Meet the world’s animals.

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• Akiapolaau Hemignathus wilsoni

  

  This endemic Hawaiian honeycreeper lives in montane forest on Hawaiʻi Island. It uses a long curved upper bill and a short lower bill to search branches for insects and larvae.

• Mexican Jay Aphelocoma wollweberi

  The Mexican Jay ranges from Mexico into the southwestern United States, inhabiting mountain woodlands in family groups.

• Black-hooded Sunbeam Aglaeactis pamela

  This hummingbird has a dark head, white breast feathers, and a shining blue rump. It feeds at flowers in Bolivia's highlands.

• Pacific Emerald Dove Chalcophaps longirostris

  This dove ranges from the eastern Lesser Sundas through Australia and New Guinea to Vanuatu and New Caledonia. It uses forest and mangroves and feeds mainly on fallen fruit and seeds on the ground.

• Ochre-bellied Boobook Ninox ochracea

  The Ochre-bellied Boobook lives around Sulawesi in Indonesia. It roosts in dense vegetation by day and hunts insects from the middle levels of trees.

• Gray-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis

  The Gray-capped Flycatcher has a bushy gray crown and bright yellow underparts. It forages at forest edges and in semi-open habitat and is widespread in Amazonia.

• Uluguru Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla neumanni

  This bulbul is restricted to Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains. An adult photograph shows a dark gray head and gray-olive body. Species accounts record it in dense highland forest and as a fruit eater.

• Little tern Sternula albifrons

  A small tern that visits Japan in warmer months to breed on beaches and river bars.

• Rachel's Malimbe Malimbus racheliae

  Rachel's Malimbe occurs in lowland forest around the Gulf of Guinea. Males have a red crown and black face, with yellow on the lower breast and undertail coverts.

• Madagascar Mannikin Lemuresthes nana

  Lepidopygia nana is a small finch found widely across Madagascar. It eats grass seeds and often forages in flocks of its own species.

• Abyssinian Ground Thrush Geokichla piaggiae

  This ground thrush is marked by an orange head and breast, olive-brown upperparts, and a white eye-ring. It searches for fruit and small prey in the lower parts of mountain forest.

• Black-backed Tanager Stilpnia peruviana

  The Black-backed Tanager is about 14 cm long and endemic to Atlantic Forest along southeastern Brazil. It mainly occupies coastal sandbank forest and lowland forest.

• African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus

  This parasitic cuckoo occurs in Africa and is characteristically associated with the canopy of evergreen forest.

• Sulawesi Lilac Kingfisher Cittura cyanotis

  The Sulawesi Lilac Kingfisher occurs on Sulawesi and Lembeh Island. It waits for prey from low branches in forest and catches invertebrates on the ground.

• Red-throated Wryneck Jynx ruficollis

  The Red-throated Wryneck is a woodpecker relative with a patchy sub-Saharan African range. It searches for ants on the ground and elsewhere, and its subspecies differ in chest markings and plumage.

• Bicolored Antvireo Dysithamnus occidentalis

  The Bicolored Antvireo is recorded in humid Andean forests, including southern Colombia. Males are dark gray with small white wing spots; females have a brown back and a chestnut crown. The bird searches leaves and leaf litter for insects near the forest floor.

• Sri Lanka Hill Myna Gracula ptilogenys

  The Sri Lanka Hill Myna is endemic to Sri Lanka's wet forests. It eats fruit and moves through the canopy while giving loud calls.

• Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis

  An Arctic-breeding sea duck that spends winter along coasts and on large lakes, where it dives for aquatic animals.

• Spotted Laughingthrush Ianthocincla ocellata

  The Spotted Laughingthrush has a black crown, nape, and throat, with pale wing and tail patches. It occurs in mountain regions from the Himalayas to central and southwestern China.

• Tawny-shouldered Blackbird Agelaius humeralis

  The Tawny-shouldered Blackbird is widespread in Cuba and is also recorded in northern and west-central Haiti. It occurs at forest edges and in open places, including gardens.

• Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus ornatus

  The Ornate Hawk-Eagle is a forest raptor marked by a black crest and a rufous neck. In Argentina it glides along forest edges and hunts large birds and mammals.

• McConnell's Spinetail Synallaxis macconnelli

  This spinetail occurs in the understory of evergreen forest and woodland in Guyana. It has a warm rufous crown and wings against a gray body.

• Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix griseus

  The male has a gray crown, a white patch on the nape, and a dark face and underside. The female is paler brown. This small lark searches for food on dry open ground.

• Pearl-bellied White-eye Zosterops grayi

  This small bird has yellowish plumage, a white belly, and a broad white eye-ring. It is found only on Kai Besar Island in Indonesia.