Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mindanao Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba crinigera

  

  A Philippine forest pigeon with a striking red breast that searches for food on the ground.

• Arabian Waxbill Estrilda rufibarba

  The Arabian Waxbill is a small bird with a noticeable red eyebrow. It feeds on grass seeds by day and is recorded in vegetated highlands near water in Saudi Arabia.

• Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus

  A wader with an upturned bill and orange legs. It breeds across northern Eurasia and moves to coastal areas of Africa and southern Asia outside the breeding season.

• Barrow’s Goldeneye Bucephala islandica

  This diving duck has an adult male with a purplish head and long white crescent, while females have brown heads.

• Jamaican Blackbird Nesopsar nigerrimus

  This bird is endemic to Jamaica. Its black plumage has a blue gloss on the head and back. In montane forest with many epiphytes, it uses its long bill to search for food.

• Germain's Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron germaini

  Germain's Peacock-Pheasant is a pheasant of forests in southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. Males have blue-green ocelli on their plumage and forage on the forest floor.

• Yellow-crested Woodpecker Chloropicus xantholophus

  This woodpecker lives in lowland forests of western and central Africa. Its blackish crown has white specks and broad yellow tips, and it searches large trees for insects.

• Purple-naped Lory Lorius domicella

  The Purple-naped Lory has a red body, black and purple head, and green wings.

• Pale-billed Hornbill Lophoceros pallidirostris

  The Pale-billed Hornbill has sex-specific bill and casque colors and searches for food among trees.

• Suiriri Flycatcher Suiriri suiriri

  A flycatcher of dry savanna and open woodland in South America. A gray head, olive-brown back, and two gray wingbars help identify it.

• Tahiti Reed Warbler Acrocephalus caffer

  This reed warbler occurs in French Polynesia. Most birds are pale yellow with mottling above, while a dark olive-brown morph also occurs. It uses bamboo thickets and second-growth forest and eats insects and other small animals as well as nectar.

• Rufous-bellied Swallow Cecropis badia

  A swallow with rich rufous, unstreaked underparts that uses open habitats such as grassland and feeds on invertebrates.

• Yellow-bellied Dacnis Dacnis flaviventer

  This dacnis occurs in Amazonian rainforest near rivers and in wetlands. Males have a yellow belly and red eye; females are olive-brown above.

• Shelley's Greenbul Arizelocichla masukuensis

  A study in Ndundulu Forest, Tanzania, recorded seasonal changes in the feeding observations of Shelley's Greenbul. An older description of the nominate form has a green crown close in color to the back and pale yellowish-olive underparts.

• Red-headed Trogon Harpactes erythrocephalus

  In the Vietnamese adult description, the male’s head and breast are dark red, while the female’s are olive-brown. A study in Thailand found it nesting in cavities in rotting wood.

• Varied Triller Lalage leucomela

  It occurs in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago. It feeds on insects and fruit along edges between open and closed forest and in riparian woodland.

• 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.

• Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens

  The Crested Guan is a large bird with a prominent crest. A Belize Zoo guide describes it in Belizean forests and as an arboreal species.

• Yellow-throated Fulvetta Schoeniparus cinereus

  This babbler lives in evergreen broadleaf forest in southeastern Tibet and western Yunnan, China. Yellow eyebrow markings and yellow underparts stand out against its olive upperparts.

• Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis

  The male Eastern Bluebird has a blue back and rusty chest and searches for insects in open grassland.

• White-crowned Wheatear Oenanthe leucopyga

  The White-crowned Wheatear is a black-and-white desert bird that watches for prey from a perch before dropping to the ground.

• Cape Longclaw Macronyx capensis

  The adult has an orange throat and a black band across the upper breast. In Southern African grasslands it searches on the ground and among low vegetation for food.

• Eurasian tree sparrow Passer montanus

  A small bird that nests in gaps in roofs and walls. In Japan it is closely associated with settlements and can be recognized by black cheek patches.

• Pallid Spinetail Cranioleuca pallida

  This spinetail is endemic to Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Its reported range extends from Bahia to northeastern Paraná, and it moves in pairs in the canopy.