Meet the world’s animals.

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• Papyrus Canary Crithagra koliensis

  

  The Papyrus Canary uses papyrus swamps and nearby habitats. The sexes look similar, though the male has more strongly marked facial patterning.

• Brown-headed Crow Corvus fuscicapillus

  The Brown-headed Crow has glossy black plumage, except for its dark-brown head and neck. It lives in moist forests and mangroves around northwestern New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Purple-crowned Plovercrest Stephanoxis loddigesii

  This hummingbird lives in the Atlantic Forest of South America. Males raise a purple-blue crest during courtship, while females lack the crest and are green and grayish-white. It feeds on nectar and insects.

• Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon Treron sphenurus

  The Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon ranges from the western Himalayas through Southeast Asia and nearby islands. Males show metallic colors on the head and chest.

• Indian Scops Owl Otus bakkamoena

  This small owl lives in forests and wooded areas of South Asia. It has conspicuous ear tufts and hunts insects at night.

• Snowy-throated Kingbird Tyrannus niveigularis

  This seasonal migrant appears in northwestern Peru from December to June. It uses semi-open woodland and scrub, and has a gray head, white throat, and yellow underparts.

• Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus

  In NParks' Singapore account, the yellow-orange head and rich voice stand out. The bird seeks fruit and insects in riverside woods and forest edges.

• Orange Ground Thrush Geokichla gurneyi

  The Orange Ground Thrush lives in mountain forests of eastern and southeastern Africa. Its orange face and chest contrast with a white belly, and it searches for small animals and fruit in the lower forest.

• 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.

• Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo Carpococcyx renauldi

  A ground-dwelling cuckoo with a red bill and long tail, living in the forest undergrowth of Southeast Asia.

• Sind Woodpecker Dendrocopos assimilis

  The Sind Woodpecker lives in dry lowlands of Iran and Pakistan. It searches trunks and branches for food, and males and females differ in crown color.

• Long-winged Antwren Myrmotherula longipennis

  This antwren forages in the middle levels of Amazonian forest. Males are gray with a black throat; females are brown to rufous-brown, and the birds often join mixed-species flocks.

• Plumed Whistling Duck Dendrocygna eytoni

  The Plumed Whistling Duck is an Australian duck with a long neck and extended flank feathers that reach over its back. It feeds on grasses in wetlands and grasslands.

• White-necked Laughingthrush Garrulax strepitans

  An older bird account describes a reddish-brown head, black face, and white neck spots, and reports flocks of twenty or more in deep forest ravines. These are historical observations.

• Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus

  The Martial Eagle is a large eagle with dark spots on its white belly. It uses open habitats such as wooded savanna and grassland.

• Red-shouldered Spinetail Synallaxis hellmayri

  This spinetail occurs in dry scrub and open woodland. A 2017 observation is documented in northeastern Brazil.

• Sooty-capped Bush Tanager Chlorospingus pileatus

  This bird lives in mountain forest in Costa Rica and Panama. Its dark head and white eyebrow stand out as it moves in small groups through the understorey.

• Scarlet-fronted Parakeet Psittacara wagleri

  The Scarlet-fronted Parakeet has a green body, red forehead, and long tail. It eats fruit and seeds and is native to Colombia and Venezuela.

• See-see Partridge Ammoperdix griseogularis

  The See-see Partridge is a small buff-colored bird recorded in agricultural fields of Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

• 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.

• Thyolo Alethe Pseudalethe choloensis

  This forest bird occurs around the Thyolo Highlands of southern Malawi. It has rusty upperparts and searches among leaf litter for small arthropods.

• Streaked Spiderhunter Arachnothera magna

  A large sunbird relative with a long curved bill and streaked plumage, it searches for nectar and small invertebrates.

• Stout Cisticola Cisticola robustus

  An East African bird guide describes a rufous crown and nape, a finely streaked crown, a brown blotched back and wings, and a black tail with white tips. It uses grassland and scattered bushes and sings from grass clumps or bush tops. A field survey also recorded it in south-east Angola.

• Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata

  The Red Wattlebird is a large honeyeater with a reddish fleshy wattle at the side of its neck. It feeds mainly on nectar, along with insects and fruit.