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.

• Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma

  The Southern Pochard lives around Andean wetlands and flowing waters, often in pairs or small groups.

• Rinjani Scops Owl Otus jolandae

  This scops owl is known from around Mount Rinjani on Lombok. Researchers heard it in undisturbed forest, degraded forest, and beside quiet roads.

• Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus

  The Oriental Cuckoo is a migratory cuckoo that breeds in forests. Females include both grey and rufous plumage forms.

• Mountain Masked Apalis Apalis personata

  This small apalis lives in Central African mountain forests and nearby openings. It has a dark head, a white spot on the side of the neck, a short tail, and a mostly insect diet.

• Striped Laughingthrush Trochalopteron virgatum

  This slim laughingthrush occurs in northeastern India and adjacent western Myanmar. It also uses scrub and grass patches near broadleaf forest.

• Red-backed Thrush Geokichla erythronota

  The adult male is a thrush with a chestnut back and striking black-and-white markings on the face and breast. On Buton Island it searches for food in shaded lower forest and on the ground.

• Pin-tailed Parrot-Finch Erythrura prasina

  Males draw the eye with a green back, blue face, and red rump and tail. The species usually moves in small flocks, which can gather into larger groups when rice seeds ripen.

• Rain Quail Coturnix coromandelica

  The Rain Quail is a small quail of grasslands and farmland. Males have black markings on the face and throat, and breeding and movement are linked to rainy seasons.

• Hawaii Creeper Loxops mana

  The Hawaii Creeper searches for small invertebrates in wet ʻōhiʻa and koa forest. A 2015 state plan describes four separated populations above 1,500 m on Hawaiʻi Island.

• Bearded vulture Gypaetus barbatus

  A mountain vulture with beard-like feathers below the beak and a diet centered on bone.

• Alor Myzomela Myzomela prawiradilagae

  This honeyeater is known only from Alor Island, Indonesia. Its original description reports that it is mainly recorded in montane eucalypt woodland, mostly above 900 m.

• White-chinned Thistletail Asthenes fuliginosa

  The White-chinned Thistletail occurs in the Andes. A Bogotá bird guide describes it foraging among foliage and branches, alone or in pairs.

• Small Tree Finch Camarhynchus parvulus

  This small Darwin's finch lives in highlands and forest transition zones of the Galápagos. The male's black hood develops with age, with differences among islands.

• Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka

  A black-and-white wheatear. In its UK account, BTO describes it as a rare autumn migrant arriving from southeastern Europe.

• Brown Bush-hen Zapornia akool

  A rail of wet grass and marsh edges, with brown upperparts and a gray face and breast. It searches for food in damp cover.

• Oustalet's Tyrannulet Phylloscartes oustaleti

  A small tyrannulet of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. It uses the canopy and subcanopy and occurs in mixed-species flocks.

• Steller's Jay Cyanocitta stelleri

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

• Bourke's Parrot Neopsephotus bourkii

  Bourke's Parrot is a small parrot of dry scrub in inland Australia. It feeds on seeds on the ground.

• Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus

  This brownish African bird also visits orchards and gardens. It eats many kinds of fruit, and pairs or small groups call noisily.

• Shelley's Sunbird Cinnyris shelleyi

  This African sunbird visits flowering trees in damp highland forest. A historical account records metallic green breeding plumage and a vivid red breast band in the adult male.

• White-bellied Antbird Myrmeciza longipes

  In Panama, pairs of this antbird held territories year-round in second growth and forest edges. Males have rufous upperparts and a white belly; females have buff on the throat and breast.

• Bay-crowned Brush Finch Atlapetes seebohmi

  The Bay-crowned Brush Finch occurs along the western Andes of southern Ecuador and north-western Peru. Its grey plumage is marked by a rufous crown and pale throat; it forages in montane scrub, dwarf forest, and forest edges.

• Blue-throated Macaw Ara glaucogularis

  The Blue-throated Macaw is a large parrot of Bolivia's Beni region, with a blue throat and golden-yellow underparts.