Meet the world’s animals.

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• Indian Pond Heron Ardeola grayii

  

  A heron that searches for food in shallow water, with distinct breeding and nonbreeding plumages.

• Stripe-headed Brush-Finch Arremon torquatus

  The Stripe-headed Brush-Finch (Arremon torquatus) is a brush-finch of the southern Andes and forest understory. It has a black head with a pale central stripe and eyebrow, a white throat and a black breast band. The former Stripe-headed complex was divided into several lineages; this account is restricted to A. torquatus sensu stricto.

• Blyth's Pipit Anthus godlewskii

  Blyth's Pipit migrates and uses rocky hills, grassland, and open marshy ground. It searches the ground for small invertebrates.

• Sooty Grassquit Asemospiza fuliginosa

  This small grassquit occurs in humid woodland and forest edges. It is recorded from several South American countries; in Bolivia, only one vagrant specimen from Amazonian forest in northern Santa Cruz is reported.

• Blue Petrel Halobaena caerulea

  The Blue Petrel is a small seabird with a blue-gray back, a dark eye mask, and a white belly. It feeds at sea and carries food to its chick at a breeding site.

• Bluethroat Luscinia svecica

  The Bluethroat is a small bird that searches for insects in low shrubs near water and elsewhere. A male's blue throat pattern changes with season and region.

• Green Malkoha Ceuthmochares australis

  This cuckoo ranges from Ethiopia into southeastern Africa. It has green back, wings, and tail, with a heavy yellow bill.

• Dark-rumped Swift Apus acuticauda

  The Dark-rumped Swift has breeding records in the eastern Himalayas and northeastern India. It nests in cliff crevices near forest.

• Rufous Treepie Dendrocitta vagabunda

  A bird with a dark head, rufous-brown body, and long gray tail tipped in black. It moves through trees and eats a wide variety of foods.

• Long-whiskered Owlet Xenoglaux loweryi

  The Long-whiskered Owlet is a tiny owl with long facial feathers like whiskers. It is recorded in humid mountain forests of northern Peru.

• Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola

  A large plover that breeds in the Arctic and feeds on coastal mudflats during migration and winter. Breeding-plumaged males show a sharp black-and-white pattern.

• Palawan Tit Pardaliparus amabilis

  This small tit lives in Palawan's forests and searches among branches for small invertebrates.

• Spectacled Monarch Symposiachrus trivirgatus

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in forests on Australia's east coast. On Queensland's Gold Coast, local records place it in rainforest and damp eucalypt forest below the canopy.

• Palkachupa Cotinga Phibalura boliviana

  The Palkachupa Cotinga is endemic to Bolivia. It has deep yellow plumage with green streaks and bluish-black feather tips.

• Red-necked Crake Rallina tricolor

  The Red-necked Crake ranges from eastern Indonesia through New Guinea to northeastern Australia. Adults are chestnut from the head to the breast.

• Green-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus theresiae

  This hummingbird is green overall and lacks white tail tips. Northern Bolivian records place subspecies P. t. leucorrhous in white-sand vegetation and along edges between savanna and low forest.

• Rusty-backed Antwren Formicivora rufa

  This antwren occurs in South America, including cerrado scrub. Males have black breast and belly areas bordered by white, while females have dark streaks on the white throat and breast.

• Japanese Snipe Gallinago hardwickii

  The Japanese Snipe breeds in northern Japan and migrates to southeastern Australia. Its long bill and brown stripes are distinctive.

• Black-winged Lory Eos cyanogenia

  A lory of islands off Indonesian Papua, with a red body, blue ear patch, and black wings.

• Buff-breasted Earthcreeper Upucerthia validirostris

  This ovenbird relative lives in rocky parts of the high Andes. A taxonomic study describes geographic changes in size and plumage. A diet study in southern Peru's queñua forests found insects, spiders, and scorpions in examined birds.

• Gray Honeyeater Conopophila whitei

  The Gray Honeyeater is an inconspicuous bird of arid inland Australia. It has also been observed spreading its wings while foraging.

• Mountain Chiffchaff Phylloscopus sindianus

  The Mountain Chiffchaff is a small leaf warbler of mountain woodland and alpine scrub. Its pale brown body is marked by a white eyebrow.

• Sykes's Nightjar Caprimulgus mahrattensis

  This sand-gray nightjar blends into dry semi-desert. It is active from dusk into the night, rests on the ground by day, and catches insects close to the ground.

• Jandaya Parakeet Aratinga jandaya

  This parakeet occurs in northeastern Brazil. Adults have yellow heads and necks with orange breasts and bellies; it also uses forest edges and palm groves.