Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus moluccensis

  

  A small woodpecker whose male has a red streak on the hindcrown. It usually searches tree trunks and branches alone or in pairs.

• Zebra Dove Geopelia striata

  The small Zebra Dove has fine bars across its plumage and walks on the ground to find food.

• Yellow-collared Chlorophonia Chlorophonia flavirostris

  The Yellow-collared Chlorophonia is a small bird whose male has a green head and yellow eye-ring. It forages in the canopy of humid forest, mainly for small fruits.

• Yellow-throated Miner Manorina flavigula

  This honeyeater lives in dry woodland and scrub on mainland Australia and searches for food on the ground and in trees.

• Torrent Tyrannulet Serpophaga cinerea

  The Torrent Tyrannulet is a small tyrant flycatcher recorded along Andean streams and rivers. The El Oro guide gives an elevation range of 700–3,100 m.

• African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata

  It is described with dark wine-red plumage, a grayish-red crown, and a dark bluish, cone-shaped bill.

• Tessmann's Flycatcher Muscicapa tessmanni

  This flycatcher was recorded in a Ghanaian forest survey. The 2009 paper uses the older genus Muscicapa, while a current species page lists it as Fraseria tessmanni.

• Northern boobook Ninox japonica

  An owl of woodland with large trees that hunts insects at night.

• Brown-headed Crow Corvus fuscicapillus

  The Brown-headed Crow has glossy black plumage, except for its dark-brown head and neck. It lives in moist forests and mangroves around northwestern New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Streaked Spiderhunter Arachnothera magna

  A large sunbird relative with a long curved bill and streaked plumage, it searches for nectar and small invertebrates.

• Pectoral Sparrow Arremon taciturnus

  This sparrow occurs in the forest understory of the Amazon Basin. White head stripes and the male's black breast band are useful field marks.

• Araguaia Spinetail Synallaxis simoni

  This small spinetail occurs along the Araguaia River in central Brazil. Pairs search low tangles in riverside forest and scrub for food.

• Purple-throated Woodstar Calliphlox mitchellii

  Its main range is western Colombia and western Ecuador. The male has a glittering purple throat; the female lacks that purple throat. Residency in eastern Panama is presumed from two female specimens.

• Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush Catharus frantzii

  This thrush lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Panama. A gray breast and pale orange lower bill help identify it, and it forages on the ground and in fruiting trees or shrubs.

• Dusky Antbird Cercomacroides tyrannina

  This antbird occurs from Central America into northern South America. Males are dark gray with white tips on the wings and tail; females are olive-brown above and rufous below. Pairs forage for insects along lowland forest edges and in secondary growth.

• Bar-headed Goose Anser indicus

  A goose with black bars on its white head, found from Central to South Asia.

• Green Racket-tail Prioniturus luconensis

  A mostly green parrot with black, spatula-shaped tips on its tail feathers. It uses lowland forest and forest edges in the northern Philippines.

• Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii

  Levaillant's Cuckoo is marked by a crest and streaks on the throat and flanks. It lays its eggs in the nests of babblers and other birds.

• Collared Laughingthrush Trochalopteron yersini

  This laughingthrush is listed in a Langbiang Biosphere Reserve guide for evergreen broadleaf forest. Its black hood, silvery-gray cheeks, and rusty chest and wings stand out.

• Fiji Goshawk Tachyspiza rufitorques

  This diurnal hawk is reported from open woodland, well-wooded farmland, suburbs, and parks. Audio records on Oiseaux.net are from Fiji.

• Scarlet-browed Tanager Heterospingus xanthopygius

  This tanager occurs from Panama through Colombia to Ecuador. Males are mostly black with a white eyebrow and scarlet eyebrow tufts; the species uses humid lowland forest and its edges.

• Black-faced Rufous Warbler Bathmocercus rufus

  The Black-faced Rufous Warbler moves through dense undergrowth in damp forests of central and eastern Africa. The male has a black face and throat, chestnut upperparts, and grayish underparts, and searches for insects. The identification account centers on males, so it does not represent full female plumage.

• White-throated Francolin Campocolinus albogularis

  This ground-dwelling bird walks through savanna with patches of grass. Males and females have different breast patterns.

• Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris

  A bulbul found across parts of western, central, and eastern Africa. It is about 17 cm long and is described as a very plain-looking greenbul.