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This small, greenish-yellow songbird can be found among the boreal, or forests of the northern U.S. and Canada, singing its buzzy „zee-zee-zee-zooo-zeet“ song from the treetops.
Species: Setophaga virens Animal News Giant Pandas
A small bird with a big bill, the blue grosbeak is a North American songbird with a striking deep-blue color. Found throughout much of the southern United States, their rich, warbling song can be heard around thickets and hedgerows during the breeding season. Sometimes they will pop up to a high perch to flick and spread their tails.
Cardinalidae Genus and Species: Animal News Giant Pandas
Spiny-tailed monitors are small lizards found in Northern Australia. Their appearance is often likened to that of a miniature Komodo dragon.
Species: Varanus acanthurus Animal News Giant Pandas
The Schmidt’s red-tailed monkey — also called the black-cheeked white-nosed monkey, red-tailed guenon or Schmidt’s guenon — is a small guenon with a white or yellow nose, white cheeks and a long tail. These monkeys are native to central Africa and are threatened by hunting and deforestation.
Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti Animal News Giant Pandas
Known for its eye-popping red plumage, the scarlet ibis is a medium-sized wading bird often found near freshwater and brackish water marshes. Flocks of these birds forage in shallow water and roost atop lofty trees.
Species: Eudocimus ruber Animal News Giant Pandas
Beautiful but shy, this cinnamon-colored forest dove can be seen throughout the tropical regions of the Americas. It can be identified by a light stripe that runs underneath its eye.
Species: Geotrygon montana Animal News Giant Pandas
Also called sengis, elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than to true shrews. Their name comes from their long, flexible, highly sensitive snouts. Of the 17 living species of elephant shrews, the short-eared elephant shrew is the smallest.
Macroscelides proboscideus Animal News Giant Pandas
The silver arowana (or arawana) is a freshwater fish native to the floodplains of the Amazon. It has a long body covered in large, pearly-silver scales. Large dorsal and anal fins extend down its body to the tail, and two barbels extend from the tip of its lower jaw.
Osteoglossum bicirrhosum Animal News Giant Pandas
A new study from SCBI and partners compares the bacterial communities (microbiome) in the gut of wild rhinos to that of those in human care, resulting in a recommendation for a health-boosting rhino diet.
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Guam rails are small, speedy ground birds who can only fly three to 10 feet at a time. They are also only the second bird in history – after the California condor – to recover from being extinct in the wild. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is an active participant in the Guam Rail conservation program. Some of the Guam rails raised at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, go on to be released into the wild on small islands off the coast of Guam. In working with birds like Guam rails, animal care staff monitor their health and behavior closely, weighing the birds regularly and observing them daily. A few years ago, they diagnosed one Guam rail with heart disease.
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