Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea

  Verreaux's Eagle-Owl is a large African owl with a white face edged in black and prominent ear tufts.

• Pemba Sunbird Cinnyris pembae

  This sunbird is restricted to Pemba Island off Tanzania. Males are green and violet; females have gray-brown upperparts and pale underparts.

• Eastern Jungle Crow Corvus levaillantii

  Corvus levaillantii is a crow reported from South Asia and parts of Southeast Asia. The Bangladesh species assessment records it widely across that country, from woodland to towns.

• Frances's Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza francesiae

  Frances's Sparrowhawk is a small hawk endemic to Madagascar. Females are larger than males, and the birds dash from open perches to catch prey.

• Himalayan Thrush Zoothera salimalii

  This thrush has been recorded in mountain forests from the eastern Himalaya to Yunnan, China. It is treated as a species distinct from the related Alpine Thrush in the 2016 study.

• White-bellied Dacnis Dacnis albiventris

  The White-bellied Dacnis forages in the canopy of mature terra firme forest, which is not seasonally flooded. Males have blue heads and breasts with white bellies; females have greenish upperparts and yellowish underparts.

• Ornate Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla ornata

  The Ornate Stipplethroat occurs in the lower and middle forest layers of the Amazon region. It has been reported moving through hanging dead leaves while foraging.

• White-eyed Prinia Schistolais leontica

  This prinia includes a documented record from the Fouta Djalon highlands of Guinea. English accounts use both White-eyed Prinia and Sierra Leone Prinia.

• Gray Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis

  The Gray Kingbird is a Caribbean bird with a gray back and white underside. Its dark eye mask and heavy bill stand out as it sallies from a perch to catch insects.

• Red-eared Fruit Dove Ptilinopus fischeri

  The Red-eared Fruit Dove lives in the mountains of Sulawesi. Adults are notable for a green back and a violet-red patch by the ear; they are usually solitary and discreet.

• Brazilian Merganser Mergus octosetaceus

  This diving duck lives on clear mountain rivers. It dives in fast-flowing water for fish and stays within river territories.

• Caucasian Snowcock Tetraogallus caucasicus

  A pheasant-family bird of high rocky slopes in the Caucasus, it may move lower during severe winter weather.

• White-headed Bulbul Hypsipetes thompsoni

  The White-headed Bulbul is a bulbul with a grey body and a striking white head. It has a forked tail and feeds on fruit and berries.

• Melancholy Woodpecker Dendropicos lugubris

  This woodpecker ranges from Sierra Leone to Ghana, southern Nigeria, and southwestern Cameroon. It uses open forest, clearings, edges, gallery forest, and swamp forest.

• Para Foliage-gleaner Automolus paraensis

  The Para Foliage-gleaner occurs in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Its species account notes a greyish crown and rufous tail, and it uses terra firme forest as well as floodplain and secondary forest. This account follows the range of Automolus paraensis as a separate species.

• White-throated Rock Thrush Monticola gularis

  The White-throated Rock Thrush is marked by a blue crown and a white line down the throat. It ranges across eastern and southeastern Asia and eats insects.

• Bourke's Parrot Neopsephotus bourkii

  Bourke's Parrot is a small parrot of dry scrub in inland Australia. It feeds on seeds on the ground.

• Cape Canary Serinus canicollis

  The Cape Canary is a small finch of open habitats and gardens in southern Africa. It eats seeds and nests in shrubs and other vegetation during the breeding season.

• Timneh Parrot Psittacus timneh

  A grey parrot of West African forests and adjoining habitats. It eats fruit and seeds and nests in high tree cavities.

• Ecuadorian Piedtail Phlogophilus hemileucurus

  This hummingbird is recorded in montane forest in the northeastern Andes, where it is uncommon in the understory and shrubbery.

• Gray-bellied Cuckoo Cacomantis passerinus

  The Grey-bellied Cuckoo lives in woodlands, gardens, and plantations across the Indian subcontinent. It moves among trees and shrubs, taking flying insects and other small prey.

• New Holland Honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae

  The New Holland Honeyeater is a small bird found in southern Australia’s forests and gardens. It feeds mainly on nectar, as well as insects and other foods.

• Rufous-banded Owl Strix albitarsis

  The Rufous-banded Owl has separate field records from Ecuador and Colombia. An Ecuadorian report describes a pale-down juvenile; a Colombian study suggests foraging in secondary forest and plantations.