Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ultramarine Lorikeet Vini ultramarina

  

  The Ultramarine Lorikeet is a small parrot surviving in the Marquesas on Ua Huka. It moves through the forest canopy and feeds on flowers, fruit and other foods.

• Spot-crowned Euphonia Euphonia imitans

  This euphonia occurs on the southern Pacific slope of Costa Rica. Males have a yellow forehead and underparts with blue-black upperparts; females have an olive back and rufous underparts.

• Tucuman Amazon Amazona tucumana

  The Tucuman Amazon is a large parrot of montane forest in southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. Its scaly plumage and green crown stand out.

• Volcano Hummingbird Selasphorus flammula

  This hummingbird occurs in the high mountains of Costa Rica. It uses open páramo and scrub, and male throat colors differ among mountain populations.

• Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia

  The Striped Cuckoo ranges from southern Mexico into a broad part of South America. It is brown with a crest and lays its eggs in the nests of other birds.

• Gilbert's Honeyeater Melithreptus chloropsis

  This honeyeater inhabits the wetter forests of southwestern Western Australia. Adults have pale bare skin around the eye and feed on nectar and insects.

• Southern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis granti

  The Southern White-faced Owl is a nocturnal owl of dry habitats in eastern and southern Africa.

• Saunders's Gull Chroicocephalus saundersi

  It breeds in Yellow Sea coastal saltmarshes, mainly in eastern China and occasionally on the southwestern coast of South Korea. Outside the breeding season it moves to coasts of eastern China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.

• grey sunbird Cyanomitra veroxii

  The Grey Sunbird is about12–14cm long and lives in coastal and riverside forest. It is active by day.

• Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna

  The Eastern Meadowlark lives in grasslands and farmland in eastern North America and searches for food on the ground.

• Yellow-striped Brush Finch Atlapetes citrinellus

  This brush finch inhabits the Yungas of northwestern Argentina. Records span about 400–2,500 m, and birds move up and down the slopes seasonally.

• White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus

  The White-breasted Waterhen also lives around freshwater wetlands and park waters in Singapore. Adults have a white face and breast against a dark body.

• Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea

  A dark-brown seabird of the open ocean, with silvery flashes under its wings. It nests on Southern Hemisphere islands and dives to catch fish and other marine prey.

• Nepal House Martin Delichon nipalense

  Adults have glossy blue-black upperparts, a white rump and underparts, and a black throat and undertail. The species uses Himalayan valleys, cliffs, and settlements.

• Malayan Black Magpie Platysmurus leucopterus

  A corvid with an all-black body, a white wing band, and a long broad tail; it forages in the forest canopy and mid-story.

• Spotted Kingfisher Actenoides lindsayi

  The Spotted Kingfisher lives in the moist lowland forests of the Philippines. It waits on low perches and catches insects and small animals.

• Williams's Lark Mirafra williamsi

  This small lark lives on lava-strewn plains in Kenya's semi-desert. Its upperparts vary from dark to rusty brown, and its streaked chest and white outer tail feathers are noticeable in flight.

• Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis

  The Grasshopper Buzzard is a raptor of open Sahel country that feeds heavily on insects, especially grasshoppers.

• Javan Cochoa Cochoa azurea

  A thrush relative of Java's mountain forests. Males are conspicuously blue, and the bird keeps to the middle and upper forest canopy.

• Orinoco Saltator Saltator orenocensis

  Orinoco Saltator is about 19 cm long. It uses dry to moist lowland forest and shrubland. The species page lists separate ranges for two subspecies across northern Colombia and Venezuela.

• Giant Weaver Ploceus grandis

  The Giant Weaver occurs only on São Tomé. It is often seen in small groups in secondary forest and oil-palm plantations, feeding on seeds, palm nuts, and invertebrates.

• Black-and-white Antbird Myrmochanes hemileucus

  This small antbird is recorded in thickets on islands and along large rivers in the Amazon basin. Males have bold black-and-white plumage; females differ in appearance.

• Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida

  A warbler of East African scrub and forest. Williams and Arlott's 1980 field guide describes a green bird with a grey, black-banded crown and a dark chestnut throat patch that skulks in dense thickets, often near water.

• Smoky Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes fumigatus

  This flycatcher inhabits Andean forests. It is dark brown with pale mottling on the throat; one nest on a dead stump was reported in Ecuador.