Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ornate Honeyeater Melidectes torquatus

  

  The Ornate Melidectes is a honeyeater of New Guinea's mountains. A nominate-subspecies male has conspicuous yellow-orange bare skin around the eye and a white-scaled back, and searches for food in the canopy.

• Negros Scops Owl Otus nigrorum

  This small owl lives in forests on Negros and Panay in the Philippines. Its dark brown plumage, upright ear tufts, and orange-red eye rims are distinctive.

• Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus

  A small sunbird of West and East Africa, found in habitats such as savanna and dry woodland. Males have iridescent plumage and long tail streamers, and both sexes feed at flowers.

• Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni

  Nelson's Sparrow is a short-tailed bird with a yellow-orange face. It breeds in northern marshes and winters in coastal marshes of the southeastern United States.

• California Scrub Jay Aphelocoma californica

  The California Scrub-Jay is a blue, white, and gray-brown jay. It lives in dry shrubland, oak woodland, and some urban areas along the Pacific coast, and caches acorns for later.

• Egyptian vulture Neophron percnopterus

  A vulture known for a white body, yellow face and occasional use of stones as tools.

• American robin Turdus migratorius

  A North American thrush found in parks, lawns and forests. It searches the ground for earthworms and often eats fruit in autumn and winter.

• Slaty Tanager Creurgops dentatus

  This tanager uses humid Andean forests. Males are dusky gray with a rufous cap; females have rufous throat and underparts, and the species may forage in mixed flocks.

• Bicolored Antbird Gymnopithys bicolor

  This antbird is recorded in Costa Rica's humid lowland forests. Its chestnut back, white underside, and blue-gray skin around the eye stand out; it uses the understory and adjacent secondary growth.

• Yellow-bellied Prinia Prinia flaviventris

  This small bird searches for insects in Hong Kong grassland and reedbeds; adult plumage changes by season.

• Grey-hooded Attila Attila rufus

  The Grey-hooded Attila is a forest bird of Brazil, with a grey head and rufous body.

• Ochre-bellied Dove Leptotila ochraceiventris

  The Ochre-bellied Dove is a South American pigeon that walks quietly near the forest floor. Its ochre-colored belly and use of the forest understory stand out.

• Indian Spot-billed Duck Anas poecilorhyncha

  This dabbling duck feeds mainly on plants in shallow wetlands. Males show an orange-red mark at the bill base and a large white wing marking.

• Ocellated Turkey Meleagris ocellata

  A brightly colored turkey with blue-green iridescent feathers and eye-like spots on its tail. It lives in forests around the Yucatan Peninsula.

• Red-whiskered bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus

  A bulbul native to southern Asia. It was introduced to eastern Australia, where it occurs in parks and gardens.

• Middle Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocoptes medius

  A woodpecker of broad-leaved woods, it searches trunks and branches. Its red crown and black-and-white pattern help identify it.

• Lesser Seedcracker Pyrenestes minor

  Males are red from the head to the upper breast, while females have less red on the head. Juveniles are brownish, and the species feeds on grass seeds.

• Blue-winged Minla Actinodura cyanouroptera

  The Blue-winged Minla is a babbler with blue wings and a blue-gray head that moves in flocks through forest undergrowth.

• Streak-fronted Thornbird Phacellodomus striaticeps

  About 16 cm long, it has a chestnut forehead and crown, brown back and tail, and gray-ochre underparts. It lives in ravines and shrub steppe in northwestern Argentina.

• Pale Blue Flycatcher Cyornis unicolor

  In Bangladesh, this is a rare winter visitor recorded in eastern hill forests. Its wider range extends across South, East and Southeast Asia.

• 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.

• Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata

  The Brimstone Canary ranges from central to southern Africa and uses thickets, forest edges, gardens, and other open places. It mainly eats seeds and fruit, along with insects and nectar.

• Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus fuscicollis

  This African parrot is described with two subspecies. Their head and rump colors, ranges and woodland habitats differ.

• Sapphire-spangled Emerald Chionomesa lactea

  This hummingbird has a green body with a shimmering violet-blue throat and breast. In eastern Peru it visits flowers at forest edges and secondary growth, and also catches small insects in flight.