Meet the world’s animals.

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• Geelvink Pygmy Parrot Micropsitta geelvinkiana

  

  The Geelvink Pygmy Parrot is a small parrot from Biak, Supiori, and Numfor off Papua. It uses forests and nests in arboreal termite nests.

• Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina

  The Hooded Warbler is a small bird of low vegetation in eastern North American forests. Breeding males have a black hood.

• Jungle Sparrow Passer pyrrhonotus

  The Sind Sparrow is a small sparrow of rivers and wetlands. The male has a chestnut eye-stripe, and the birds gather in reedy scrub.

• Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra

  The Sooty Chat is a chat whose male has black plumage and a white wing patch. Females and juveniles are brown, and the species forages on the ground in grassland.

• Rufous-necked Wood Rail Aramides axillaris

  The rufous-necked wood rail has rich rufous plumage, olive-brown upperparts, and a gray patch on the upper back. In northwestern Peru it is fairly common in mangroves.

• Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis

  This bushshrike has a pale eyebrow and rufous wings. It searches for insects near the ground in scrub and open woodland.

• Two-banded Puffbird Hypnelus bicinctus

  This large-headed puffbird occurs in Colombia and Venezuela. A white eye mask extends onto the neck, and two dark bands cross the chest.

• Meadow bunting Emberiza cioides

  A bird of woodland edges, fields, riverbanks and other partly open habitats. It forages in grass and sings from exposed treetops.

• Long-billed Sunbird Cinnyris lotenius

  The Long-billed Sunbird is a small sunbird with a long, downcurved bill. It occurs in farmland, moist forest, and scrub in India and Sri Lanka.

• Spotted Antpitta Hylopezus macularius

  A ground-dwelling antpitta of humid Amazonian forest. This account follows the populations assigned to Hylopezus macularius in the taxonomic revision.

• Short-tailed shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris

  A dark seabird that breeds in Australia and makes long ocean journeys.

• Rufous-fronted Prinia Prinia buchanani

  The Rufous-fronted Prinia is a small bird of dry grassland and scrub. A 2005 field note from Dive Ghat in Maharashtra, western India, recorded birds singing from low bushes.

• Philippine Spine-tailed Swift Mearnsia picina

  This Philippine spinetail has long wings and a short tail. It catches insects while flying above forest.

• 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.

• Duetting Giant-Honeyeater Gymnomyza brunneirostris

  The Duetting Giant-Honeyeater is endemic to Viti Levu, Fiji. It inhabits rainforest and feeds on nectar, insects, and caterpillars.

• Brown Songlark Megalurus cruralis

  This bird occurs widely across mainland Australia in open country such as pastures, short crops, and grassy scrub. Males are larger than females and sing during display flights. The Australian Museum page uses the scientific name Cincloramphus cruralis.

• Great Bustard Otis tarda

  The Great Bustard is a large bird of open grassland and farmland. Males and females differ in plumage and display.

• Knysna Turaco Tauraco corythaix

  The Knysna Turaco is an arboreal bird of southern African forests. It moves through the canopy while feeding on fruit.

• Antillean Siskin Spinus dominicensis

  This small finch has strongly different male and female plumage. Males are conspicuously yellow, while females are mainly green. It lives in the mountains of Hispaniola.

• White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis

  The White-bellied Heron is a large waterbird with a long neck and legs. In Bhutan, it occurs in temperate and mixed broadleaf forests in three major river basins.

• White-cheeked Nuthatch Sitta leucopsis

  This nuthatch has a black crown and nape that contrast with its white face. It is resident in the conifer forests of Gilgit-Baltistan.

• New Caledonian Crow Corvus moneduloides

  A crow of Grande Terre in New Caledonia that uses tools to extract food from dead wood.

• Marvelous Spatuletail Loddigesia mirabilis

  The Marvelous Spatuletail is a hummingbird whose male has racket-shaped ornaments at the ends of its tail feathers. It visits flowers for nectar, and males use the tail in courtship.

• Blue-banded Toucanet Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis

  This green toucanet has a blue breast band and a chestnut-red rump. It forages for fruit and other food in humid mountain forest on the eastern Andes.