Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-winged Apalis Apalis chariessa

  

  The White-winged Apalis is a small East African bird with black upperparts, yellow underparts and white wings. It searches for insects in the canopy and along forest edges.

• Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea

  This warbler has rich red-brown and creamy buff in summer, then becomes mostly green and white in fall. It searches lower branches of conifers on its breeding grounds.

• Little Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites minutillus

  This small cuckoo ranges from Southeast Asia to Australia and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Lesser Seedcracker Pyrenestes minor

  Males are red from the head to the upper breast, while females have less red on the head. Juveniles are brownish, and the species feeds on grass seeds.

• Great Hanging Parrot Loriculus stigmatus

  The Great Hanging Parrot is a small parrot found mainly on Sulawesi in Indonesia. It is active by day and feeds on fruit and nectar.

• Pallid Dove Leptotila pallida

  This brown-toned dove has white tips on its tail. It uses humid forest and older secondary growth, walking on the ground to feed on plant seeds and other material.

• Black Harrier Circus maurus

  The Black Harrier is a southern African harrier that hunts small mammals and birds while flying low over the ground.

• Taita White-eye Zosterops silvanus

  This small bird lives in forests of the Taita Hills and Mount Kasigau in southeastern Kenya. Its white eyering and yellow brow stand out; it uses forest edges and gleans insects and small fruit.

• Coppery Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus

  Breeding males have a coppery head that can look black in poor light. The species uses savanna, scrub, gardens, and other open places, and is a resident native in Ghana.

• Sick’s Swift Chaetura meridionalis

  Sick’s Swift (Chaetura meridionalis) breeds from eastern Bolivia to northern Argentina and east-central Brazil, then moves north for winter. Specimen descriptions give adults a sooty-brown body and a pale throat. In central Argentina, two nests were recorded in tree hollows in Chaco woodland.

• Gray-hooded Bush Tanager Cnemoscopus rubrirostris

  A tanager of Andean montane forest from Colombia through Peru, with a grey hood, olive upperparts and yellow underparts.

• Golden-winged Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus calopterus

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher is about 9.5 cm long. It forages in dense understory at forest edges and in second growth; in northern Peru it is recorded along the Andean foothills up to about 600 m.

• Slate-colored Solitaire Myadestes unicolor

  A gray-plumaged thrush of Central America. It keeps quietly to the understory of cloud forest and oak-pine woodland.

• Silver Teal Spatula versicolor

  The silver teal is a small duck with a dark brown cap and a blue-green wing patch. It is recorded at lakes and rivers in Argentina.

• Acre Antshrike Thamnophilus divisorius

  This antshrike is known from Serra do Divisor in Acre, Brazil. Males are dusky grey; females are grey above and tawny-rufous below.

• Shelley's Greenbul Arizelocichla masukuensis

  A study in Ndundulu Forest, Tanzania, recorded seasonal changes in the feeding observations of Shelley's Greenbul. An older description of the nominate form has a green crown close in color to the back and pale yellowish-olive underparts.

• Stripe-headed Rhabdornis Rhabdornis mystacalis

  This bird lives in Philippine forest and woodland. The male has white streaks on the head and back, a white throat and central underparts, and black-striped flanks.

• Mitred Parakeet Psittacara mitratus

  The Mitred Parakeet is a green parakeet with a red face and a long tail. Its native range is on the eastern Andean foothills of southern South America, while escaped birds have formed local feral populations in parts of the United States.

• Purple-backed Sunbeam Aglaeactis aliciae

  Male Purple-backed Sunbeams have iridescent purple backs and rumps. This hummingbird feeds on nectar and small insects on high Andean slopes in northern Peru.

• Sind Woodpecker Dendrocopos assimilis

  The Sind Woodpecker lives in dry lowlands of Iran and Pakistan. It searches trunks and branches for food, and males and females differ in crown color.

• Yellow-rumped Marshbird Pseudoleistes guirahuro

  The Yellow-rumped Marshbird is an icterid of open grassland and wet habitats in southeastern South America. A nest study in northeastern Argentina and Paraguay recorded birds other than the parents helping raise chicks.

• Dark-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albigularis

  This small bird lives in grassy scrub and forest edges in Amazonia and forages in young second growth. Its rufous crown and dark throat are useful field marks.

• Himalayan Snowcock Tetraogallus himalayensis

  A large pheasant-family bird of high mountains from Central Asia to the Himalaya.

• Chinese Crested Tern Thalasseus bernsteini

  The Chinese Crested Tern is a seabird with a black cap and yellow bill that gathers with other terns.