Meet the world’s animals.

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• Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus

  

  The Spotted Towhee searches leaf litter for seeds and small invertebrates in western North American thickets and forest edges.

• Silver-beaked Tanager Ramphocelus carbo

  The Silver-beaked Tanager is a South American bird whose lower bill can look silvery. Males are dark red, while females are browner.

• Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush Cichladusa ruficauda

  The Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush is about 18 cm long. It uses palm-dominated woodland, riverine forest, and gardens, where it forages on the ground for invertebrates.

• Chestnut-bellied Malkoha Phaenicophaeus sumatranus

  A cuckoo with bright orange facial skin and a chestnut belly, it moves quietly through the canopy to feed on large insects and other prey.

• Glossy Swiftlet Collocalia esculenta

  The Glossy Swiftlet is a small swiftlet with a square tail and a blue sheen on its upperparts. It catches insects in flight and often uses low airspace over forests, streams, and clearings.

• Bornean Treepie Dendrocitta cinerascens

  The Bornean Treepie is a long-tailed corvid with a pale grey nape and reddish-brown underparts. It moves through the canopy in small groups in Bornean forests.

• Rufous Owl Ninox rufa

  The Rufous Owl is a large owl with reddish-brown plumage and pale bars. It rests in leafy cover by day and is active at night.

• Ruddy-breasted Crake Zapornia fusca

  The Ruddy-breasted Crake is a rail that lives in waterside vegetation.

• Green-tailed Trainbearer Lesbia nuna

  The Green-tailed Trainbearer is a high-Andean hummingbird. The male's long tail is distinctive, and the bird visits flowers in shrubland.

• Brown-bellied Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla gutturalis

  In Guyana, it has been recorded foraging in the understory of moist lowland forest, taking insects hidden among leaves. It may join mixed flocks of other antbirds.

• Eastern Rosella Platycercus eximius

  This colorful parrot has a red head, white cheeks, and blue shoulders. It feeds on the ground in open woodland and grassland in southeastern Australia, eating seeds and fruits among other foods.

• Scalloped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes falcinellus

  This woodcreeper searches along tree trunks in humid forest. It has a rufous back, pale eyebrow, and finely scalloped belly. It is associated with the Atlantic Forest, where one observed pair took turns incubating its eggs.

• Mangrove Honeyeater Gavicalis fasciogularis

  This honeyeater lives along eastern Australia's coast, especially in mangroves and nearby coastal vegetation. It also uses offshore islands and adjoining forests.

• Fuertes's Parrot Hapalopsittaca fuertesi

  Fuertes's Parrot is an Andean parrot recognized by its turquoise nape and canopy feeding. Its documented range is concentrated on the western slope of Colombia’s Central Andes.

• Brown-headed Gull Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus

  The Brown-headed Gull develops a brown head in breeding plumage. It moves between its breeding range and wintering areas with the seasons.

• Torrent Duck Merganetta armata

  The torrent duck lives on fast rivers in the Andes. It dives into the current to catch aquatic insect larvae and other small prey.

• Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus

  Males are black and yellow-orange, while females are pale yellow. Females sew their hanging nests to the undersides of palm fronds.

• Hill Prinia Prinia superciliaris

  This brown bird has a long tail. A Vietnam photo archive records a white eyebrow and throat and seasonal variation in breast streaking; its broader range and habitat come from a separate species account.

• Plain Sunbird Anthreptes simplex

  The Plain Sunbird is a small bird with olive-green upperparts and yellowish underparts. It lacks the iridescent patches of many sunbirds and feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla

  This bird has brown plumage with bold streaking and stays near moving water. The Cornell Lab account describes it as one of the first signs of spring in eastern North America.

• Black-backed Woodpecker Picoides arcticus

  This woodpecker often arrives in forests after fires and feeds mainly on wood-boring beetle larvae.

• Grey-headed Bullfinch Pyrrhula erythaca

  This bullfinch lives in montane coniferous and mixed forests. Adult males have an orange breast patch, while females are browner overall.

• Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis

  The Taiwanese subspecies has a white patch behind the head and lives in farmland and city parks.

• White-tailed Ptarmigan Lagopus leucura

  This ptarmigan inhabits alpine areas of western North America. Its plumage changes with the seasons, and feathers cover its feet.