Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-lored Amazon Amazona xantholora

  

  The Yellow-lored Amazon is a green parrot whose adult male has a white forehead, yellow lores, and red around the eyes. The birds live in flocks and feed mostly in treetops.

• Grey-cowled Wood Rail Aramides cajaneus

  About 35.5 cm long. The olive-brown back, gray head and neck, rufous-and-black underparts, red legs, and yellow-green bill are useful field marks.

• Thick-billed Raven Corvus crassirostris

  The Thick-billed Raven is a highland corvid with glossy black plumage, a large white nape patch, and a massive bill.

• Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica

  The Chestnut-sided Warbler is a small bird of young deciduous woods and thickets. Its plumage changes between breeding and nonbreeding seasons.

• Reichenbach's Sunbird Anabathmis reichenbachii

  Reichenbach's Sunbird has an iridescent blue-green face, neck and breast above an olive-brown mantle. A field record placed it at a forest edge and small lakes near Kinshasa, DRC.

• Bubbling Cisticola Cisticola bulliens

  This small cisticola occurs along the Angolan coast and in parts of the Congo Basin. It is fairly pale and is often easier to detect by its song in grassland and savanna.

• White-billed Starling Onychognathus albirostris

  Its glossy blue-black plumage and pale bill stand out. In the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands it uses cliffs, gorges, moorland, and towns, eating fruit and insects.

• White-rumped Hawk Parabuteo leucorrhous

  This forest hawk is conspicuous for its dark body and white rump. Argentine records place it in humid and subtropical forests.

• Blue-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron squamatum

  The Blue-winged Laughingthrush uses forest undergrowth and bamboo in the Himalayas, from Nepal to southern China and nearby areas. Records are mainly from 900–2,440 m.

• West Indian Whistling Duck Dendrocygna arborea

  The West Indian Whistling Duck is a large duck of Caribbean islands. It has a long neck and legs and is active at night.

• Glittering-throated Emerald Chionomesa fimbriata

  This hummingbird is widespread across northern South America. It has a glittering green throat and a white stripe down the center of its belly. It feeds on nectar and occurs in forest, scrub, savanna, gardens, and other settings.

• Great Rufous Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes major

  This woodcreeper has a large, strong bill. It climbs tree trunks while searching for insects in forests of central South America.

• Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta

  Rock Ptarmigan live in Arctic and alpine habitats and change plumage with the seasons. The population in Japan is the subspecies known as the Japanese Rock Ptarmigan.

• Red Avadavat Amandava amandava

  A small, social songbird whose breeding male has conspicuous red-and-white plumage.

• Saltmarsh Sparrow Ammospiza caudacuta

  The Saltmarsh Sparrow lives in coastal salt marshes in the United States. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service page uses the older name Ammodramus caudacutus; this entry retains the pool's scientific name, Ammospiza caudacuta.

• Pale-tipped Inezia Inezia caudata

  This small bird inhabits wooded areas near water in northern South America. A 2000 study treated the forms now matched to CoL ID 3PP56 as caudata and intermedia, and compared their plumage and ranges.

• Blue-fronted Fig-parrot Cyclopsitta gulielmitertii

  This small green parrot has blue in its wings, a black forecrown and cheeks, and orange markings that differ by sex. Small groups use forests and edges in western New Guinea.

• Black Wood Pigeon Columba janthina

  The Black Wood Pigeon is Japan's largest pigeon. It is blackish purple with a green sheen around the neck.

• Scarlet Myzomela Myzomela sanguinolenta

  This small honeyeater occurs in eastern Australia. Males are red and black, while females and immature birds are mainly brown. It often visits flowers for nectar.

• Cuban Oriole Icterus melanopsis

  It is endemic to Cuba and Isla de Pinos. It lives in forests, plantations, and human-settled places; adult males and females are alike, with black plumage and yellow patches.

• Sumba Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa segregata

  This flycatcher occurs on Sumba, Indonesia. In a comparison of 12 specimens, the breast was brown with slight streaking, while the vent was nearly white and showed almost no pattern. A 1995 record noted four birds in primary-forest understory.

• Black-throated Flowerpiercer Diglossa brunneiventris

  This flowerpiercer lives in the high Andes. Disjunct populations occur in northern Colombia and farther south in Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and their relationship has been studied.

• Violet Cuckoo Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus

  The Violet Cuckoo is notable for the male’s violet gloss and barred underside. It uses the canopy and lays its eggs in other birds’ nests.

• Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons

  The Golden-fronted Woodpecker has a yellow nape and lower belly. Males add a gold forehead and brilliant red crown.