Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yemen Serin Crithagra menachensis

  

  The Yemen Serin is a small finch of the southwestern Arabian highlands. It searches for seeds on the ground and rocks and is listed as a localized breeding resident in southern Oman.

• Common Smoky Honeyeater Melipotes fumigatus

  Orange-yellow skin around the eyes and on the ear-wattle contrasts with the smoky brown back. In New Guinea's highlands, it feeds on small fruits and insects in the canopy and middle storey.

• Palawan Striped Babbler Zosterornis hypogrammicus

  The Palawan Striped-Babbler is a small bird of the mid-elevation mountains of Palawan in the Philippines.

• Cinnamon Attila Attila cinnamomeus

  The Cinnamon Attila occurs in Amazonian floodplain forest, edges, and river islands, foraging in the canopy and subcanopy. In Peru, the account records it in Loreto and Ucayali and describes it as uncommon there.

• Java sparrow Lonchura oryzivora

  In its wild form, this small bird has a striking black head and white cheeks.

• Turquoise Flycatcher Eumyias panayensis

  This flycatcher inhabits forests from the Philippines through Sulawesi to the Moluccas. It searches for small insects in the forest and sometimes catches them in flight.

• Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata

  The Half-collared Kingfisher is small, with a blue back, pale orange underparts and a white throat.

• Indian Eagle-Owl Bubo bengalensis

  The Indian Eagle-Owl is a large owl of hills and rocky country in the Indian subcontinent. Its raised feather tufts are a clear feature.

• White-bellied Treepie Dendrocitta leucogastra

  A corvid with a long tail and white belly, it lives in the humid hill forests of the Western Ghats.

• White-throated Rail Dryolimnas cuvieri

  The White-throated Rail has a white throat and chestnut breast. The Aldabra subspecies has short wings and is flightless.

• Rosy Starling Pastor roseus

  Adults have a pale pink body with a glossy black head, wings, and tail. They breed in grasslands and winter in India.

• Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta

  This grassland bird is known for a black V on its yellow breast and a flutelike song. It searches the ground for seeds and insects.

• Magnificent Sunbird Aethopyga magnifica

  This sunbird is restricted to the Philippine Visayas, with records from Cebu, Negros, Panay, Sibuyan and Tablas. It uses forest and semi-open habitats and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Rufous-winged Sparrow Peucaea carpalis

  A small sparrow of the Sonoran Desert, from the southwestern United States into northwestern Mexico. It uses dry scrub and grassland, and breeds around the start of the summer rains.

• Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail Spartonoica maluroides

  The Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail lives in salt marshes of southeastern South America. In a measured sample, males tended to have a longer rufous cap and a more robust bill than females.

• Napo Sabrewing Campylopterus villaviscensio

  The Napo Sabrewing is a large hummingbird of cloud forest along the eastern Andes, from southern Colombia to northern Peru. Males have a blue throat-to-chest patch and bright green crown; females have gray underparts and narrow white tail tips.

• Indian Blackbird Turdus simillimus

  The Indian Blackbird sings from foothill forests, forest edges, and orchards.

• Kirtland's Warbler Setophaga kirtlandii

  This small bird has gray-and-yellow plumage. It breeds in young jack-pine forests and winters in scrubby parts of the Bahamas.

• White-browed Antbird Myrmoborus leucophrys

  This antbird occurs in southern Amazonia and along the eastern Andean slope. It forages in the understory of floodplain forest and mature second growth.

• Orinoco Goose Neochen jubata

  The Orinoco Goose is a terrestrial grazer of wetlands and grasslands near fresh water. Its pale gray-buff head and neck contrast with reddish legs, back, and belly.

• Fischer's lovebird Agapornis fischeri

  A small East African parrot with an orange face, green body and conspicuous white eye-rings.

• Red-billed Malkoha Zanclostomus javanicus

  The Red-billed Malkoha is a slender gray cuckoo with a red bill. It moves along branches near the canopy of lowland and foothill forests.

• Buffy Laughingthrush Pterorhinus berthemyi

  The Buffy Laughingthrush occurs in southeastern China, where it uses broadleaf evergreen and bamboo forests as well as plantations. Its head to breast is ochre-brown, with black lores and chin and blue bare skin around the eyes.

• Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus

  The sexes look different: males are gray, while females are brown with a white rump.