Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pink-headed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus porphyreus

  

  The male has a vivid pink-purple head and throat, and the dove feeds on fruit high in forest trees. It is native to mountain forests in Indonesia.

• American Scoter Melanitta americana

  The American Scoter is a sea duck that breeds in boreal North America and moves to coastal waters in winter.

• Koklass Pheasant Pucrasia macrolopha

  The Koklass Pheasant is a large forest bird with a silvery male and a streaked brown female.

• Visayan Rhabdornis Rhabdornis rabori

  This bird is endemic to forest on Panay and Negros in the Philippines. It has a grey head and neck, a brown back, and dark tail and flight feathers, with a subtle facial mask and white streaks on the mantle. Field observations describe it high in the canopy or on exposed perches.

• Himalayan Bulbul Pycnonotus leucogenys

  The Himalayan Bulbul is a bulbul with a black face and throat set off by a white cheek patch. It uses foothill woodland, scrub, gardens, and towns.

• Yellow-tufted Woodpecker Melanerpes cruentatus

  The Yellow-tufted Woodpecker occurs in tropical South America. Its yellow head tuft and red belly stand out; in Bolivia it perches in forest canopies, often on dead branches or snags.

• Pink-headed Warbler Cardellina versicolor

  This small bird is about 13 cm long and uses pine–oak and montane evergreen forest. The account describes gleaning invertebrates from vegetation. Sound recordings include Chiapas, Mexico.

• Indian Silverbill Euodice malabarica

  The Indian Silverbill is a small finch with a pale rump and a black bill. It feeds on seeds and stays in flocks in both dry open country and places near people.

• Beautiful Sibia Heterophasia pulchella

  A laughingthrush relative of the eastern Himalayas. Its blue-grey head and back, black face, and broad dark tail band help identify it.

• Short-billed Leaftosser Sclerurus rufigularis

  Short-billed Leaftosser is a small leaftosser about 15–16 cm long. It uses humid forest understory and secondary growth, and searches on the ground for invertebrates. Oiseaux.net lists sound records from Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and French Guiana.

• Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae

  The Gambaga Flycatcher is a small flycatcher identified in part by faint breast streaks and a yellowish-orange lower mandible. It occurs in Africa and southwestern Arabia; breeding activity was observed in Yemen in May.

• Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri

  A green parakeet whose adult males have a black-and-rose neck ring that females and juveniles lack.

• Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak Rhynchostruthus percivali

  The Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak lives in the southwestern Saudi highlands and has a very thick black bill. White cheeks and yellow wing patches make it distinctive.

• Great Green Macaw Ara ambiguus

  The Great Green Macaw has a yellow-green body, a red forehead, and a blue-tipped red-orange tail. Pairs and small groups forage in the canopy for seeds, nuts, and other plant foods.

• Emerald-chinned Hummingbird Abeillia abeillei

  A small hummingbird of humid mountain forest. The male has a green crown and ear coverts, and its upper throat shines emerald green.

• Blue Coua Coua caerulea

  This large cuckoo-family bird lives in Madagascar. It is about 50 cm long and searches tree branches for invertebrates.

• Tawny-crowned Honeyeater Gliciphila melanops

  This honeyeater lives mainly along the coasts and shrublands of southern Australia. Adults have a tawny crown separated from the black face by a white line, and eat nectar and insects. Juveniles have different facial markings.

• Simeulue Scops Owl Otus umbra

  The Simeulue Scops Owl is a small owl found on Simeulue Island off northwest Sumatra. Adults weigh about 95 g and hunt invertebrates at night.

• Humblot's Sunbird Cinnyris humbloti

  Oiseaux.net lists two subspecies on Grand Comoro and Moheli in the Comoros. The species is about 11 cm long and also uses moist lowland forest, shrubland and rural gardens.

• Spot-breasted Oriole Icterus pectoralis

  The Spot-breasted Oriole ranges from southern Mexico to Costa Rica. It is marked by black breast spots and builds a long hanging nest from grasses or fine roots.

• Costa Rican Brush Finch Arremon costaricensis

  This brush finch lives in forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its 1907 description noted the olive back and yellow wing bend as differences from a close relative.

• Lewin's Rail Lewinia pectoralis

  Lewin's Rail is a secretive rail that stays hidden among plants in wetlands. It occurs in southeastern mainland Australia and Tasmania.

• Steller's Jay Cyanocitta stelleri

  A crested jay that searches for food from the forest canopy to the ground and stores food.

• Wallace's Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus nanus

  Among the smaller eagles, it hunts birds, bats, and other vertebrates within or at the edge of tropical lowland forest.