Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey Monjita Nengetus cinereus

  

  This grey tyrant flycatcher has a white throat and a white patch below the eye. The account here describes records from a reserve in Buenos Aires.

• Purple-crowned Lorikeet Parvipsitta porphyrocephala

  The Purple-crowned Lorikeet has a purple crown as an adult and often feeds on nectar and pollen from eucalypts.

• Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus

  A large pigeon with a gray body and conspicuous white patches on its neck and wings.

• Spangled Honeyeater Melipotes ater

  The Spangled Honeyeater lives in montane forest and tall secondary growth on Papua New Guinea’s Huon Peninsula. Its plumage is almost entirely black, with white spots below.

• Furtive Flycatcher Ficedula disposita

  A small flycatcher recorded in northern Luzon. It searches among trees for small invertebrates in lowland forest.

• Ash-breasted Sierra Finch Geospizopsis plebejus

  A small finch of the Andes. The male has a gray body with dark streaks on its back and searches for food on open highland ground.

• Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius

  A cuckoo of woodland and forest south of the Sahara. It eats hairy caterpillars and lays its eggs in other birds’ nests.

• Dot-fronted Woodpecker Veniliornis frontalis

  This woodpecker occurs on the eastern Andean slope from Bolivia to Argentina. It inhabits humid and montane woodland, searching tree trunks for food.

• Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata

  This large owl has white markings around its eyes that look like spectacles. It is active at night and nests in tree cavities.

• Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus

  A thrush with a white eyebrow stripe. It visits wooded areas in Japan in spring and autumn, often eating fruit high in trees.

• Rusty-backed Antwren Formicivora rufa

  This antwren occurs in South America, including cerrado scrub. Males have black breast and belly areas bordered by white, while females have dark streaks on the white throat and breast.

• Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus

  This greenbul lives in forests from West to Central Africa. It moves in small groups and mixed flocks, gleaning arthropods from branches and thickets.

• Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus

  The Purple Finch is a finch of North American forests. It cracks seeds with its large bill and often sings from high in the trees.

• Dusky-billed Parrotlet Forpus modestus

  A small parrot with different plumage in males and females. It uses forest edges and open lowland areas in northern South America, eating fruit, seeds, and berries.

• Maghreb Magpie Pica mauritanica

  The Maghreb Magpie is a magpie distinguished by blue bare skin around the eye. It searches the ground for insects and small animals, and also eats fruit and seeds.

• Maroon-naped Sunbird Aethopyga guimarasensis

  This small sunbird occurs on Negros, Panay, and Guimaras in the western Visayas of the Philippines. It is recorded in forest and along forest edges; a species-level ecological dataset classifies nectar as its main food niche.

• Cisticola cherina

  This small cisticola occurs in Madagascar. It uses grassland, savanna, farms, wetlands, and scrub, and searches near the ground for small invertebrates.

• Red Kite Milvus milvus

  Adults have a reddish-brown body and a deeply forked tail. They glide through the air and mainly feed on carrion.

• Common Scoter Melanitta nigra

  The Common Scoter is a sea duck whose males and females differ in color. It breeds in northern European wetlands and moves to coastal waters for winter.

• Emerald-chinned Hummingbird Abeillia abeillei

  A small hummingbird of humid mountain forest. The male has a green crown and ear coverts, and its upper throat shines emerald green.

• Plain-crowned Spinetail Synallaxis gujanensis

  This small bird occurs from Amazonia to the eastern Andean slope. It has a grayish head and rufous wings and tail, and forages low in young second growth and at forest edges.

• Silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera

  A pheasant whose male has white-and-black patterned feathers on its back and long tail.

• Shear-tailed Grey Tyrant Muscipipra vetula

  This gray tyrant has a long, deeply forked tail and occurs in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern South America.

• Reischek's Parakeet Cyanoramphus hochstetteri

  Reischek's Parakeet is a parakeet of New Zealand's Antipodes Islands.