Meet the world’s animals.

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• Plumbeous Vireo Vireo plumbeus

  

  This vireo lives in forests and mountains of the western United States and Mexico. It is dull gray above, white below, and forages in pine forests.

• Klages's Antwren Myrmotherula klagesi

  This small antwren lives in the canopy of lowland floodplain forest in northern Brazil. Males are black and white; females have buff streaks.

• Rufescent Prinia Prinia rufescens

  The Rufescent Prinia is recorded at forest edges, in scrub, bamboo, and upland grassland in Bangladesh. The country's bird Red List describes it in small daytime flocks and foraging near the ground for insects.

• Mouse-colored Tyrannulet Nesotriccus murinus

  This small flycatcher ranges broadly from Central into South America, using scrub and wooded habitats. This account excludes populations assigned to the separately recognized Tumbesian and Marañón tyrannulets.

• Bare-eyed Pigeon Patagioenas corensis

  The Bare-eyed Pigeon has a gray body, a pale throat and chest, blue bare skin around the eyes, and a red bill. It uses dry scrub, acacia thickets, mangroves, and farmland.

• Satin Swiftlet Collocalia uropygialis

  A swiftlet of South Pacific islands including Vanuatu, it has satiny blue-black upperparts and a broad white rump band.

• Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator

  A large white swan of North America. It feeds on aquatic plants in shallow water and breeds along wetlands and lakes.

• Crimson-headed Partridge Haematortyx sanguiniceps

  This partridge lives in the hills and mountains of Borneo. Its crimson head and breast stand out, while the rest of the plumage differs between males and females.

• Spotted Kestrel Falco moluccensis

  This small falcon hunts in open grassland and farmland in Indonesia. Its prey includes insects, small birds, lizards, and small mammals.

• Madagascar Cuckooshrike Coracina cinerea

  An endemic cuckooshrike of Madagascar. It uses dry forest, humid evergreen forest and gallery forest, and may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy.

• Meves's Starling Lamprotornis mevesii

  With blue-green and purple gloss and a long tail, this starling uses open places with trees, often in groups, and also feeds on the ground.

• Band-tailed Nighthawk Nyctiprogne leucopyga

  The Band-tailed Nighthawk is a brown, nocturnal bird with a white band on its tail. In Loreto, northern Peru, it catches insects while flying over rivers and lakes at night.

• White-throated Bulbul Alophoixus flaveolus

  The White-throated Bulbul is a forest and scrub bird that feeds on fruit.

• Streak-throated Woodpecker Picus xanthopygaeus

  The Streak-throated Woodpecker lives in forests of South and Southeast Asia. It also uses open woodland and bamboo and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Arrowhead Warbler Setophaga pharetra

  This warbler is endemic to Jamaica. Adults have its namesake arrowhead-like streaking, while first-year birds have a different plumage and lack that pattern.

• Dusky White-eye Zosterops finschii

  This small white-eye occurs in Palau. A Palau Important Bird Areas report describes it as a resident of the islands' forests that travels through the canopy in conspicuous flocks.

• Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis

  The Blue Waxbill has a blue face, underside, and tail with a brown back and wings. In southeastern Africa it forages for seeds on the ground, often in flocks.

• Northern Rufous Hornbill Buceros hydrocorax

  The Northern Rufous Hornbill is a large hornbill with a red bill and casque. It searches the forest canopy for fruit and seeds.

• Andean Snipe Gallinago jamesoni

  The Andean Snipe inhabits wet grassland and waterside habitats high in the Andes. Pale stripes on its back and dark bars underneath help identify it.

• Collared Laughingthrush Trochalopteron yersini

  This laughingthrush is listed in a Langbiang Biosphere Reserve guide for evergreen broadleaf forest. Its black hood, silvery-gray cheeks, and rusty chest and wings stand out.

• Fülleborn's Longclaw Macronyx fuelleborni

  Fülleborn's Longclaw is a grassland bird with a yellow eyebrow and throat, a black breast band, and a buff-colored belly. Pairs use upland grassland and other grassy habitats, especially near water.

• Chestnut-winged Hookbill Ancistrops strigilatus

  This furnariid lives in forests of the Amazon Basin. It may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Vivid Niltava Niltava vivida

  In the Taiwan endemic subspecies N. v. vivida, males are indigo, black, and orange-yellow, while females are mainly olive-brown and yellow-brown. It uses middle and upper forest layers.

• Black-cheeked Lovebird Agapornis nigrigenis

  The Black-cheeked Lovebird is a small green parrot. In the wild it lives in flocks that visit water and feeds mainly on grass seeds.