Meet the world’s animals.

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• Blanford's Rosefinch Agraphospiza rubescens

  

  This rosefinch lives in mountain areas from south-eastern Tibet and north-western Yunnan to parts of central China. Males are crimson, while females are mainly brown.

• Pearly-bellied Seedeater Sporophila pileata

  This seedeater is recorded in southern and southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, and eastern Argentina. Adult male plumage ranges from pale pinkish cinnamon to warm ochre-brown. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of S. bouvreuil.

• Yellow-throated Honeyeater Nesoptilotis flavicollis

  This honeyeater occurs on Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands. It uses forest, scrub, and towns. In a study of one nest, both adults fed the young.

• Hooded Yellowthroat Geothlypis nelsoni

  This yellowthroat is recorded in Mexico, where it uses brush on rather dry slopes and open pine or pine-oak woods.

• Yellow-eyed Starling Aplonis mystacea

  In one observation from Central Province, Papua New Guinea, a flock of dark adult birds with very pale irises fed on fruit in lowland forest.

• Cobalt-winged Parakeet Brotogeris cyanoptera

  This small parakeet has a yellow-green body and blue-violet wings. Outside the breeding season it moves through the canopy in flocks and gathers with other parrots at clay licks.

• Galapagos Dove Zenaida galapagoensis

  Its brown wings have black-and-white bars, and its neck and chest are pinkish. It is more common in the dry lowlands of some islands.

• Scaly Kingfisher Actenoides princeps

  A kingfisher of Sulawesi’s humid montane forests, it is striking for its blue-violet head and scaly-marked brown body.

• Yellow-lored Bristlebill Bleda notatus

  A lowland forest bird of West-Central Africa, also recorded in older secondary growth and forest–grassland mosaics. Records reach 650 m.

• Banded Bay Cuckoo Cacomantis sonneratii

  The Banded Bay Cuckoo lives in woodland and gardens from the Indian subcontinent into Southeast Asia. In Singapore, it is known to lay its eggs in the nest of a Common Iora.

• Large-billed Tern Phaetusa simplex

  Its long yellow bill and black cap stand out. It lives mainly along rivers and lakes in South America.

• Crimson Seedcracker Pyrenestes sanguineus

  This West African finch has red plumage and a short, thick bill. Research has documented two bill-size forms.

• Calayan Rail Aptenorallus calayanensis

  This rail is known only from Calayan Island in the northern Philippines. The 2004 description reported it as common in forest over coralline limestone in the island's north-central area.

• White-necked Hawk Buteogallus lacernulatus

  The White-necked Hawk is a raptor of Brazil's Atlantic Forest.

• Fischer's Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucopareia

  This lark inhabits dry plains of eastern Africa. The male has white cheeks and black markings; the account lists semi-desert and stony plains as habitat.

• Tooth-billed Hummingbird Androdon aequatorialis

  The Tooth-billed Hummingbird is a hummingbird whose bill tips differ between the sexes. It searches for spiders and small insects, with occasional observations of nectar feeding.

• Orange-bellied Antwren Terenura sicki

  This antwren is recorded in remaining evergreen forest in Alagoas and Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil. The 1983 type description gives a streaked black and buff crown, chestnut back and orange underside. In 2018, ICMBio reported severe fragmentation and continuing habitat loss and assessed the species as Critically Endangered in Brazil.

• Line-cheeked Spinetail Cranioleuca antisiensis

  This small bird occurs in the southern Ecuadorian Andes. A nest has been studied in foothill evergreen forest there.

• Silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera

  A pheasant whose male has white-and-black patterned feathers on its back and long tail.

• Red Lory Eos bornea

  The Red Lory is mainly red, with black on parts of the wings and blue feathers beneath the tail. It has also been recorded in lowland forest on Buru Island.

• House Crow Corvus splendens

  A crow of South Asian settlements and farmland that feeds on a wide range of animal and plant foods, including human food scraps.

• Black-capped Sparrow Arremon abeillei

  This sparrow occurs in the understory of humid Andean forests and tall scrub. Its black head and broad white eyebrow stand out, and mantle color varies between subspecies.

• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dryobates minor

  A sparrow-sized woodpecker with black-and-white bars on its back and wings. In Britain it searches for food high in woodlands with plenty of deadwood.

• Powerful Boobook Ninox strenua

  The Powerful Boobook is a large owl of forests in eastern and south-eastern Australia. It hunts mainly arboreal mammals, often waiting from a tree perch.