Meet the world’s animals.

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• Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus

  

  This bulbul occurs in forests of western and central Africa. It has white spotting on the wings and tail, and also eats fruit and nectar.

• Painted Parakeet Pyrrhura picta

  The Painted Parakeet is a South American parrot with a mostly green body, reddish-brown areas on the rump and tail, and blue outer wing feathers. It eats fruits, flowers, and seeds in humid forest.

• Waved Woodpecker Celeus undatus

  The Waved Woodpecker has chestnut and black bars. It searches for ants and termites in the treetops and excavates a nest cavity in a tree.

• Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus rarotongensis

  The Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove is a forest pigeon endemic to the Cook Islands, where it occurs on Rarotonga and Atiu.

• Velvet-fronted Euphonia Euphonia concinna

  This small finch-like tanager occurs in the Colombian Andes. It feeds in the mid-levels and canopy of forest, taking fruit and small insects.

• Crescent Honeyeater Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus

  This honeyeater occurs in the hilly, montane and coastal woodlands and forests of southeastern Australia. A regional account also describes birds moving to lower areas in winter.

• Rufous-bellied Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes fuscorufus

  This bush tyrant is about 18–19 cm long and occurs in the high Andes. Its first detailed nest record was made at 2,985 m in Peru.

• Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis

  The Blue Waxbill has a blue face, underside, and tail with a brown back and wings. In southeastern Africa it forages for seeds on the ground, often in flocks.

• Gould's Shortwing Heteroxenicus stellatus

  Gould's Shortwing lives in the Himalayas and nearby mountain ranges. Its chestnut back contrasts with a grey breast and belly marked by white spots.

• Blue-capped Kingfisher Actenoides hombroni

  This kingfisher lives in the forests of Mindanao. Males are marked by a blue cap and red bill, while females have green upperparts.

• Band-bellied Owl Pulsatrix melanota

  The Band-bellied Owl has a dark brown back and a pale belly crossed by heavy brown bars. It lives on the eastern Andean slope and is active at night.

• California Scrub Jay Aphelocoma californica

  The California Scrub-Jay is a blue, white, and gray-brown jay. It lives in dry shrubland, oak woodland, and some urban areas along the Pacific coast, and caches acorns for later.

• White-winged Coot Fulica leucoptera

  Its dark body contrasts with white wing tips and white undertail feathers. It swims in lakes and wetlands with abundant aquatic plants, sometimes in moderate-sized groups.

• Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus

  The Chestnut-winged Starling has dark plumage with purple, green, and blue iridescence and chestnut patches on its wings.

• Tricolored Blackbird Agelaius tricolor

  This bird is native to western coastal North America. Males have red shoulder patches and females are gray. They nest in colonies among waterside vegetation and form large flocks outside the breeding season.

• Shining Sunbird Cinnyris habessinicus

  The male has a purple forecrown and iridescent green head and upperparts. It eats nectar, fruit, insects, and spiders.

• Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina

  The Chipping Sparrow is a small North American bird with a conspicuous rufous crown as an adult. It searches for seeds in grassy places with trees and eats many insects during the breeding season.

• Orange-fronted Plushcrown Metopothrix aurantiaca

  This small bird has greenish-olive upperparts, a yellow throat, and orange legs. In Amazonian riverine forest, it searches foliage for food in pairs or small groups.

• Black-backed Thornbill Ramphomicron dorsale

  This hummingbird is recorded only in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. It uses high mountain forest and páramo, feeding on nectar.

• Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides

  A thrush of open habitats in western North America, it catches insects from a perch or in the air. The male is blue.

• Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis

  The Canada Warbler is a migrant that breeds in northern North American forests and winters in South America. It arrives on its breeding grounds late in spring.

• Lunulated Antbird Oneillornis lunulatus

  This scarce antbird inhabits lowland rainforest understory in eastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru. Males are gray and females brown, but both have a white eyebrow and throat.

• Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca

  A goose native to Africa that occurs near freshwater and in grassland. It eats grasses and plants near water.

• Blue-winged Parrot Neophema chrysostoma

  It has an olive head and back with a large dark-blue wing patch. It uses grasslands and grassy woodland, foraging on the ground for grass seeds.