Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey-headed Fish Eagle Icthyophaga ichthyaetus

  

  The Grey-headed Fish Eagle is a large eagle identified by the adult's gray head and brown breast. It lives in woodland near water and feeds mainly on fish.

• Puff-backed Honeyeater Meliphaga aruensis

  This honeyeater has an olive back and yellow ear patches. A fluffy white patch sits above the tail, and it feeds on fruit and other foods in forest.

• Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus

  Red-winged Blackbirds differ greatly in plumage between the sexes. They nest in wetlands during breeding; the North American account describes a diet of mainly insects in summer and seeds in fall and winter.

• Northern Plain Xenops Xenops mexicanus

  The Northern Plain Xenops searches tree trunks for insects in the lower and middle levels of humid tropical forest and at forest edges. Birds Colombia describes the sexes as similar and notes that juveniles have a dark brown throat.

• Stork-billed Kingfisher Pelargopsis capensis

  The Stork-billed Kingfisher is a large kingfisher with a huge red bill, blue upperparts, and orange-yellow underparts. It watches for prey from waterside perches.

• Fire-bellied Mountain-tanager Anisognathus igniventris

  The 2016 IUCN assessment treats this as a resident of Peru and Bolivia, using moist montane forest and high-altitude shrubland. A 2017 Peru tour report recorded many below Abra Malaga.

• Fujian Niltava Niltava davidi

  The Fujian Niltava is a flycatcher that searches for insects in woodland. Males and females have different plumage.

• Tasmanian Native-hen Tribonyx mortierii

  A large flightless rail found in grassland near freshwater in Tasmania. It feeds on leaves and seeds and small animals on the ground.

• Rufous-headed Pygmy Tyrant Pseudotriccus ruficeps

  The Rufous-headed Pygmy Tyrant was recorded in the understory of Colombia’s western Andes. At La Linda, observers heard a few individuals daily and captured an adult male in dense Chusquea bamboo.

• Brown-necked Raven Corvus ruficollis

  The Brown-necked Raven is a crow with a bronze sheen on its neck and a long, triangular tail.

• Blue-naped Parrot Tanygnathus lucionensis

  The Blue-naped Parrot is a green parrot native to Philippine islands and Indonesia's Talaud Islands. The pattern of blue on the head and back varies by subspecies.

• Stripe-cheeked Greenbul Arizelocichla milanjensis

  This bulbul lives in the mountains of southern Malawi, western Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe. It is about 19 cm long and uses montane and submontane forest, riverine woodland and scrub.

• Crimson Sunbird Aethopyga siparaja

  The Crimson Sunbird is a small bird that takes nectar, spiders, and insects. Males are red, while females are olive-colored, so the sexes look different.

• Bahia Antwren Herpsilochmus pileatus

  The Bahia Antwren inhabits coastal forest in southern Bahia, Brazil. Males are gray and black, while females show buff tones.

• Pale-naped Brush Finch Atlapetes pallidinucha

  The Pale-naped Brush Finch forages in the understory of Andean montane forest. It has grey upperparts and tail, a broad yellow-orange forehead that fades toward the crown and nape, and a yellow throat.

• Black-headed Parrot Pionites melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Parrot lives in humid forests and forest edges of northern South America and eats plant foods such as fruit.

• Swainson's Warbler Limnothlypis swainsonii

  Swainson's Warbler has a stocky body and a heavy bill that it uses to turn leaf litter while searching for insects and spiders. It breeds in dense swamps and canebrakes of the southeastern United States.

• Striped Woodpecker Veniliornis lignarius

  A bark-foraging woodpecker recorded in Argentina’s montane forests and forest edges in the regional account.

• Santa Marta Blossomcrown Anthocephala floriceps

  This hummingbird lives in the Santa Marta mountains. The male has a peach-toned crown and gray throat, and the bird takes nectar from small flowers low in the vegetation.

• Black-crowned White-eye Zosterops atrifrons

  This small white-eye occurs in Indonesia. It has a green body, bold white eye-ring, black forehead, and yellow throat and undertail; it is seen in groups along forest edges and in cultivated areas.

• Inca Tern Larosterna inca

  Adults are marked by a red bill and white cheek feathers that curl like a moustache. Young birds are brown and lack these features. It breeds along rocky coasts of Peru and Chile.

• 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.

• Speckled Teal Anas flavirostris

  The Speckled Teal is a small duck that feeds at the water's surface. Dark spots mark its neck and breast, while plumage and bill color vary with subspecies, sex, and age.

• Long-whiskered Owlet Xenoglaux loweryi

  The Long-whiskered Owlet is a tiny owl with long facial feathers like whiskers. It is recorded in humid mountain forests of northern Peru.