Meet the world’s animals.

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• Greater Yellownape Chrysophlegma flavinucha

  

  The Greater Yellownape is a large woodpecker that searches tree trunks for food.

• Swallow-tailed Hummingbird Eupetomena macroura

  This hummingbird has a long, forked tail. It visits flowering trees, and its blue-green plumage can flash in the light.

• Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri

  The Blue-headed Wood Dove lives in lowland forests of western and central Africa. It has a blue-gray head and rufous-brown body, and searches the forest floor for seeds, fallen fruit, and small animals.

• Masked Duck Nomonyx dominicus

  The Masked Duck rests and dives in wetlands with dense vegetation. A breeding male has a black face and reddish body, while females and nonbreeding males show strong dark stripes on the face.

• Desert Eagle Owl Bubo ascalaphus

  This large owl lives among rocks in dry country and searches for prey at night.

• Shining Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites lucidus

  In New Zealand, the Shining Bronze Cuckoo is a small migrant that arrives in spring and stays into autumn. Its back has a green sheen and its white underside is barred. It lays eggs in smaller birds' nests and leaves the care of its young to them.

• Burnt-neck Eremomela Eremomela usticollis

  A small bird that gleans prey from leaves and branches in acacia woodland. It ranges across southern Africa and also occurs in dry riverbeds.

• Southern Pied Babbler Turdoides bicolor

  The Southern Pied Babbler lives in groups in dry savanna and has sharply contrasting black-and-white plumage.

• Lawrence's Thrush Turdus lawrencii

  This thrush lives in the canopy of lowland Amazonian forest. It has dark brown upperparts, a rufous-brown belly, and a yellow bill and eye-ring skin.

• Abyssinian Crimsonwing Cryptospiza salvadorii

  The Abyssinian Crimsonwing is a small bird of the wet montane forests of the Ethiopian Highlands.

• Red junglefowl Gallus gallus

  A bird of South and Southeast Asia and the wild ancestor of domestic chickens. Males and females differ strongly in appearance.

• Brambling Fringilla montifringilla

  A bird with orange shoulders and breast that arrives in flocks for autumn and winter.

• Upland Buzzard Buteo hemilasius

  This large buzzard lives in open steppe and uplands and occurs in both light and dark plumage forms.

• Cardinal Honeyeater Myzomela cardinalis

  A National Park of American Samoa guide records this bird on Tutuila, American Samoa, but not on the Manuʻa Islands. Adult males have red bodies with black wings and tails; females are grayish with a red rump. The guide describes it visiting flowers for nectar.

• Bolivian Earthcreeper Tarphonomus harterti

  The Bolivian Earthcreeper is recorded on rocky slopes within dry scrub in Bolivia. It has a pale line above the eye and a brown underside, and the account says it favors sites with bromeliads growing at ground level.

• Hooded Mountain Tanager Buthraupis montana

  This Andean tanager occurs in the humid upper Yungas forests of Bolivia. It has been recorded moving in small flocks.

• Chestnut-winged Whistling-thrush Myophonus castaneus

  This whistling thrush is endemic to Sumatra. Adult males have blue heads, breasts, and shoulders, with chestnut on the rest of the upperparts, tail, and flanks. Observers report it near forest streams.

• 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.

• Fulvous-faced Scrub Tyrant Euscarthmus fulviceps

  This small tyrant is recorded in dry scrub and deciduous forest of western Ecuador. It searches near the ground for insects and also eats fruit.

• Azure-hooded Jay Cyanolyca cucullata

  This jay is marked by a bright blue crown and a white band. It lives in Central American cloud forests and moves through the canopy in small groups.

• Crimson Shining Parrot Prosopeia splendens

  The Crimson Shining Parrot lives in forests and farmland on Fiji's islands. It has a red head and belly, with a broad blue band around the neck.

• Spot-necked Bulbul Pycnonotus tympanistrigus

  The Spot-necked Bulbul is a bulbul found in the foothills of western Sumatra. Species data describe it as a forest-dwelling, fruit-eating resident.

• Grey-headed Sunbird Deleornis axillaris

  This green sunbird occurs from northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to western Uganda. The account also notes one record from northwestern Tanzania. It searches for insects, spiders and small fruits in the middle and upper forest levels.

• Dull-mantled Antbird Sipia laemosticta

  This small antbird occurs in Costa Rica and Panama. It uses dense understory in cloud forest near streams and deep ravines. Males are dark grey and rufous; females are paler.