Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bornean Bulbul Rubigula montis

  

  The Bornean Bulbul inhabits hill and foothill forest on Borneo. It has an olive-yellow back, bright yellow throat and underparts, and a black head with an upright crest. It also occurs in degraded or regenerating forest and often perches in open areas.

• Yellow-fronted Parrot Poicephalus flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Parrot is recognizable by its green body and yellow face and crown. Its wild diet is poorly known, though leaves, seeds, and fruit are thought to be part of it.

• Shining Flycatcher Myiagra alecto

  This monarch flycatcher ranges from the Moluccas through New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago to northern and eastern Australia. Males are glossy blue-black; females have chestnut upperparts and white underparts.

• Golden-spangled Piculet Picumnus exilis

  The Golden-spangled Piculet is a tiny woodpecker ranging across northern and eastern Brazil, eastern Venezuela and Colombia, and Guyana. It lives in forest and feeds on small invertebrates.

• White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica

  A dove found from the southwestern United States through Mexico and Central America to parts of western South America. Its white wing patches form bright arcs in flight.

• Southern Citril Crithagra hyposticta

  The Southern Citril is recorded in Tanzania, Malawi and north-western Mozambique. A survey in Niassa found small groups in mountain habitats, including one larger evening gathering.

• Crimson Chat Epthianura tricolor

  This Australian bird lives in dry inland areas and open country in the west and south. Adult males stand out with red on the head, breast and rump and a black facial mask.

• Tawny-crowned Greenlet Hylophilus ochraceiceps

  Its tawny forehead and crown distinguish it. It forages in the Amazonian forest understory and often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Yellow-ringed White-eye Zosterops wallacei

  This white-eye is recorded on Sumba Island, Indonesia, in forest, forest edge, scrub, and cultivated land.

• Jamaican Pewee Contopus pallidus

  This small woodland bird is endemic to Jamaica. It catches insects by flying out from exposed perches in the middle levels of the forest and may flick its tail once when it lands.

• Ethiopian Firefinch Lagonosticta larvata

  The Ethiopian Firefinch, Lagonosticta larvata, occurs in southeastern Sudan, eastern South Sudan and western Ethiopia. This account follows the nominate population.

• Archer's Ground Robin Cossypha archeri

  A robin-chat of the Albertine Rift montane forests. It often feeds for insects on the ground.

• Muisca Antpitta Grallaria rufula

  This antpitta ranges from Colombia's eastern Andes into western Venezuela. It uses bamboo in moist montane forest, secondary growth, and nearby disturbed areas, and is seen on or near the ground.

• White-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis

  The White-breasted Kingfisher is a kingfisher with a red bill, blue back and tail, brown head and belly, and a white throat and breast. It eats fish and shrimp as well as crabs and lizards.

• Madagascan Nightjar Caprimulgus madagascariensis

  The Madagascan Nightjar is a nocturnal bird found on Madagascar and Aldabra in the Seychelles. It catches insects on the wing at night and rests on leaf litter by day.

• Lovely Cotinga Cotinga amabilis

  The male is metallic blue and purple, while the female has a scaly gray, brown, and whitish pattern. It uses humid forest canopy, sometimes gathering at fruiting trees.

• Mentawai Scops Owl Otus mentawi

  This island owl lives in lowland forest on the Mentawai Islands. It has reddish-chestnut and dark brown plumage morphs, with pale eyebrows and ear-tufts.

• Varied Triller Lalage leucomela

  It occurs in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago. It feeds on insects and fruit along edges between open and closed forest and in riparian woodland.

• Black-headed Jay Garrulus lanceolatus

  A jay with blue wings and a gray head, it searches for a varied diet in trees and on the ground.

• Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica

  A brightly colored wetland bird with long legs and toes, it walks on floating plants while feeding in freshwater marshes from the southeastern United States southward.

• Brahminy Starling Sturnia pagodarum

  The Brahminy Starling has a brown body and a black cap. It searches for food on the ground and nests in tree cavities.

• Rachel's Malimbe Malimbus racheliae

  Rachel's Malimbe occurs in lowland forest around the Gulf of Guinea. Males have a red crown and black face, with yellow on the lower breast and undertail coverts.

• Grey Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius

  It is reddish in breeding plumage and gray and white in winter. It breeds in the Arctic and spends winter on the open ocean.

• Greater Antillean Grackle Quiscalus niger

  This grackle occurs widely across the Greater Antilles. Males are glossy and dark, while females are browner; the birds also search for food in towns.