Meet the world’s animals.

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• Javan Bulbul Ixos virescens

  

  The Javan Bulbul is a bulbul of Java's highland forests. Its long, slender bill and olive-colored back and wings are distinctive.

• Festive Amazon Amazona festiva

  The Festive Amazon is a parrot of the Amazon River basin and riverside regions of Colombia and Venezuela. Adults are green, with red on the back and rump.

• Azure-crested Flycatcher Myiagra azureocapilla

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in Fiji. Adult males have a blue crown, slate-blue upperparts, white underparts, and a chestnut throat; females are browner above.

• Javan Black-capped Babbler Pellorneum capistratum

  The Javan Black-capped Babbler has a black head and chestnut-brown back. On Java, it searches for small prey among leaf litter in moist forest.

• Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina

  The Icterine Warbler is a migrant that searches leafy branches for insects. Its greenish-brown back and yellow underside are useful field marks.

• Hoffmann's Woodpecker Melanerpes hoffmannii

  Hoffmann's Woodpecker inhabits dry forest and also uses trees near human settlements along the Pacific slope. Males have a red crown and yellow nape; females have a white forehead and crown.

• Bar-tailed Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia nigrirostris

  This brown dove has a long tail and a stout black bill. It is usually seen alone or in pairs at forest edges, but may gather at fruiting trees.

• Pink-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus rodochroa

  This Himalayan rosefinch is raspberry-pink in males and mainly brown in females. It uses subalpine habitats in the breeding season and descends to foothills in winter.

• Tawny-breasted Honeyeater Xanthotis flaviventer

  The Tawny-breasted Honeyeater occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands and in northeastern Australia. It uses forest, mangroves and edges, locally to about 1,500 m.

• Flat-billed Vireo Vireo nanus

  This small vireo is endemic to Hispaniola. With a broad, flattened bill, it moves low through scrub and thickets in limestone dry forest while looking for fruit and insects.

• Stripe-throated Yuhina Yuhina gularis

  The historical account places the nominate subspecies Y. gularis gularis from Nepal to eastern Assam. It describes a brown crest and a throat marked with black streaks.

• White-bellied Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis albiventris

  This small flycatcher lives in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andes. It forages in the midstory and subcanopy.

• Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba

  The Green-winged Pytilia has an olive-green back and red bill and tail. It feeds on the ground; males and females have different head and breast colors.

• Miombo scrub-robin Erythropygia barbata

  A bird of broadleaf miombo woodland, with a brown back and a rufous chest.

• Spotted Antpitta Hylopezus macularius

  A ground-dwelling antpitta of humid Amazonian forest. This account follows the populations assigned to Hylopezus macularius in the taxonomic revision.

• Mangrove Kingfisher Halcyon senegaloides

  The Mangrove Kingfisher has blue wings, white underparts, and a red bill. It occurs along eastern African coasts and catches fish, crabs, and other prey at waterside habitats.

• Collared Nightjar Gactornis enarratus

  The Collared Nightjar is a nocturnal bird found in Madagascar. It prefers humid forest, though it has also been recorded in other wooded habitats on the island.

• Green-and-black Fruiteater Pipreola riefferii

  The Green-and-black Fruiteater eats fruit in the canopy and middle levels of Andean montane forest. Males in northern Peru show striking green and black plumage.

• Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus

  A large owl widespread in North America, recognized by its earlike feather tufts and yellow eyes. It uses forests, wetlands, grasslands, and even green spaces in towns.

• Scarlet Minivet Pericrocotus speciosus

  This long-tailed, flocking minivet is a common year-round resident in Hong Kong woodland and forest margins. It may also use green spaces along the urban edge.

• Beautiful Jay Cyanolyca pulchra

  The Beautiful Jay lives in wet montane forest from western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. Its crown, back, wings, and tail are blue, set off by a black face.

• Madagascar Rail Rallus madagascariensis

  The Madagascar Rail is endemic to Madagascar’s eastern wetlands. It stays hidden in dense wetland vegetation and is often heard before it is seen.

• Pied Starling Lamprotornis bicolor

  Its glossy dark brown back contrasts with a white belly. In southern African grasslands and farmland, it forages for insects on the ground, often in flocks.

• Heuglin's Masked Weaver Ploceus heuglini

  This weaver ranges from the Sahel to western East Africa. It uses dry savanna woodland, thickets, scrub, and areas around farms and villages, and is thought to feed mostly on arthropods.