Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ultramarine Flycatcher Ficedula superciliaris

  

  The Ultramarine Flycatcher breeds in high country around the Himalayas and moves to lower southern regions for winter.

• Wandering Whistling Duck Dendrocygna arcuata

  The Wandering Whistling Duck is a large, red-brown duck. In Kakadu it uses deep wetlands and flooded plains; its whistling call and wing noise may be heard as it flies to roost at dusk.

• Apapane Himatione sanguinea

  The Apapane is a Hawaiian honeycreeper that uses nectar as a major food source and also takes insects. It visits ʻōhiʻa blossoms and moves through the canopy as it feeds.

• Gray-capped Hemispingus Kleinothraupis reyi

  The Gray-capped Hemispingus is found in the northwestern Venezuelan Andes. Its gray hood-like crown contrasts with yellowish-olive plumage.

• Indigo Macaw Anodorhynchus leari

  The Indigo Macaw is a large blue parrot of the dry Caatinga in Bahia, Brazil, where licuri palm nuts are its principal food.

• Pacific Imperial Pigeon Ducula pacifica

  A large pigeon of Pacific islands, it has a pale gray to pinkish head and underside and darker gray wings and back. It feeds on fruit.

• Brahminy Kite Haliastur indus

  An adult kite with a white head and breast and chestnut body. It is recorded as resident in Singapore and occurs from mangroves to urban areas.

• Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris

  The Long-billed Starthroat is marked by a long, straight bill and white markings on the cheek and tail tips. The Bolivian account describes it searching vegetation at different heights and darting after flying insects.

• Saturnine Antshrike Thamnomanes saturninus

  An antshrike with dark grey and black plumage in males and olive-brown plumage in females. It eats varied insects in South American lowland evergreen forest.

• Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner Automolus lammi

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in states of northeastern Brazil. It has white eyes and throat and coppery plumage, and searches among leaves and vines in forest interiors near streams.

• Jackson's Francolin Pternistis jacksoni

  Jackson's Francolin occurs in the highlands of western and central Kenya, using montane forest, moorland, and bamboo patches.

• 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.

• Fine-barred Piculet Picumnus subtilis

  This small woodpecker is recorded in southeastern Peru and western Amazonia. A 2009 paper reported records in Acre, Brazil, and described foraging at the edge of terra firme forest with bamboo.

• White-fronted Scops Owl Otus sagittatus

  The White-fronted Scops-owl ranges from southern Myanmar through Thailand to the Malay Peninsula. It has a white forehead and brows and uses forest understorey.

• Olivaceous Elaenia Elaenia mesoleuca

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, and northern Uruguay. It closely resembles E. parvirostris, and voice is reported as a useful clue where field separation is difficult.

• Angola Cave Chat Xenocopsychus ansorgei

  This flycatcher occurs in localized rocky mountains in Angola and Namibia. In Namibia, its range is restricted to the northern Zebra Mountains.

• Musk Duck Biziura lobata

  The Musk Duck occurs only in Australia. It dives in deep freshwater lakes and lagoons to search for food underwater.

• Red-headed Bullfinch Pyrrhula erythrocephala

  The Red-headed Bullfinch inhabits highland forests of the Himalayas. Males are orange-red from head to breast, while females are mainly yellow-green. It eats seeds in trees.

• Scarlet-browed Tanager Heterospingus xanthopygius

  This tanager occurs from Panama through Colombia to Ecuador. Males are mostly black with a white eyebrow and scarlet eyebrow tufts; the species uses humid lowland forest and its edges.

• Golden Parakeet Guaruba guarouba

  The Golden Parakeet has a bright yellow body and green flight feathers. It forages in flocks, and other flock members may help care for chicks.

• Rose-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus regina

  The Rose-crowned Fruit Dove has a pink crown and green back and feeds on fruit. It swallows fruit whole in the canopy, where it may be detected by its call or by fruit dropping below.

• Gurney's Eagle Aquila gurneyi

  Gurney's Eagle is a large forest eagle of New Guinea and nearby islands. Adults are dark brown and search for food on slow, low flights, usually alone or in pairs.

• Flame-throated Sunangel Heliangelus micraster

  The male hummingbird has a dark green body and a brilliant flame-orange throat. The species occurs in the Andes from southern Ecuador to northwestern Peru, visiting flowers in cloud forest and along forest edges.

• Black-tailed Antbird Myrmoborus melanurus

  This antbird forages in dense thickets and scrub along lowland Amazonian rivers. Males are dark, while females are rufous-brown above; both sexes have a white throat, pale wing bars, and red irises.