Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey Treepie Dendrocitta formosae

  

  The Grey Treepie is a crow-family bird with gray, black, and chestnut plumage and a pale underside. Its appearance and Taiwan behavior here refer to the endemic subspecies D. f. formosae; the range describes the species as a whole.

• Australasian Swamphen Porphyrio melanotus

  New Zealand birds of the Australasian Swamphen have a red frontal shield and bill and a deep blue-violet breast. Groups may defend territory and raise young cooperatively.

• Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus

  A starling of African forests and parks. Adults have iridescent blue, green and purple plumage, form small canopy flocks and feed mainly on fruit.

• Bahama Oriole Icterus northropi

  This oriole is endemic to the Andros island complex in The Bahamas. It nests in palms around settlements, and a 2020 study also documented breeding in native pine forest.

• Eastern Miombo Sunbird Cinnyris manoensis

  This sunbird occurs in the Zambezian miombo region. Males have blue-green upperparts and a red breast band. The species tends to build a grass ball nest attached among branches or leaves.

• White-headed Brush Finch Atlapetes albiceps

  This brush-finch occurs on the western Andean slope in Peru, using semi-humid scrub, forest edges, and undergrowth in deciduous woodland.

• Band-tailed Hornero Furnarius figulus

  A white eyebrow, rusty bars on the wings, and a rufous tail with black tips help identify it. It is recorded in open farmland with bushes, often near water.

• Emerald-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis aline

  This hummingbird ranges from Colombia through southwestern Ecuador to eastern Peru. It is usually solitary in the lower levels of humid cloud forest.

• Grey-winged Blackbird Turdus boulboul

  This thrush inhabits forests from the Himalayas to northern Indochina. Males are black with grey wing panels; females are olive-brown with rufous on the wings.

• Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata

  A small warbler that breeds in northern North American forests and migrates south across the ocean in fall. Breeding males have a distinctive black cap.

• Black-faced Antbird Myrmoborus myotherinus

  The Black-faced Antbird lives in humid Amazonian forests. Males are bluish grey and black, while females are brown with a black mask, so the sexes have different plumage. It forages in the middle and upper canopy for insects and other arthropods.

• Hartlaub's Duck Pteronetta hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Duck has a cinnamon-red body with pale blue on the wings. The male has a white spot at the tip of the bill, and the species uses rivers, lakes, and streams in western and central equatorial Africa.

• Mindanao Montane Racquet-tail Prioniturus waterstradti

  This parrot lives in montane forest on Mindanao. It has a green body, a bluish face, and racket-shaped tips on its tail feathers.

• Shining Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites lucidus

  In New Zealand, the Shining Bronze Cuckoo is a small migrant that arrives in spring and stays into autumn. Its back has a green sheen and its white underside is barred. It lays eggs in smaller birds' nests and leaves the care of its young to them.

• Plain Laughingthrush Pterorhinus davidi

  This laughingthrush inhabits shrubs and low scrub in the mountains and nearby foothill plains of northern and central China. The nominate form is grey-brown and has a bright yellow down-curved bill. Birds answer one another’s calls.

• Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata

  A medium-sized eagle. Adults have dark brown upperparts and a white, dark-streaked underside; juveniles are much paler.

• Buff-breasted Warbling-finch Microspingus lateralis

  This small tanager lives in the mountains of southeastern Brazil. It uses forest edges and bamboo patches, eating insects, fruit, and seeds.

• Dambo Cisticola Cisticola dambo

  The Dambo Cisticola has a very long black tail, and the breeding male gives a distinctive song and aerial display. In a 1931 survey along the Congo–Zambezi divide, birds bred in open flats with short grass; records extended from Nasondoye to eastern Angola.

• Stubble Quail Coturnix pectoralis

  Stubble quail live in pairs or small groups among grasslands and crops. When disturbed, they run first and fly only when pressed, usually for a short distance.

• Saunders's Gull Chroicocephalus saundersi

  It breeds in Yellow Sea coastal saltmarshes, mainly in eastern China and occasionally on the southwestern coast of South Korea. Outside the breeding season it moves to coasts of eastern China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.

• Square-tailed Bulbul Hypsipetes ganeesa

  This bulbul is recorded throughout the Western Ghats of southern India. It has a slate-grey to black body, a black crest, and a red bill and legs. A study of 81 nests in Silent Valley National Park found breeding from January to June, with a peak in April and May.

• Military Macaw Ara militaris

  This large macaw is mostly green, with a red forehead and blue wings. Its three subspecies are geographically separate, from Mexico through the Andes to Bolivia and Argentina.

• Guadeloupe Woodpecker Melanerpes herminieri

  This woodpecker occurs on Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe. It uses several island habitats, including humid forest, semi-deciduous forest, and mangroves.

• Blue Ground Dove Claravis pretiosa

  The Blue Ground Dove is a small pigeon whose male's blue-gray plumage contrasts with the female's reddish brown. By day it searches the ground for seeds and small insects, using forest edges and grasslands.