Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Tufted Jay Cyanocorax dickeyi

  The Tufted Jay is a jay of western Mexico, recognized by its black fan-shaped crest and blue back. It moves through the forest in small groups.

• White-tufted Sunbeam Aglaeactis castelnaudii

  The White-tufted Sunbeam lives in humid scrub in valleys of central and southern Peru. Its white breast feathers stand out; intermediate-plumaged birds are reported where it overlaps another sunbeam.

• Goliath Imperial Pigeon Ducula goliath

  The Goliath Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon of New Caledonia's humid forests. It eats fruit; seeds were found intact in digestive samples from birds studied there.

• Wallace's Scops Owl Otus silvicola

  A small owl of forests on Flores and Sumbawa. Its gray-brown body has ear tufts.

• Dark Pewee Contopus lugubris

  This pewee occurs in mountain forests of Costa Rica and extreme western Panama. It is dark gray and is recorded along forest edges and openings; it may be solitary outside the breeding period.

• Joyful Greenbul Chlorocichla laetissima

  This bulbul lives in forests of east-central Africa. Its yellow-green back and yellow throat and belly stand out, and it often eats fruit and seeds.

• Fieldfare Turdus pilaris

  A thrush that travels from northern Europe to Britain for winter, often moving through the countryside in flocks to find berries.

• Thick-billed Seed Finch Sporophila funerea

  This small finch has a heavy bill. The Peru species account records it in riverside grass and overgrown fallow fields; a specialist account describes it as feeding on seeds.

• Coquerel's Coua Coua coquereli

  This cuckoo has a long tail and legs, blue bare skin around the eye, and a rufous belly. It inhabits dry deciduous forest in western and northern Madagascar.

• Guadeloupe Woodpecker Melanerpes herminieri

  This woodpecker occurs on Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe. It uses several island habitats, including humid forest, semi-deciduous forest, and mangroves.

• Chestnut-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus palliatus

  The Chestnut-backed Antshrike is recorded from southeastern Peru through Bolivia and Brazil. It occurs at forest edges and in secondary growth.

• White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi

  The White-winged Scoter is a large sea duck with bold white patches in its wings. It searches for shellfish near coasts in winter and breeds around northern lakes.

• Chinese Hwamei Garrulax canorus

  A brown songbird marked by white around the eye, it forages near the ground in shrubs and bamboo and sings loudly.

• Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus

  The Harris's Hawk is distinguished by reddish shoulders and legs and a dark tail with white bands.

• Bolivian Spinetail Cranioleuca henricae

  This ovenbird is known from the Río La Paz drainage in the northern Bolivian Andes. Its species page lists dry forest and nearby bushy vegetation as habitat.

• Ashy-throated Bush Tanager Chlorospingus canigularis

  The species account describes olive-yellow upperparts and tail, a grey head and throat, and a yellow breast band. It notes that a white supercilium occurs only in subspecies signatus.

• Red-crowned Amazon Amazona viridigenalis

  The Red-crowned Amazon is a green parrot with a striking red forehead. It can be seen flying to and from roosts in the morning and evening.

• Crested Argus Rheinardia ocellata

  The Crested Argus is a pheasant whose male has exceptionally long tail feathers. It lives in remaining evergreen forests along the Annamite Mountains of Vietnam and Laos.

• Blue-naped Parrot Tanygnathus lucionensis

  The Blue-naped Parrot is a green parrot native to Philippine islands and Indonesia's Talaud Islands. The pattern of blue on the head and back varies by subspecies.

• Atlas Pied Flycatcher Ficedula speculigera

  The male has conspicuous white patches on the forehead and wings in spring. It breeds in mountain forests from Morocco to Tunisia; much of its winter range is unknown.

• Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri

  This small sunbird inhabits forests in western and central Africa. Both sexes are olive-green, and males have orange-red pectoral tufts.

• Cinnamon-breasted Warbler Euryptila subcinnamomea

  A small warbler of rocky, arid country. It searches rocks and shrubs for insects and is usually solitary.

• Red-headed Myzomela Myzomela erythrocephala

  Adult males have a red face and rump, while females have only faint red on the face. The species is mainly found in coastal mangroves, where it feeds on nectar.