Meet the world’s animals.

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• Thick-billed Parrot Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha

  

  The thick-billed parrot is a green parrot of high-elevation pine forests. It travels in flocks and eats pine seeds.

• Orange-billed Lorikeet Neopsittacus pullicauda

  This small lorikeet lives in New Guinea's mountain forests. It feeds on nectar, pollen, and fruit, and its head and belly colors vary somewhat by subspecies.

• Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos

  The Emerald-spotted Wood Dove is a small, rounded dove with glossy green spots across its wings. It occurs in eastern and southern Africa.

• Rufous Wren Cinnycerthia unirufa

  The Rufous Wren lives in humid montane forest in the northern Andes. It is rich rufous with black lores and faintly barred wings and tail, usually moving in pairs or family groups.

• Golden Swallow Tachycineta euchrysea

  The Golden Swallow has bronzy to golden iridescence on its upperparts. This entry focuses on the Hispaniolan subspecies, which has been studied in the field and during breeding.

• Northern Hawk Owl Surnia ulula

  A long-tailed owl with a white face bordered in black. It lives in northern forests and hunts from treetops during the day.

• White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus

  The White-breasted Waterhen also lives around freshwater wetlands and park waters in Singapore. Adults have a white face and breast against a dark body.

• Grey-bellied Antbird Ammonastes pelzelni

  This antbird is documented at Mitú, Colombia. The male has a black chest; the female lacks it. A field report found two birds in the understory of white-sand forest there.

• Gansu Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus kansuensis

  This small leaf-warbler breeds in western China. Its breeding forest and pale facial and crown stripes help describe it.

• Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus

  A sandpiper with dark upperparts and a white rump, seen mainly on passage and in winter in lowland wetlands in Hong Kong.

• Pied Harrier Circus melanoleucos

  The Pied Harrier has strongly different male and female plumage and flies low over open grassland to search for prey.

• Rufous Woodpecker Micropternus brachyurus

  A rufous-brown woodpecker whose male has red on the face; it forages at ant nests in forest.

• Sirkeer Malkoha Taccocua leschenaultii

  This cuckoo has rufous-brown, finely streaked plumage and a long white-tipped tail. The museum account describes the Indian nominate subspecies walking and feeding on the ground in dry scrub.

• Fiji White-eye Zosterops explorator

  A small white-eye found in Fijian forest, forest edges, shrubland and farmland. It is also recorded in mountains above 750 m.

• Black-winged Monarch Monarcha frater

  This monarch uses forests in New Guinea and far northeastern Australia. In the nominate New Guinea subspecies, the area around the eye is gray. Migration is reported only for the Australian subspecies.

• Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus

  The Sacred Kingfisher lives in Australian forests and wooded edges. Many birds that breed in the south move north for winter.

• Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps

  This small bird occurs in western and central Africa. It uses lowland and second-growth forest as well as village trees, and feeds on insects, berries, and seeds.

• Crimson Topaz Topaza pella

  A brightly colored large hummingbird of lowland rainforest in northern Amazonia and the Guianan Shield.

• Himalayan Bulbul Pycnonotus leucogenys

  The Himalayan Bulbul is a bulbul with a black face and throat set off by a white cheek patch. It uses foothill woodland, scrub, gardens, and towns.

• Crimson-fronted Cardinal Paroaria baeri

  This cardinal occurs along Brazil's Araguaia River and tributaries. It forms small flocks along lake margins and slow-flowing rivers.

• Five-striped Sparrow Amphispizopsis quinquestriata

  The Five-striped Sparrow lives on dry hillsides with dense thorny vegetation in northwestern Mexico and southeastern Arizona. Its black breast spot and striped head and throat are distinctive.

• Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla

  It breeds in forests and thickets across Canada and the western United States, then winters in Mexico and Central America. It searches for insects on low leaves and branches.

• Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus

  The Yellow-necked Spurfowl lives in eastern African scrub and bushed grassland, often near water. Males have sharp spurs behind the legs and forage on foot along the ground.

• Blyth's Pipit Anthus godlewskii

  Blyth's Pipit migrates and uses rocky hills, grassland, and open marshy ground. It searches the ground for small invertebrates.