Meet the world’s animals.

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• Graceful Prinia Prinia gracilis

  

  Qatar e-Nature describes a small bird with pale greyish plumage and a long tail. It tends to stay hidden in vegetation.

• Green Heron Butorides virescens

  This small heron waits motionless for fish in shallow water. It sometimes drops twigs or insects onto the water to lure fish.

• Scarlet-faced Liocichla Liocichla ripponi

  The Scarlet-faced Liocichla is resident from Myanmar through Thailand and Vietnam to southern China. It is olive overall, with red facial and wing patches, and uses dense hill-forest undergrowth.

• Redwing Turdus iliacus

  A thrush similar in appearance to a Song Thrush that arrives in Britain in autumn and stays through winter. It searches open country for berries, sometimes visiting parks and gardens in severe cold.

• Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara

  The male is deep red and black, while the female is red and olive brown. It searches for small seeds on the ground and uses savanna, grassland, and cultivated areas.

• Gunnison Grouse Centrocercus minimus

  In spring courtship, males inflate their chest sacs and fan their tails. The species is restricted to western Colorado and eastern Utah.

• White-faced Starling Sturnornis albofrontatus

  The White-faced Starling is endemic to Sri Lanka and has a white face with glossy black-green wings. It searches for fruit and nectar high in the canopy of wet forest.

• Sri Lanka Swallow Cecropis hyperythra

  A swallow of Sri Lanka, it has a silvery purple-blue back and rusty rump and underparts. It catches insects in flight.

• Black-chested Fruiteater Pipreola lubomirskii

  This fruiteater occurs in Andean forest from southern Colombia through Ecuador to northern Peru. It eats mainly fruit and forages in the lower and middle forest levels.

• Ecuadorian Seedeater Amaurospiza aequatorialis

  This bird is recorded in bamboo stands in Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Recent Ecuadorian and Peruvian records describe feeding on seeds and insects in bamboo.

• Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica

  This small, social finch has a bright yellow face and belly set off by black lines on its head. In its native African range, it forages in flocks.

• White-rumped Falcon Polihierax insignis

  A small falcon found from Myanmar across mainland Southeast Asia. It uses dry, open woodland and savanna and mainly takes large insects.

• Shikra Tachyspiza badia

  A small, long-tailed hawk whose adult males and females differ in eye and upperpart color.

• Mindanao Hornbill Penelopides affinis

  This hornbill has strongly different male and female plumage and lives in forests on Mindanao and nearby islands in the Philippines.

• White-gaped Honeyeater Stomiopera unicolor

  The White-gaped Honeyeater is recorded in northern Australia. A 1977 Northern Territory account says it is common in dense vegetation and mangroves in the far north, while farther south it is confined to waterside vegetation.

• Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus

  A grackle found mainly in Central and South America, with its range extending into parts of North America. Males have long tails and a purple gloss, while females are brown.

• Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula

  The Plain Chachalaca is a large brown bird with white-tipped tail feathers. It searches for berries and buds in small family groups.

• Elegant Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus elegans

  This roughly 21 cm woodcreeper is recorded from Amazonian lowlands into foothill forest on the eastern Andes. The size and spread of its back spots vary among subspecies.

• Rufous-vented Grass Babbler Laticilla burnesii

  The Rufous-vented Grass Babbler lives in wetlands and reedbeds. It is brown above, with fine streaks below and rich rufous feathers under the tail.

• Mekong Wagtail Motacilla samveasnae

  The Mekong Wagtail breeds along low-flow river channels with rocky or sandy bars and shrubs. Its 2001 description recorded a breeding range from Cambodia into southern Laos.

• Santa Marta Tapaculo Scytalopus sanctaemartae

  Adults are gray with a white crown spot, a tawny black-barred rump, white belly, and barred brown flanks. Females are smaller with less white on the crown; juveniles are more heavily barred.

• Rufous-bellied Kookaburra Dacelo gaudichaud

  The Rufous-bellied Kookaburra lives in lowland New Guinea and nearby islands. The male has a blue rump and tail and deep reddish-brown underparts.

• Barbados Bullfinch Loxigilla barbadensis

  This seed-eating bird is endemic to Barbados, where it is found in grassy areas and forests.

• Narcissus flycatcher Ficedula narcissina

  A forest insect hunter whose male has striking yellow and black plumage.