Explore eclectus parrots' striking male and female colors, treetop meals, nesting hollows, and the species differences hidden by a familiar name.
Meet the hyacinth macaw, a deep-blue parrot reaching about a meter long, with a powerful bill, yellow facial markings, and a dependence on palms.
Discover the scarlet macaw's bright feathers, powerful nut-cracking bill, social life, tree-hole nests, and the work needed to protect its habitat.
Explore the red-necked tanager's vivid collar, blue crown, green body, and active search for fruit and insects in the Atlantic Forest.
Meet Brazil's seven-colored tanager, a brilliant Atlantic Forest bird threatened by habitat loss and trapping, with hope in forest protection.
Meet the paradise tanager, a small Amazonian bird with a green head, blue belly, dark wings, and a bright rump that changes the view as it turns.
Discover the green honeycreeper's blue-green males, grass-green females, curved yellow bill, and varied meals in tropical forest canopies.
Meet the curl-crested aracari, a toucan relative with glossy curled head feathers, a colorful bill, and a busy life in the Amazon canopy.
Discover the keel-billed toucan's rainbow bill, fruit-flipping meals, tree-hole nests, and the threats facing Belize's colorful national bird.
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Meet the plate-billed mountain toucan, an Andean cloud-forest bird with a raised yellow bill plate and an important role in moving seeds.
Meet the red-cheeked ground squirrel, a Eurasian rodent with warm facial markings, and learn why recent research has changed its species map.
Discover the lesser mouse-deer, a tiny Southeast Asian hoofed mammal with slender legs and enlarged canine teeth instead of antlers.
Meet the collared pika, a rabbit relative that gathers winter hay among northern mountain rocks. Discover its calls, habitat, and climate challenges.
Meet the black-and-rufous sengi, an African forest mammal whose flexible snout, quick legs, and leaf nests make it a remarkable small hunter.
Discover Australia's feathertail gliders, tiny marsupials that glide between trees with a skin membrane and steer with a fringe-haired tail.