Meet the world’s animals.

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• Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona

  

  The Amazon Kingfisher has a green head and back and a long bill. It dives from a waterside perch to catch fish.

• Rusty-margined Guan Penelope superciliaris

  The Rusty-margined Guan lives in South American forests and scrub. In the Paraná forest of Argentina, pale feather edges make the adult breast look scaled.

• Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens

  The Brown Illadopsis is a brown-toned bird that searches for insects and other invertebrates in the forest undergrowth of western and central Africa. It is often seen in pairs or small family groups.

• Yellow-cheeked Tit Machlolophus spilonotus

  The yellow-cheeked tit is a small tit with yellow cheeks and a black crest. In Hong Kong, a population thought to derive from ex-captive birds has become established in mature woodland.

• Western Thornbill Acanthiza inornata

  The Western Thornbill is a small bird of southwestern Western Australia that searches for insects in the undergrowth. It has an olive-gray back and creamy-buff underparts.

• Blue-and-gold Tanager Bangsia arcaei

  This blue-and-yellow tanager lives in Costa Rican mountain forests. Adults have dark blue upperparts and bright yellow underparts, and use the canopy as well as shrubs at forest edges.

• Black-and-gold Cotinga Lipaugus ater

  The Black-and-gold Cotinga lives in mountain forests of southeastern Brazil and feeds in the canopy. Males are black with yellow patches on the wings.

• Yellow-footed Gull Larus livens

  The Yellow-footed Gull is a large gull that breeds on islands around the Gulf of California. Adults are marked by yellow legs, a gray back and wings, and a white body.

• Pied Triller Lalage nigra

  This triller lives in open woodland, including parks in Singapore. Males are black and white, females are gray and white, and it eats insects and small fruits.

• Azure-breasted Pitta Pitta steerii

  This pitta is conspicuous for its bright blue breast and red lower belly. It lives in lowland forest on a limited group of Philippine islands.

• Grey-headed Babbler Stachyris poliocephala

  The Grey-headed Babbler lives in forests from southern Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. It has a dark grey head with white lines and a chestnut body.

• Asian Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx maculatus

  A cuckoo whose males have glossy green plumage; it forages in the tree canopy for insects such as caterpillars and ants.

• Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus

  The Lanner Falcon hunts birds around rocky and open country. It uses long, pointed wings and a short tail to pursue prey in level flight.

• Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus

  An African woodpecker of dry scrub and wooded grassland. The male is marked by a red nape and a white eyebrow.

• Golden Monarch Carterornis chrysomela

  The Golden Monarch inhabits forests on New Guinea and surrounding islands. Males have an orange-yellow head, black throat with a white teardrop mark, and forage for small insects along forest edges.

• Green-backed Trogon Trogon viridis

  Males have a green back, black throat and chest, and yellow-orange belly; females have a gray head and back with a yellow belly. The nominate subspecies occurs from Amazonian Brazil through parts of eastern Brazil and areas east of the Andes.

• Asian Short-toed Lark Alaudala cheleensis

  The Asian Short-toed Lark is a small lark with streaks on its breast and back. It favors open, dry ground with sparse vegetation, and its appearance and range vary by region.

• Bannerman's Weaver Ploceus bannermani

  Bannerman's Weaver lives in mountains of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon, using forest edges and shrubby openings.

• Himalayan Owl Strix nivicolum

  The Himalayan Owl is a medium-sized owl of mountain forests from the Himalayas across East Asia. It has no ear tufts and a pale X-shaped mark across the face.

• Zimmer's Tapaculo Scytalopus zimmeri

  Zimmer's Tapaculo is a small ground-level bird of humid ravines and open woodland on the eastern Andes. A white throat and pale eyebrow stand out; it is usually alone or in pairs and is often heard before it is seen. This account is limited to southern Andean records in Bolivia and neighboring northwestern Argentina.

• Blacksmith Thrush Turdus subalaris

  The Blacksmith Thrush was recorded in Paraguay’s Atlantic Forest in October. A 2017 specimen account treated three birds under the older name Turdus nigriceps and assigned them to the eastern form subalaris.

• Rufous-naped Greenlet Hylophilus semibrunneus

  This small greenlet occurs in forests of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Its nape is rusty brown and its back is greenish.

• Slate-colored Antbird Myrmelastes schistaceus

  The Slate-colored Antbird forages in the understory of western Amazonian forest. Males are slaty grey with white dots forming wing bars; females are brown and rufous.

• Finsch's Bulbul Iole finschii

  Finsch's Bulbul has mainly olive-toned plumage. It uses the middle and upper forest and is seen in pairs or small groups searching for food.