Meet the world’s animals.

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• Turquoise Tanager Tangara mexicana

  

  This small bird lives in humid tropical forest in northeastern South America and Trinidad. It moves in small flocks in the canopy and eats fruit and insects.

• Preuss's Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon preussi

  A swallow of West Africa that catches flying insects over open country, towns, and water.

• Paramo Pipit Anthus bogotensis

  The Paramo Pipit searches for food on the ground in high grasslands. The Bolivia account reports subspecies that differ in the color of the underside and in their flank markings.

• Little Nightjar Setopagis parvula

  This nightjar has been recorded in rocky grassland and nearby habitat in northeastern Argentina. Argentina’s protected-area information lists low woodland and steppe among its habitats.

• Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis

  This slender raptor has a long tail and white spots on its chest and belly. It glides over open woodland and grassland while searching for prey.

• Forbes's Blackbird Anumara forbesi

  Forbes’s Blackbird is a dark bird found in two separate parts of Brazil. It has a long tail and short wings, and the red inside its mouth can show when it sings.

• River Tern Sterna aurantia

  A tern with a yellow bill and a deeply forked tail. It flies over rivers and lakes in South Asia and catches fish.

• Arabian Scops Owl Otus pamelae

  The Arabian Scops Owl is a resident owl of the southern Arabian Peninsula that hunts invertebrates at night.

• Graceful Prinia Prinia gracilis

  Qatar e-Nature describes a small bird with pale greyish plumage and a long tail. It tends to stay hidden in vegetation.

• 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.

• Blue Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon auritum

  The Blue Eared Pheasant is a large pheasant of China's mountains, notable for its blue-gray body and white ear tufts.

• Black-tailed Crake Zapornia bicolor

  The Black-tailed Crake lives around wetlands and water from the eastern Himalayas to southwestern China and Indochina. It has a gray head, reddish-brown back, and black tail.

• Blond-crested Woodpecker Celeus flavescens

  The Blond-crested Woodpecker lives in forests and open woodland of eastern South America. The male has a pale golden crest and a red cheek stripe, and the species eats ants and termites.

• Protea Canary Crithagra leucoptera

  The Protea Canary is a brown canary with a black face, white throat, and white wing bars. It lives in South African mountain fynbos and feeds on seeds, including those of proteas.

• Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis

  This large waterbird lives around wetlands and eats mainly plant matter.

• Orange Dove Ptilinopus victor

  The male has an olive-yellow head and vivid orange body. It feeds on small fruits high in trees.

• White-streaked Antvireo Dysithamnus leucostictus

  This small bird lives in low tangles of humid montane forest. Males are gray, while females have a rufous-brown head and back, among other sex-specific differences.

• White-shouldered Triller Lalage sueurii

  A small triller of open woodland and lowland forest in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

• Pale-throated Greenbul Atimastillas flavigula

  This long-tailed, olive-green bulbul is found in forests, dense woodland, and scrub, often in pairs or small groups. Its range extends from central into eastern Africa.

• Bay-vented Cotinga Doliornis sclateri

  This cotinga is restricted to the eastern slope of the central Peruvian Andes. It uses cloud forest at or near treeline and feeds largely on fruit.

• Green-thighed Parrot Pionites leucogaster

  The Green-thighed Parrot feeds on fruit and seeds in the Amazonian canopy. Adults are marked by an orange head and white belly.

• Cinnamon-tailed Sparrow Peucaea sumichrasti

  This sparrow is found on the Pacific slope of southern Mexico. It has a rufous crown and cinnamon-colored flanks and undertail.

• Lesser Coucal Centropus bengalensis

  The Lesser Coucal has black plumage and chestnut wings and may be seen basking among grassland shrubs. The observations and range shown here are from its native population in Singapore.

• White-throated Earthcreeper Upucerthia albigula

  This earthcreeper is recorded on the western slope of the Andes in Peru. It has rufous-brown upperparts and tail, a whitish throat, and a down-curved black bill, and forages among scattered rocks and sparse scrub.