Meet the world’s animals.

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• Princess Parrot Polytelis alexandrae

  

  The Princess Parrot occurs in central and western Australia. Males are notable for a blue crown and pink throat.

• Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia

  Bruce's Green Pigeon is a daytime fruit-eating pigeon of Afrotropical woodland, savanna, and riverine forest.

• Twelve-wired Bird-of-paradise Seleucidis melanoleucus

  The male has a black head and body, yellow underside, and wire-like flank plumes. It lives in lowland swamp forest and eats fruit and small animals.

• Purple-gaped Honeyeater Lichenostomus cratitius

  A honeyeater of mallee heath in southern Australia. It feeds mainly on nectar, but also takes insects.

• Jouanin's Petrel Bulweria fallax

  Jouanin's Petrel is a sooty-brown seabird of the northwestern Indian Ocean. It visits breeding sites at night and nests on the coastal cliffs of Socotra Island.

• Scarlet-rumped Cacique Cacicus microrhynchus

  This black cacique has a red lower back and rump. It inhabits lowlands from Central America to western Ecuador.

• 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.

• Saxaul Sparrow Passer ammodendri

  The saxaul sparrow uses desert saxaul groves and wooded areas near water. A Kazakhstan regional account lists seeds and insects as foods.

• Crested Barbet Trachyphonus vaillantii

  This barbet lives in woodlands and savannas of southern Africa. Its crest and red, yellow, and black markings stand out, and both sexes dig nest cavities.

• Plumed Egret Ardea plumifera

  A medium-sized all-white egret of Australasia. It grows long breeding plumes on breast and shoulders and forages in shallow freshwater for fish, frogs and insects.

• Silvery-cheeked hornbill Bycanistes brevis

  A forest bird with silvery facial feathers and a large bill.

• Grey-hooded Fulvetta Fulvetta cinereiceps

  The Grey-hooded Fulvetta searches for insects in the undergrowth of Chinese mountain forests and bamboo thickets, usually in small flocks. Under the current species treatment, it occurs in China.

• Rusty-bellied Shortwing Brachypteryx hyperythra

  This shortwing has strongly different plumage in males and females. It lives in damp forest and dense undergrowth in the eastern Himalayas.

• Buffy Pipit Anthus vaalensis

  The Buffy Pipit lives in open grassland and searches the ground for insects and seeds. It occurs widely across southern Africa.

• Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon

  A crested kingfisher with a large bill that watches for fish from a perch beside the water.

• Black Guan Chamaepetes unicolor

  The Black Guan is a large highland bird found from Costa Rica to western Panama. Its black plumage, red eye, and blue bare skin around the face are distinctive.

• Temminck's Babbler Pellorneum pyrrogenys

  Temminck’s Babbler is a plain rufous-brown bird that stays low on the forest floor. It searches leaf litter for insects and other small invertebrates and has a loud, far-carrying song.

• Black-crested Titmouse Baeolophus atricristatus

  The Black-crested Titmouse is a gray songbird with a bold black crest. It searches bark and branches for insects and seeds, and may join small flocks outside the breeding season.

• Slaty-backed Thornbill Acanthiza robustirostris

  This small bird has a gray head, dark gray tail, and cinnamon rump. It lives in Australia's dry inland scrub and builds a globular nest from grass stems and spider web.

• Red-capped Cardinal Paroaria gularis

  The Red-capped Cardinal ranges from southeastern Colombia through Venezuela and the Guianas to Peru, Amazonian Brazil and northern Bolivia. It uses wetlands and waterside habitats and forages on the ground.

• Red-ruffed Fruitcrow Pyroderus scutatus

  This large cotinga inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peruvian account describes it moving alone in the canopy.

• Black Tern Chlidonias niger

  The North American subspecies of Black Tern flies over freshwater wetlands during breeding and catches small fish and insects.

• Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus

  The Ashy Minivet breeds in East Asia and winters in Southeast Asia and nearby regions. In Hong Kong, spring passage is recorded more often than autumn passage.

• Elegant Pitta Pitta elegans

  The Elegant Pitta is notable for its blue rump and cinnamon-colored underparts. It occurs on islands from the Lesser Sundas to the Moluccas and eats beetles and small snails.