Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cape Siskin Crithagra totta

  

  The Cape Siskin lives in montane fynbos and other habitats of southwestern South Africa, where it searches for seeds on the ground.

• Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus

  The Senegal Parrot lives along savanna edges in western and central Africa. Its gray head and green and yellow body colors stand out.

• Coppery-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis cupreoventris

  This small hummingbird has green plumage, a copper-colored belly, and white leg puffs. It lives in montane areas of Colombia's Eastern Cordillera and northwestern Venezuela.

• Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites basalis

  Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo is a small cuckoo with a bronze-green sheen and a white eyebrow. It eats insects and lays its egg in another bird's nest.

• White-fronted Honeyeater Purnella albifrons

  This honeyeater lives in arid and semi-arid scrub and woodland. It feeds mainly on nectar, but also takes insects and honeydew.

• Dusky Eagle-Owl Ketupa coromanda

  The Dusky Eagle-Owl has grayish plumage, rounded ear tufts, and a pale facial disc. It is nocturnal and uses open woodland near water, where it nests in trees.

• Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus

  The world's smallest gull. In breeding plumage it has a black head and dark underwings; it flies low over water to catch insects and small fish.

• Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis

  In Oiseaux.net's account of birds in Kenya, the male has a dark back with violet sheen, while the female has a brownish back and a white eyebrow. They search leaves and bark for insects and spiders and also take nectar.

• Long-tailed Meadowlark Leistes loyca

  This meadowlark inhabits open country in southern South America. The male's red breast is conspicuous, and the species nests on the ground.

• Brewer's Sparrow Spizella breweri

  The Brewer's Sparrow has black streaks on its back and a slim white eye-ring. It searches dry shrublands for insects and also eats seeds in winter or during migration.

• White-browed Crake Poliolimnas cinereus

  The White-browed Crake is a wetland bird with a broad white line bordering the black orbital area. It searches for food among floating plants and muddy margins, and ranges from Southeast Asia to Pacific islands.

• Ochre-collared Monarch Arses insularis

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in northern New Guinea and on Yapen Island, from lowlands into the mountains. Males contrast black and white with an ochre collar; females are more subdued and brown-toned.

• South Georgia Diving Petrel Pelecanoides georgicus

  The South Georgia Diving Petrel is a diving seabird with dark upperparts and a white underside. It is thought to remain near its breeding colonies, although its at-sea range is not well known.

• South African Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon spilodera

  The South African Cliff Swallow has a glossy blue-black back and a squared tail. The reddish-brown rump and chest vary with plumage condition. It migrates between southern African breeding areas and wintering grounds in the Congo Basin.

• Sunda Crow Corvus enca

  The Sunda Crow is a black crow with a slender bill and a purplish sheen. On Borneo it also occurs along forest edges and near the coast.

• Northern Silvery Kingfisher Ceyx flumenicola

  This kingfisher is endemic to Bohol, Leyte and Samar in the central Philippines. It uses forested streams and river edges, where a low perch gives it a view of the water.

• Sclater's Lark Spizocorys sclateri

  A lark of dry, open landscapes in western southern Africa. In its core range it is mostly sedentary or moves only locally.

• Plumbeous Kite Ictinia plumbea

  The Plumbeous Kite is a daytime raptor with a lead-gray body, red eyes, and yellow legs. It often flies around forest edges and savannas and feeds mainly on insects.

• Canyon Wren Catherpes mexicanus

  A small bird of dry, rocky places, with a cinnamon-colored body and a conspicuous white throat.

• Scaly Thrush Zoothera dauma

  A forest-dwelling thrush with scale-like markings on its plumage, it searches among leaf litter for invertebrates.

• Indigo Flowerpiercer Diglossa indigotica

  This tanager inhabits humid forest on the lower western Andean slopes of Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Its brilliant indigo-blue plumage is distinctive.

• Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis

  An early twentieth-century African bird account records Cardinal Queleas breeding in eastern African grass and scrub. It describes the adult male's throat as bright scarlet and the rear crown as mottled with black.

• Great Antshrike Taraba major

  Male and female Great Antshrikes have different plumage: males are black above, while females are rufous-brown above. They hide in humid lowland undergrowth and are often found in pairs.

• Lazy Cisticola Cisticola aberrans

  The Lazy Cisticola is a small bird that searches for insects on rocky slopes and woodland edges. Its reddish head and long tail stand out.