Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mangaia Kingfisher Todiramphus ruficollaris

  

  This kingfisher is endemic to Mangaia in the Cook Islands. An orange neck band is a field mark, and surveys have recorded it in primary and secondary forest and other island habitats.

• Flores Sea Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia macassariensis

  This cuckoo-dove occurs on islands of Indonesia. A 2016 study treats the Tanahjampea and Kalaotoa populations as subspecies longa and describes its plumage separately.

• Green Avadavat Amandava formosa

  The Green Avadavat has a restricted range in India. A study at Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary found it more often in higher areas with greater grass and shrub cover.

• Ringed Teal Callonetta leucophrys

  The Ringed Teal is a small duck of South American wetlands and ponds, with different facial patterns in males and females.

• Pampas Meadowlark Leistes defilippii

  The Pampas Meadowlark is a grassland bird with a short bill and tail and vivid red plumage. A study in Argentina's southern Pampas found that its use of grasslands changes between breeding and non-breeding seasons.

• Chinese Francolin Francolinus pintadeanus

  The Chinese Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird often found in cover. It searches for berries, insects and other food in the morning and evening.

• Olive-backed Woodpecker Gecinulus rafflesii

  The Olive-backed Woodpecker has an olive-green back and golden rump. It searches tree trunks and large branches for insects.

• Mindanao Lorikeet Saudareos johnstoniae

  This green lorikeet inhabits montane forest on Mindanao. Adults have a reddish face and a purple eye-band, and the species feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Variegated Flycatcher Empidonomus varius

  This tyrant flycatcher ranges widely across South America. It perches in forest canopy and along edges; southern breeding populations migrate seasonally.

• Oleaginous Hemispingus Sphenopsis frontalis

  This tanager relative lives in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Its yellow-olive head and back, yellowish underparts, and dense-foliage foraging are useful field marks.

• Ashy-fronted Bulbul Pycnonotus cinereifrons

  The Ashy-fronted Bulbul occurs on Palawan and nearby islands in the western Philippines. It is treated here as the separate species Pycnonotus cinereifrons, rather than under older treatments that included it as a subspecies of the Olive-winged Bulbul. It eats fruit in forest edges and coastal scrub.

• Oriental Magpie Pica serica

  The Oriental Magpie is a corvid with striking black-and-white plumage and a long tail. Hong Kong records describe a varied diet that includes fruit and small animals, and sightings in both wooded and settled areas.

• African Thrush Turdus pelios

  The African Thrush has a gray-brown back and yellow bill; its underparts range from buff and gray to rufous. It uses wooded places from forest edges to gardens.

• Gabela Akalat Sheppardia gabela

  The Gabela Akalat is a small forest bird from west-central Angola. A 2003 survey added records near Conda and Seles, including low secondary growth, forest edge, and regenerating coffee forest.

• Olive-backed Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus triangularis

  This woodcreeper occurs in humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. Its rufous tail and buff spotting on the throat and chest help identify it; it forages from the midstory to the canopy.

• Yellow-faced Amazon Alipiopsitta xanthops

  This parrot is marked by a yellow face and orange flanks or belly. In northern Bolivia it is usually seen in pairs and may form flocks in the austral winter.

• Green-tailed Towhee Pipilo chlorurus

  The Green-tailed Towhee is marked by a green tail, rusty crown, and gray face and breast. It breeds in western U.S. shrublands and moves south to the southern United States and Mexico for winter.

• Banded Honeyeater Cissomela pectoralis

  This honeyeater occurs across northern Australia, visiting open forest and woodland where eucalypts and melaleucas flower. It feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Grey Antbird Cercomacra cinerascens

  This antbird inhabits Amazonian forest, foraging among dense leaves and vines in the lower and middle layers. Males are grey and females are brownish.

• Short-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon poortmani

  The Short-tailed Emerald is recorded in Colombia's Andes. A regional bird account lists montane forest, edges, and clearings, while Gould's historical description notes its short tail.

• Pale-rumped Swift Chaetura egregia

  The Pale-rumped Swift is marked by pale rump and upper-tail coverts that contrast with its dark back and tail. It flies over continuous Amazonian forest.

• Bubbling Cisticola Cisticola bulliens

  This small cisticola occurs along the Angolan coast and in parts of the Congo Basin. It is fairly pale and is often easier to detect by its song in grassland and savanna.

• Yellow-billed Kite Milvus aegyptius

  The Yellow-billed Kite ranges across sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and the Comoros, extending to Egypt and southwestern Arabia.

• Streaked Weaver Ploceus manyar

  A weaver of the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, the Streaked Weaver may gather in flocks in grassy habitats.