Meet the world’s animals.

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• Echo Parakeet Psittacula eques

  

  This green parrot lives on Mauritius. It eats flowers, leaves, and fruit, and nests in cavities in large trees.

• Calliope Hummingbird Selasphorus calliope

  Males have magenta streaks on the throat, while females and immature birds show peachy tones below. They breed in mountain meadows and streamside thickets and feed on nectar and small insects.

• Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus

  The Malachite Kingfisher has a blue crest and a rufous belly. It perches near water and dives to catch fish and other prey.

• Sedge Wren Cistothorus platensis

  The Sedge Wren is a small bird of wetlands with dense grasses and sedges. The North American breeding population moves south for winter, while the taxonomic account also notes that South American populations may warrant separate treatment.

• Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio

  This starling has a glossy dark body and reddish wings. It ranges from Ethiopia to South Africa and feeds on fruit, insects, and nectar.

• Tibetan Sand Plover Charadrius atrifrons

  This plover breeds in Asian mountains and plateaus and winters along the coasts of Asia, the Middle East and Africa. In breeding plumage it has an orange breast and clean white flanks.

• Rufous-capped Lark Calandrella eremica

  This small lark occurs in southwestern Arabia and the northern Horn of Africa. Its crown is rufous and is sometimes raised into a small crest.

• Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus

  The Sharp-tailed Grouse lives in North American grasslands and shrublands. In spring, males inflate their throat sacs and stamp their feet during courtship.

• Double-banded Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus vitiosus

  This small flycatcher lives in wet lowland forest and swampy areas across the Amazon region and the Guianas. Its long, pale-edged black crest and yellow-green wing bars are distinctive.

• Andean Goose Chloephaga melanoptera

  The Andean Goose has a white body set off by black wings and tail. It grazes near high-Andean wetlands on grasses and aquatic plants, moving to lower elevations in winter.

• Bogota Rail Rallus semiplumbeus

  The Bogota Rail lives in high-elevation wetlands of the eastern Colombian Andes, often among dense reeds and other wetland plants.

• Sula Cuckoo-Dove Turacoena sulaensis

  Sula Cuckoo-Dove is a forest dove of the Sula and Banggai Islands. Adults show a conspicuous white face and red eye-ring.

• Crested Tit Lophophanes cristatus

  A small tit with a striking black-and-white crest. In Britain it lives in pinewoods of northern Scotland and joins flocks of other tits in winter.

• Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris

  The Rufous-bellied Heron is a medium-sized heron with a dark slate-gray head and back and chestnut wings and belly. Its yellow bill and legs are also conspicuous.

• Asian Barred Owlet Glaucidium cuculoides

  The Asian Barred Owlet is a small owl with white bars across a brown to olive body. It is also active by day.

• Jamaican Crow Corvus jamaicensis

  The Jamaican Crow has sooty grey-black plumage and a thick, heavy black bill. It gathers in small groups in forest trees and is also seen on farms, in gardens, and in towns.

• Subtropical Cacique Cacicus uropygialis

  The Subtropical Cacique occurs in the Andes from northwestern Venezuela through Colombia and Ecuador to southern Peru. It is recorded in the western and central Colombian Andes and at scattered sites along the eastern slope.

• Thicket Antpitta Myrmothera dives

  This antpitta lives on the forest floor from Central America to northwestern Colombia. It moves through dense undergrowth and searches leaf litter for small animals.

• Copper-throated Sunbird Leptocoma calcostetha

  Males stand out for their copper-red throat. The species feeds on flower nectar in coastal mangroves, and an observation also recorded it eating an arthropod.

• Bianchi's Warbler Seicercus valentini

  Bianchi’s Warbler appears as Seicercus valentini or Phylloscopus valentini in different sources. The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society describes a small leaf warbler that searches for insects in the understory and notes that its full range is still poorly understood.

• Buru White-eye Zosterops buruensis

  The Buru White-eye is endemic to Buru Island, Indonesia, and has yellow underparts. A 1995 survey recorded it in logged and primary forest near Fogi and Waikeka; in 2011, small flocks were seen in forest near Waikeka.

• Red-cockaded Woodpecker Leuconotopicus borealis

  This woodpecker lives in pine forests of the southeastern United States. A breeding pair may receive help from other family members.

• Brown Hornbill Anorrhinus tickelli

  Tickell’s Brown Hornbill lives in forests of southern Myanmar and western Thailand, usually in groups of about five to seven, feeding on fruit and small animals.

• Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps

  This small bird is about 11 cm long. The species account describes the male with a black crown and face, a dark cap, and a dark breast band.