Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus

  

  Male Brewer's Blackbirds are glossy black with yellow eyes, while females are brown. The species uses open habitats from grasslands to parks and city streets.

• Green Jery Neomixis viridis

  This bird lives in forests of eastern Madagascar. It has olive-green upperparts and yellow-tinged pale underparts, and searches in forest and trees for invertebrates.

• Finsch's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina finschi

  Finsch's Rufous Thrush lives in the lower levels of evergreen and semi-deciduous forests in West Africa, including forest near streams and swamps. It takes invertebrates from surfaces in the understory.

• 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.

• Coal-crested Finch Charitospiza eucosma

  A small finch of Brazil's Cerrado. In Bolivia it has been recorded at a few scattered sites in the north, where it also searches the ground in young growth after fires.

• Bridled Honeyeater Bolemoreus frenatus

  This honeyeater occurs in the upland rainforests of northern Queensland. Its overall plumage is sooty grey, with a bright yellow base to the bill.

• Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera

  The Blue-winged Warbler is a small bird with a yellow belly and bluish wings. It searches for insects in shrubland and along forest edges.

• Spot-winged Starling Saroglossa spilopterus

  Regional accounts describe the Spot-winged Starling as breeding in Himalayan foothills and wintering around northeast India. A flock feeding on flower nectar was recorded in northeast India, but that account is a single site and date.

• Pearly Parakeet Pyrrhura lepida

  The Pearly Parakeet is a parrot of north-central Brazil. Groups of up to about ten may gather at good food sources.

• Grey-fronted Dove Leptotila rufaxilla

  The Grey-fronted Dove is a ground-dwelling dove widespread in South America. A study in Acre found nests near forest edges and reported that breeding records peaked in the rainy season.

• Blue-winged Kookaburra Dacelo leachii

  A large kingfisher with blue shoulders and rump, it hunts in woodlands, along watercourses, and around wetlands, taking insects, frogs, and other small animals.

• Black-and-white Bulbul Microtarsus melanoleucos

  The Black-and-white Bulbul lives in forests and forest edges in Southeast Asia. Its plumage differs by sex and age.

• Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus

  A bird that runs through dry scrub and uses its long tail to steer while chasing lizards.

• Cabot's Tern Thalasseus acuflavidus

  Cabot's Tern occurs along the Atlantic coast of South America. At the Cardos Island breeding colony in Brazil, adults were studied carrying fish and other food to chicks. The black bill with a yellow tip describes breeding adults of the nominate subspecies, T. a. acuflavidus.

• Pink-throated Twinspot Hypargos margaritatus

  Males have a pink throat and black underparts dotted with white. The birds search for grass seeds on the ground and live in thickets and at forest edges.

• Auckland Rail Lewinia muelleri

  The Auckland Rail is a small, secretive rail remaining on two islands in New Zealand’s Auckland Islands.

• Barred Hawk Morphnarchus princeps

  This large hawk has a blackish-gray throat and chest, with fine black bars across its white belly. It is diurnal and lives in humid foothill and montane forest.

• Marvelous Spatuletail Loddigesia mirabilis

  The Marvelous Spatuletail is a hummingbird whose male has racket-shaped ornaments at the ends of its tail feathers. It visits flowers for nectar, and males use the tail in courtship.

• Black-throated Antshrike Frederickena viridis

  A lowland antshrike of Venezuela, the Guianas, and Brazil. It favors dense undergrowth in evergreen forest.

• White-throated Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes albicollis

  This large woodcreeper inhabits forests in Brazil and neighboring countries. It climbs trunks and peels bark and lichen to find hidden arthropods.

• Greater Sage Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus

  The Greater Sage-Grouse lives in sagebrush plains of western North America. During the breeding season, males gather and display to females.

• Turquoise Parakeet Neophema pulchella

  A parakeet of southeastern Australia. Males show a turquoise-blue face and red shoulder patch, and the birds forage near the ground for grass seeds.

• Azure Jay Cyanocorax caeruleus

  This jay inhabits forests in southern Brazil. Its blue body contrasts with a black head and fore-neck, and groups cache pine seeds.

• Baird's Sparrow Centronyx bairdii

  Baird’s Sparrow lives in North American grasslands. It has a short tail and a flat head, and runs through grass while looking for food.