Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bornean Green Magpie Cissa jefferyi

  

  This magpie lives in Borneo's montane forests. Its light-green plumage, black eye-band, and reddish-chestnut wings stand out as it searches dense undergrowth for snails and insects.

• Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild

  A small African finch with a red bill and red around the eyes. It also occurs in grassy places near people.

• Great Dusky Swift Cypseloides senex

  A dark-brown swift, it catches insects above forests and uses rocky waterfalls for resting and breeding.

• Kadavu Honeyeater Meliphacator provocator

  A honeyeater from Kadavu Island, Fiji. The species account is headed Xanthotis provocator, an older combination, and notes its placement in Meliphacator under Clements.

• Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus

  The Southern Masked Weaver lives in open areas of southern Africa. Breeding males have a striking black face and yellow body, and the species eats seeds and other foods.

• Bates's Nightjar Caprimulgus batesi

  Bates's Nightjar is a forest bird of western and central Africa. Its dark mottled plumage blends into its surroundings, and it hunts insects in dim light.

• Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens

  The adult male has a green crown and a black band across the forehead. The species uses forest edges and clearings, farms, plantations and village gardens, feeding on nectar as well as small insects and fruit. Cameroon is one country listed in the profile's range.

• Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus

  This large parrot lives in South African mountain forests. It uses its large bill to crack the hard kernels of yellowwood fruit while they are still unripe.

• Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor

  The Swift Parrot has a green body and a striking red face. It breeds in Tasmania and moves to mainland Australia in search of flowering trees.

• Plumbeous Pigeon Patagioenas plumbea

  The Plumbeous Pigeon's plumage ranges from gray to brown among subspecies. In Peru it is often found in the canopy and subcanopy of mature Amazonian forest.

• Yucatan Wren Campylorhynchus yucatanicus

  The Yucatan Wren is restricted to coastal lowlands in the northern Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. It lives in pairs or small family groups among scattered shrubs and cacti.

• White-winged Swallow Tachycineta albiventer

  The White-winged Swallow has a glossy blue-green back, white underside, and conspicuous white wing patch. It pursues prey low over water or land.

• Javan Scops Owl Otus angelinae

  This small owl is endemic to Java. It has black streaks on its brown chest and rests or forages near the forest canopy.

• Slaty-breasted Wood Rail Aramides saracura

  The Slaty-breasted Wood Rail has blue-gray plumage on its head, neck, and belly. It lives in forest wetlands and eats plants, insects, larvae, and frog eggs.

• Planalto Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus pelzelni

  The Planalto Slaty Antshrike is an antbird of the lower forest layers in Brazil. A 2015 record from Sergipe described a nest at a forest edge where both sexes incubated and fed the chick.

• Timor Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus presbytes

  The Timor Leaf Warbler is a small warbler recorded on Timor and Flores. It uses forest edges and montane woodland on Flores, and lowland scrub on Timor.

• Ashy Tit Melaniparus cinerascens

  A gray tit with a black-and-white head pattern and black bib. Pairs and small groups forage for insects in arid savanna and other woodland.

• Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala

  Swinhoe's Snipe is a shorebird that moves between wetlands with the seasons. Its long bill and mottled plumage help it blend into grass and mud.

• Southern Whiteface Aphelocephala leucopsis

  A small bird of southern mainland Australia. It forms small foraging groups in open woodland and shrubland, searching the ground for insects, spiders, and seeds.

• 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.

• Black-bodied Woodpecker Dryocopus schulzii

  An Argentine biodiversity page records the species in open woodland and savanna. It describes the male with a red crest, a pale throat, and a mostly black body.

• Bay-breasted Cuckoo Coccyzus rufigularis

  The Bay-breasted Cuckoo has a gray back and rusty throat and breast. It searches for small animals in forests from lowlands to mountains on Hispaniola.

• Pacific Reef Heron Egretta sacra

  A heron that feeds along rocky shores and estuaries. It occurs in dark gray and white plumage forms and lives along coasts.

• Papuan White-eye Zosterops novaeguineae

  In nominate-race specimens, the upperparts are yellowish green, the breast and flanks pale gray, and the throat and undertail yellow. The species is recorded from lowland second growth and farmland to mountain forest on New Guinea.