Meet the world’s animals.
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- Rose-faced Parrot Pyrilia pulchra
Photo: Elizabeth Axley · (c) Elizabeth Axley, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 Adults are mainly green with a rose-pink face, a dark crown, and a blue-tipped tail. Juveniles have pink confined to a smaller area around the eyes and ear coverts.
- Yellow-striped Brush Finch Atlapetes citrinellus
This brush finch inhabits the Yungas of northwestern Argentina. Records span about 400–2,500 m, and birds move up and down the slopes seasonally.
- Mao Gymnomyza samoensis
The Mao is a large honeyeater with a long, curved black bill. It forages for nectar, fruit, and insects in the canopy and upper parts of Samoan forests.
- Rufous-backed Antvireo Dysithamnus xanthopterus
This antvireo occurs in montane forest on Brazil's Atlantic slope. A Brazilian species account describes birds moving alone or in pairs through the middle and lower forest strata and searching live foliage for invertebrates.
- Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris
The Long-billed Starthroat is marked by a long, straight bill and white markings on the cheek and tail tips. The Bolivian account describes it searching vegetation at different heights and darting after flying insects.
- Rubeho Warbler Scepomycter rubehoensis
This small bird is recorded in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains. Birds from the western Rubeho and Ukaguru areas were described with a deep chestnut crown and pale mottling on the underparts.
- Rufous-thighed Kite Harpagus diodon
This raptor occurs where forest meets savanna. It has rufous thighs, yellow legs, and a brown stripe down the center of its throat.
- Running Coua Coua cursor
The Running Coua is a ground-dwelling bird of dry woodland and scrub in southwestern Madagascar. It walks while searching for insects and fallen fruit.
- Rufous-necked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus ruficollis
This laughingthrush uses scrub and forest growth across the eastern Himalayan region, from south-central Nepal through Bhutan and northeastern India to northern Myanmar and adjacent southern China.
- Striped Owl Asio clamator
This owl has long ear tufts and vertical streaks on its body. It is active at dusk and night, hunting small animals in open country and along woodland edges.
- Lina's Sunbird Aethopyga linaraborae
The male Lina’s Sunbird has a narrow throat patch, a red breast patch, a long graduated tail, and metallic blue-green markings. In July 2015, birds visited roadside trees and males displayed at one high-altitude forest site in eastern Mindanao.
- Bogota Rail Rallus semiplumbeus
The Bogota Rail lives in high-elevation wetlands of the eastern Colombian Andes, often among dense reeds and other wetland plants.
- Thick-billed Euphonia Euphonia laniirostris
The Thick-billed Euphonia is a small bird about 11 cm long. Males have a glossy blue back and yellow-orange underparts; females have an olive back and yellow-orange underparts. It feeds on fruit.
- Chatham Islands Pigeon Hemiphaga chathamensis
The Chatham Island pigeon is a large forest pigeon now confined to Chatham Island. Its blackish-blue head and breast contrast with maroon wings and a white belly; most birds live in the south of the island.
- Great-billed Munia Lonchura grandis
A small bird of New Guinea's grasslands and wetlands, with a black head and underside set off by a yellow-orange rump.
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
A diving duck that breeds on North American lakes and marshes. In winter it gathers on fresh and coastal waters to find aquatic plant roots and tubers.
- Long-billed Partridge Rhizothera longirostris
A forest-floor pheasant that probes leaf litter with its long bill. In the lowland form described from Sarawak, males and females differ in breast color and the number of leg spurs.
- Sind Woodpecker Dendrocopos assimilis
The Sind Woodpecker lives in dry lowlands of Iran and Pakistan. It searches trunks and branches for food, and males and females differ in crown color.
- Naretha Bluebonnet Northiella narethae
This parrot inhabits dry woodland in the far southeast of Western Australia and along the western edge of the Nullarbor Plain. Its brown body contrasts with a yellow belly and red undertail.
- Sooty-headed Tyrannulet Phyllomyias griseiceps
The Sooty-headed Tyrannulet forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest. Peru Aves says its range is poorly understood and lists records in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil.
- Fire-bellied Mountain-tanager Anisognathus igniventris
The 2016 IUCN assessment treats this as a resident of Peru and Bolivia, using moist montane forest and high-altitude shrubland. A 2017 Peru tour report recorded many below Abra Malaga.
- Asian Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus brunneus
This bulbul lives in forests, at their edges, and in secondary growth. Adults are especially noticeable for their red eyes.
- Common Green Magpie Cissa chinensis
A magpie with green plumage and a red bill and legs. In Borneo it lives in lowland and hill forests.
- White-chinned Thrush Turdus aurantius
The White-chinned Thrush is endemic to Jamaica. Adult males and females look similar, with a dark grey head and back, a white wing patch, pale chin, and orange bill. It searches forest floors for small animals and fruit.