Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pale-breasted Thrush Turdus leucomelas

  

  The Pale-breasted Thrush is a brownish bird with a grayish crown, streaked throat, and yellowish bill. It occurs across much of lowland South America.

• Dark-backed Imperial Pigeon Ducula lacernulata

  A forest pigeon that visits fruiting trees in the hills and mountains. It has dark wings and back, while head color varies across Java.

• 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.

• Grey-crowned Flatbill Tolmomyias poliocephalus

  The Grey-crowned Flatbill is widespread in Amazonia, with records up to 1,300 m along the Andean foothills. It may forage in mixed-species flocks in the canopy of river-edge forest and on river islands.

• American Pygmy Kingfisher Chloroceryle aenea

  It is the smallest kingfisher in Costa Rica, with a rufous neck and flanks, white belly, and dark green head and wings. It waits near water and catches small animals in shallow pools.

• Woodlark Lullula arborea

  The Woodlark is a lark of wooded heath, with an eyebrow stripe that meets behind the head. In Britain it may form small flocks in winter.

• Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala

  Males have noticeable red plumage, while females are mostly brown. Their plumage differs by sex.

• Golden-crested Myna Ampeliceps coronatus

  Its yellow crest and orange bill stand out. It lives in lowland forest.

• Black-chinned Sparrow Spizella atrogularis

  This small sparrow breeds on rocky hillsides in the southwestern United States and winters in Mexico. It forages on the ground but does not stay in the open for long.

• Yellow-crested Tanager Loriotus rufiventer

  Adult males have a black head, back and tail, with a partly hidden yellow crown crest. The chest and belly center is rusty with yellow edging. It feeds in mature-forest canopy and subcanopy, often in mixed flocks.

• Westland Petrel Procellaria westlandica

  The Westland Petrel breeds around Punakaiki on New Zealand's South Island. It has dark plumage and a yellow bill with a dark tip, and is mainly nocturnal at its breeding colony.

• Furtive Flycatcher Ficedula disposita

  A small flycatcher recorded in northern Luzon. It searches among trees for small invertebrates in lowland forest.

• Hispaniolan Lizard Cuckoo Coccyzus longirostris

  A cuckoo of Hispaniola and nearby islands, it uses its long tail as it searches among branches for lizards and large insects.

• Sao Tome Spinetail Zoonavena thomensis

  This small swift is endemic to Sao Tome and Principe. It feeds on the wing and is marked by a pale rump band and a streaked underside.

• Little Raven Corvus mellori

  The Little Raven is a black raven with a blue-green to blue-purple sheen and white eyes. It occurs in southeastern Australia and uses places with abundant food, including farms and pastures.

• Madagascar Owl Asio madagascariensis

  The Madagascar Owl is a nocturnal owl found only on Madagascar. It rests in dense vegetation by day and hunts in forests and nearby open areas at night.

• Russet-naped Wood Rail Aramides albiventris

  This rail stands out for its gray head and neck, russet-brown breast and wings, and long yellow bill. It uses wet forest and stream edges, feeding on mollusks, frogs, fruit, seeds, and other small prey.

• Andean Hillstar Oreotrochilus estella

  The Andean Hillstar lives in the high Andes from southwestern Peru to northwestern Argentina. Males have a green throat bordered in black and feed on nectar while perched.

• Black-tailed Antbird Myrmoborus melanurus

  This antbird forages in dense thickets and scrub along lowland Amazonian rivers. Males are dark, while females are rufous-brown above; both sexes have a white throat, pale wing bars, and red irises.

• Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica

  The Hudsonian Godwit has long legs and a long, slightly upturned bill. It is reddish in breeding plumage and gray-brown outside the breeding season.

• Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor

  The Swift Parrot has a green body and a striking red face. It breeds in Tasmania and moves to mainland Australia in search of flowering trees.

• Freckle-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus striaticollis

  This South American ovenbird is found in shrub cover along grasslands and wetland edges and builds its nest in shrubs.

• Helmeted Friarbird Philemon buceroides

  In northeastern Australia it uses lowland forest, forest edges, woodland, and mangroves. James Cook University records it as common on its Townsville campus.

• White-capped Parrot Pionus seniloides

  It has a white forehead and a gray-scaled crown. A field survey recorded it in montane cloud forest in southern Ecuador.