Meet the world’s animals.

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• Thick-billed Parrot Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha

  

  The thick-billed parrot is a green parrot of high-elevation pine forests. It travels in flocks and eats pine seeds.

• Guaiabero Bolbopsittacus lunulatus

  This small parrot is found on Philippine islands. The male is mainly green, with blue on the face and chin and a thin pale-blue band across the upper back. Natural-history information is scarce; on Samar it was observed in fruiting trees near forest edges and cultivated areas.

• Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos

  The Emerald-spotted Wood Dove is a small, rounded dove with glossy green spots across its wings. It occurs in eastern and southern Africa.

• Gray-barred Wren Campylorhynchus megalopterus

  This wren lives in mountain forest in Mexico's central highlands. It is gray with narrow dark bars and moves through the forest in small groups.

• Western House Martin Delichon urbicum

  This swallow breeds across Europe and western Asia and winters south of the Sahara. It has blue-black upperparts, a white rump and underside, and a forked tail. It catches insects in flight and builds mud nests under eaves or on cliffs.

• Northern Hawk Owl Surnia ulula

  A long-tailed owl with a white face bordered in black. It lives in northern forests and hunts from treetops during the day.

• Chestnut-headed Crake Anurolimnas castaneiceps

  The Chestnut-headed Crake has a chestnut head, neck, and breast, with an olive-brown body. It forages in dense vegetation and bamboo in wet forest.

• Grey-bellied Antbird Ammonastes pelzelni

  This antbird is documented at Mitú, Colombia. The male has a black chest; the female lacks it. A field report found two birds in the understory of white-sand forest there.

• Tickell's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus affinis

  Tickell's Leaf Warbler breeds in the Himalayas and nearby regions, then moves south to South Asia and Myanmar for the non-breeding season.

• Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus

  A sandpiper with dark upperparts and a white rump, seen mainly on passage and in winter in lowland wetlands in Hong Kong.

• White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus

  A kite with a white body and tail and gray wings. It hovers over grassland while searching for small mammals.

• Varzea Piculet Picumnus varzeae

  This tiny woodpecker is 8–9 cm long. It occurs in seasonally flooded forest along the Amazon in Brazil, and published natural-history records are limited.

• Guira Cuckoo Guira guira

  A cuckoo of open South American habitats that forages on the ground with others and may share a communal nest.

• 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.

• Tenggara Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone floris

  Ecology Asia presents a male white morph of the Tenggara Paradise Flycatcher from Flores, Indonesia, and identifies hill forest as its habitat.

• Biak Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera riedelii

  The Biak Paradise Kingfisher is found only on Biak Island, Indonesia. It has blue plumage and a long tail, and takes insects and spiders from the forest floor.

• Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps

  This small bird occurs in western and central Africa. It uses lowland and second-growth forest as well as village trees, and feeds on insects, berries, and seeds.

• Eastern Long-tailed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus

  The Eastern Long-tailed Hermit has a long, down-curved bill and long white-tipped tail feathers. It feeds at flowers beside tropical forest streams and also takes insects when flowers are scarce.

• Striated Bulbul Alcurus striatus

  This bulbul lives in broadleaf forests on hills and mountains. Its streaked plumage is distinctive, and it may move in noisy groups.

• Crimson-fronted Cardinal Paroaria baeri

  This cardinal occurs along Brazil's Araguaia River and tributaries. It forms small flocks along lake margins and slow-flowing rivers.

• Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii

  Lincoln's Sparrow often stays low and hidden in grass or brush. During the breeding season it uses moist mountain meadows.

• Adelaide's Warbler Setophaga adelaidae

  This small warbler is endemic to Puerto Rico. A 2016 paper also reports observations on St. Thomas and St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

• Brown Quail Synoicus ypsilophorus

  The Brown Quail searches among ground vegetation and leaf litter for food. This account focuses on the population introduced to New Zealand.

• 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.