Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-browed Guan Penelope jacucaca

  

  This forest bird occurs in the Caatinga region of northeastern Brazil. Juveniles observed at one reserve had yellowish skin around the face and a yellowish throat.

• Apapane Himatione sanguinea

  The Apapane is a Hawaiian honeycreeper that uses nectar as a major food source and also takes insects. It visits ʻōhiʻa blossoms and moves through the canopy as it feeds.

• Yellow-lored Amazon Amazona xantholora

  The Yellow-lored Amazon is a green parrot whose adult male has a white forehead, yellow lores, and red around the eyes. The birds live in flocks and feed mostly in treetops.

• White-eared Hummingbird Basilinna leucotis

  This hummingbird lives in mountain forests from Nicaragua to northern Mexico. It has a white ear-stripe on a dark head; in bright light, an adult male's face appears violet and its throat gleams green.

• Acacia Tit Melaniparus thruppi

  This small tit inhabits dry savanna from Ethiopia and Somalia south to northeastern Tanzania. It is associated with acacia woodland and scrub.

• Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus

  A long-tailed cuckoo with a black bill that hides in woods and thickets while waiting for large insects.

• Hooded Antpitta Grallaricula cucullata

  The Hooded Antpitta is a small bird with a reddish-brown head and orange bill. It occurs in scattered, limited mountain forest areas of Colombia and Venezuela.

• Gray Honeyeater Conopophila whitei

  The Gray Honeyeater is an inconspicuous bird of arid inland Australia. It has also been observed spreading its wings while foraging.

• Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

  A large heron with a typical blue-gray plumage and long legs. It waits for prey near water and strikes quickly with its neck.

• Nicobar Scops Owl Otus alius

  This scops owl is from the Nicobar Islands. The original description is based on specimens from Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island. Reports describe coastal forest and prey found in specimens, but ecological information remains limited.

• Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus

  A long-winged tern with a pointed bill that catches small fish in shallow coastal waters.

• Orange-tufted Sunbird Cinnyris bouvieri

  The Orange-tufted Sunbird is an African nectar-feeding bird. A study in Cameroon’s Bamenda Highlands recorded it selecting flowers of a lobelia. A bird photographed in the Republic of the Congo was also reported as this species, but that identification was tentative.

• Ecuadorian Cacique Cacicus sclateri

  A black cacique recorded in the northwestern Amazon. Its blue iris and pale yellow bill stand out against its dark plumage.

• Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus

  The Eastern Towhee is a sparrow-sized bird of woodland undergrowth and thickets. Males are black and reddish-brown; females replace the black with brown, and their leaf-litter scratching is often heard.

• Grey-sided Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys swinhoei

  The Grey-sided Scimitar Babbler lives in forest and scrub in eastern and southeastern China. It probes near the ground for insects and plant matter. Its account gives a broad March–June breeding period for much of its range.

• Slaty-breasted Wood Rail Aramides saracura

  The Slaty-breasted Wood Rail has blue-gray plumage on its head, neck, and belly. It lives in forest wetlands and eats plants, insects, larvae, and frog eggs.

• Rufous-chested Dotterel Charadrius modestus

  This plover breeds in grasslands and wetlands at the southern tip of South America. Some move north along the Pacific coast outside the breeding season, while others remain in the south throughout the year.

• Rennell Shrikebill Clytorhynchus hamlini

  The Rennell Shrikebill lives in the Solomon Islands. It is about 19 cm long and searches for small invertebrates in forest understory.

• Henderson Petrel Pterodroma atrata

  This seabird breeds on Henderson Island in the South Pacific. It is grey-brown and paler below; a study placed nests on the island's interior plateau and tracked a breeding bird far out to sea.

• White-banded Swallow Atticora fasciata

  Adults have glossy blue-black plumage and a broad white breast band. They search for food over Amazonian rivers.

• Orange-crested Manakin Heterocercus aurantiivertex

  This manakin occurs in the Peruvian Amazon. Peru Aves describes it foraging in the midstory and understory of floodplain forest along blackwater rivers.

• Forest Raven Corvus tasmanicus

  The Forest Raven is a large corvid with black plumage and a white eye-ring. In Tasmania it is found from forests to coasts.

• Mountain Kingfisher Syma megarhyncha

  The Mountain Kingfisher is a large kingfisher of New Guinea's mountain forests. It has a longer bill than its close relative, although the black marking on the upper bill is absent in the Huon Peninsula subspecies.

• Dune Lark Calendulauda erythrochlamys

  The Dune Lark is treated as endemic to Namibia's Namib Desert and lives on sparsely vegetated dunes. Some taxonomies include a closely related lark within this species.