Meet the world’s animals.

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• Vernal Hanging Parrot Loriculus vernalis

  

  A small parrot that feeds in forest canopies on fruit, berries, figs, nectar, and seeds. It nests in tree hollows.

• Akohekohe Palmeria dolei

  The Akohekohe is a forest bird now found on Maui in Hawaii. It has a white crest that curls forward over the bill and feeds on nectar and small arthropods.

• Orange-winged Amazon Amazona amazonica

  Mostly green, it has blue and yellow head markings and orange on the wings. It feeds on fruit and seeds in tropical northern South America.

• 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.

• Running Coua Coua cursor

  The Running Coua is a ground-dwelling bird of dry woodland and scrub in southwestern Madagascar. It walks while searching for insects and fallen fruit.

• Graceful Honeyeater Microptilotis gracilis

  This small honeyeater occurs in northern Cape York Peninsula, northeastern Australia. Adult males and females have the same plumage, although males are larger.

• Speckled Boobook Ninox punctulata

  The Speckled Boobook occurs on Sulawesi and nearby islands. It is active at night and is mainly associated with forest.

• Swallow-tailed Gull Creagrus furcatus

  An unusual gull that catches small fish and squid over the sea at night. Breeding adults show a red eye-ring, and head color changes outside the breeding plumage.

• Smaller Black-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris nectarinioides

  A small sunbird of dry East African habitats. The male has a black belly, iridescent green throat and long downcurved bill; it feeds on nectar.

• Solitary Cacique Cacicus solitarius

  The Solitary Cacique has a black body and pale bill. It searches the dense forest understory alone or in pairs in the Amazon region.

• Tumbes Sparrow Rhynchospiza stolzmanni

  This sparrow has a finely streaked brown back, a striped head, and a gray underside. It forages on the ground in scrub. Most records cited here are from north-western Peru, with the species also occurring in Ecuador.

• Ocellated Crake Rufirallus schomburgkii

  The Ocellated Crake hides in grassland and mixed grass-and-shrub habitat. In Peru, the Peru Aves account reports it from Pampas del Heath in the southeast.

• Asir Magpie Pica asirensis

  This long-tailed magpie is restricted to the mountains of southwestern Arabia and has white patches on its belly and sides.

• Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus

  A small, long-tailed eagle with both light and dark plumage forms.

• White-backed Thrush Turdus kessleri

  This thrush breeds in the eastern and northeastern Tibetan Plateau of China. Males show black and chestnut markings, and winter records in the Himalayas are vagrants.

• Golden-eared Tanager Tangara chrysotis

  The Golden-eared Tanager is a small tanager about 11.5 cm long. In Bolivia it is recorded in humid cloud forest of the lower Yungas and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Scalloped Antbird Myrmoderus ruficauda

  The Scalloped Antbird inhabits forest in Brazil and often stays close to the ground. Males have a dark rufous rump and tail; females have a white breast with black scalloping.

• Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis

  The Buff-throated Apalis is a small forest warbler with grey upperparts, white underparts and a short tail. It occurs in forest from western to central and eastern Africa.

• White-banded Tyrannulet Mecocerculus stictopterus

  The White-banded Tyrannulet is a small bird of Andean forests. Its white eyebrow and two wing-bars stand out as it searches among leaves for small invertebrates.

• Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba delegorguei

  The Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon is an African pigeon with iridescent neck feathers. It eats fruit and may be seen in pairs.

• Snow Goose Anser caerulescens

  A goose with white and blue color forms. North American flocks gather in fields and wetlands during migration and winter.

• Tibetan Snowcock Tetraogallus tibetanus

  The Tibetan Snowcock is a large pheasant-family bird of the highlands of Central and South Asia. It is found in mountain landscapes with grassland and rocky ground.

• Pale-winged Starling Onychognathus nabouroup

  This glossy black starling has pale wing patches and orange eyes. It lives among dry rocky hills in southern Africa.

• Finsch's Bulbul Iole finschii

  Finsch's Bulbul has mainly olive-toned plumage. It uses the middle and upper forest and is seen in pairs or small groups searching for food.