Meet the world’s animals.

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• Andean Solitaire Myadestes ralloides

  

  The Andean Solitaire often lives alone in Andean forests and has a gray face and breast with a brown back.

• Mourning Sierra Finch Rhopospina fruticeti

  It occurs in Argentine Patagonia and along the Andes, in shrub steppe and woodland-edge habitats.

• Greater Black Coucal Centropus menbeki

  The Greater Black Coucal is recorded from forest, scrub, and freshwater swamps on New Guinea. Adults have glossy blue-green black plumage, while juveniles look different.

• Crested Kingfisher Megaceryle lugubris

  A black-and-white crested kingfisher of rivers and mountain lakes in Japan.

• White-spotted Woodpecker Veniliornis spilogaster

  This 16–20 cm woodpecker uses open forest and woodland and searches bark for invertebrates. Sound recordings include Ubatuba in São Paulo, Brazil.

• Black-chinned Antbird Hypocnemoides melanopogon

  This antbird lives in lowland areas north of the Amazon and Marañón rivers and searches for food in waterside shrubs and overhanging vegetation. Males show gray and black plumage; females have a paler belly center.

• Black-winged Myna Acridotheres melanopterus

  The Black-winged Myna is a black-and-white starling.

• Chubut Steamer Duck Tachyeres leucocephalus

  The Chubut Steamer Duck is a flightless sea duck found along the Patagonian coast. A study at a breeding site recorded it feeding on crabs, mussels, and ragworms during low tide.

• Grey-sided Laughingthrush Pterorhinus caerulatus

  This laughingthrush lives in forests of the eastern Himalayas. It has a brown crown and back, a white throat and breast, and broad gray flanks.

• Altamira Oriole Icterus gularis

  The Altamira Oriole has a bright orange body and a contrasting black face. It weaves a long, hanging bag-shaped nest from a tree branch.

• White-backed vulture Gyps africanus

  A vulture that gathers with others and searches for carcasses in African savannas.

• Montane Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger

  A woodcreeper of humid Andean montane forest. It climbs trunks and branches while foraging at different forest heights.

• Red Lark Calendulauda burra

  The Red Lark is endemic to South Africa's Northern Cape. A BirdLife South Africa account describes plumage forms associated with dune and clay shrubland habitats.

• Seychelles White-eye Zosterops modestus

  The Seychelles White-eye is a small bird on Mahé. A survey report covering November 2022 to February 2023 describes a dull olive-brown body with a white eye-ring.

• Bangs's Brush Finch Arremon basilicus

  Bangs's Brush Finch occurs in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. It uses the understory of humid forest and dense secondary growth.

• Spectacled Parrotlet Forpus conspicillatus

  The Spectacled Parrotlet has three subspecies. In the nominate subspecies, males have blue-purple markings around the eye, on the wings and rump; these areas are green in females.

• Common Hill Partridge Arborophila torqueola

  The Common Hill Partridge is a pheasant relative of forests around the Himalayas. Males have an orange head and dark chest markings, and small groups search the forest floor for food.

• Nicobar Parakeet Psittacula caniceps

  The pale grey head and dark facial bands are distinctive. This parakeet lives in coastal forest on a small group of Nicobar Islands.

• Bahama Warbler Setophaga flavescens

  This warbler occurs on Grand Bahama and Abaco in the Bahamas. A 2018 survey on Grand Bahama recorded birds searching pine trunks and palm leaves for small invertebrates.

• Slaty-backed Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias goodfellowi

  This flycatcher lives in montane forest understory on Mindanao. An early description of the female records dark slate-gray upperparts with white and buff underparts.

• Paint-billed Crake Mustelirallus erythrops

  The Paint-billed Crake is a small, 18–20 cm rail of seasonally wet grassland and freshwater marsh. It catches invertebrates on or near the ground and water.

• Usambara Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris usambaricus

  This sunbird lives in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains. A study around Mazumbai Forest Reserve found it mainly in areas with limited crown cover; most recorded food came from non-native plants.

• Persian Shearwater Puffinus persicus

  The Persian Shearwater is a seabird with a dark upper surface set against a white underside. Breeding has been recorded in southern Arabia and around Socotra, while seasonal records have also been reported off East Africa.

• Black-chested Prinia Prinia flavicans

  A black chest band marks the breeding plumage of this small prinia. In Namibia it searches for insects among branches and leaves in dry acacia scrub and other shrublands.