Meet the world’s animals.

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• Torresian Imperial Pigeon Ducula spilorrhoa

  

  A large pigeon with a white body and black wing tips. It feeds on fruit while moving among islands and coastal forests.

• Fulvous Wren Cinnycerthia fulva

  The Fulvous Wren occurs in the eastern Andes of southeastern Peru and Bolivia. It is olive-rufous, with a pale eyebrow and throat and dark bars on the wings and tail.

• Pacific Antwren Myrmotherula pacifica

  The Pacific Antwren is a small bird with different male and female plumage. It occurs on the Pacific side of Central America and north-western South America, using vine-rich forest.

• Slender-billed Finch Xenospingus concolor

  It occurs in arid regions from central Peru to northern Chile, including riparian woodland and scrub near coastal wetlands.

• Crow Honeyeater Gymnomyza aubryana

  This honeyeater has a black body, yellow-orange bare skin around the eye, and a long, curved, two-coloured bill. It feeds on nectar and insects in dense forests in southern New Caledonia.

• Wallacean Cuckooshrike Coracina personata

  The Wallacean Cuckooshrike occurs widely across the Lesser Sundas and Kai Islands. A survey on Alor and Pantar recorded birds in eucalyptus woodland and tropical forest, alone or in small groups.

• Golden Vireo Vireo hypochryseus

  This small vireo is endemic to Mexico. Adults are mainly olive and yellow, with a yellow line above the eye.

• Yellow-wattled Bulbul Poliolophus urostictus

  This Philippine bulbul forages for fruit along forest edges and in young woodland.

• Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner Dendroma erythroptera

  This ovenbird forages in the mid-story and below the canopy of Amazonian forest. Its gray-brown head and back contrast with chestnut wings and tail.

• Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica

  The Hudsonian Godwit has long legs and a long, slightly upturned bill. It is reddish in breeding plumage and gray-brown outside the breeding season.

• Himalayan Vulture Gyps himalayensis

  A large vulture of high Central Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau, it searches from the air for large-mammal carcasses.

• Rufous-bellied Niltava Niltava sundara

  The male Rufous-bellied Niltava has a blue crown, face, throat, and back with sandy-brown underparts. It lives in forest bushes and undergrowth and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Amethyst-throated Hummingbird Lampornis amethystinus

  This hummingbird inhabits forests from Mexico into northern Central America. Adults have a blue-violet throat and feed among flowers in the lower and middle parts of the forest.

• Cinnamon-bellied Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola capistratus

  The Cinnamon-bellied Ground Tyrant is a ground-dwelling flycatcher that spends the summer in northwestern Patagonia and uses Andean foothills and steppe wetlands.

• Alexandrine Parakeet Psittacula eupatria

  The Alexandrine Parakeet is a large parakeet native to parts of South and Southeast Asia, including wooded and cultivated areas.

• Mourning Babbler Pellorneum malaccense

  The Mourning Babbler occurs in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and nearby islands. At Krau in Pahang, a study often recorded it taking food from aerial dead leaves at heights above ground up to 2 m.

• Golden-olive Woodpecker Colaptes rubiginosus

  This woodpecker ranges from southern Mexico through Central America into northwestern South America and the Andes. It has olive plumage with fine bars, and males show a red facial stripe.

• 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.

• Indian White-eye Zosterops palpebrosus

  The Indian White-eye is a small bird with a clear white ring around each eye. It forages in small groups among trees for insects, nectar and fruit.

• Arabian Partridge Alectoris melanocephala

  The Arabian Partridge is native to the Arabian Peninsula and has been reported around Abha and Tanomah in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

• Helmeted Hornbill Rhinoplax vigil

  The Helmeted Hornbill is a large hornbill of Sundaic rainforest. Its casque is solid, and it feeds heavily on fruit such as figs.

• Cook Reed Warbler Acrocephalus kerearako

  The Cook Reed Warbler is an island reed warbler of the Cook Islands. Bell’s comparative study covers populations on Mangaia and Mitiaro and records the species beside lakes, ponds, and rivers.

• Stripe-headed Sparrow Peucaea ruficauda

  This sparrow occurs from Mexico through Central America. Dry shrubland is its main habitat, with additional records from grassland, pasture, farmland, and woodland.

• Yellow-breasted Antpitta Grallaria flavotincta

  This antpitta inhabits wet mountain forests on the western Andes. Its head and back are chestnut, its underparts are cream, and the area between the eye and bill is grey. Records extend from western Colombia to north-western Ecuador.