Meet the world’s animals.

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• Flame-throated Sunangel Heliangelus micraster

  

  The male hummingbird has a dark green body and a brilliant flame-orange throat. The species occurs in the Andes from southern Ecuador to northwestern Peru, visiting flowers in cloud forest and along forest edges.

• Rufous-winged Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus rufipennis

  The Rufous-winged Ground Cuckoo is a large ground cuckoo of foothill forest from southern Venezuela to northern Brazil. It has rufous wings and bare red skin around the eye.

• Painted Honeyeater Grantiella picta

  This honeyeater occurs in southeastern Australia. Mistletoe fruit is its main food, and it also takes nectar and insects.

• Boreal Owl Aegolius funereus

  A small owl of forests in northern North America and Eurasia. At night it waits on a perch for small animals.

• olive sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea

  The Olive Sunbird is olive above and yellowish-green below. It favors forest cover and eats nectar, insects, and spiders. Yellow pectoral tufts occur in all males and in females from some populations.

• Rufous-capped Brush Finch Atlapetes pileatus

  This brushfinch is endemic to Mexico. It lives in the understory of pine-oak forest and searches the ground for insects and seeds.

• New Caledonian Crow Corvus moneduloides

  A crow of Grande Terre in New Caledonia that uses tools to extract food from dead wood.

• Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus

  The sexes look different: males are gray, while females are brown with a white rump.

• Tickell's Thrush Turdus unicolor

  Tickell’s Thrush searches forest floors for food and makes partial seasonal movements in elevation and range.

• Blue-winged Mountain Tanager Anisognathus somptuosus

  A tanager of Andean cloud forests, marked by a yellow crown and underparts and blue edging on the wings. It ranges from Colombia to Bolivia and often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Bar-crested Antshrike Thamnophilus multistriatus

  This antshrike occurs in Colombia and Venezuela. It uses premontane tropical forest, dry-forest borders, and coffee forest, moving from the understorey to the canopy.

• Black-throated Prinia Prinia atrogularis

  This long-tailed prinia lives in scrub on hills and mountains. Breeding adults show a gray head, white moustachial stripe, and black throat and chest.

• Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet Tyranniscus uropygialis

  This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in northern Salta Province, Argentina. The national park database lists forest and montane-forest edges as its habitat.

• Scaled Dove Columbina squammata

  Its feathers have overlapping edges that create a scaled pattern. It searches for food on the ground in dry grassland and scrub.

• Red-breasted Goose Branta ruficollis

  This goose breeds in the Siberian Arctic and winters around the Black Sea. Its plumage has bold chestnut, white, and black markings.

• Asian Blue Quail Synoicus chinensis

  This small quail shows a strong color contrast: males are blue-gray and chestnut, while females are brown. It walks through grass and scrub to find seeds and small insects on the ground.

• Bornean Bulbul Rubigula montis

  The Bornean Bulbul inhabits hill and foothill forest on Borneo. It has an olive-yellow back, bright yellow throat and underparts, and a black head with an upright crest. It also occurs in degraded or regenerating forest and often perches in open areas.

• African Piculet Sasia africana

  A tiny woodpecker of humid forests in western, central, and eastern Africa. It searches low forest layers for wood-boring beetle larvae and other insects.

• Nepal Fulvetta Alcippe nipalensis

  The Nepal Fulvetta lives in forest from the lowlands to the mountains of the eastern Himalayas. Outside the breeding season it may form active flocks of up to about 20 birds, sometimes with other species.

• Ayacucho Thistletail Asthenes ayacuchensis

  The Ayacucho Thistletail is recorded from a few small valleys in eastern Ayacucho, southern Peru. It inhabits elfin forest and has a long tail with olive-brown upperparts.

• Formosan Whistling-Thrush Myophonus insularis

  This thrush is found only in Taiwan and occurs near mountain streams. Its deep blue-purple plumage has a metallic sheen.

• Seychelles Black Parrot Coracopsis barklyi

  Despite its name, the Seychelles Black Parrot is pale brown-grey, not black. It lives on Praslin, where native palm fruits are a preferred food.

• Trinidad Euphonia Euphonia trinitatis

  A small tanager found on Trinidad and in northern South America. It feeds on fruit in treetops and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Slender-billed Parakeet Enicognathus leptorhynchus

  The Choroy is a gregarious, noisy parakeet. Groups feed in trees or on the ground while a sentinel watches; alarm calls can send the flock into flight.