Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey Treepie Dendrocitta formosae

  

  The Grey Treepie is a crow-family bird with gray, black, and chestnut plumage and a pale underside. Its appearance and Taiwan behavior here refer to the endemic subspecies D. f. formosae; the range describes the species as a whole.

• Pohnpei Kingfisher Todiramphus reichenbachii

  This kingfisher is endemic to Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. It occurs at forest edges and mangroves and excavates a nest burrow in rotten wood.

• Buff-cheeked Greenlet Hylophilus muscicapinus

  A small green bird of humid lowland forests, it searches among leaves for small prey.

• Red-throated Twinspot Hypargos niveoguttatus

  The Red-throated Twinspot is a small estrildid finch of thickets and riparian forest edges. The male has a red head and a black, white-spotted belly.

• Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea

  A small heron of wetlands and estuaries in the southeastern United States. Some birds breeding inland migrate to Central and South America and the Caribbean.

• Slender Sheartail Doricha enicura

  This small hummingbird lives in mountains and valleys from southern Mexico into northern Central America. The male has a very long forked tail; the female’s is shorter.

• Grey-cheeked Warbler Seicercus poliogenys

  This leaf warbler occurs in mountains from China and the Himalayas into northern Indochina. Its head and cheeks are gray, and it searches for insects in montane broadleaf forest.

• Thick-billed Lark Ramphocoris clotbey

  The Thick-billed Lark is a pale, dry-country lark with a notably large bill. It searches for food close to the ground.

• Antipodes Parakeet Cyanoramphus unicolor

  This uniformly green parakeet is endemic to the subantarctic Antipodes Islands. Its diet shifts with the seasons, and it sometimes preys on seabirds.

• Chestnut-bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa gloriosissima

  This flowerpiercer lives in montane forest and high shrubland in Colombia's Western Andes. It feeds on nectar and also takes insects.

• Hill Swallow Hirundo domicola

  This small swallow has a green-glossed back. It catches insects in flight over the hills of southern India and Sri Lanka.

• Short-tailed Pipit Anthus brachyurus

  The Short-tailed Pipit is a small, ground-living bird with bold streaks on its back and breast. It ranges from Gabon through the Congo region to eastern Angola and Zambia, with a separate population in Uganda. In southern Africa it uses moist, short grassland.

• Sombre Nightjar Caprimulgus fraenatus

  The Sombre Nightjar catches flying insects on the wing and lives in open stony bushland, scrub and grassland.

• Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle Spilornis klossi

  The Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle is a small serpent eagle collected on Great Nicobar Island. Adults have a dark crown, grey cheeks, and pale underparts; specimen stomachs contained lizards and small mammals among other prey.

• White-browed Meadowlark Leistes superciliaris

  This icterid lives in open grasslands of South America. The male is black with red patches and a white eyebrow, while the female is brown-toned and looks different.

• Pacific Gull Larus pacificus

  A large gull seen along the coast of South Australia. It searches the intertidal zone for shellfish and crustaceans; shell-dropping has also been recorded there.

• Red-headed Manakin Ceratopipra rubrocapilla

  This manakin lives in the understory of southern Amazonian forest in Peru. Males stand out with a red head on a black body, while females are green.

• Glaucous-blue Grosbeak Cyanoloxia glaucocaerulea

  The Glaucous-blue Grosbeak lives in wetlands and nearby scrub in southern South America. Males are pale blue, while females are reddish brown.

• Large Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys hypoleucos

  The Large Scimitar Babbler has a long, heavy curved bill, dark brown face and back, pale throat and breast, and grey flanks. It forages low in vegetation.

• 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.

• Tepui Antpitta Myrmothera simplex

  An antpitta of the tepui region. It is dark brown above and white on the throat and belly; the breast band and flanks vary from cinnamon to gray among subspecies.

• Amazonian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium hardyi

  The 14–15 cm Amazonian Pygmy Owl lives in the canopy of primary tropical forest across much of Amazonia. It is partly active by day; one nest in French Guiana was in an old woodpecker hole.

• Black-necked Eremomela Eremomela atricollis

  It has a black face mask, yellow forehead and eyebrow, and yellow chin and throat bordered in black. Hall's Angola field account found it in tall and stunted Brachystegia woodland, where it actively searched leaves for insects.

• Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus

  The Red-billed Starling is identified by its red bill. Males have a white head and grey body, while females are mainly brown; large flocks form in winter.