Meet the world’s animals.

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• Caribbean Martin Progne dominicensis

  

  This swallow ranges in Mexico, Cuba, and the West Indies. The male has a sharp boundary between its blue-purple back and white belly, while the female and juvenile blend brown feathers into the white. It catches insects in flight near water.

• Coraya Wren Pheugopedius coraya

  This wren occurs in northern South America. It has a rufous-brown body with black-and-white markings on the head and tail, and searches for food in riverside forest undergrowth.

• Rufous-eared Warbler Malcorus pectoralis

  Its face and ear coverts are bright chestnut, while the head and back are buff-gray with black streaks. It lives in arid and semi-arid shrubland and searches for small invertebrates low in bushes or on the ground. It may move locally in response to rain.

• Pygmy Sunbird Hedydipna platura

  The Pygmy Sunbird is a tiny sunbird of dry savanna and thorn scrub. Males have elongated central tail feathers.

• White-fronted Whitestart Myioborus albifrons

  This active little bird has yellow underparts and white around the eyes. It joins mixed-species flocks in high-elevation cloud forest and searches for insects.

• Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus

  The Lineated Woodpecker is a large woodpecker with a black back and a white shoulder stripe. Its scarlet crest and, in males, red cheek stripe stand out. It taps into wood to find insects.

• Finsch's Euphonia Euphonia finschi

  Finsch's Euphonia is a small bird that forages in forest canopy and fruiting trees. It is reported in pairs or small groups; males have a yellow forehead and belly, while females are dull yellow-green.

• Uluguru Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla neumanni

  This bulbul is restricted to Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains. An adult photograph shows a dark gray head and gray-olive body. Species accounts record it in dense highland forest and as a fruit eater.

• Wattled Curassow Crax globulosa

  The Wattled Curassow is a large bird of the upper Amazon forests. It feeds on hard nuts and seeds on the forest floor.

• Red junglefowl Gallus gallus

  A bird of South and Southeast Asia and the wild ancestor of domestic chickens. Males and females differ strongly in appearance.

• Samar Hornbill Penelopides samarensis

  A hornbill of several central Philippine islands. The male is strongly patterned in cream and black, while the female is mostly black.

• Bannerman's Weaver Ploceus bannermani

  Bannerman's Weaver lives in mountains of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon, using forest edges and shrubby openings.

• Fernwren Oreoscopus gutturalis

  The Fernwren is a small bird of wet upland forest in northeastern Australia. It probes leaf litter with its fine bill while searching for small animals.

• Iraq Babbler Argya altirostris

  The Iraq Babbler is a social bird centered on the Tigris–Euphrates basin. Small groups use reed beds and riverside shrubs.

• Chestnut-bellied Thrush Turdus fulviventris

  The male is a thrush with a black head, gray back and breast, and chestnut belly. It forages on the ground near edges of Andean montane forest.

• Collared Falconet Microhierax caerulescens

  The Collared Falconet is a small falcon of South and parts of Southeast Asia. It is active by day and catches insects and other small prey in flight, using open woodland, forest edges and farmland near water.

• Dwarf Fruit Dove Ptilinopus nainus

  This small fruit dove lives in lowland and foothill rainforest. Males have a purple chest mark; the birds eat fruit and nectar and may be seen in pairs.

• Red-headed Vulture Sarcogyps calvus

  The Red-headed Vulture has a red to orange head as an adult; it is paler in juveniles. It occurs across India and feeds on carrion.

• Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum

  The Common Tody-Flycatcher is a small bird. In Bolivia, records place it in lowland woodland and scrub, where it searches leaves for small animals.

• Red-backed Kingfisher Todiramphus pyrrhopygius

  The Red-backed Kingfisher is an Australian bird with blue-green and white plumage and a flame-colored rump. It hunts on the ground in dry woodland, taking insects and small reptiles.

• Oriental Skylark Alauda gulgula

  The Oriental Skylark uses open ground in grasslands and fields and eats both plant and animal foods.

• Bornean Black-capped Babbler Pellorneum capistratoides

  The Bornean Black-capped Babbler is endemic to Borneo. eBird describes it moving quickly on the forest floor and rummaging through leaf litter in lowland and foothill forest.

• Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis

  The Yellow-green Vireo normally breeds in Mexico and Central America and winters in lowland tropical forest in South America. Nesting in Texas is rare, and a few fall records on the California coast are thought to be birds that went the wrong way.

• Lavender Waxbill Estrilda caerulescens

  The Lavender Waxbill is a small finch native to West Africa. It has also been introduced to the Hawaiian Islands. Cornell's current page uses the genus Glaucestrilda; this entry retains the pool's name.