Meet the world’s animals.

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• California Scrub Jay Aphelocoma californica

  

  The California Scrub-Jay is a blue, white, and gray-brown jay. It lives in dry shrubland, oak woodland, and some urban areas along the Pacific coast, and caches acorns for later.

• Society Kingfisher Todiramphus veneratus

  It occurs on Tahiti and Moorea in the Society Islands. The eBird account describes different male plumage forms on the two islands.

• Bronze Mannikin Lonchura cucullata

  A small, social bird widespread south of the Sahara. A Southern African account describes flocks feeding on grass seeds in grassy and scrubby places and along woodland edges.

• Copper-rumped Hummingbird Saucerottia tobaci

  A hummingbird recorded in gardens and forest edges in Trinidad and Tobago. It feeds on flower nectar and also catches small prey near flowers.

• Blue-crowned Lorikeet Vini australis

  This 19 cm lorikeet is active by day and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Brassy-breasted Tanager Tangara desmaresti

  The green plumage has black streaks, a turquoise forehead and eye area, a brassy ochre breast, and a yellow line down the belly.

• Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus

  A dark-brown eagle with yellow eyes and bare whitish legs. It often watches for snakes from a perch and ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa.

• 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.

• Sabine's Gull Xema sabini

  Breeding adults show triangular black, white, and gray wing patches, a dark head, and a red eye ring; they feed in Arctic wetlands.

• Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis

  The Spotted Owl is a large owl of western North American forests. It silently hunts small mammals at night.

• 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.

• Yellow-faced Myna Mino dumontii

  The Yellow-faced Myna is a starling of New Guinea's forest canopy. Its yellow face and white rump are easy to notice.

• Long-billed Partridge Rhizothera longirostris

  A forest-floor pheasant that probes leaf litter with its long bill. In the lowland form described from Sarawak, males and females differ in breast color and the number of leg spurs.

• Azure Gallinule Porphyrio flavirostris

  The Azure Gallinule is a small wetland rail with a yellowish frontal shield and bill, blue-green wings, and a white belly. It searches for seeds and small animals in floating vegetation in northern South America.

• Acorn Woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus

  The Acorn Woodpecker stores acorns in holes and raises young with other members of its group.

• Sharpe's Rosefinch Carpodacus verreauxii

  Sharpe's Rosefinch uses scrub above the treeline and mountain meadows in southwestern China. Males are reddish, while females are grey-brown and streaked.

• Hawaiian Duck Anas wyvilliana

  The Hawaiian Duck is a brown-speckled native duck of Hawaiʻi. It forages in shallow freshwater wetlands; this description excludes birds hybridized with Mallards.

• Yellow-eyed Pigeon Columba eversmanni

  The Yellow-eyed Pigeon breeds in Central Asia. In winter it moves south and uses open farmland, often in flocks.

• Collared Antshrike Thamnophilus bernardi

  The Peru species account places the nominate form on the Pacific slope of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru; it lists another form farther north in Peru.

• Camiguin Bulbul Hypsipetes catarmanensis

  This bulbul is found only on Camiguin Island in the Philippines. It is brown with a relatively large bill and eats fruit and insects.

• Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus

  The Senegal Parrot lives along savanna edges in western and central Africa. Its gray head and green and yellow body colors stand out.

• Choco Brush Finch Atlapetes crassus

  This brushfinch lives in humid montane forest on the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Yellow underparts, a black-sided face, and a tawny crown stripe are useful clues.

• Hispaniolan Lizard Cuckoo Coccyzus longirostris

  A cuckoo of Hispaniola and nearby islands, it uses its long tail as it searches among branches for lizards and large insects.

• Rufous-rumped Foliage-gleaner Neophilydor erythrocercum

  The Rufous-rumped Foliage-gleaner occurs in forests across South America, including Peru. It has a rufous tail and rump and a pale throat.