Meet the world’s animals.

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• Varied Solitaire Myadestes coloratus

  

  The Varied Solitaire has a gray crown and underparts, a black face, brown back, and orange bill and legs. It lives in humid mountain forest from southern Panama to northwestern Colombia.

• White-throated Rock Thrush Monticola gularis

  The White-throated Rock Thrush is marked by a blue crown and a white line down the throat. It ranges across eastern and southeastern Asia and eats insects.

• McConnell's Spinetail Synallaxis macconnelli

  This spinetail occurs in the understory of evergreen forest and woodland in Guyana. It has a warm rufous crown and wings against a gray body.

• African Orange-bellied Parrot Poicephalus rufiventris

  The African Orange-bellied Parrot has an orange-red belly in males and a brown-grey abdomen in females. It eats fruits and seeds in dry scrub and acacia woodlands.

• Ochre-breasted Brush Finch Atlapetes semirufus

  The Ochre-breasted Brushfinch ranges from northern Venezuela into north-central Colombia. It uses montane forest understory and edges at about 1,000–3,500 m.

• Elfin Myzomela Myzomela adolphinae

  A tiny honeyeater of New Guinea's mid-montane forest canopy and village edges. Males show red on the head and rump against a dark back and wings; females have red only at the chin.

• Black-bellied Antwren Formicivora melanogaster

  An antwren of woodland and dense scrub in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay, feeding on insects and spiders.

• Jamaican Mango Anthracothorax mango

  The Jamaican Mango is a hummingbird endemic to Jamaica that feeds on nectar. Iridescent colors fleck its mostly black body.

• Malagasy Palm Swift Cypsiurus gracilis

  This swift occurs in Madagascar and the Comoros. It inhabits open lowland secondary vegetation, uses palms for nesting, and catches insects in flight.

• Red-pate Cisticola Cisticola ruficeps

  The Red-pate Cisticola is mainly an East African bird, with confirmed records in northeast Nigeria. The rust-red crown and gray back described below apply only to the breeding-plumaged scotoptera subspecies.

• Long-tailed Honey Buzzard Henicopernis longicauda

  A long-tailed raptor of New Guinea. It can be seen circling slowly with wings spread above the forest canopy.

• Red Bishop Euplectes orix

  The Red Bishop is a southern African bird whose breeding males turn red and black. It gathers in grassland and waterside reed beds and feeds on seeds and insects.

• Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx nisicolor

  Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo is a cuckoo with predominantly gray adult plumage. It moves seasonally from its breeding range to wintering areas in Southeast Asia and is recorded in forest and forest-edge habitats.

• Taiwan Hwamei Garrulax taewanus

  This medium-sized laughingthrush is found in Taiwan. The museum account describes it in thickets and broadleaf woodland, where it takes insects, seeds, and fruit.

• Silver Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae

  The Silver Gull has a white head and red-orange bill and legs. It searches for food along coasts and around urban waters in Australia.

• Maned Owl Jubula lettii

  An owl with long head feathers that form a mane. It lives in forests of West and Central Africa and is nocturnal, but details of its diet and other habits are poorly known.

• Christmas White-eye Zosterops natalis

  The Christmas White-eye is a small bird with olive and grey plumage and a white ring around the eye. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects, and nests in the wet season.

• 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.

• Elegant Sunbird Aethopyga duyvenbodei

  The male has maroon and iridescent blue-green plumage, while the female is olive above. The species lives on Sangihe Island.

• Ruddy-breasted Crake Zapornia fusca

  The Ruddy-breasted Crake is a rail that lives in waterside vegetation.

• Atlantic Petrel Pterodroma incerta

  The Atlantic Petrel breeds on South Atlantic islands and spends the non-breeding season at sea. A study of birds at sea found cephalopods such as squid among their main foods.

• Black-chinned Siskin Spinus barbatus

  A small finch of the Andean-Patagonian forest region, it has a black head and throat in males and olive coloring in females.

• Long-tailed Starling Aplonis magna

  This starling is active by day and eats fruit in forests and open areas on Biak and Numfor.

• Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens

  The Black-throated Green Warbler has a yellow face and green back. In breeding-plumage males, black across the throat and chest is prominent; females and young birds have less black on the front.