Meet the world’s animals.

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• Flame-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus marchei

  

  The male has a large orange-red breast patch, and the species lives in the mountain forests of northern Luzon in the Philippines. Specific food records are limited.

• Tanimbar Boobook Ninox forbesi

  This owl occurs on Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands. It has buff to rufous-brown head and breast plumage and is recorded in lowland forests.

• Madagascar Rail Rallus madagascariensis

  The Madagascar Rail is endemic to Madagascar’s eastern wetlands. It stays hidden in dense wetland vegetation and is often heard before it is seen.

• Yungas Antwren Myrmotherula grisea

  This antwren is endemic to Bolivia. A 2003 reserve-bird paper records one female-plumaged bird found in the Pilón Lajas area in 1997. Its back was warm olive-brown, with slight rufous on the wings and tail.

• Rufous-tailed Hawk Buteo ventralis

  The Rufous-tailed Hawk is a South American hawk with a noticeable rufous tail. Its plumage ranges from light to dark forms.

• Arabian Woodpecker Dendrocoptes dorae

  The Arabian Woodpecker is a small woodpecker of western Saudi Arabia's highlands. It opens holes in tree trunks to take insect prey.

• Large Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides

  The Large Hawk-Cuckoo is a migratory cuckoo found at forest edges and in secondary growth. It breeds farther north, including around the Himalayas, and moves south into Southeast Asia for winter.

• Long-billed Forest-warbler Artisornis moreaui

  This small forest bird has a long black bill. It searches leaves for small invertebrates in the mountains of eastern Tanzania.

• Long-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania watertonii

  The male has blue-violet and metallic green plumage, while the female has a green back and gray underside. In northeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest, it feeds on flower nectar and small arthropods.

• Olive Bulbul Iole viridescens

  Yellowish-olive sides of the head and paler ear-coverts help identify the Olive Bulbul. It uses moist evergreen broadleaf forest and tall secondary growth, and mainly eats berries.

• Ruby-crowned Tanager Tachyphonus coronatus

  Males are black and females reddish brown. It uses moist forest, forest edges, and secondary growth, feeding on fruit and insects.

• Baird's Junco Junco bairdi

  This junco occurs in the mountains at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. A specimen comparison cited by the AOS describes its extensive cinnamon sides and lighter, duller back.

• Yungas Warbler Basileuterus punctipectus

  A warbler of humid Andean forests, ranging from southeastern Peru to central Bolivia.

• Chestnut-naped Francolin Pternistis castaneicollis

  A highland francolin of Ethiopia and Somalia, it has a red bill and legs, while neck and facial markings vary by subspecies.

• Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides

  The Australian Shelduck is a large duck with a dark head, white neck ring, and chestnut breast. It occurs in freshwater areas of southwestern and southeastern Australia.

• Plain-brown Woodcreeper Dendrocincla fuliginosa

  The Plain-brown Woodcreeper uses the lower levels of humid forest in Peru. It forages alone or in mixed flocks and may follow army-ant swarms to catch prey flushed from cover.

• Brown-headed Thrush Turdus chrysolaus

  A thrush with rusty-brown chest and flanks, using mountain and snow-free forests in different seasons.

• Chinese Grosbeak Eophona migratoria

  Its thick yellow bill stands out. It feeds on seeds and fruit in woodlands and orchards of East Asia.

• Pale-edged Flycatcher Myiarchus cephalotes

  The back is olive-brown, the chest gray, and the belly pale yellow. On Ecuador’s eastern Andean slope it occurs along forest edges and in open places.

• Variable Oriole Icterus pyrrhopterus

  The Variable Oriole occurs from eastern and southeastern Brazil through Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay to northern Argentina. It uses woodland, scrub, and gardens.

• Chestnut-crowned Laughingthrush Trochalopteron erythrocephalum

  A 24–26 cm laughingthrush of Himalayan forests and bamboo. Its brown body has a chestnut forehead and nape and green-gold wing and tail panels; head color varies among subspecies.

• Philippine Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias ruficauda

  A Philippine forest flycatcher. The historical male description records olive-brown upperparts and a rusty tail.

• Apo Myna Goodfellowia miranda

  The Apo Myna is a mountain bird of Mindanao, notable for its crest and bare yellow skin around the eyes.

• Pied Crow Corvus albus

  The Pied Crow is a large crow found across much of Africa. Its black head and wings contrast with a white body patch.