Meet the world’s animals.

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• Northern Emerald-Toucanet Aulacorhynchus prasinus

  

  The Northern Emerald-Toucanet is a medium-sized green toucanet with cinnamon at the tail tips. Pairs and small groups move through the canopy of humid tropical hills and highlands.

• Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus

  

  The Plaintive Cuckoo is a small cuckoo with a gray head and breast and reddish underparts. It uses habitats from forest to parks, and brood parasitism on Ashy Tailorbirds is recorded in Singapore.

• Great Egret Ardea alba

  

  A large white heron with a long neck and legs, often moving slowly in deeper water.

• Sao Tome White-eye Zosterops feae

  

  The Sao Tome White-eye lives in forest and dense cover on Sao Tome Island. Its plumage description is limited to the island form formerly named as a subspecies.

• Amazonian Antpitta Myrmothera berlepschi

  

  The Amazonian Antpitta is a lowland-forest bird. In the Peru account, olive upperparts contrast with rusty sides of the head, breast and flanks.

• Chestnut-shouldered Bush-sparrow Gymnoris xanthocollis

  

  The Chestnut-shouldered Bush-sparrow is a small sparrow, about 12–14 cm long.

• Chuuk Flycatcher Myiagra oceanica

  The Chuuk Flycatcher is endemic to the Chuuk Islands in Micronesia. Males have a blue-gray brown crown and rufous breast; birds hunt insects from low perches around forest edges and gardens.

• Blyth's Kingfisher Alcedo hercules

  It is a kingfisher with a blue back, orange underparts, red eyes, and coral-colored legs. The Bangladesh account describes it fishing near streams.

• Barred Wren-Warbler Calamonastes fasciolatus

  This small bird lives in semi-arid savanna in southern Africa. Fine barring and pale cheeks help identify it, and it sings a high trill from a tree top.

• White-whiskered Hermit Phaethornis yaruqui

  This hummingbird feeds on nectar in humid foothill and montane forests and dense scrub.

• Javan Bulbul Ixos virescens

  The Javan Bulbul is a bulbul of Java's highland forests. Its long, slender bill and olive-colored back and wings are distinctive.

• Black-fronted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons

  The Black-fronted Bushshrike lives in mountain forests of eastern and southern Africa. Its underparts occur in several color forms, and it sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.

• Pearly-breasted Conebill Conirostrum margaritae

  This conebill occurs along major rivers in Loreto, northeastern Peru, where it is found in river-created woodland and islands.

• Rusty-crowned Ground Sparrow Melozone kieneri

  A ground-dwelling sparrow of western Mexico, occurring in dry scrub and open woodland.

• Black-crested Warbler Myiothlypis nigrocristata

  A warbler of humid montane forest in the northern Andes. It has an olive-yellow back, yellow underparts, and black across the forehead and crown.

• Andaman Flowerpecker Dicaeum virescens

  This small bird is endemic to the Andaman Islands. It has olive-green upperparts, pale underparts, and a yellow vent, and moves quickly around fruiting trees high in the canopy.

• Manchurian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus tangorum

  The Manchurian Reed Warbler breeds in northeastern China and the Russian Far East and migrates to Southeast Asia. A wintering study in Thailand found it mainly in mature reed beds.

• White-faced Nunbird Hapaloptila castanea

  It is about 23.5 cm long, with a grey-brown back and tail and rufous underparts. White feathers surround the base of its black bill, and it sits still on branches for long periods in Andean forest.

• Sichuan Hill Partridge Arborophila rufipectus

  The Sichuan Hill Partridge is a pheasant that lives in forests of southwestern China. Its white throat and russet breast patch help distinguish it from related hill-partridges.

• Mangrove Pitta Pitta megarhyncha

  This pitta walks on mangrove floors and searches for small prey with its long bill. Its crown is a uniform buff-brown.

• Sprague's Pipit Anthus spragueii

  Sprague's Pipit has subdued buff plumage that blends into grassland. On its North American breeding grounds, a male sings from the air above its territory, fluttering and gliding.

• Comb Duck Sarkidiornis sylvicola

  A large duck of tropical South America. It is black and white, with a finely speckled head and neck; the male has a large fleshy knob above the bill.

• Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri

  A North American tern of wetlands and coasts whose head pattern changes between breeding and nonbreeding plumage.

• Chestnut-winged Hookbill Ancistrops strigilatus

  This furnariid lives in forests of the Amazon Basin. It may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.