Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus

  

  The Hermit Thrush is a forest bird with a brown back, spotted breast and reddish tail. It searches for insects on the ground and eats more fruit in winter.

• Elegant Euphonia Euphonia elegantissima

  Found from Mexico to Panama, this bird occurs in damp cloud forest and woodland edges. Males are mainly blue and orange, while females are mainly green.

• Kurdistan Wheatear Oenanthe xanthoprymna

  Kurdistan Wheatear breeds in parts of southeastern Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq, and southwestern Iran, then winters farther south toward the Red Sea and southern Arabia.

• Red-headed Vulture Sarcogyps calvus

  The Red-headed Vulture has a red to orange head as an adult; it is paler in juveniles. It occurs across India and feeds on carrion.

• Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner Neophilydor fuscipenne

  The Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner inhabits moist lowland and montane forests. It has rufous-brown upperparts and dark slate-colored wings.

• Ferruginous-backed Antbird Myrmoderus ferrugineus

  This antbird lives in forests from the Guianas to northern Brazil. It walks on the forest floor and searches for food among leaf litter. Males and females differ in throat color.

• Blue-fronted Parrotlet Touit dilectissimus

  This small parrotlet occurs in forests of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. The ProAves article title says Blue-faced, but its text calls Touit dilectissimus the Blue-fronted Parakeet.

• Flame-crested Tanager Loriotus cristatus

  This tanager ranges through northern and eastern South America. The male is mostly black with a broad yellow-and-orange crest, and feeds on fruit and arthropods.

• Rock Parrot Neophema petrophila

  The Rock Parrot is a small parrot of coastal and offshore-island habitats along southern Australia. It searches for seeds and fruit in coastal grassland and scrub.

• Bee Hummingbird Mellisuga helenae

  The Bee Hummingbird is described as the world's smallest bird. Males have iridescent throat feathers, and the birds visit flowers for nectar in Cuba.

• Gray Junglefowl Gallus sonneratii

  The Gray Junglefowl is a pheasant relative of forests and scrub in peninsular India. The sexes differ in plumage and leg colour, and males also have a seasonal plumage change.

• Johannes's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus iohannis

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the forest understorey of Amazonia. It forages in dense foliage, forest edges, secondary growth, and along rivers and lakes; records reach about 800 m on the Andean foothills.

• Speckled Teal Anas flavirostris

  The Speckled Teal is a small duck that feeds at the water's surface. Dark spots mark its neck and breast, while plumage and bill color vary with subspecies, sex, and age.

• 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.

• Koepcke's Screech Owl Megascops koepckeae

  This small owl lives in the Peruvian Andes. Its iris is yellow, and plumage varies from mostly grey to brown in some populations.

• Helmeted Woodpecker Celeus galeatus

  The Helmeted Woodpecker lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern South America. A study reports that its plumage resembles that of a larger, co-occurring woodpecker, and tracked birds used cavities in large trees as roosts.

• Black Thrush Turdus infuscatus

  This thrush ranges from eastern and southern Mexico into Central America. Males are dark, while females are browner and differ in appearance.

• Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus

  The Common Rosefinch breeds across northern Asia and parts of eastern and central Europe, then moves southeast for winter. Older males are red; females and young males are brown.

• White-bellied Robin-Chat Cossyphicula roberti

  This small Old World flycatcher is about 13 cm long. In southwestern Cameroon, it was recorded in primary and secondary forest at 1,100–1,300 m.

• White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus

  A kite with a white body and tail and gray wings. It hovers over grassland while searching for small mammals.

• Thick-billed Miner Geositta crassirostris

  This miner lives in dry western Peruvian slopes and coastal lomas. It has gray-brown upperparts, a stout bill, and a pale eyebrow, and searches the ground among rocks.

• White-flanked Antwren Myrmotherula axillaris

  A small antbird of humid lowland forests from Central America into South America, feeding among low branches.

• Red-faced Parrot Hapalopsittaca pyrrhops

  The Red-faced Parrot has red around the bill and on the wing shoulders, with blue on some flight feathers. It feeds quietly in the canopy of humid mountain forest.

• Short-billed Honeycreeper Cyanerpes nitidus

  This is a honeycreeper with a short bill. In 2000, one male was recorded at Brownsberg Nature Park in Suriname.