Meet the world’s animals.

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• Western Bluebird Sialia mexicana

  

  The Western Bluebird is a small thrush with blue and rusty plumage. It drops from a low perch to catch insects on the ground.

• Streaky-breasted Spiderhunter Arachnothera affinis

  This spiderhunter has an olive-green back and fine streaks on its grayish breast. It lives in foothill forest and forest edge on Java and gives loud, harsh calls.

• Meratus Blue-flycatcher Cyornis kadayangensis

  The Meratus Blue-flycatcher was described from the Meratus Mountains of southeast Borneo. The female has olive upperparts and a white belly; the study also recorded the species in montane forest and at lower sites in secondary woodland.

• Tawny-chested Flycatcher Aphanotriccus capitalis

  About 12 cm long, this small flycatcher has a gray head, white throat, orange-brown breast, and yellow belly. It hunts insects in dense forest undergrowth.

• Juba Weaver Ploceus dichrocephalus

  This weaver was recorded along rivers in southern Ethiopia. Breeding males have black heads, red eyes, rufous chests, and yellow bellies; females and nonbreeding males are duller.

• Grey-cheeked Fulvetta Alcippe morrisonia

  The Taiwanese population described by the Ministry's bird guide is a forest bird with a grey head and a white eye-ring. Outside the breeding season it forages in mixed-species flocks.

• White-necked Petrel Pterodroma cervicalis

  The White-necked Petrel is a large seabird marked by a white collar and black cap. It feeds mainly on squid at sea and migrates to the North Pacific.

• Carrion crow Corvus corone

  A crow that forages in open farmland and grassland. In Japan, the smooth profile from bill to forehead is a useful identifying feature.

• Blue-capped Kingfisher Actenoides hombroni

  This kingfisher lives in the forests of Mindanao. Males are marked by a blue cap and red bill, while females have green upperparts.

• Jameson's Firefinch Lagonosticta rhodopareia

  This small firefinch has a pinkish body, blue-gray bill, and black under-tail markings. It is found at forest edges and near cultivation, often in pairs or small groups.

• Violet-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena violifer

  The Violet-throated Starfrontlet has a green head and chest, with an iridescent violet throat patch in males. It belongs to a hummingbird family that uses nectar and small insects.

• Archer's Lark Heteromirafra archeri

  This lark runs through high-plateau grassland; in the breeding season, the male makes a singing display flight.

• White-naped Lory Lorius albidinucha

  This lory occurs on New Ireland and nearby islands of Papua New Guinea's Bismarck Archipelago. It feeds on fruit and flowers of wild oil palms in deciduous forest.

• Amazonian Grey Saltator Saltator coerulescens

  This medium-sized tanager-family bird ranges from Central America into South America. It is greyish and has been recorded in plantation weeds, secondary forest, and scrub.

• Plain-breasted Hawk Accipiter ventralis

  This small hawk occurs in Andean mountain forest and cloud forest. Its plumage is variable; one adult-male form in the guide has reddish-brown flanks and thighs.

• Scott's Oriole Icterus parisorum

  Scott's Oriole lives in arid areas of the southwestern United States and eats insects, nectar, and fruit. The male is bright yellow and black.

• Vega Gull Larus vegae

  This large gull breeds mainly in northeastern Siberia and moves to the East Asian coast for winter. Its gray-and-white body, black wingtips, yellow bill, and pink legs are distinctive.

• Giant Scops Owl Otus gurneyi

  A large scops owl that lives in forests in the Philippines.

• Black-faced Rufous Warbler Bathmocercus rufus

  The Black-faced Rufous Warbler moves through dense undergrowth in damp forests of central and eastern Africa. The male has a black face and throat, chestnut upperparts, and grayish underparts, and searches for insects. The identification account centers on males, so it does not represent full female plumage.

• Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor

  A starling native to the Iberian Peninsula and western Mediterranean. Adults have glossy dark plumage, and bill color and pale feather tips change with season.

• Rock Partridge Alectoris graeca

  The Rock Partridge is a mountain-dwelling pheasant relative with a white throat patch bordered in black. Its range is limited to European mountain regions.

• Ocellated Crake Rufirallus schomburgkii

  The Ocellated Crake hides in grassland and mixed grass-and-shrub habitat. In Peru, the Peru Aves account reports it from Pampas del Heath in the southeast.

• Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos macei

  The Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker is a small woodpecker. It is active by day in forests and searches for invertebrates on tree trunks.

• Jamaican Euphonia Euphonia jamaica

  Males are bluish grey with a yellow band across the mid-belly; females and young birds are olive and grey. It eats fruit and buds.