Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-headed Jay Garrulus lanceolatus

  

  A jay with blue wings and a gray head, it searches for a varied diet in trees and on the ground.

• White-rumped Seedeater Crithagra leucopygia

  The White-rumped Seedeater is a finch about 12 cm long. It uses dry savanna as well as fields, pastures, and rural gardens.

• Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami

  This cisticola lives in African savanna. It has a rufous cap and bands near the tail tip, and gives a high, rising trill from a prominent perch.

• Black-polled Yellowthroat Geothlypis speciosa

  Males have a black face mask and yellow underparts; females have an olive face without the mask. A wetland survey documented the remaining populations in central Mexico.

• Gray-bellied Cuckoo Cacomantis passerinus

  The Grey-bellied Cuckoo lives in woodlands, gardens, and plantations across the Indian subcontinent. It moves among trees and shrubs, taking flying insects and other small prey.

• Crimson Seedcracker Pyrenestes sanguineus

  This West African finch has red plumage and a short, thick bill. Research has documented two bill-size forms.

• Yellow-streaked Lory Chalcopsitta scintillata

  The Yellow-streaked Lory is a lowland parrot from the New Guinea region. Yellow streaks mark its darker plumage, while the color of the forehead and other details vary among subspecies.

• White-crowned Pigeon Patagioenas leucocephala

  The White-crowned Pigeon is a large fruit-eating pigeon of forests in southern Florida and the Caribbean islands.

• Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus ornatus

  The Ornate Hawk-Eagle is a forest raptor marked by a black crest and a rufous neck. In Argentina it glides along forest edges and hunts large birds and mammals.

• Grey-throated Ibon Lophozosterops javanicus

  This white-eye relative inhabits the mountains of Java and Bali, with records up to about 1,500 m.

• Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda

  The male has long tail feathers and is longer than the female. This small bird feeds on nectar, small insects, and spiders.

• Pallid Swift Apus pallidus

  This brown swift has a white throat, breeds from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf and winters in the Sahel.

• Brown-flanked Tanager Thlypopsis pectoralis

  This tanager is locally distributed in central Peru. It forages in Andean scrub and humid shrubbery.

• Grey-breasted Flycatcher Lathrotriccus griseipectus

  This flycatcher lives in forest understory from southwestern Ecuador to northern Peru. It has a gray head and breast, whitish belly, and white wingbars.

• Chestnut-bellied Thrush Turdus fulviventris

  The male is a thrush with a black head, gray back and breast, and chestnut belly. It forages on the ground near edges of Andean montane forest.

• Gray Teal Anas gracilis

  The Gray Teal is a small duck found in Australia and nearby islands. It uses wetlands and can nest in tree hollows.

• White-plumed Antbird Pithys albifrons

  The White-plumed Antbird follows army-ant columns while foraging in the lower forest understory of Amazonia. Adults have long white plumes along the face, and chestnut neck, underparts, and tail.

• Black-eared Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix australis

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

• Flame-throated Bulbul Rubigula gularis

  This bulbul is endemic to the foothills of India’s Western Ghats. Its account favors semi-evergreen and moist deciduous woodland, with use of secondary growth and sacred groves.

• Slender-billed Starling Onychognathus tenuirostris

  The Slender-billed Starling is an East African starling with a long, narrow bill and glossy dark plumage.

• Orange-cheeked Parrot Pyrilia barrabandi

  An Amazonian parrot with orange cheeks against a black head and olive throat and breast.

• Swallow-tailed Hummingbird Eupetomena macroura

  This hummingbird has a long, forked tail. It visits flowering trees, and its blue-green plumage can flash in the light.

• Arrowhead Piculet Picumnus minutissimus

  The Arrowhead Piculet is a small woodpecker of the coastal lowlands of the Guianas. Its underparts have an arrowhead-like scaly pattern; males have broad red feather tips on the crown.

• Chestnut-headed Oropendola Psarocolius wagleri

  This bird ranges from Central America to Colombia and Ecuador. It has a black body, chestnut head, neck and rump, and a yellow tail with dark central feathers.