Meet the world’s animals.

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• Stripe-throated Yuhina Yuhina gularis

  

  The historical account places the nominate subspecies Y. gularis gularis from Nepal to eastern Assam. It describes a brown crest and a throat marked with black streaks.

• Maui Alauahio Paroreomyza montana

  The Maui Alauahio is a small Hawaiian honeycreeper. Its surviving population lives in Maui's highlands and mainly eats small invertebrates.

• Chestnut-bellied Mountain Tanager Dubusia castaneoventris

  This tanager ranges in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Its blue upperparts contrast with a chestnut belly, and it forages in the canopy of mountain forest.

• Least Pauraque Siphonorhis brewsteri

  This nightjar lives in wooded dry scrub on Hispaniola and Gonâve Island and is active around dusk and at night.

• Fuscous Honeyeater Ptilotula fusca

  This olive-brown honeyeater has a yellow patch on the side of its neck and uses dry eucalypt forest and woodland in eastern Australia. Some birds move to lower elevations in winter.

• 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.

• Vinous-breasted Myna Acridotheres leucocephalus

  This bird is native to Southeast Asia. Birds that escaped or were released from captivity have been recorded in towns and parks in central Israel.

• Blue-headed Parrot Pionus menstruus

  The Blue-headed Parrot has a blue head and green body. In South America it may visit clay banks to take minerals that help neutralize toxins in seeds.

• Tanahjampea Monarch Symposiachrus everetti

  The Tanahjampea Monarch is restricted to one Indonesian island and uses lowland forest, mangroves and moist shrubland.

• Gray-headed Dove Leptotila plumbeiceps

  The Gray-headed Dove is a forest dove with a distinctive blue-gray head.

• Black-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher Ceyx erithaca

  The Black-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher is a small kingfisher found from India to Southeast Asia. Northern populations move south for winter.

• Sooty-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus aurigaster

  This bulbul has a dark head, brown body, and red undertail. In Thailand it is found around towns, plantations, and forest edges, foraging in pairs or small flocks.

• Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus

  The Rock Wren is a wren of dry rocky places in western North America. It probes rock crevices and searches for insects on the ground and among rocks.

• Eastern Koel Eudynamys orientalis

  The Eastern Koel has glossy black males with a blue-green sheen and brown females with many white spots. Its loud calls are familiar around dawn, and it migrates to Australia to breed in spring.

• Swallow-tailed Gull Creagrus furcatus

  An unusual gull that catches small fish and squid over the sea at night. Breeding adults show a red eye-ring, and head color changes outside the breeding plumage.

• Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga

  An East African waxbill of grassland and scrub. The male has a grey head and red rump; it feeds on grass seeds and insects.

• Rusty-flanked Crake Laterallus levraudi

  The Rusty-flanked Crake is a small rail of northwestern Venezuela. Adults have an olive-brown back and rusty sides and stay concealed in dense vegetation.

• Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus

  An eagle with a large head and broad wings. It hovers to search for snakes and lizards on the ground.

• Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca

  A yellow-legged shorebird that often wades in deeper water than many other sandpipers.

• Rufous-tailed Lark Ammomanes phoenicura

  The Rufous-tailed Lark is a lark whose earth-toned plumage blends into dry, open ground. It walks on the ground while searching for seeds and insects.

• Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica

  This hummingbird occurs in separate areas from Central America into northwestern South America. Males have violet or green crowns and backs, while females have grey throats and breasts; the birds feed on nectar and small invertebrates.

• Humaita Antbird Myrmelastes humaythae

  This antbird lives in upper Amazon forests, including southeastern Peru. Males are gray, females reddish brown, and the birds move through low forest cover.

• Cactus Canastero Pseudasthenes cactorum

  A furnariid of Peru's western Andean slope, using open areas with shrubs and cacti. Some populations also occur in low-elevation lomas.

• Bulwer's Pheasant Lophura bulweri

  A pheasant whose male has a blue face and large white tail. It lives in Borneo's montane tropical and highland rain forests.