Meet the world’s animals.

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• Puerto Rican Bullfinch Melopyrrha portoricensis

  

  This finch is endemic to Puerto Rico, where it lives in forests and thickets. It mainly eats fruit and seeds and moves through dense vegetation.

• Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter

  The nominate form has a white eyebrow, blue sheen on the wings, and orange underparts. It searches for food in dense forest undergrowth, and the account describes separate western and central/eastern ranges.

• Loja Tyrannulet Zimmerius flavidifrons

  This small bird occurs in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. A western Ecuador field guide places it in humid and deciduous foothill and subtropical forests, with gray-toned upperparts and faint yellow wing markings. Checklists differ on whether this regional form is a species or a subspecies, so the account keeps to its local range.

• Alexandrine Parakeet Psittacula eupatria

  The Alexandrine Parakeet is a large parakeet native to parts of South and Southeast Asia, including wooded and cultivated areas.

• Guianan Streaked Antwren Myrmotherula surinamensis

  This small antwren inhabits riverside vine tangles and seasonally flooded forest. It gleans insects from leaves and is listed in a Smithsonian field checklist for Guyana.

• Bald Parrot Pyrilia aurantiocephala

  This parrot occurs in Brazil. Its 2002 original description used the genus name Pionopsitta aurantiocephala; the current candidate name in this dataset is Pyrilia aurantiocephala.

• Chestnut Piculet Picumnus cinnamomeus

  This small woodpecker occurs in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. It uses dry woodland, mangroves, and other dry scrubby habitats, and males and females differ in crown spotting.

• Violet-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena violifer

  The Violet-throated Starfrontlet has a green head and chest, with an iridescent violet throat patch in males. It belongs to a hummingbird family that uses nectar and small insects.

• Sumba Green Pigeon Treron teysmannii

  This green pigeon is native only to Sumba, where it eats fruit in forest canopies and along edges that retain large trees.

• Black-headed Duck Heteronetta atricapilla

  The Black-headed Duck lives in wetlands and lakes of southern South America. It has an unusual breeding strategy: it lays its eggs in the nests of other waterbirds rather than building its own nest.

• Wetar Scops Owl Otus tempestatis

  A small owl endemic to Wetar Island, Indonesia. Gray and rufous forms occur. It was recorded in tropical forest and heard in eucalyptus woodland at 300 m, calling at night.

• Sumatran Ground Cuckoo Carpococcyx viridis

  The Sumatran ground-cuckoo is a large forest cuckoo with a long tail and sturdy green legs and bill. It lives on the ground and is thought to feed on prey found on the forest floor.

• Socotra Warbler Incana incana

  Endemic to Socotra, this small bird occurs widely in habitats with trees and shrubs. The museum description of an adult male records ashy-brown upperparts, pale underparts, and white tips and dark bands on the tail.

• Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus fuscater

  The Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush has a pale eye-ring and orange bill. It searches for insects and fruit near the ground in wet mountain forest; underpart color varies among subspecies.

• Lesser Prairie Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

  This ground-dwelling bird has barred brown-and-white plumage and lives in grasslands of the southern United States. In spring, males gather at display grounds to court females.

• Yellow-collared Chlorophonia Chlorophonia flavirostris

  The Yellow-collared Chlorophonia is a small bird whose male has a green head and yellow eye-ring. It forages in the canopy of humid forest, mainly for small fruits.

• Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus

  The Black Hawk-Eagle is a large eagle of lowland tropical forest in the Americas. Adults are mostly black, with bold white checkering under the wings.

• Short-billed Leaftosser Sclerurus rufigularis

  Short-billed Leaftosser is a small leaftosser about 15–16 cm long. It uses humid forest understory and secondary growth, and searches on the ground for invertebrates. Oiseaux.net lists sound records from Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and French Guiana.

• Tamarugo Conebill Conirostrum tamarugense

  The Tamarugo Conebill occurs in tamarugo woodland and other habitats in northern Chile; records also show movement into southern Peru. The male has a reddish-brown eyebrow and throat, while these colors are paler in the female.

• Güldenstädt's Redstart Phoenicurus erythrogastrus

  This redstart lives on rocky high mountains. An adult male stands out for its white crown, black throat and chest, and reddish-brown belly and tail.

• Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus orbitatus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in lowland forest in southeastern Brazil. It is about 11 cm long, with a white ring around each eye.

• Orange-billed Lorikeet Neopsittacus pullicauda

  This small lorikeet lives in New Guinea's mountain forests. It feeds on nectar, pollen, and fruit, and its head and belly colors vary somewhat by subspecies.

• Speckled Antshrike Xenornis setifrons

  This antshrike ranges from eastern Panama into northwestern Colombia. Males and females differ in face and underpart color, and a Panamanian record describes a nest on a streamside slope.

• Yellow-fronted Parrot Poicephalus flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Parrot is recognizable by its green body and yellow face and crown. Its wild diet is poorly known, though leaves, seeds, and fruit are thought to be part of it.