Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little Lorikeet Parvipsitta pusilla

  

  A small parrot of eastern Australia. It is green with a black bill and a red patch that extends from the forehead to the throat.

• Dark-throated Seedeater Sporophila ruficollis

  The Dark-throated Seedeater is a small bird of open South American landscapes. The male has a gray back, black throat and upper breast, and rufous rump and underparts; the female is olive-brown. Rare records from southeastern Peru are described as visits by migrants.

• White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita

  The White-bibbed Swallow has glossy blue-violet plumage and a white throat patch. It catches insects while flying low over rivers.

• Malaysian Eared Nightjar Lyncornis temminckii

  The Malaysian Eared Nightjar is a bird of forests and their edges. Its dark plumage and narrow pale collar help identify it.

• Andaman Serpent Eagle Spilornis elgini

  The Andaman Serpent Eagle is a dark brown eagle with small white spots. It uses forest clearings in the interior of the Andaman Islands and eats snakes and other animals.

• Chihuahuan Meadowlark Sturnella lilianae

  This meadowlark is common in dry grasslands. It has pale brown, mottled upperparts and yellow underparts with a bold black V across the chest. It forages on the ground for seeds, grains, and insects.

• Kerguelen Tern Sterna virgata

  A tern of islands in the southern Indian Ocean. Observations on Kerguelen showed it feeding on fish and crustaceans at sea as well as small land invertebrates.

• Nicobar Scops Owl Otus alius

  This scops owl is from the Nicobar Islands. The original description is based on specimens from Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island. Reports describe coastal forest and prey found in specimens, but ecological information remains limited.

• Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava

  The Tawny-flanked Prinia is a small bird with a long graduated tail and short, rounded wings. In northern Namibia it uses grass and waterside shrubs, searching for insects on the ground and in bushes.

• Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus

  A starling with metallic blue-green plumage and yellow eyes, it eats fruit and insects.

• 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.

• Black-banded Crake Rufirallus fasciatus

  The Black-banded Crake forages in river-edge thickets and fallow fields near water. A Peru account reports it as common in the northeast and rare in the southeast.

• Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera cailliautii

  The Green-backed Woodpecker is a small woodpecker of woodland and open forest in parts of eastern and central Africa. It is active by day and feeds on small invertebrates, including insects.

• Finsch's Euphonia Euphonia finschi

  Finsch's Euphonia is a small bird that forages in forest canopy and fruiting trees. It is reported in pairs or small groups; males have a yellow forehead and belly, while females are dull yellow-green.

• Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa

  Fine white and pale buff flecks cover the dark grey-brown body of this Australian duck. The male’s bill turns red during the breeding season.

• Sunda Collared Dove Streptopelia bitorquata

  The Sunda Collared-Dove is an island dove with pale sandy-brown plumage and a black-and-white half-collar. It feeds on seeds scattered on the ground in open country and farmland.

• White-flanked Antwren Myrmotherula axillaris

  A small antbird of humid lowland forests from Central America into South America, feeding among low branches.

• Black-headed Cuckooshrike Coracina melanoptera

  Males have a black head and wings with a grey body; females have a grey head and black-and-white underparts. In Bangladesh, it searches foliage for insects and berries in forests and secondary growth.

• Black-headed Bulbul Brachypodius melanocephalos

  The common color morph has a glossy black head with olive and yellow body plumage. Small groups feed on fruit in forests and forest edges from northeastern India through Southeast Asia.

• Venezuelan Parakeet Pyrrhura emma

  This parakeet occurs in the hills of northern Venezuela, in humid and wet forest and at forest edges. It feeds at different levels of the canopy, often in flocks.

• Yellow-breasted Brush Finch Atlapetes latinuchus

  The Yellow-breasted Brush Finch lives in Andean forest and highland grassland. Its crown and nape are rufous, the face has a broad black mask, and the belly is bright yellow. It searches foliage for fruit, fresh leaf buds, and insects.

• Crested Coua Coua cristata

  The Madagascar cuckoo-relative has gray-green plumage, a crest, and blue bare skin around the eyes. It moves between the ground and trees.

• Pale-legged Hornero Furnarius leucopus

  This ovenbird-family species occurs in northwestern South America, including Peru. A nest was studied in Peruvian floodplain forest.

• Fulvous Wren Cinnycerthia fulva

  The Fulvous Wren occurs in the eastern Andes of southeastern Peru and Bolivia. It is olive-rufous, with a pale eyebrow and throat and dark bars on the wings and tail.