Meet the world’s animals.

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• Javan Myna Acridotheres javanicus

  

  The Javan Myna is native to Java and Bali. In Singapore, an introduced urban population is established.

• Plateau Lark Corypha nigrescens

  This lark is very localized on high plateaus in Tanzania and Malawi. Its natural history is poorly documented.

• Blue Grouse Dendragapus obscurus

  The Dusky Grouse lives in western North American mountain forests. In spring, males display their neck sacs and red eye combs.

• Black-backed Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus pulchellus

  The Black-backed Tody-Flycatcher is a tiny tyrant flycatcher of southeastern Peru's eastern Andean slope. It moves through thick foliage along forest edges and in second growth.

• Barrow’s Goldeneye Bucephala islandica

  This diving duck has an adult male with a purplish head and long white crescent, while females have brown heads.

• Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni

  This wetland bird resembles a large purple-and-green moorhen. It is patchily distributed across sub-Saharan Africa and feeds mainly on plants, with invertebrates and fish also recorded.

• Grey-fronted Dove Leptotila rufaxilla

  The Grey-fronted Dove is a ground-dwelling dove widespread in South America. A study in Acre found nests near forest edges and reported that breeding records peaked in the rainy season.

• Mountain Scops Owl Otus spilocephalus

  The Mountain Scops Owl hides in the middle and lower layers of humid mountain forests and is active at night.

• White-tailed Jay Cyanocorax mystacalis

  The White-tailed Jay is a large jay with striking white, blue, and black plumage. It searches forests and scrub in pairs or family groups from northwestern Peru into Ecuador.

• Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus

  The Chestnut-capped Blackbird lives in South American wetlands. The male has a black body with a rufous-brown head, neck, and chest; the female is olive-brown with black streaks.

• Rufous-winged Sunbird Cinnyris rufipennis

  The Rufous-winged Sunbird is a small sunbird known only from Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. It feeds at flowering plants from the understory to the canopy, and breeding is thought to occur during the November–February rainy season.

• Slender-billed White-eye Zosterops tenuirostris

  This small bird lives only on Norfolk Island. It probes bark crevices with its long, slender bill to find insects and also feeds on nectar.

• Hispaniolan Woodpecker Melanerpes striatus

  This woodpecker is native only to Hispaniola. Its yellow-and-black barring, red crown, and groups around tree trunks make it conspicuous. During breeding, several pairs may nest near one another where trees offer many cavities.

• Yellow-vented Eremomela Eremomela flavicrissalis

  The Yellow-vented Eremomela ranges from southern Ethiopia into parts of eastern Africa. It has gray-brown upperparts, pale gray sides to the head and whitish underparts, and searches for small insects in bushy savanna and semi-desert scrub.

• Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi

  Its gray plumage has buff wing patches and a white eyering. In western North American mountain forests, it eats mostly insects while breeding and fruit, especially juniper berries, in winter.

• European Greenfinch Chloris chloris

  This finch flashes yellow and green in flight. In the UK it visits gardens and eats seeds and insects.

• Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea

  A red-orange crest runs over the head. In western Uganda’s Budongo Forest, observers reported birds following people and searching disturbed leaf litter.

• Chaco Sparrow Rhynchospiza strigiceps

  This sparrow uses dry grassland and scrub in South America. It breeds in north-central Argentina, and some birds move seasonally into Bolivia and Paraguay.

• Gray Swiftlet Aerodramus vanikorensis

  Long wings and gray-brown plumage identify this swiftlet. It glides through the air and builds a nest using moss.

• Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus

  A large hawk of African forests and woodlands. It mainly takes birds, and in some areas also eats fish or carrion.

• White-streaked Friarbird Melitograis gilolensis

  The White-streaked Friarbird occurs in the North Moluccas. Fine white streaks mark its throat and breast; it feeds on nectar, arthropods and small fruit.

• Banded Martin Neophedina cincta

  The Banded Martin is a swallow of sub-Saharan Africa. It catches insects in flight over open grassland and freshwater habitats and makes north-south movements in response to rainfall.

• Spectacled Whitestart Myioborus melanocephalus

  The center of its crown is black, and it has yellow spectacles and underparts. It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes, from south and east of the Marañón in northern Peru to central Bolivia.

• Steinbach's Canastero Pseudasthenes steinbachi

  Steinbach's Canastero is a small bird of dry mountains in western Argentina. It is seen alone or in pairs among scrub and ravines.