Meet the world’s animals.

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• Marsh Seedeater Sporophila palustris

  

  This small bird eats seeds and lives in wetlands and damp grasslands with many seed-bearing plants. Outside breeding activity it may join mixed flocks with other Sporophila.

• Bearded Scrub Robin Erythropygia quadrivirgata

  The Bearded Scrub Robin inhabits thickets and broad-leaved woodland in eastern and southern Africa. The mainland form has white eyebrows, moustachial stripes, and throat bordered by dark facial lines, plus white wing patches.

• Mottled Wood Owl Strix ocellata

  The Mottled Wood Owl is a large owl without ear tufts, marked with reddish-brown and white mottling. It uses gardens and open woodland near dry forests and calls at dawn and dusk.

• Koepcke's Hermit Phaethornis koepckeae

  Koepcke's Hermit is a hummingbird that uses the forest understory. It follows regular routes between flowers for nectar and also eats small arthropods.

• Spix's Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis striata

  The species account classifies this antbird as a forest-dwelling invertivore. In Anapu, Pará, two nests were documented in dense terra firme forest in April 2016.

• Nicobar Parakeet Psittacula caniceps

  The pale grey head and dark facial bands are distinctive. This parakeet lives in coastal forest on a small group of Nicobar Islands.

• Berlepsch’s Canastero Asthenes berlepschi

  This small bird is restricted to the Sorata area of Bolivia. It occurs in Polylepis woodland, where it searches foliage for arthropods; territorial pairs care for young.

• 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.

• South African Shelduck Tadorna cana

  The South African Shelduck breeds at shallow freshwater and brackish wetlands in southern Africa. It uses holes in the ground for nesting.

• Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla

  A long-tailed woodpecker relative camouflaged by fine grey-brown patterning.

• Pale Rosefinch Carpodacus stoliczkae

  The Pale Rosefinch ranges from northern and central Afghanistan into western and central China. A report also documents a bird at Turtuk, India, but its subspecies was not determined.

• 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.

• 'Oma'o Myadestes obscurus

  The ‘Ōma‘o is a Hawaiian solitaire endemic to Hawaiʻi Island. Its subdued plumage is olive-brown and gray; it often perches quietly and is detected by song. It eats fruit, flowers, and invertebrates.

• Partridge Pigeon Geophaps smithii

  This ground-dwelling pigeon is recognized by facial skin and a white stripe along the body. In northern Australia the facial skin is red in one region and yellow in another; it feeds on seeds on the ground.

• White-bellied Sea Eagle Icthyophaga leucogaster

  A large raptor with a white head, rump, and underparts and dark grey back and wings. It flies near coasts and other waters and feeds largely on aquatic animals.

• Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant Stigmatura napensis

  This small tyrant-flycatcher often holds up its long, white-tipped tail. Along Peru’s Amazon, Ucayali and other rivers, it forages in young vegetation growing on river-created sites.

• Drab Seedeater Sporophila simplex

  This small finch uses western Andean foothills and farmland in Peru. Males are gray and females brown; both sexes have two white wing bars and feed in shrubs at forest edges and fallow fields.

• White-throated Robin-Chat Cossypha humeralis

  This bird has dark upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and a rufous belly. It lives in wooded thickets in southern Africa and searches for food on the ground, flicking leaves aside.

• Mountain Scops Owl Otus spilocephalus

  The Mountain Scops Owl hides in the middle and lower layers of humid mountain forests and is active at night.

• Rufous-breasted Hermit Glaucis hirsutus

  This hummingbird lives in the understory of humid forests from Panama south to Bolivia, as well as on Caribbean islands. It takes nectar with a long, strongly curved bill.

• Chestnut-backed Antbird Poliocrania exsul

  The Chestnut-backed Antbird is described as an understory bird of lowland tropical forest from Honduras to Ecuador. The committee page describes five subspecies in two broad groups distinguished in part by white wing spots.

• Mindanao Lorikeet Saudareos johnstoniae

  This green lorikeet inhabits montane forest on Mindanao. Adults have a reddish face and a purple eye-band, and the species feeds on nectar and fruit.

• White-throated Earthcreeper Upucerthia albigula

  This earthcreeper is recorded on the western slope of the Andes in Peru. It has rufous-brown upperparts and tail, a whitish throat, and a down-curved black bill, and forages among scattered rocks and sparse scrub.

• Blue-headed Macaw Primolius couloni

  Its green body, blue head, and maroon tail stand out. It lives in the western Amazon forests of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.