Meet the world’s animals.

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• Dusky Pigeon Patagioenas goodsoni

  

  This medium-sized pigeon has gray to brown plumage with white wing marks. In Colombian Andean forests it forages for fruit and seeds in the canopy.

• Pale-headed Munia Lonchura pallida

  The Pale-headed Munia has a pale head that contrasts with its darker body. It occurs in the lowlands of eastern Indonesia, including dry scrub, grassland, marshes, and farmland.

• Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata

  A snipe of North American wetlands. It probes wet soil with its long bill for insect larvae, worms, and other small prey.

• Hawaiian Duck Anas wyvilliana

  The Hawaiian Duck is a brown-speckled native duck of Hawaiʻi. It forages in shallow freshwater wetlands; this description excludes birds hybridized with Mallards.

• 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.

• Chinese Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola thoracicus

  A rounded partridge with a short tail that lives in thickets and grassy places.

• Red-rumped Woodpecker Veniliornis kirkii

  The Red-rumped Woodpecker is marked by a red rump. A Peru species account reports a red crown in males and no red crown in females.

• Chattering Lory Lorius garrulus

  The Chattering Lory has a red body and green wings. In Indonesia's North Maluku Islands, it lives in lowland and secondary forest.

• Hemprich's Hornbill Lophoceros hemprichii

  A dark-brown hornbill with a white belly; the male’s large red bill is distinctive. It uses wooded, semi-arid country and river corridors in East Africa.

• Cliff Flycatcher Hirundinea ferruginea

  The Cliff Flycatcher is marked by deep rufous underparts and extensive rufous on the wings and tail. From exposed rocky perches it sallies after flying insects, often returning to the same perch.

• Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

  A large reed warbler that lives in wetlands. In Britain, its loud song can help observers find birds arriving during spring passage.

• Chilean Swallow Tachycineta leucopyga

  The Chilean Swallow is a small swallow with a metallic blue back, white underparts, and a forked tail. It breeds in Chile and moves north for the winter.

• Glistening-green Tanager Chlorochrysa phoenicotis

  A tanager of humid montane forests in Colombia and Ecuador. Males are vivid green; females are duller.

• Grey-eyed Bulbul Iole propinqua

  Its grey-to-white eye with a dark rim is conspicuous. It feeds mainly on fruit and insects, foraging in forest canopies and mid-storeys.

• White-winged Cuckooshrike Coracina ostenta

  It lives in forests of the Western Visayas in the Philippines and forms small groups in the canopy or at forest edges. A large white wing patch is its field mark.

• White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis

  The White-necked Raven is a large corvid of African highlands. Its broad diet includes animal matter and carrion.

• Speckled Chachalaca Ortalis guttata

  The Speckled Chachalaca has reddish-brown plumage with pale spots on the front of its neck and chest. It eats fruit and uses both trees and the ground.

• Rufous-winged Fulvetta Schoeniparus castaneceps

  This fulvetta ranges from the Himalayas to southern China and northern Indochina. It has a chestnut crown and pale eyebrow, and searches the forest understorey for insects.

• Rufous-brown Solitaire Cichlopsis leucogenys

  This thrush has a disjunct range from northern South America through Peru to Brazil. In Peru it inhabits premontane forest and was recorded at Megantoni, Cusco, in 2022. Its body is ochraceous-brown, with a yellow bill, eye-ring, and legs.

• Western Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica

  In breeding plumage, an adult male has a black facial mask, a white throat, and pale ochre upperparts. It searches for insects in dry open country and visits Europe in summer.

• Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis

  The Long-billed Pipit is brown above and pale buff below. In Namibia it is usually seen alone or in pairs among gullies and rocky slopes.

• Kenya Sparrow Passer rufocinctus

  The male Kenya Sparrow has blue-gray and chestnut plumage on the head and back, while the female is much duller. It feeds on grain and small seeds, mainly on the ground.

• Chestnut-rumped Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus pardalotus

  A woodcreeper of northern South American forests. Pale streaks on its dark crown contrast with its chestnut rump, wings and tail.

• Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus

  This large parrot lives in South African mountain forests. It uses its large bill to crack the hard kernels of yellowwood fruit while they are still unripe.