Meet the world’s animals.

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• Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae

  

  The Gambaga Flycatcher is a small flycatcher identified in part by faint breast streaks and a yellowish-orange lower mandible. It occurs in Africa and southwestern Arabia; breeding activity was observed in Yemen in May.

• Melanesian Kingfisher Todiramphus tristrami

  This kingfisher occurs on islands around New Guinea, New Ireland, New Britain, and the Solomon Islands. It uses secondary forest and inland openings, and also eats small animals.

• Black-backed Bush Tanager Urothraupis stolzmanni

  The Black-backed Bush Tanager has a black head, back, wings, and tail, with a broad white throat and white marks on grey underparts. A 1997 survey at Guandera in northeastern Ecuador recorded it in primary forest and páramo.

• Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus

  The Lesser Black-backed Gull is a large gull with a dark gray back and white body. It breeds from northern Europe to western Siberia and moves south for winter.

• Scale-feathered Malkoha Dasylophus cumingi

  This Philippine cuckoo lives in forest and searches for insects in trees.

• Ochraceous Piculet Picumnus limae

  The Ochraceous Piculet is a small woodpecker of northeastern Brazil. Its underside grades from pale in the north to brown farther south.

• Black-eared Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix australis

  The Black-eared Sparrow-Lark lives in dry grasslands of southern Africa and may move after good rains.

• Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei

  A weaver of East African scrub and woodland near water; breeding males have striking yellow and black plumage.

• Pallid Scops Owl Otus brucei

  The Pallid Scops Owl is a small owl of dry regions. A winter study in southern Israel recorded individuals roosting in acacias growing in desert washes.

• White-backed Thrush Turdus kessleri

  This thrush breeds in the eastern and northeastern Tibetan Plateau of China. Males show black and chestnut markings, and winter records in the Himalayas are vagrants.

• Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis subflava

  This small antbird ranges from Peru's eastern Andean foothills into adjacent western Bolivia and Brazil. Its throat and belly are yellow, and the eyebrow differs in color between the sexes.

• Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus

  This bulbul was described in field notes for the Upper Guinea forest zone. It has olive-brown upperparts, sulfur-yellow underparts and a rufous tail, and may be seen near columns of ants.

• White-bellied Canary Crithagra dorsostriata

  This canary lives in dry scrub and savanna in eastern Africa. It searches for grass seeds near the ground, and some birds move outside the breeding season.

• Green Parakeet Psittacara holochlorus

  The Green Parakeet is mostly green and has a long, pointed tail. Within its natural range it uses tropical and subtropical woodlands, farmland, and plantations.

• Spotless Crake Zapornia tabuensis

  In New Zealand, this small rail hides among dense wetland vegetation. Its red eyes stand out, and it is most active at dim times of day.

• Long-billed Crow Corvus validus

  The Long-billed Crow is black with blue and purple gloss and has an exceptionally long bill.

• Grey-and-gold Warbler Myiothlypis fraseri

  A wood-warbler of humid forest in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It searches for food in shrubs and dense lower vegetation.

• Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus

  The Superb Sunbird occurs in western and central Africa. Males have a blue crown and throat with maroon underparts; the species uses woodland and savanna.

• Roberts's Warbler Oreophilais robertsi

  Roberts's Warbler is a small bird of the highlands of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Adults have olive-brown upperparts, yellow eyes, a grayish-rufous breast, a white belly, and rufous flanks. It feeds on small invertebrates in montane thickets.

• Pallid Swift Apus pallidus

  This brown swift has a white throat, breeds from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf and winters in the Sahel.

• Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus

  An African starling with glossy green and blue plumage and a bronze-glossed purple tail. It eats insects and fruit.

• Jerdon's Baza Aviceda jerdoni

  A crested hawk that waits on a perch for prey, it breeds in scattered areas from India to Southeast Asia.

• Streak-throated Barwing Actinodura waldeni

  This barwing lives in mossy forests of the eastern Himalayas. Its short tail and barred wings and tail are distinctive, while the color of the underparts varies among subspecies.

• Comb Duck Sarkidiornis sylvicola

  A large duck of tropical South America. It is black and white, with a finely speckled head and neck; the male has a large fleshy knob above the bill.