Meet the world’s animals.

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• Large-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus macrurus

  

  The Large-tailed Nightjar is a nocturnal bird with mottled camouflage. It rests motionless on the ground or along a branch by day and catches flying insects at dusk.

• Turquoise-winged Parrotlet Forpus spengeli

  Forpus spengeli is a small parrot recorded in northern Colombia. A Colombian taxonomic and distribution review reports it from dry savanna, open woodland, and scrub.

• Lowland White-eye Zosterops meyeni

  A white-eye recorded in the Philippines. An old museum catalogue describes the color of Luzon specimens, while Philippine Museum field notes describe small groups on Calayan Island.

• Common Gull Larus canus

  A relatively small gull seen year-round in the UK, along coasts, wetlands, and farmland.

• Flightless Steamer-Duck Tachyeres pteneres

  The Flightless Steamer-Duck is a large duck that cannot fly and lives along coasts and channels. It is mostly gray, with a white belly and orange bill and legs.

• Dusky-green Oropendola Psarocolius atrovirens

  Adults are dark olive overall, with paler throat and ear-coverts and darker lores and wings. The species occurs in the Andes of southeastern Peru and northwestern Bolivia, using both dry and wet mountain forest as well as canyons.

• Purple Martin Progne subis

  This large swallow breeds in North America and catches flying insects. In the East it uses nest boxes, while in the West it uses woodpecker holes in dead trees, then migrates to South America after breeding.

• Zapata Wren Ferminia cerverai

  This wren occurs only in Zapata Swamp in southwestern Cuba. It has a long tail and bill, builds a grass nest, and eats a varied range of small animals and other foods.

• Yellow-breasted Tailorbird Orthotomus samarensis

  The Yellow-breasted Tailorbird is a small bird with a black head and yellow underparts. It searches for small invertebrates in dense undergrowth in the Philippines' moist lowland forests.

• Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda

  The male has long tail feathers and is longer than the female. This small bird feeds on nectar, small insects, and spiders.

• Choco Warbler Myiothlypis chlorophrys

  The Choco Warbler inhabits forest and scrub in western Colombia and western Ecuador. This population responds differently to songs from the eastern Peru population and is treated as a separate species.

• Powerful Woodpecker Campephilus pollens

  This large woodpecker occurs in the Andes from Venezuela south to Peru. It excavates decaying trunks for insects and larvae.

• Olive-backed Euphonia Euphonia gouldi

  Olive tones and a chestnut belly mark this euphonia. Adult males have a yellow forehead and females a rufous one; the bird uses the upper layers and edges of wet forest.

• Yellow-eyed Bristlebill Bleda ugandae

  Bleda ugandae is a resident of lowland forest in central Africa. It is treated separately from the related Lesser Bristlebill, with yellow eyes and a weaker mark near the bill among the distinguishing features.

• Ceylon Spurfowl Galloperdix bicalcarata

  The Ceylon Spurfowl is a hard-to-see bird of Sri Lankan forests. Males and females have different plumage, and the female incubates the eggs in a ground nest.

• Dark-backed Weaver Ploceus bicolor

  The Dark-backed Weaver has dark brown upperparts and golden-yellow underparts. Some regional forms have grey backs. It lives in forest and closed woodland, where it searches among leaves and bark for small invertebrates.

• Variegated Laughingthrush Trochalopteron variegatum

  This olive-and-buff laughingthrush has a black throat stripe and a broad gray band near the end of its tail. It searches for insects and fruit in Himalayan woodland and scrub.

• Sumatran Cochoa Cochoa beccarii

  The Sumatran Cochoa is a difficult-to-see bird of the mountain forests of Sumatra.

• Grey Imperial Pigeon Ducula pickeringii

  The Grey Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon that uses forest canopies. It occurs on islands including the Sulu Archipelago and northern Borneo and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata

  A medium-sized eagle. Adults have dark brown upperparts and a white, dark-streaked underside; juveniles are much paler.

• Yungas Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus spodiops

  This small bird lives in humid montane forest and dense second growth on the eastern Andes. Greenish-brown upperparts and two thin yellow-edged wing bars are distinctive.

• Azure Kingfisher Ceyx azureus

  The Azure Kingfisher is a small kingfisher with blue to violet upperparts and orange sides to the neck. It dives from a waterside perch to catch prey.

• Archer's Lark Heteromirafra archeri

  This lark runs through high-plateau grassland; in the breeding season, the male makes a singing display flight.

• Red-headed Finch Amadina erythrocephala

  A chunky gray-brown finch with scalloped underparts and white-tipped outer tail feathers, it breeds in pairs in dry thorn scrub and forms flocks at other times.