Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bar-tailed Pheasant Syrmaticus humiae

  

  The Bar-tailed Pheasant is a long-tailed pheasant with red wattles around the eyes. Blue and white markings stand out on males, while females are mottled brown.

• Banggai Golden Bulbul Hypsipetes harterti

  KOMIU, a local forest-care foundation, presents Hypsipetes harterti as the Banggai Golden Bulbul. Its profile lists forest and mixed plantations as habitat and gives a photo locality on Bakalan Island.

• Red-necked Amazon Amazona arausiaca

  The Red-necked Amazon is a large green parrot with a purple-blue face and red throat. It is found only on Dominica, where it feeds on fruit and seeds in mountain rainforest canopy.

• Buff-necked Woodpecker Meiglyptes tukki

  The Buff-necked Woodpecker is a forest-dwelling woodpecker. The male has a buff patch on each side of the neck and a red cheek stripe; the female lacks the red stripe.

• Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer

  The Blue-spotted Wood Dove is a small dove with blue spots on its wings. It lives along forest edges and streams, searching for seeds on the ground.

• Bronze-green Euphonia Euphonia mesochrysa

  This small bird inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andes from Colombia through Bolivia. It feeds mainly on fruit, including mistletoe berries.

• Dusky Friarbird Philemon fuscicapillus

  This Morotai friarbird has drab brown plumage, pink bare skin around the eye, and a heavy black bill.

• Choco Sirystes Sirystes albogriseus

  This tyrant flycatcher inhabits lowland forest in the Chocó, from eastern Panama through western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador.

• White-starred Robin Pogonocichla stellata

  The White-starred Robin lives in the lower growth of evergreen forests in southern Africa. White star markings on its head show when it is alarmed or excited.

• Black-and-white Owl Strix nigrolineata

  The Black-and-white Owl is a nocturnal owl with bold black-and-white bars across its chest and neck.

• Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

  A glossy black crow with a long, curved red bill and red legs. In Britain it occurs along western coasts, around cliffs and coastal grassland.

• Banded Green Sunbird Anthreptes rubritorques

  This sunbird lives in Tanzania's mountain forests. Males have a red breast band, and birds search for nectar and small insects high in trees.

• Cassin's Sparrow Peucaea cassinii

  This grayish-brown sparrow has a faint eye-ring. It feeds on the ground in dry grasslands, and breeding males sing as they rise and float back down through the air.

• Necklaced Spinetail Synallaxis stictothorax

  This ovenbird occurs in lowlands from Ecuador into northwestern Peru. Breast spotting varies, and flank color helps distinguish it from related species.

• Mountain Avocetbill Opisthoprora euryptera

  The Mountain Avocetbill occurs in the eastern Andes of Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador. It has green upperparts, a copper-toned head, and a bill whose tip turns upward.

• Ashy Thrush Geokichla cinerea

  This thrush has a grey head and back, white wing bars, and spotted underparts. It occurs in montane forest on Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines.

• Western Fire-eye Pyriglena maura

  This antbird lives in dense forest understory from northern to central South America. It searches near the ground for insects and small lizards.

• Lake Duck Oxyura vittata

  The Lake Duck is a small diving duck of southern South America. It is sometimes seen holding its tail upright as it swims.

• Mindanao Lorikeet Saudareos johnstoniae

  This green lorikeet inhabits montane forest on Mindanao. Adults have a reddish face and a purple eye-band, and the species feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Rufous Coucal Centropus unirufus

  The Rufous Coucal is a rufous-colored coucal of forests in the northern Philippines. It uses both the ground and trees.

• Silver-eared Mesia Leiothrix argentauris

  Chestnut and olive feathers, a dark face, and silvery ear patches mark this small bird. It forms flocks in woodland and eats fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus

  The Zone-tailed Hawk is a slender, dark raptor with pale tail bands that hunts around canyons and arid foothills in the U.S. Southwest.

• Chestnut-bellied Mountain Tanager Dubusia castaneoventris

  This tanager ranges in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Its blue upperparts contrast with a chestnut belly, and it forages in the canopy of mountain forest.

• Rudd's Apalis Apalis ruddi

  This apalis lives in thickets and woodland in southern Africa. Adults have a gray head with a short pale eyebrow and search foliage for insects.