Meet the world’s animals.

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• Comoro Blue Pigeon Alectroenas sganzini

  

  The Comoro Blue Pigeon is a dark blue pigeon with a pale gray hood. It feeds in fruiting trees in wooded habitats and may fly in small flocks.

• Pinnated Bittern Botaurus pinnatus

  This bittern has finely patterned buff-and-brown plumage on its crown and body. It hides in dense freshwater marshes and usually forages at night.

• Akun Eagle-Owl Ketupa leucosticta

  The Akun Eagle-Owl is a large owl with conspicuous white spots and a pale rufous face. It inhabits lowland forests in western and central Africa.

• Sulawesi Crow Corvus celebensis

  The Sulawesi Crow (Corvus celebensis) occurs on Sulawesi. Its glossy black plumage has a blue sheen, and small groups are reported at forest edges and farmland.

• Red-bellied Grackle Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster

  This icterid is endemic to Colombia. The sexes look alike, and small groups live in the canopy of cloud forest.

• Purple-naped Sunbird Hypogramma hypogrammicum

  The Purple-naped Sunbird lives in forests across Southeast Asia. The male is green overall with bright green streaking below. It feeds low in the vegetation on insects and spiders, as well as nectar, fruit, and seeds.

• Lompobattang Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus sarasinorum

  This leaf warbler occurs on the Lompobattang massif in southwestern Sulawesi. A pale crown stripe and a wingbar help describe it. The paper treats birds elsewhere on Sulawesi as the separate species P. nesophilus.

• Flame-templed Babbler Dasycrotapha speciosa

  This babbler lives in forests on Panay and Negros. Its orange temple tufts and yellow breast stand out as it joins mixed-species flocks and searches for food in the forest.

• African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae

  The African Grey Woodpecker lives in wooded habitats across parts of western, eastern, and central Africa and feeds mainly on insects such as termites.

• Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans

  The Singing Cisticola is a small bird marked by rufous areas on its head and wings. It lives in scrub, overgrown farmland, and moist savanna, usually in pairs or small groups.

• Bicknell's Thrush Catharus bicknelli

  Bicknell's Thrush is a small thrush that breeds in mountain forests of northeastern North America and spends the nonbreeding season in wet montane forests of the Greater Antilles.

• Black-headed Canary Serinus alario

  Males combine black, white, and chestnut, while females have a gray-brown head with a chestnut back and tail. This canary moves through arid scrub following rain and seeding events.

• Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Campephaga phoenicea

  The Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike lives in forest from West Africa through the Congo Basin. Males are blue-black with a red shoulder patch; females are olive with barred white underparts.

• Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki

  The Mugimaki Flycatcher breeds in East Asia and migrates to Southeast Asia. In Japan it is seen during spring and autumn passage.

• Green-striped Brush Finch Arremon virenticeps

  A Mexico City bird guide describes this Mexican brushfinch among dense shrubs near the ground in mountain forest. Its white throat and olive back help identify it.

• White-rumped Swiftlet Aerodramus spodiopygius

  This small swiftlet occurs in Melanesia and Polynesia and uses moist forests and caves.

• Eastern Chanting Goshawk Melierax poliopterus

  This grey raptor has a banded tail. In East African grasslands and open woodland, it searches for prey from a perch.

• Bridled Honeyeater Bolemoreus frenatus

  This honeyeater occurs in the upland rainforests of northern Queensland. Its overall plumage is sooty grey, with a bright yellow base to the bill.

• Black-winged Monarch Monarcha frater

  This monarch uses forests in New Guinea and far northeastern Australia. In the nominate New Guinea subspecies, the area around the eye is gray. Migration is reported only for the Australian subspecies.

• Pearl-breasted Swallow Hirundo dimidiata

  This small swallow lives in scattered parts of southern Africa. It can be overlooked among similar swallows, yet recorded nest sites range from animal burrows to buildings and bridges.

• Goldman's Warbler Setophaga goldmani

  A highland warbler of Guatemala. The Auk study uses IOC taxonomy and distinguishes it from other members of the Yellow-rumped Warbler complex.

• Grey-headed Spinetail Cranioleuca semicinerea

  This spinetail occurs in eastern Brazil. Its gray head and upperparts contrast with conspicuous rufous wings and tail.

• Australian Tern Gelochelidon macrotarsa

  The Australian Tern is a medium-sized waterbird of Australia and New Guinea. It takes prey on land as well as around water and was recently separated from the Common Gull-billed Tern.

• Unicolored Antwren Myrmotherula unicolor

  The Unicolored Antwren occurs in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. It searches leaves for food and also probes creases in dead foliage for small arthropods.