Meet the world’s animals.

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• Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius

  

  The Blue-headed Vireo searches for insects among trees in North American forests. Its blue-grey head and white eye rings are distinctive.

• Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum

  The Bare-throated Tiger Heron is a large heron that waits for prey beside rivers and wetlands.

• Scaly Kingfisher Actenoides princeps

  A kingfisher of Sulawesi’s humid montane forests, it is striking for its blue-violet head and scaly-marked brown body.

• Mountain Imperial Pigeon Ducula badia

  The Mountain Imperial Pigeon has a dark maroon-brown back and pale purplish-grey head and underparts. In Borneo it is common in montane forest, and some birds fly to lowlands to feed.

• Grey Waxbill Estrilda perreini

  This small waxbill lives around African forest and woodland edges. It has a gray body, red rump and black eye-line, and forages under cover for grass seeds and other foods.

• Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda

  This sandpiper is usually found in grasslands rather than wetlands. It feeds there and breeds in North America before migrating to South America.

• Plumed Whistling Duck Dendrocygna eytoni

  The Plumed Whistling Duck is an Australian duck with a long neck and extended flank feathers that reach over its back. It feeds on grasses in wetlands and grasslands.

• Chopi Blackbird Gnorimopsar chopi

  This all-black icterid has records in protected areas across Argentina. It is seen alone or in pairs and sometimes gathers in groups.

• Black Grouse Lyrurus tetrix

  In spring, male Black Grouse gather at traditional display grounds to court. Females are smaller and brownish.

• 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.

• Green Rosella Platycercus caledonicus

  The Green Rosella is the largest rosella. Its two described subspecies differ slightly in colour pattern, with yellow head and underparts, blue-violet cheeks, a red forehead band, and a green-and-black back among the notable features.

• Wrinkled Hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus

  A lowland-forest hornbill known for the male's red wrinkled casque; it often feeds on fruit in the canopy.

• Cinnamon Attila Attila cinnamomeus

  The Cinnamon Attila occurs in Amazonian floodplain forest, edges, and river islands, foraging in the canopy and subcanopy. In Peru, the account records it in Loreto and Ucayali and describes it as uncommon there.

• Bokikokiko Acrocephalus aequinoctialis

  This Pacific island reed warbler was studied on Kiritimati, where it was more often found in places with taller Heliotropium and Scaevola plants.

• Madagascar Martin Riparia cowani

  This martin occurs in Madagascar. An older field report records birds drinking at a pool and one bird flushed from a nest tunnel in a roadside bank.

• Uniform Finch Haplospiza unicolor

  This finch occurs in southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. It inhabits moist Atlantic Forest with bamboo in the understory; males are gray and females are brown.

• Cream-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus simplex

  The Cream-vented Bulbul is olive-brown with a white eye-ring. It occurs from the Thai-Malay Peninsula through Indonesia and uses forest and secondary growth.

• Sunda Cuckooshrike Coracina larvata

  This dark gray bird lives in highland forest and sometimes moves through the upper forest with mixed-species flocks.

• Racket-tailed Treepie Crypsirina temia

  The Racket-tailed Treepie is a slender corvid with green sheen on its dark plumage and a long tail that spreads at the tip. In Thailand it searches shrubs in pairs or small groups along forest edges and in bamboo woodland.

• Great Curassow Crax rubra

  A large forest bird that searches the ground for fruit, seeds, and other food. The glossy black male and chestnut female look very different.

• Black-crowned Fulvetta Schoeniparus klossi

  This fulvetta occurs on the Dalat Plateau in the southern Annamite Mountains of Vietnam and is reported only at higher elevations in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park.

• Geomalia Zoothera heinrichi

  Geomalia is restricted to Sulawesi, Indonesia. The account identifies it as Zoothera heinrichi and notes that it was formerly placed in its own genus, Geomalia.

• Chestnut-naped Forktail Enicurus ruficapillus

  This streamside bird is notable for its chestnut head and black-and-white tail. It searches for insects along rivers and streams in humid Southeast Asian forests.

• Pechora Pipit Anthus gustavi

  The Pechora Pipit is marked by bold white stripes on its back and fine streaks on the chest. It hides in dense grass and flushes only at close range.