Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pink-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus rodochroa

  

  This Himalayan rosefinch is raspberry-pink in males and mainly brown in females. It uses subalpine habitats in the breeding season and descends to foothills in winter.

• Golden-plumed Parakeet Leptosittaca branickii

  The Golden-plumed Parakeet lives in Andean forests from Colombia south to Peru. Adults are mostly green, with yellow plumes behind the eyes and orange tones on the belly.

• Giant Coot Fulica gigantea

  The giant coot has a red bill and legs and a yellow frontal shield. It lives on high Andean lakes and builds a large nest platform from aquatic plants.

• Collared Treepie Dendrocitta frontalis

  The Collared Treepie stands out for its black face, long tail, chestnut body, and silvery-grey chest and neck. It searches for food in humid hill forests with bamboo.

• Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina

  The Tennessee Warbler is a small bird that breeds in Canada’s boreal forests. Breeding males show a gray head and pale eyebrow, while females and nonbreeding birds look more yellow-green overall.

• Tsavo Sunbird Cinnyris tsavoensis

  Tsavo Sunbird occurs in Somalia, eastern Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania. Males are blue-green and black, while females are mainly gray-brown.

• Chapin's Apalis Apalis chapini

  This apalis was surveyed in Mdando Forest in Tanzania's Southern Highlands. A recent field survey recorded birds moving through the canopy in pairs or small parties.

• Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio

  This starling has a glossy dark body and reddish wings. It ranges from Ethiopia to South Africa and feeds on fruit, insects, and nectar.

• Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii

  A rounded-looking tail and a nearly black crown help identify this hawk. Virginia's atlas found breeding distribution in farmland and near towns as well as forested areas.

• Golden-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron ngoclinhense

  This laughingthrush is restricted to a few mountains in central Vietnam. It forages on the ground in montane evergreen forest understory and has golden wing markings.

• Masked Duck Nomonyx dominicus

  The Masked Duck rests and dives in wetlands with dense vegetation. A breeding male has a black face and reddish body, while females and nonbreeding males show strong dark stripes on the face.

• Slender Sheartail Doricha enicura

  This small hummingbird lives in mountains and valleys from southern Mexico into northern Central America. The male has a very long forked tail; the female’s is shorter.

• Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus

  The Rufous Hornero is a rufous bird found in open habitats, including urban areas.

• Collared Hill Partridge Arborophila gingica

  A black collar edged with white stands out across the chest of this partridge. It lives in forests and bamboo scrub in southeastern China, eating seeds, fruits, and small animals.

• Great-billed Munia Lonchura grandis

  A small bird of New Guinea's grasslands and wetlands, with a black head and underside set off by a yellow-orange rump.

• Slate-colored Fox Sparrow Passerella schistacea

  Passerella schistacea is also described as the Slate-colored group within Fox Sparrow. It breeds in dense riparian scrub in the western interior and moves toward the Pacific Coast in winter.

• Belted Flycatcher Xenotriccus callizonus

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in the highlands from Chiapas in southern Mexico through Guatemala to El Salvador. It uses scrubby woodland.

• Red Lory Eos bornea

  The Red Lory is mainly red, with black on parts of the wings and blue feathers beneath the tail. It has also been recorded in lowland forest on Buru Island.

• New Zealand Pigeon Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae

  The New Zealand Pigeon is a large pigeon endemic to New Zealand. Its green and bronze iridescent body contrasts with a white breast; it mainly eats fruit, with leaves and buds in some seasons.

• Gilbert's Honeyeater Melithreptus chloropsis

  This honeyeater inhabits the wetter forests of southwestern Western Australia. Adults have pale bare skin around the eye and feed on nectar and insects.

• Brown-and-yellow Marshbird Pseudoleistes virescens

  The Argentine biodiversity record lists the Brown-and-yellow Marshbird as native in Argentina. A university field account describes its brown-and-yellow plumage and ground foraging.

• African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus

  A small flycatcher of dry East African savanna and open woodland. It watches from exposed perches and makes short flights to catch insects.

• Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica

  The Blue-breasted Kingfisher is a large blue kingfisher. In reserves in the Republic of the Congo it is described as a forest-interior bird, more often heard than seen.

• Yellow-billed Cardinal Paroaria capitata

  The Yellow-billed Cardinal is a small South American bird with a red head and yellow bill. It forages on the ground near wetlands for seeds, berries, and insects.