Meet the world’s animals.

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• Green Oropendola Psarocolius viridis

  

  The Green Oropendola is uniformly dusky green, with a thick yellow-and-red bill and blue eyes. Males are larger than females, and the species uses forest canopy in Peru.

• Royal Cinclodes Cinclodes aricomae

  This large ovenbird is recorded in high-altitude woodlands of the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, including Polylepis woodland. Its large bill is conspicuous.

• Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima

  A large kingfisher of sub-Saharan African waters, hunting fish, crabs, and other prey.

• Glacier Finch Idiopsar speculifer

  This bird occurs in the high Andes of Bolivia. It forages on the ground on barren slopes near the snow line, in puna grassland, and in wetlands.

• Furtive Flycatcher Ficedula disposita

  A small flycatcher recorded in northern Luzon. It searches among trees for small invertebrates in lowland forest.

• Ecuadorian Rail Rallus aequatorialis

  This rail is recorded from southern Colombia through Ecuador and coastal Peru. It hides in dense grass and reeds and is found alone or in well-separated pairs.

• Serra do Mar Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus difficilis

  This small tyrant flycatcher inhabits coastal mountain forest in southeastern Brazil. Olive-green upperparts, gray underparts, and white eye markings help identify it.

• Black-headed Jay Garrulus lanceolatus

  A jay with blue wings and a gray head, it searches for a varied diet in trees and on the ground.

• Mustard-capped Lorikeet Saudareos meyeri

  Saudareos meyeri is a small parrot of Sulawesi's mountains. Its English name refers to the yellow on the head. The World Parrot Trust account uses the older combination Trichoglossus meyeri.

• White-eared Bulbul Pycnonotus leucotis

  The White-eared Bulbul has bright white cheek feathers, eats fruit, and lives in scrub and woodland from Oman to India.

• Bannerman's Sunbird Cyanomitra bannermani

  Adult males have a green head, throat and chest, with a violet sheen on the throat and upper breast; the upperparts are olive. The species uses evergreen and riverine forest, sometimes miombo, and feeds on nectar and insects. The profile lists Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia.

• Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus

  Males and females have different plumage: males are black-and-pale-grey barred, while females are rufous. Pairs move through low trees in search of small arthropods.

• Olive Finch Arremon castaneiceps

  This finch forages in the understory of humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. Its olive-green body and rufous crown stand out, while the sides of the head, throat, and breast are gray.

• Mexican Parrotlet Forpus cyanopygius

  This small parrot lives in western Mexico. Males show blue on the rump and wings, and flocks feed on fruit and grass seeds.

• Adelaide's Warbler Setophaga adelaidae

  This small warbler is endemic to Puerto Rico. A 2016 paper also reports observations on St. Thomas and St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

• Yellow-browed Woodpecker Piculus aurulentus

  The Yellow-browed Woodpecker has a yellow line above the eye. At one nest in southeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest, both parents took turns excavating the cavity and caring for the young.

• Xantus's Hummingbird Basilinna xantusii

  This hummingbird is resident in Baja California, Mexico. It occurs in arid habitats, woodland, and scrub, and can hover with rapid wingbeats.

• Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides

  A medium-sized Arctic-breeding gull whose adult wingtips vary from pale to dark among regional forms.

• Torresian Imperial Pigeon Ducula spilorrhoa

  A large pigeon with a white body and black wing tips. It feeds on fruit while moving among islands and coastal forests.

• Bar-headed Goose Anser indicus

  A goose with black bars on its white head, found from Central to South Asia.

• Philippine Eagle-Owl Ketupa philippensis

  The Philippine Eagle-Owl has yellow eyes and a streaked brown head. It is nocturnal and uses lowland forest.

• 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.

• Roberts's Warbler Oreophilais robertsi

  Roberts's Warbler is a small bird of the highlands of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Adults have olive-brown upperparts, yellow eyes, a grayish-rufous breast, a white belly, and rufous flanks. It feeds on small invertebrates in montane thickets.

• Dark-backed Sibia Heterophasia melanoleuca

  The Dark-backed Sibia is a slender, long-tailed bird of mountains in Myanmar, northwestern and western Thailand, and northwestern Laos. It has a black head and white underparts.