Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sirkeer Malkoha Taccocua leschenaultii

  

  This cuckoo has rufous-brown, finely streaked plumage and a long white-tipped tail. The museum account describes the Indian nominate subspecies walking and feeding on the ground in dry scrub.

• Chinese Babax Pterorhinus lanceolatus

  This laughingthrush relative occurs mainly in southern and central China, with records in Myanmar. It uses forest edges and young growth as well as bamboo and tea plantations.

• Indian Nightjar Caprimulgus asiaticus

  The Indian Nightjar is a night bird with a complex mottled pattern.

• Yellow Weaver Ploceus subaureus

  A yellow weaver that nests among reeds near water. Males and females differ in eye and bill color, and it eats seeds, insects, and nectar.

• Black-capped Parakeet Pyrrhura rupicola

  The Black-capped Parakeet lives in humid lowland forest in Peru, Bolivia, and western Brazil. Its head and breast markings vary between two subspecies, and it feeds in the canopy on fruit.

• Great-billed Seed Finch Sporophila maximiliani

  The Great-billed Seed-Finch is a small seed-eating finch with an exceptionally thick, strong bill. Surveys in Brazil found it at very few marshy sites in the Cerrado.

• Seychelles Black Parrot Coracopsis barklyi

  Despite its name, the Seychelles Black Parrot is pale brown-grey, not black. It lives on Praslin, where native palm fruits are a preferred food.

• Many-spotted Hummingbird Taphrospilus hypostictus

  This large hummingbird inhabits forest on the eastern slope of the Andes, with records from southern Colombia to Bolivia. Green spots on the white underparts and a white mark behind the eye are key features.

• Mariana Kingfisher Todiramphus albicilla

  The Mariana Kingfisher was recorded in a forest-bird survey on Tinian. A sample collected on Saipan is described as white-headed in a phylogenetic study.

• Grosbeak Starling Scissirostrum dubium

  This starling is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It lives mostly in tropical lowlands and lightly wooded forest and excavates nest cavities in rotting or dying trunks.

• Black-eared Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix australis

  The Black-eared Sparrow-Lark lives in dry grasslands of southern Africa and may move after good rains.

• Campbell's Hill Partridge Arborophila campbelli

  This partridge has black-and-white bands on its head, olive-brown upperparts, and a grey breast. It lives in montane rainforest on the Malay Peninsula.

• Eared Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis auricularis

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher is reported from Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. It has a black patch behind the eye on a grey head and feeds mostly on insects.

• Hardhead Aythya australis

  The Hardhead is an Australian diving duck with a dark brown body and white belly.

• Little Crake Zapornia parva

  The Little Crake is a small, secretive wetland bird. In Bulgaria its breeding sites are scattered, mainly in marshes along the Danube and the Black Sea coast.

• Spinifex Pigeon Geophaps plumifera

  The Spinifex Pigeon's belly ranges from reddish-brown to white across its range. It uses rocky places near water and eats seeds of grasses and other plants.

• Cloud-forest Screech Owl Megascops marshalli

  This screech-owl inhabits cloud forest on the eastern Andes of central Peru. The account also reports a recent discovery in Bolivia.

• Beautiful Jay Cyanolyca pulchra

  The Beautiful Jay lives in wet montane forest from western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. Its crown, back, wings, and tail are blue, set off by a black face.

• Giant Cowbird Molothrus oryzivorus

  The Giant Cowbird ranges from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. Males are black with a violet sheen, while females are dark brown. It lays eggs in other birds' nests, leaving them to raise its young.

• Seychelles Sunbird Cinnyris dussumieri

  This small sunbird has a slender, curved bill. In breeding plumage, the male shows an iridescent blue throat and yellow tufts; the female is subdued grey-brown.

• Plain White-eye Zosterops hypolais

  The Plain White-eye is a small bird recorded in forests and open grassy places on Yap. A 1977 field account described dull gray-white plumage with a pale yellow wash below, small flocks, and feeding in both the canopy and short grass.

• Black-backed Woodpecker Picoides arcticus

  This woodpecker often arrives in forests after fires and feeds mainly on wood-boring beetle larvae.

• Neddicky Cisticola fulvicapilla

  The Neddicky is a small bird about 11 cm long. By day it uses light woodland, savanna, and grassland, searching the ground for invertebrates.

• Pale-eyed Thrush Turdus leucops

  The Birds of Bolivia account describes males with a white iris and black plumage, while females are warmer brown with a dark bill. It places the species at the edges of cloud forest on the eastern Andes.