Meet the world’s animals.

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• Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus

  

  This bulbul occurs in forests of western and central Africa. It has white spotting on the wings and tail, and also eats fruit and nectar.

• Golden-plumed Parakeet Leptosittaca branickii

  The Golden-plumed Parakeet lives in Andean forests from Colombia south to Peru. Adults are mostly green, with yellow plumes behind the eyes and orange tones on the belly.

• 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.

• Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus

  The Chestnut-winged Cuckoo has a long tail, chestnut plumage, and a black crest. It breeds in temperate Eurasia and passes through or winters in Southeast Asia from autumn to spring.

• Cocoa Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus susurrans

  This woodcreeper occurs in Central and South America, where it uses humid forests. It searches trunks for ants, spiders, and other small arthropods.

• Brown-backed Honeyeater Ramsayornis modestus

  This small honeyeater lives in coastal areas of northeastern Australia and New Guinea. It is often seen in flowering trees near water.

• Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis

  The male Eastern Bluebird has a blue back and rusty chest and searches for insects in open grassland.

• Maroon-bellied Sunbird Leptocoma brasiliana

  The Maroon-bellied Sunbird is a small flower-visiting bird found from South Asia through Southeast Asia. Males and females have markedly different colors.

• Rufous-tailed Robin Luscinia sibilans

  It breeds in forests of Siberia and northeastern China and winters from southern China into northern Southeast Asia. The source uses the name Larvivora sibilans for the bird listed in the pool as Luscinia sibilans.

• Smoky Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes fumigatus

  This flycatcher inhabits Andean forests. It is dark brown with pale mottling on the throat; one nest on a dead stump was reported in Ecuador.

• Rufous-fronted Laughingthrush Garrulax rufifrons

  This Javan laughingthrush has a rufous forehead and chin. It eats fruit and insects, and may forage in noisy small groups or mixed-species flocks.

• Mariana Crow Corvus kubaryi

  The Mariana Crow is black with green and blue gloss across its feathers. Its native range includes Guam and Rota, and it searches for food from forest trees down to the ground.

• Steely-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia saucerottei

  This hummingbird ranges from Central America to Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. It has a green body and a blue-black tail and feeds on flower nectar. It is recorded in secondary growth, scattered-tree savanna, coffee plantations, gardens, and edges of evergreen gallery forest.

• Sula Hanging Parrot Loriculus sclateri

  A small hanging parrot from islands in eastern Indonesia. Its wings make a hummingbird-like whirring sound in flight.

• Red-necked Tanager Tangara cyanocephala

  In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, this tanager feeds on fruit in the canopy and at forest edges, sometimes joining mixed-species flocks.

• Pallas's Fish Eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus

  Pallas's Fish Eagle is a large raptor found across parts of central, southern, and eastern Asia. It uses rivers and wetlands where it can catch fish.

• Crested Owl Lophostrix cristata

  The Crested Owl has a chestnut-brown body and long ear tufts and is active at night in humid forest. It hunts insects and small animals from a perch.

• Ashy Tailorbird Orthotomus ruficeps

  The male Ashy Tailorbird has slate-gray plumage, a rufous-chestnut face, and a white belly. In Singapore it is seen most often in mangroves, but also in swamp forest and coastal scrub.

• Altai Snowcock Tetraogallus altaicus

  A large pheasant-family bird of rocky alpine meadows. Breeding is recorded in the southern Altai of Kazakhstan, where details of its breeding biology remain poorly known.

• White-headed Woodpecker Leuconotopicus albolarvatus

  This woodpecker has a white head and neck against a black body. It feeds heavily on pine seeds in mountainous forests of western North America.

• Akohekohe Palmeria dolei

  The Akohekohe is a forest bird now found on Maui in Hawaii. It has a white crest that curls forward over the bill and feeds on nectar and small arthropods.

• Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator

  A diving duck with a long, thin bill and shaggy crest. It catches and eats fish.

• Pacific Imperial Pigeon Ducula pacifica

  A large pigeon of Pacific islands, it has a pale gray to pinkish head and underside and darker gray wings and back. It feeds on fruit.

• Bolivian Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus sticturus

  The Bolivian Slaty Antshrike occurs from eastern Bolivia into southwestern Brazil, in tropical dry forest. It has white wing spots and spots on the outer webs of many tail feathers that show from above when the tail is open.