Meet the world’s animals.

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• Muscicapa latirostris

  

  This small flycatcher breeds in East Asia and moves south to India and Southeast Asia for winter. It catches flying insects in open woodland, parks, and gardens.

• Derbyan Parakeet Psittacula derbiana

  It lives in mountains of Tibet, southwestern China, and northeastern India. Adult males and females can be told apart by bill color.

• Arctic Redpoll Acanthis hornemanni

  This small finch breeds at high northern latitudes. In winter records from British Columbia, adult males appear especially pale.

• Green Parakeet Psittacara holochlorus

  The Green Parakeet is mostly green and has a long, pointed tail. Within its natural range it uses tropical and subtropical woodlands, farmland, and plantations.

• Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer Chalybura urochrysia

  The Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer is a medium-sized, mostly green hummingbird. It is usually seen alone at flowers in forests or forest edges; females have whitish underparts and duller pink feet.

• Greater Ani Crotophaga major

  The Greater Ani has glossy black plumage with a green sheen and a large bill. It forms groups in wet lowland forests and forages from the trees down into the lower forest layers.

• Spotted Honeyeater Xanthotis polygrammus

  This honeyeater occurs on both the Indonesian and Papua New Guinean sides of New Guinea. It has white spots on the head and back and searches foliage, flowers, and fruit.

• Unspotted Saw-whet Owl Aegolius ridgwayi

  The Unspotted Saw-whet Owl has a rounded head without ear-tufts and a brown facial disc edged in white. It is nocturnal and occurs in mountain forests from southern Mexico into Central America. Details of its diet and breeding remain poorly known.

• Greater Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris afer

  This sunbird is recorded in wooded and tall-scrub habitats in southern Africa. A 1997 atlas describes the male as having a broader red breast band and a heavier bill than the smaller related species.

• Ashy-throated Bush Tanager Chlorospingus canigularis

  The species account describes olive-yellow upperparts and tail, a grey head and throat, and a yellow breast band. It notes that a white supercilium occurs only in subspecies signatus.

• Horned Coot Fulica cornuta

  This rail lives on rocky-bottom lakes in the high Andes. Adults are dark with a fleshy frontal caruncle and build stone nests that rise to the water surface.

• Tufted Jay Cyanocorax dickeyi

  The Tufted Jay is a jay of western Mexico, recognized by its black fan-shaped crest and blue back. It moves through the forest in small groups.

• Wedge-tailed Eagle Aquila audax

  The Wedge-tailed Eagle is a large eagle marked by a long, wedge-shaped tail and feathered legs down to the toes. It eats live prey as well as carcasses.

• Taita Thrush Turdus helleri

  A thrush of the Taita Hills cloud forests, it is notable for its bright red bill and is recorded feeding on the forest floor.

• Green-headed Tanager Tangara seledon

  This tanager is restricted to the Atlantic Forest. It uses forest and regrowth, as well as farms with scattered trees and gardens, and feeds on wild or cultivated fruit and insects.

• Grey-bellied Antbird Ammonastes pelzelni

  This antbird is documented at Mitú, Colombia. The male has a black chest; the female lacks it. A field report found two birds in the understory of white-sand forest there.

• Chubb's Cisticola Cisticola chubbi

  A cisticola of tropical African highlands. It occurs in grassy openings and forest edges, often in pairs or small groups, and gives a scratchy, rapidly changing song.

• Ochre-naped Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola flavinucha

  It spends the austral summer in northwestern Patagonia and is reported in Peru from March to October. Adults have an ochre patch on the back of the head; Peruvian records are at 3,800–4,900 m.

• Island Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba malherbii

  This pigeon occurs on São Tomé, Príncipe, and Annobón in the Gulf of Guinea. A study on São Tomé found it in shade-grown plantations and savanna as well as forest, and recorded it feeding on the ground and high in trees.

• White-winged Duck Asarcornis scutulata

  The White-winged Duck lives in wetlands beside forests. It moves between feeding areas and resting places around dawn and dusk.

• Great Argus Argusianus argus

  The Great Argus is a large pheasant of Indo-Malayan lowland forests. Males have exceptionally long tail feathers.

• White-eared Bulbul Pycnonotus leucotis

  The White-eared Bulbul has bright white cheek feathers, eats fruit, and lives in scrub and woodland from Oman to India.

• Smoky-brown Woodpecker Leuconotopicus fumigatus

  A small woodpecker described from Costa Rica's mountain forests. Its brownish body has a small red crown-to-nape patch in males.

• Crescent-chested Warbler Oreothlypis superciliosa

  This small warbler is common in Mexico's mountain pine forests and sometimes moves to lower elevations in winter.