Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sri Lanka Hill Myna Gracula ptilogenys

  

  The Sri Lanka Hill Myna is endemic to Sri Lanka's wet forests. It eats fruit and moves through the canopy while giving loud calls.

• Slaty Vireo Vireo brevipennis

  This vireo occurs in Mexico. It has slate-gray plumage and a long tail, with green edges on the wing and tail feathers. In 1998, a nesting pair was observed in dry subtropical woodland in Oaxaca.

• Nanday Parakeet Aratinga nenday

  Its black face and long, blue-edged tail stand out. It nests in tree cavities and eats seeds, fruits, and other plant foods.

• White-sided Hillstar Oreotrochilus leucopleurus

  The White-sided Hillstar is a hummingbird of rocky Andean habitats. Males have a blue throat and white underside, females a grey underside; both feed on nectar and insects.

• White Woodpecker Melanerpes candidus

  The White Woodpecker has a white to cream face, throat, and belly, with a yellow eye-ring. Only males have a yellow patch on the nape.

• Selva Cacique Cacicus koepckeae

  The Selva Cacique is about 23 cm long, with a black body, yellow rump, blue eyes, and pale bill. It forages in the midstory and canopy of Peru's floodplain forests.

• Donaldson-Smith's Nightjar Caprimulgus donaldsoni

  Chestnut tones on the sides of its head and wings, plus a pale shoulder bar, identify this nocturnal nightjar.

• Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla rufosuperciliata

  This foliage-gleaner lives in moist mountain forest and tall secondary growth on the eastern Andes of Bolivia. Its buff eyebrow and streaked underside help identify it.

• Tawny-headed Swallow Alopochelidon fucata

  This small swallow has a tawny head and pale underside. It is migratory and catches flying insects in the air.

• Malay Peacock-pheasant Polyplectron malacense

  The Malay Peacock-pheasant is a pheasant whose male has a showy crest and eye-like markings on its wings. It lives in damp forests of the Malay Peninsula.

• Brown Noddy Anous stolidus

  A tern that breeds in colonies on small islands in tropical and subtropical seas. Adults are dark brown, with a white forehead fading to grey at the nape, and take fish and squid near the ocean surface.

• Hoy's Screech Owl Megascops hoyi

  This owl occurs in the mountains of southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. It has brown, gray, and red color morphs; the brown morph is described with pale eyebrows and bold cross-hatched belly markings.

• Northern Silvery Kingfisher Ceyx flumenicola

  This kingfisher is endemic to Bohol, Leyte and Samar in the central Philippines. It uses forested streams and river edges, where a low perch gives it a view of the water.

• Black-striped Sparrow Arremonops conirostris

  The Black-striped Sparrow has a gray head marked with black stripes and yellow edging on the shoulder. In Costa Rica it uses shrubs and forest edges in humid lowlands, forming pairs or family groups.

• Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus

  The Crested Malimbe has a red head and glossy black body and lives in forests of western and central Africa.

• Australasian Swamphen Porphyrio melanotus

  New Zealand birds of the Australasian Swamphen have a red frontal shield and bill and a deep blue-violet breast. Groups may defend territory and raise young cooperatively.

• Brown-cheeked Laughingthrush Trochalopteron henrici

  It is gray-brown with dark chestnut cheeks, a broad white moustachial stripe, and a chestnut area near the tail. The account places its main range in southern and eastern Tibet; Arunachal Pradesh is represented by one record.

• Yellow-plumed Honeyeater Ptilotula ornata

  This honeyeater lives across southern mainland Australia. Its upswept yellow neck plume is distinctive, and it searches the outer foliage of trees and shrubs for insects and nectar.

• Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis

  The Great Shearwater breeds on South Atlantic islands and moves to the North Atlantic during boreal summer.

• Congo Moor Chat Myrmecocichla tholloni

  A field-guide account describes a dark brown bird with pale areas on the face, throat, upper breast and lower belly, plus a white wing patch. A Congo reserve survey found it common in open grassland.

• Green Jay Cyanocorax luxuosus

  The jay has a green body, blue crown, black throat and facial markings, and yellow outer tail feathers. Family groups search woodland and scrub for food. This account is scoped to the northern Cyanocorax luxuosus group recognized in the AOS proposal.

• Pine Siskin Spinus pinus

  The Pine Siskin is a small finch widespread in North America. In winter it moves widely in response to seed crops.

• Malayan Black-capped Babbler Pellorneum nigrocapitatum

  This ground-dwelling bird occurs in southern Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, in moist forest and dense vegetation.

• Jungle Prinia Prinia sylvatica

  This prinia occurs on the Indian Peninsula and often uses dry scrub and grassy hills.