Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-eyed Parakeet Psittacara leucophthalmus

  

  The White-eyed Parakeet is a medium-sized parrot that is mainly green. Red markings on the neck vary widely and may be barely visible. In South America, it feeds on fruit and other foods in flocks.

• Mangrove Rail Rallus longirostris

  The Mangrove Rail is a rail of scattered coastal sites in Central and South America, where it uses mangroves and salty wetlands. It probes shallow mud and water with its long bill.

• Musician Wren Cyphorhinus arada

  This small wren is recorded in Bolivian Amazonian forests. It forages mainly in leaf litter and keeps to dense lower growth or the ground, alone or in pairs.

• Green Jay Cyanocorax luxuosus

  The jay has a green body, blue crown, black throat and facial markings, and yellow outer tail feathers. Family groups search woodland and scrub for food. This account is scoped to the northern Cyanocorax luxuosus group recognized in the AOS proposal.

• Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas

  The Common Yellowthroat is a small bird that searches low vegetation for insects and spiders. Adult males and females have different facial markings.

• White-tailed Swallow Hirundo megaensis

  A swallow restricted to southern Ethiopia's Acacia–Commiphora woodland. A study recorded many nests in homes occupied by villagers.

• Souimanga Sunbird Cinnyris sovimanga

  A small sunbird found on Madagascar and nearby western Indian Ocean islands. Males are metallic green, while females are much duller brown and yellow.

• Chirinda Apalis Apalis chirindensis

  The Inyanga National Park survey recorded Chirinda Apalis specimens in forest on the upper slopes of Pungwe Gorge. The account notes pale yellow-brown irises and small insects in stomach contents.

• White-throated Swift Aeronautes saxatalis

  The White-throated Swift is a slender, aerial bird associated with cliffs and canyons in western North America.

• Yucatan Nightjar Antrostomus badius

  The Yucatan Nightjar lives in forests and at forest edges on the Yucatán Peninsula. Its camouflaged plumage helps it remain difficult to see as it hunts from perches.

• Black-collared Starling Gracupica nigricollis

  The Black-collared Starling is a starling marked by a black-and-white collar and yellow skin around the eyes. It forages on the ground and also occurs in parks and farmland.

• African fish eagle Icthyophaga vocifer

  A large eagle of African waterways that catches fish near the surface.

• Bhutan Laughingthrush Trochalopteron imbricatum

  The Bhutan Laughingthrush occurs in the eastern Himalayas and searches for food near the ground in woodland and scrub.

• Spotted Whistling Duck Dendrocygna guttata

  The Spotted Whistling Duck has a reddish-brown breast with fine dark markings and reddish-brown scaling on its white flanks. It lives in wetlands and feeds on grass seeds and snails at twilight and night.

• Glittering-bellied Emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus

  The Glittering-bellied Emerald occurs in South America. Males are green with a bright blue-green throat; females have grey underparts and white tips on the outer tail feathers.

• Marcapata Spinetail Cranioleuca marcapatae

  This spinetail occurs in the mountains of central Cusco, Peru. It has a rufous crown, back, wings, and tail, a grayish face, and a pale throat. It forages in humid montane forest understory, especially around bamboo.

• Golden pheasant Chrysolophus pictus

  A pheasant whose colourful male displays its feathers to court females.

• Javan Woodcock Scolopax saturata

  The Javan Woodcock inhabits damp montane forests of Java and Sumatra. It probes the forest floor with its long bill, and observations on Java recorded display behaviour at dawn and dusk.

• Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda

  This small bird has a grey face, orange cheeks, and a red bill. It eats seeds and insects in grasslands and scrub in western and central Africa.

• Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum

  The Grasshopper Sparrow is a small bird that runs through tall grass while foraging. It can disappear among the grasses and sometimes sings an insect-like buzz from a stalk.

• Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet Tyranniscus uropygialis

  This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in northern Salta Province, Argentina. The national park database lists forest and montane-forest edges as its habitat.

• Varied Lorikeet Psitteuteles versicolor

  This small parrot inhabits woodlands of northern Australia. It feeds on nectar and pollen and gathers in flowering trees.

• 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.

• Western Wattlebird Anthochaera lunulata

  Adult Western Wattlebirds have dark brown foreheads and crowns with white spots at feather tips. A 2021 study in Western Australia recorded the species among the more abundant nectarivorous birds visiting Banksia flowers.