Meet the world’s animals.

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• Arabian Wheatear Oenanthe lugentoides

  

  This wheatear has a white crown and a black facial mask that extends onto the wings. It is resident in the deserts and rocky hills of southern Arabia, where it feeds mainly on fruit and insects.

• White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis

  The White-headed Vulture has a white head and bare red face. It uses treed savanna and feeds mainly on carrion.

• Cipo Canastero Asthenes luizae

  This canastero is endemic to the Espinhaço Range in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. It is restricted to rocky campos rupestres, where researchers have studied scattered populations.

• Goeldi's Antbird Akletos goeldii

  Goeldi's Antbird occurs in Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. Males are black; females are rufous-brown with a grey head and white throat.

• Blaze-winged Parakeet Pyrrhura devillei

  Adult Blaze-winged Parakeets are mostly green, with a gray-brown crown and red feathers at the bend of the wing. Wild birds eat fruit and other plant foods, including seeds, nuts, and flowers.

• Capped Seedeater Sporophila bouvreuil

  This seedeater occurs in South America. A plumage study separates reddish-brown males as Sporophila bouvreuil and grey-to-white males as the distinct S. pileata.

• Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot Loriculus galgulus

  The Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot is a small parrot of Southeast Asian forests. The sexes differ in their blue and red head markings, and the bird may rest hanging upside down from a branch.

• Brown Violet-ear Colibri delphinae

  This hummingbird has a brown body and iridescent blue-violet feathers near the ears. Trinidad holds an isolated population within the species' wider range.

• Common Hill Partridge Arborophila torqueola

  The Common Hill Partridge is a pheasant relative of forests around the Himalayas. Males have an orange head and dark chest markings, and small groups search the forest floor for food.

• Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus

  The Tropical Kingbird has a long, forked tail. It perches in open woodland or near water and catches insects.

• Red Shoveler Spatula platalea

  The Red Shoveler filters small animals and plants from the water with its broad, flattened bill. Males are reddish brown; females and young birds are mottled brown.

• Plain Pigeon Patagioenas inornata

  This large pigeon lives on Caribbean islands. It uses forests, wetlands, and other habitats, which differ from island to island.

• Pallid Scops Owl Otus brucei

  The Pallid Scops Owl is a small owl of dry regions. A winter study in southern Israel recorded individuals roosting in acacias growing in desert washes.

• Striped Woodpecker Veniliornis lignarius

  A bark-foraging woodpecker recorded in Argentina’s montane forests and forest edges in the regional account.

• Corsican Finch Carduelis corsicana

  A small finch endemic to Corsica and Sardinia. Males have a brighter yellow face and breast than females, with a streaky brown back.

• Ultramarine Flycatcher Ficedula superciliaris

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

• Mountain Buzzard Buteo oreophilus

  A raptor of East African highlands, it searches for prey while gliding above wooded slopes.

• Black-throated Thistletail Asthenes harterti

  This thistletail occurs along upper Yungas forest edges and in bamboo scrub near the treeline in Bolivia.

• Mouse-colored Antshrike Thamnophilus murinus

  An antshrike that often forages with mixed-species flocks in the middle levels of Amazonian evergreen forest.

• Cliff Parakeet Myiopsitta luchsi

  This parakeet lives in the dry inter-Andean valleys of central Bolivia. It moves in flocks and builds large stick nests on cliff faces.

• Nicaraguan Seed Finch Sporophila nuttingi

  This finch is recorded in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. It uses grassland near shallow water or secondary forest and feeds mainly on grass seeds.

• Emerald-collared Parakeet Psittacula calthrapae

  Layard's Parakeet is endemic to Sri Lanka and uses moist forest, tea plantations, gardens, and forest edges.

• Sparkling-tailed Hummingbird Tilmatura dupontii

  This tiny hummingbird is about 9–10 cm long. Males have a blue-violet throat and long forked tail; females have a shorter tail and cinnamon underparts. It visits flowers in Mexican highlands.

• Rock Bush Quail Perdicula argoondah

  The Rock Bush Quail is a small quail of dry scrub in the western Indian subcontinent. It forages in small groups and may take dust baths.