Meet the world’s animals.

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• Santa Marta Parakeet Pyrrhura viridicata

  

  This parakeet has a dark green body and an orange-red belly. In the wild it flies between forest patches in small flocks and eats fruit and seeds.

• Cape Barren Goose Cereopsis novaehollandiae

  The Cape Barren Goose is a heavy gray goose with a yellow-green cere. It uses coastal islands and grasslands in southern Australia and grazes on vegetation.

• Luapula Cisticola Cisticola luapula

  This bird uses wetlands and seasonally flooded grasslands in south-central Africa. Its upperparts are streaked, with rufous on the crown and wings.

• Whitehead's Spiderhunter Arachnothera juliae

  A flower-visiting spiderhunter of the highlands of Borneo.

• Iberian Green Woodpecker Picus sharpei

  This woodpecker has a green back and red head and searches for ants on open ground beside woodland. Its range is centred on the Iberian Peninsula.

• Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Leucosticte tephrocotis

  A pink-and-brown songbird of high North American mountains and Alaskan islands. In winter it moves lower to avoid heavy snow and may visit feeders.

• White-browed Bulbul Pycnonotus luteolus

  The White-browed Bulbul is a resident breeder in peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Its white eyebrow is distinctive, and it searches bushes for fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Golden pheasant Chrysolophus pictus

  A pheasant whose colourful male displays its feathers to court females.

• Grey-cheeked Fulvetta Alcippe morrisonia

  The Taiwanese population described by the Ministry's bird guide is a forest bird with a grey head and a white eye-ring. Outside the breeding season it forages in mixed-species flocks.

• 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.

• White-faced Quail-Dove Zentrygon albifacies

  The White-faced Quail-Dove occurs patchily in mountains from southern Mexico through northern Central America. It walks on the forest floor, and adults show a gray crown, a pale face, and chestnut upperparts.

• Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus

  The Broad-winged Hawk is a small, stocky raptor with black-and-white tail bands. During migration it forms large flocks.

• Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus orbitatus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in lowland forest in southeastern Brazil. It is about 11 cm long, with a white ring around each eye.

• Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild

  A small African finch with a red bill and red around the eyes. It also occurs in grassy places near people.

• Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis

  The Rufous-collared Sparrow ranges from southern Mexico to the southern tip of South America and uses open habitats from grasslands and high plateaus to rural and urban areas. Behavior varies among subspecies.

• Plushcap Catamblyrhynchus diadema

  This small bird lives in the upper subtropical and temperate Andes. It is gray above, rufous below, and has a yellow forecrown. It often follows mixed-species flocks near bamboo.

• Chat Flycatcher Bradornis infuscatus

  This flycatcher is common in dry savannas and scrublands of southern Africa. It drops from a low perch to catch insects and other prey on the ground.

• Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo Cacomantis castaneiventris

  The Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo occurs in New Guinea, the Aru Islands, and northeastern Australia. Adults have gray upperparts and chestnut underparts.

• Long-billed Crow Corvus validus

  The Long-billed Crow is black with blue and purple gloss and has an exceptionally long bill.

• Mentawai Scops Owl Otus mentawi

  This island owl lives in lowland forest on the Mentawai Islands. It has reddish-chestnut and dark brown plumage morphs, with pale eyebrows and ear-tufts.

• Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and western Venezuela. The male is golden green with coppery tones, while the female has gray underparts; it feeds in scrub and forest edges.

• Tufted Antshrike Mackenziaena severa

  This large antshrike lives in forest understory. It is recorded in Misiones Province in northeastern Argentina and feeds on insects and other small invertebrates.

• Blue-eared Lory Eos semilarvata

  This parrot occurs in the montane forests of Seram, Indonesia. Its dark-red body contrasts with purplish-blue cheeks and ear-coverts and black streaks on the wings. Flowers are part of its diet.

• Northern Barred Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae

  A large woodcreeper of humid forests from southern Mexico through Central America to northwestern South America. It favors forest interiors but also occurs at edges and in mature secondary growth.