Meet the world’s animals.

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• Fire-eyed Diucon Pyrope pyrope

  

  The Fire-eyed Diucon is a grey flycatcher with a red iris. In northwestern Patagonia, it uses humid forest edges, clearings and urban green spaces while catching insects.

• Chatham Islands Parakeet Cyanoramphus forbesi

  Forbes' parakeet is a green parrot with a bright yellow forecrown and a red frontal band that stops before the eye. It is currently restricted to dense vegetation on Mangere and Little Mangere Islands.

• Short-tailed Scimitar Babbler Napothera danjoui

  This babbler occurs in evergreen forest in Vietnam and southern Laos. It searches for invertebrates on or just above the ground in dense cover.

• Red-breasted Sapsucker Sphyrapicus ruber

  This woodpecker has a scarlet head and a black-and-white checkerboard back. It drills rows of shallow sap wells in trees and occurs in forests of the Sierra Nevada and Pacific Coast.

• New Guinea Thornbill Acanthiza murina

  This small bird is about 10 cm long and weighs around 8 g. It lives in New Guinea moss forest in mountains above 2,150 m and searches for small invertebrates in trees.

• Mauritius Grey White-eye Zosterops mauritianus

  This white-eye lives on Mauritius in habitats including forest and gardens. A government species account describes gray-brown plumage, dark legs, and a diet of insects, nectar, and small fruit.

• Tibetan Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon harmani

  A pheasant found in southeastern Tibet and one locality in northeastern India. Its blue-gray plumage, white throat band and long, drooping tail are distinctive.

• Eastern Yellow-bellied Hornbill Tockus flavirostris

  The Eastern Yellow-bellied Hornbill lives in eastern African savannas and open woodlands. Its large yellow bill is topped by a casque.

• Blyth's Reed Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum

  Blyth's Reed Warbler is a small reed warbler that lives among grasses and shrubs. It breeds across northern Eurasia and migrates to South Asia for winter.

• Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida

  Clay-colored Sparrows are small and slim, with a broad pale eyebrow, pale mustache, and gray collar. They breed in low northern prairie shrublands and winter in drier grasslands and upland scrub.

• Jocotoco Antpitta Grallaria ridgelyi

  This ground-dwelling antpitta inhabits wet, mossy montane forest in southern Ecuador. It has a white cheek patch and black crown, and known records are from a limited mountain area.

• Standardwing Semioptera wallacii

  A male Standardwing spreads its wings, raises its long shoulder plumes, and opens the ornamental shields on its chest. This account is limited to Alfred Russel Wallace's historical observations recorded in 1859.

• Philippine Swiftlet Aerodramus mearnsi

  The Philippine Swiftlet is a small swiftlet found in the mountains of the Philippines. It has a shallowly forked tail and is often seen in flocks.

• 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.

• Eastern Jungle Crow Corvus levaillantii

  Corvus levaillantii is a crow reported from South Asia and parts of Southeast Asia. The Bangladesh species assessment records it widely across that country, from woodland to towns.

• Rufous Piha Lipaugus unirufus

  The Rufous Piha is a uniformly rufous bird. It perches in trees in tropical lowland evergreen forest and may remain still for long periods.

• Beijing Babbler Rhopophilus pekinensis

  The Beijing Babbler is a resident of northern China and North Korea. It has a long tail, a streaked grey-brown back, a white throat, and rusty flanks.

• Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus

  The Pyrrhuloxia lives in dry scrub from the southwestern United States into northern Mexico. Its reddish plumage and stout bill are distinctive, and it searches the ground for seeds and cactus fruit.

• Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus

  This sparrow is marked by its grey head and white throat, and occurs in the grasslands, farmland, and settled areas of western and central Africa.

• Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus

  A pipit whose adult breeding plumage has a rusty-red throat and breast. It breeds on northern tundra and moves south seasonally.

• Rufous-rumped Lark Pinarocorys erythropygia

  This lark of tropical Africa lives in open, often dry country and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• Wagler's Toucanet Aulacorhynchus wagleri

  This toucanet occurs in Mexico. Its yellowish-white forehead meets an olive crown, and the underparts are pale blue-green. Species accounts report fruit eating in montane forest and related wooded habitats.

• Stork-billed Kingfisher Pelargopsis capensis

  The Stork-billed Kingfisher is a large kingfisher with a huge red bill, blue upperparts, and orange-yellow underparts. It watches for prey from waterside perches.

• Clapper Rail Rallus crepitans

  The Clapper Rail is a large rail of salt marshes and mangroves in eastern North America, the Caribbean, and northeastern Central America. Its chestnut-and-gray body stays hidden among marsh grasses as it searches along mudflat edges.