Meet the world’s animals.

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• Puerto Rican Lizard Cuckoo Coccyzus vieilloti

  

  The Puerto Rican Lizard Cuckoo is endemic to Puerto Rico. It has a long tail and red eye-ring, and searches forests for lizards and insects.

• Green-barred Woodpecker Colaptes melanochloros

  Its green-yellow upperparts and pale underparts are barred in black. Males have a red mark below the eye; in females it is black.

• Ural owl Strix uralensis

  A forest owl with mixed white and brown plumage, found in Eurasia including Japan.

• Grey-winged Blackbird Turdus boulboul

  This thrush inhabits forests from the Himalayas to northern Indochina. Males are black with grey wing panels; females are olive-brown with rufous on the wings.

• Plumbeous Antbird Myrmelastes hyperythrus

  It occurs across the western Amazon, including Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Bolivia, reaching 800 m along the Andean foothills.

• Yellow-wattled Bulbul Poliolophus urostictus

  This Philippine bulbul forages for fruit along forest edges and in young woodland.

• Spot-winged Grosbeak Mycerobas melanozanthos

  This large bird lives in Himalayan mountain forests. Males are black and yellow, while females are mainly olive brown, so the sexes differ in plumage.

• Red-bellied Macaw Orthopsittaca manilatus

  This macaw has a green body, bare yellow facial skin, a bluish head, and a reddish-brown belly patch. It occurs in northern and central-western Brazil and Venezuela.

• Madagascar Rail Rallus madagascariensis

  The Madagascar Rail is endemic to Madagascar’s eastern wetlands. It stays hidden in dense wetland vegetation and is often heard before it is seen.

• Daurian Jackdaw Coloeus dauuricus

  A jackdaw with contrasting pale and dark adult plumage and a darker immature stage.

• Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia

  The Magnolia Warbler is a small bird that breeds in dense conifer stands. Males and females have different facial and breast patterns, and the species uses a range of forests during migration.

• 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.

• Stierling's Wren-Warbler Calamonastes stierlingi

  This small bird occurs in miombo woodland. A survey in northern Mozambique found it on the lower slopes of Mt Chitagal and Mt Sanga and recorded up to four territorial individuals in a day.

• Mascarene Swiftlet Aerodramus francicus

  A swiftlet of Réunion and Mauritius, it has brown upperparts, a pale rump and a shallowly forked tail. It roosts in caves and lava tubes.

• Daurian Starling Agropsar sturninus

  Males have glossy purplish upperparts that contrast with a pale head and underside. The species uses forest edges and open plantations, moving to Southeast Asia for winter.

• Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus

  The Eastern Marsh Harrier flies low over open areas such as grassland and marshes, and may perch close to the ground.

• Yellow-billed Babbler Argya affinis

  The Yellow-billed Babbler is a social bird of drier habitats in southern India and Sri Lanka. It has a pale crown, yellow bill, and blue eyes.

• Eastern spot-billed duck Anas zonorhyncha

  A duck seen on rivers and ponds across Japan. Its black bill has a yellow tip, and males and females have similar body colours.

• White-chinned Sapphire Chlorestes cyanus

  This hummingbird uses humid forest and adjacent scrubby transitions. An Argentine biodiversity account describes distinct blue markings in males and females.

• Orange-eyed Thornbird Phacellodomus erythrophthalmus

  This thornbird lives along forest edges in eastern Brazil and has a chestnut-colored tail.

• Painted Spurfowl Galloperdix lunulata

  The male has spotted black-green plumage and a golden-buff belly, while the female is mostly brown and olive. The species lives among dry rocky ground and thorn scrub in India.

• Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild

  A small African finch with a red bill and red around the eyes. It also occurs in grassy places near people.

• Yellow-eyed Junco Junco phaeonotus

  The Yellow-eyed Junco lives in mountain forests from the southwestern United States through Mexico to Guatemala. Its yellow-orange eyes, gray head, and reddish-brown back stand out.

• Pine Flycatcher Empidonax affinis

  This small flycatcher lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Guatemala. Its olive-grey body has a conspicuous eye ring.