Meet the world’s animals.

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• Dunlin Calidris alpina

  

  A visiting shorebird of tidal flats and other watersides that sometimes gathers in large flocks.

• Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula

  The Black-crowned Waxbill is mostly gray, black, and white, with a noticeable red rump. It lives in pairs or flocks in grassland and along woodland edges.

• Worthen's Sparrow Spizella wortheni

  This small sparrow is restricted to dry upland grasslands in northeastern Mexico. It keeps low among short shrubs and feeds mostly on seeds in winter.

• Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus

  The Bright-rumped Attila is a tyrant flycatcher marked by a yellow rump. Its plumage varies among subspecies and color morphs, and it searches for insects and small animals in the middle forest layers.

• Hooded Parrot Psephotellus dissimilis

  The Hooded Parrot lives in dry open woodland and grassland in northern Australia. It feeds on seeds on the ground and nests inside termite mounds.

• Plumbeous Pigeon Patagioenas plumbea

  The Plumbeous Pigeon's plumage ranges from gray to brown among subspecies. In Peru it is often found in the canopy and subcanopy of mature Amazonian forest.

• Cardinal Honeyeater Myzomela cardinalis

  A National Park of American Samoa guide records this bird on Tutuila, American Samoa, but not on the Manuʻa Islands. Adult males have red bodies with black wings and tails; females are grayish with a red rump. The guide describes it visiting flowers for nectar.

• Broad-billed Prion Pachyptila vittata

  The Broad-billed Prion is a seabird with a broad bill. Comb-like edges in the bill help it filter small organisms from the sea.

• Orange-backed Troupial Icterus croconotus

  A striking black-and-orange oriole of the Amazon Basin, it also uses secondary growth and forest edges and may occur near water. It is not a true starling despite its English name ending in “troupial.”

• Golden-bellied White-eye Zosterops uropygialis

  Its yellow-green upperparts and bright yellow throat and belly stand out, and it has no white eye-ring. This white-eye is found only on Kai Kecil Island, Indonesia.

• Madagascar Magpie-Robin Copsychus albospecularis

  This small bird occurs widely across Madagascar, and its plumage varies by sex and subspecies. It searches for insects near the forest floor.

• Lazuli Kingfisher Todiramphus lazuli

  The Lazuli Kingfisher lives in Indonesia's southern Moluccas. Males are blue and white, while females also have blue-purple on the breast and belly.

• Chestnut-bellied Seed Finch Sporophila angolensis

  This seed finch is recorded in Amazonia, including Bolivia. It forages in tall grass by rivers, overgrown fallow fields, and scrub, and males and females look quite different.

• Black-bellied Tern Sterna acuticauda

  Breeding adults have a black head and belly, an orange bill and a deeply forked tail.

• Crested Coua Coua cristata

  The Madagascar cuckoo-relative has gray-green plumage, a crest, and blue bare skin around the eyes. It moves between the ground and trees.

• Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus

  This woodpecker has a red forehead and crown, black-and-white wings, and a rufous belly. It eats insects and occurs in forests from the Himalayas through parts of East and Southeast Asia.

• Sentinel Lark Corypha athi

  The Sentinel Lark ranges from central Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. Nairobi-area observers describe birds singing for long periods from prominent perches.

• Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha

  Glossy black plumage and pale eyes stand out on this weaver. In adults, white feather bases on the nape show as a pale patch.

• Mindoro Boobook Ninox mindorensis

  This owl occurs in forest and wooded areas on Mindoro. One source describes the island population under its former subspecies treatment.

• Chiguanco Thrush Turdus chiguanco

  This thrush has a gray-brown body, yellow bill, and yellow legs. The Peruvian account says it searches for food by hopping on the ground and eats fruit and insects.

• Streak-crowned Antvireo Dysithamnus striaticeps

  This antvireo ranges from southeastern Honduras to Costa Rica. It is recorded mainly in evergreen forest on the Caribbean slope of Central America; the AOS checklist does not accept records from western Panama.

• Yellow-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus goiavier

  The Yellow-vented Bulbul has olive-brown upperparts and a yellow vent. In Singapore it occurs from coastal scrub to parks and urban areas.

• White-lored Euphonia Euphonia chrysopasta

  This small finch is recorded in Bolivian forests. It is mostly found in pairs in the canopy and mainly eats fruit, especially mistletoe berries. Its bill is pale gray with a dark tip.

• Cliff Parakeet Myiopsitta luchsi

  This parakeet lives in the dry inter-Andean valleys of central Bolivia. It moves in flocks and builds large stick nests on cliff faces.