Meet the world’s animals.

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• Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia

  

  The Striped Cuckoo ranges from southern Mexico into a broad part of South America. It is brown with a crest and lays its eggs in the nests of other birds.

• Elf Owl Micrathene whitneyi

  The Elf Owl is described as the world's smallest raptor. It hunts insects and other small prey at night and nests in old woodpecker holes and similar cavities.

• Tibetan Serin Spinus thibetanus

  The Tibetan Serin is a small finch with noticeable yellow in males and fine streaks on females. It forms flocks in Chinese mountain forests.

• Blue Ground Dove Claravis pretiosa

  The Blue Ground Dove is a small pigeon whose male's blue-gray plumage contrasts with the female's reddish brown. By day it searches the ground for seeds and small insects, using forest edges and grasslands.

• Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator

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

• Painted Bush Quail Perdicula erythrorhyncha

  The Painted Bush Quail lives in grasslands of the Indian Peninsula. Males have a white eyebrow and throat, while the red bill and legs are conspicuous field marks. Small groups may forage in the morning and evening.

• Golden-green Woodpecker Piculus chrysochloros

  This woodpecker lives in the subcanopy of Amazonian forest. Adult males have red on the head, while females lack red there.

• Blue-rumped Parrot Psittinus cyanurus

  The Blue-rumped Parrot lives in forests of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. Males and females differ in head and back colors.

• Yellow-throated Spadebill Platyrinchus flavigularis

  The Yellow-throated Spadebill is a small bird of cloud-forest understory in the Andes. Its range is patchy; a 2002 field study recorded it at 1,370 m on the Río Rumiyaco in Colombia.

• Magpie Tanager Cissopis leverianus

  This South American tanager has striking black-and-white plumage and broad white tips on its long tail. It is common in Amazonia, especially along forest edges and in secondary growth.

• Bicknell's Thrush Catharus bicknelli

  Bicknell's Thrush is a small thrush that breeds in mountain forests of northeastern North America and spends the nonbreeding season in wet montane forests of the Greater Antilles.

• White-tailed Stonechat Saxicola leucurus

  This stonechat uses tall riverside grasslands; white areas on its tail are conspicuous in flight.

• White-chinned Woodcreeper Dendrocincla merula

  The White-chinned Woodcreeper lives low in humid Amazonian forest and is strongly associated with army-ant swarms, catching arthropods disturbed by the ants rather than eating the ants. A white chin is useful, but iris color varies among subspecies.

• Blue-headed Parrot Pionus menstruus

  The Blue-headed Parrot has a blue head and green body. In South America it may visit clay banks to take minerals that help neutralize toxins in seeds.

• 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.

• Curve-winged Sabrewing Pampa curvipennis

  The Curve-winged Sabrewing occurs in the eastern Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. An 1887 regional account describes the male with a blue crown, bronze-green upperparts and iron-grey underparts.

• Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea

  This small African bird occurs in eastern Africa, including Kenya, and parts of western Africa. It uses montane forest, woodland, and thickets.

• Grey-backed Hawk Pseudastur occidentalis

  It has dark grey upperparts, a white underside, and a streaked head. A thick black band near the tip of its white tail is especially visible in flight.

• Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii

  Levaillant's Cuckoo is marked by a crest and streaks on the throat and flanks. It lays its eggs in the nests of babblers and other birds.

• Mayotte Scops Owl Otus mayottensis

  The Mayotte Scops Owl is found only on Mayotte. It occurs in grey, brown, and rufous plumage morphs and has yellow eyes.

• Hawaii Amakihi Chlorodrepanis virens

  This small Hawaiian honeycreeper is common on Hawaii, Maui, and Molokai and rare on Lanai. Males are bright yellow, females yellowish green, and birds move among leaves in search of nectar, insects, and fruit.

• Philippine Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia tenuirostris

  A long-tailed dove found on islands in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan.

• Cape Barren Goose Cereopsis novaehollandiae

  The Cape Barren Goose is a heavy gray goose with a yellow-green cere. It uses coastal islands and grasslands in southern Australia and grazes on vegetation.

• Green Junglefowl Gallus varius

  This junglefowl is endemic to Indonesia. The male's glossy dark green plumage contrasts with the female's brown plumage.