Meet the world’s animals.

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• Saffron-headed Parrot Pyrilia pyrilia

  

  The Saffron-headed Parrot has a green body, yellow head and throat, and red feathers on parts of the wings. Small groups fly and call in the canopy of humid forest.

• 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.

• Olrog's Cinclodes Cinclodes olrogi

  Olrog’s Cinclodes is a highland ovenbird found in central Argentina. It walks through rocky grassland and hills while searching for invertebrates on the ground.

• Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus aurantiirostris

  The small Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush is notable for its orange bill.

• Forest Rock Thrush Monticola sharpei

  This thrush lives in forest and rocky habitats in Madagascar. The 2016 guide describes different settings for eastern and northern birds and the western form formerly called bensoni.

• Ochraceous Attila Attila torridus

  It lives in forests of western Ecuador and adjacent Colombia and Peru. It catches large insects and spiders in the upper forest.

• Mexican Violetear Colibri thalassinus

  A green hummingbird with shining violet-blue markings, it visits flowers along highland forest edges and clearings.

• Eastern Ground Parrot Pezoporus wallicus

  This bright green parrot has black markings and moves by walking or running on the ground. It occurs in scattered coastal grasslands and wetlands of eastern Australia.

• Greater Yellow Finch Sicalis auriventris

  This seed-eating finch lives in the Andes of Chile and Argentina. Adult males are yellow, while females are gray-brown.

• Whistling Kite Haliastur sphenurus

  The Whistling Kite is a medium-sized raptor with sandy-brown plumage, a narrow head, and a rounded tail. It circles over woodland, wetlands, and farms while giving a whistling call.

• Arabian Eagle-Owl Bubo milesi

  An eagle-owl of southwestern Arabia. It uses wadis and other wooded places.

• Willow Ptarmigan Lagopus lagopus

  A grouse of subarctic and subalpine North America. In many regions its plumage changes with the seasons, and feathered feet help it cope with snow and cold.

• Cuban Green Woodpecker Xiphidiopicus percussus

  The Cuban Green Woodpecker is endemic to Cuba. It climbs along branches to look for insects and can excavate nest cavities in smaller trunks and branches.

• White-throated Canary Crithagra albogularis

  The White-throated Canary is a pale canary with little streaking, a white throat, and a greenish-yellow rump. It feeds on seeds and other foods in shrubland, semi-desert, and related habitats of southwestern Africa.

• Mute swan Cygnus olor

  A large white waterbird with a long neck. Adults have an orange bill with a black knob at its base.

• European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur

  A small dove seen in Britain in spring and summer. Its chestnut-and-black mottled back and ground-feeding habits make it distinctive.

• Rio Branco Antbird Cercomacra carbonaria

  This antbird lives in gallery forest in Roraima, northern Brazil, and adjacent Guyana. Males and females differ in plumage.

• Burrowing Parakeet Cyanoliseus patagonus

  The Burrowing Parakeet lives in open country in Chile and Argentina. Its white eye ring and yellow-red belly are distinctive, and it nests in burrows in banks and cliffs.

• Blue-faced Malkoha Phaenicophaeus viridirostris

  A long-tailed cuckoo of southern India and Sri Lanka, found from lowlands to foothills and often in thorn scrub or second growth.

• Curve-billed Reedhaunter Limnornis curvirostris

  This bird occurs in wetlands of Argentina and Uruguay. An 1888 natural-history account describes it in dense reeds rising from water, where it remains concealed.

• Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi

  Its gray plumage has buff wing patches and a white eyering. In western North American mountain forests, it eats mostly insects while breeding and fruit, especially juniper berries, in winter.

• Verditer Flycatcher Eumyias thalassinus

  The Verditer Flycatcher is a flycatcher with striking blue-green plumage. It hunts insects in the middle and upper canopy and breeds from the Himalayas into Southeast Asia.

• Olive-faced Flatbill Tolmomyias viridiceps

  In a Colombian photo, the nominate form is shown with an olive back, yellow wing bars and a pale lower bill with a black tip. A 2024 study reported one nest each in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.

• Beautiful Hummingbird Calothorax pulcher

  A small hummingbird of dry interior scrub and brushy woodland in southwestern Mexico; cactus flowers are a frequent food source.