Meet the world’s animals.

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• Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi

  

  This large, sturdy flycatcher has gray markings on its sides. It sings from high trees and catches flying insects.

• Merida Flowerpiercer Diglossa gloriosa

  The head, throat, and much of the upperparts are black; the belly is chestnut and the wings have blue-gray coverts. It lives in highland scrub and forest edges in western Venezuela, feeding on nectar and insects.

• Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens

  Leaf-love is a bulbul found from western to central Africa, where it uses woodland and thickets near water.

• Indochinese Green Magpie Cissa hypoleuca

  The Indochinese Green Magpie is a jay that lives in evergreen forests from southern China into Southeast Asia.

• Naumann's Thrush Turdus naumanni

  Naumann's Thrush is seen from autumn to spring in Koshimizu, eastern Hokkaido. It forms flocks in woodland and open areas, feeding on insects, earthworms, and rowan berries on the ground.

• Hodgson's Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Redstart moves between breeding and wintering areas. It uses high-elevation scrub and forest edges, and searches for food in the upper parts of trees.

• Rusty-headed Spinetail Synallaxis fuscorufa

  This ovenbird is restricted to Colombia's Santa Marta mountains. It searches among branches in montane forest understory and scrub.

• Red-fan Parrot Deroptyus accipitrinus

  This green South American parrot can raise the feathers on the back of its head into a fan when scared or excited.

• Tocuyo Sparrow Arremonops tocuyensis

  A sparrow of dry scrub and forest edges in northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela.

• Green-backed Honeyeater Glycichaera fallax

  This honeyeater occurs in northern Australia and around New Guinea. It has an olive back, a pale cream-colored belly, a white iris with a pale eye-ring, and feeds among foliage, moving from tree to tree.

• Northern Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus punctatus

  The Northern Slaty Antshrike is about 14 cm long. In Peru, PeruAves records separate populations in the Chinchipe, Marañón and part of the Huallaga valleys.

• Tawny-bellied Hermit Phaethornis syrmatophorus

  This hummingbird occurs in the northern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Peru it is recorded in humid montane forest and in humid or semi-deciduous forest in western Piura.

• Chubb's Cisticola Cisticola chubbi

  A cisticola of tropical African highlands. It occurs in grassy openings and forest edges, often in pairs or small groups, and gives a scratchy, rapidly changing song.

• Black Baza Aviceda leuphotes

  The Black Baza is a forest raptor with black-and-white plumage, chestnut breast bands and a long crest. It catches insects in the canopy; some northern populations migrate south.

• Pied Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites crassirostris

  This cuckoo occurs on the Tayandu and Kai islands and the Tanimbar Islands of eastern Indonesia. The current Clements checklist treats it as a distinct species split from Little Bronze-Cuckoo.

• Wayanad Laughingthrush Pterorhinus delesserti

  This laughingthrush occurs in the Western Ghats of southwestern India. It moves in small groups near the ground in evergreen forest, searching for insects and plant food.

• Blue Noddy Anous ceruleus

  The Blue Noddy is a small tern with bluish-gray plumage. It breeds on Pacific islands and forages in waters near land.

• Reddish Scops Owl Otus rufescens

  The Reddish Scops Owl is a small owl of forests in Southeast Asia, including the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. It is nocturnal and feeds mainly on insects.

• Olive-colored White-eye Zosterops oleagineus

  This white-eye occurs on Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia. It is olive-green overall, with a conspicuous white ring around the eye.

• Newton's Yellow-breasted Sunbird Anabathmis newtonii

  This species is endemic to São Tomé. A 2001–2002 survey reported higher mist-net capture rates in mossy montane primary forest and caught more, larger males than females.

• Chestnut-headed Crake Anurolimnas castaneiceps

  The Chestnut-headed Crake has a chestnut head, neck, and breast, with an olive-brown body. It forages in dense vegetation and bamboo in wet forest.

• Hispaniolan Crossbill Loxia megaplaga

  The Hispaniolan Crossbill is a finch from Hispaniola that feeds on pine seeds. The sexes differ in plumage, and the tips of the bill cross.

• Pale-winged Starling Onychognathus nabouroup

  This glossy black starling has pale wing patches and orange eyes. It lives among dry rocky hills in southern Africa.

• Vitelline Warbler Setophaga vitellina

  This small warbler lives on islands in the western Caribbean. Males and females have different plumage.