Phyllomyias virescens

  This small tyrannulet lives in humid evergreen forest in southeastern Brazil and nearby parts of South America. It is bright olive above, with dusky wings.

• Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula

  The Baltimore Oriole breeds in eastern North America and winters in Central America. The female weaves a pouch-like nest that hangs from a branch.

• Variegated Laughingthrush Trochalopteron variegatum

  This olive-and-buff laughingthrush has a black throat stripe and a broad gray band near the end of its tail. It searches for insects and fruit in Himalayan woodland and scrub.

• Kerguelen Petrel Aphrodroma brevirostris

  The Kerguelen Petrel is a medium-sized, all-dark petrel with a broad range across the Southern Ocean. It nests in deep burrows on islands and feeds mainly on squid.

• Slaty-backed Forktail Enicurus schistaceus

  This forktail lives along rocky streams from the eastern Himalayas into Southeast Asia, where it searches among stones for aquatic insects.

• White-shouldered Triller Lalage sueurii

  A small triller of open woodland and lowland forest in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

• White-headed Starling Sturnia erythropygia

  This starling is endemic to India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It uses forest edges and open places, where it feeds on fruit and other foods.

• Jerdon's Bush Lark Plocealauda affinis

  A lark of open grasslands in India. It is active on the ground by day and feeds on seeds and small animals.

• Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia

  The Black-billed Magpie is a large bird common in western North America, with a long tail and black-and-white plumage.

• Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata

  The Cut-throat Finch is a small finch occurring in separate areas along the Sahel and in southern Africa. It forages on the ground for seeds and termites. Males have a red throat band.

• Plume-toed Swiftlet Collocalia affinis

  A small swiftlet of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Thai–Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sundas, it flies over forests and nearby wooded areas in Singapore.

• Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata

  The Red Wattlebird is a large honeyeater with a reddish fleshy wattle at the side of its neck. It feeds mainly on nectar, along with insects and fruit.

• Seychelles Fody Foudia sechellarum

  This small bird occurs in the Seychelles. Breeding males show yellow feathers on the crown and chin, unlike females, nonbreeding males, and juveniles.