Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris

  

  The Rufous-bellied Heron is a medium-sized heron with a dark slate-gray head and back and chestnut wings and belly. Its yellow bill and legs are also conspicuous.

• Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa

  The Marbled Godwit probes mud and sand with its long upturned bill to find small aquatic animals. Its plumage changes between breeding and nonbreeding seasons.

• Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis

  Its streaky brown plumage blends into open fields, while breeding males sing during high flights.

• Lazuline Sabrewing Campylopterus falcatus

  Campylopterus falcatus is a hummingbird recorded in Colombia's mountains. Males are green with blue-violet throat and lower chest; females are green above and on the sides with grey-white underparts. Foraging at flowering Inga was reported.

• Rufescent Antshrike Thamnistes rufescens

  A scarce, difficult-to-see antshrike of cloud forest on the eastern Andes. It is brown and buff, with a stout hooked bill.

• Streaked Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii

  This furnariid inhabits humid Andean forests. White neck tufts and a rufous tail stand out, and it forages from the midstory to the canopy with mixed-species flocks.

• Pin-striped Tit-Babbler Mixornis gularis

  A small, vocal babbler of lowland forests in Southeast Asia, it forages in small groups from near the ground to the canopy.

• Reeves's Pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii

  A pheasant endemic to China, living in evergreen forest and open woodland. It scratches leaf litter for seeds, berries, leaves, and invertebrates.

• Green Racket-tail Prioniturus luconensis

  A mostly green parrot with black, spatula-shaped tips on its tail feathers. It uses lowland forest and forest edges in the northern Philippines.

• Hooded Treepie Crypsirina cucullata

  A bird restricted to Myanmar's lowlands, with a long silver-gray tail and black head.

• Golden-winged Sparrow Arremon schlegeli

  This sparrow lives in woodland and scrub in Colombia and Venezuela. Its black head and yellow bill are conspicuous, and it searches near the ground for seeds, fruit, and insects.

• Pale-billed Woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis

  The Pale-billed Woodpecker is a large woodpecker with a red head and pale bill. It drums on trees while searching for insects and lives from Mexico to western Panama.

• Black Curassow Crax alector

  The Black Curassow is a large bird of northwestern South America that uses humid forest and riverine thickets. Pairs or small groups search for fruit on the ground and retreat into trees when alarmed.

• Burrowing owl Athene cunicularia

  A small, long-legged owl that uses burrows in the ground for nesting and shelter.

• White-crested Tyrannulet Serpophaga subcristata

  This tyrannulet has yellow-bellied and whitish-bellied forms. Both use scrub and open woodland, avoiding closed forest. It ranges from Bolivia south to Argentina.

• Atlas Pied Flycatcher Ficedula speculigera

  The male has conspicuous white patches on the forehead and wings in spring. It breeds in mountain forests from Morocco to Tunisia; much of its winter range is unknown.

• Tenggara Swiftlet Collocalia sumbawae

  A swiftlet of the western Lesser Sunda Islands. It occurs in forest and dense habitats and feeds on invertebrates.

• Temminck's Babbler Pellorneum pyrrogenys

  Temminck’s Babbler is a plain rufous-brown bird that stays low on the forest floor. It searches leaf litter for insects and other small invertebrates and has a loud, far-carrying song.

• Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta

  The Melodious Warbler is a small bird with a yellowish throat and breast and a gray-green to brown back. It favors warm, open places with shrubs.

• Strange Weaver Ploceus alienus

  The Strange Weaver lives in montane forest of the Albertine Rift and searches among branches and leaves for small invertebrates. Natural-history details are sparse, so nest construction and social behavior are not described here.

• Bates's Sunbird Cinnyris batesi

  Bates's Sunbird is a small sunbird of African forests and forest edges. Its dark olive upperparts contrast with a pale eyebrow and yellow-edged wings.

• White-necked Laughingthrush Garrulax strepitans

  An older bird account describes a reddish-brown head, black face, and white neck spots, and reports flocks of twenty or more in deep forest ravines. These are historical observations.

• Yellow-billed Pintail Anas georgica

  This duck has a yellow bill and a long neck and tail. The account here describes the subspecies recorded in the Patagonia region.

• Orange-breasted Fruiteater Pipreola jucunda

  A CERO report recorded an adult male foraging along a humid forest edge in Ecuador. A possibly different bird was reported to have a larger orange chest patch, and the reason for the difference is unresolved.