Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous-throated Sapphire Hylocharis sapphirina

  

  This small hummingbird ranges across South America, including Bolivia. Its rufous throat and blue gorget help identify it.

• Rusty-fronted Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus latirostris

  This small flycatcher occurs in several South American countries. Its reddish forehead and sides of the face contrast with olive upperparts. A Bolivia account records it in moist scrub and along rivers.

• Violet-necked Lory Eos squamata

  This lory inhabits islands of eastern Indonesia. Purple neck bands and red wings are prominent, though plumage varies among subspecies. It feeds on nectar, pollen, and fruit, usually in pairs or small groups.

• Orinoco Piculet Picumnus pumilus

  This small woodpecker lives in humid forest in eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela and northwestern Brazil. It forages from low levels up to the canopy.

• Taiwan Yuhina Yuhina brunneiceps

  The Taiwan Yuhina is endemic to Taiwan. It lives in mountain areas at 1,000–3,000 m and often uses the middle and upper levels of broadleaf and mixed forest.

• Caucasian Black Grouse Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi

  The Caucasian Black Grouse inhabits meadows near the forest line in the Caucasus Mountains. Males and females differ in plumage and tail shape.

• Sooty-capped Bush Tanager Chlorospingus pileatus

  This bird lives in mountain forest in Costa Rica and Panama. Its dark head and white eyebrow stand out as it moves in small groups through the understorey.

• Great Dusky Swift Cypseloides senex

  A dark-brown swift, it catches insects above forests and uses rocky waterfalls for resting and breeding.

• Costa Rican Pygmy Owl Glaucidium costaricanum

  The Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl occurs in brown and rufous morphs. It waits for prey in the canopy and at edges of wet mountain forest and hunts mainly by day.

• Black-throated Jay Cyanolyca pumilo

  A dark-blue jay with a black face and throat edged by a narrow whitish eyebrow. It inhabits humid mountain forests from Mexico into northern Central America.

• Bimaculated Lark Melanocorypha bimaculata

  The Bimaculated Lark walks across dry, open grasslands. Dark patches on both sides of its chest stand out, and breeding males sing long songs in flight.

• Madagascar Kingfisher Corythornis vintsioides

  This small kingfisher has bright blue plumage and rufous underparts. It uses rivers, lakes, wetlands, and mangroves and feeds on aquatic animals such as fish.

• Lewin's Rail Lewinia pectoralis

  Lewin's Rail is a secretive rail that stays hidden among plants in wetlands. It occurs in southeastern mainland Australia and Tasmania.

• Fire-fronted Bishop Euplectes diadematus

  The Fire-fronted Bishop moves in response to rainfall in eastern Africa. A breeding male is black and yellow with a red forehead patch, and the species feeds mainly on grass seeds.

• Green Oropendola Psarocolius viridis

  The Green Oropendola is uniformly dusky green, with a thick yellow-and-red bill and blue eyes. Males are larger than females, and the species uses forest canopy in Peru.

• Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea

  The Grey Petrel ranges widely over the Southern Hemisphere's oceans. It has a grey body and white belly, and uses burrows on its breeding islands.

• Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush Pterorhinus treacheri

  The Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush is endemic to Borneo, with a patchy distribution. The account describes three subspecies across the island's mountain regions.

• Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus dicruroides

  The Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo is about 25 cm long and resembles a drongo. It occurs on the Indian Subcontinent, including Sri Lanka.

• White-backed Swallow Cheramoeca leucosterna

  This swallow inhabits arid and semi-arid parts of southern and central Australia. It breeds in open country where sandy banks or earth cliffs are available.

• Creamy-bellied Thrush Turdus amaurochalinus

  The Creamy-bellied Thrush is notable for its yellowish bill and pale belly. An Argentine account describes it feeding alone or in pairs, from the ground to low trees.

• Brown Prinia Prinia polychroa

  The Brown Prinia uses dry grassland and scrubby growth at forest edges. It searches for insects and larvae close to the ground.

• River Tern Sterna aurantia

  A tern with a yellow bill and a deeply forked tail. It flies over rivers and lakes in South Asia and catches fish.

• Auckland Islands Teal Anas aucklandica

  The Auckland Island teal is a flightless duck found only in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand. Both sexes are brown, with differences in plumage.

• Red-throated Parakeet Psittacara rubritorquis

  This parakeet ranges through hilly and mountainous parts of Central America. During the breeding season it is associated with semiarid to semideciduous forest, including pine forest.