Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little Woodpecker Veniliornis passerinus

  

  This small woodpecker is widespread across northern and eastern South America. It favors forest edges and regenerating woodland over dense forest interior and searches bark for insects.

• Narrow-billed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes angustirostris

  This woodcreeper occurs widely in South America. It climbs trunks and branches with its long, narrow, slightly curved bill while searching for insects and spiders.

• Black Shama Copsychus cebuensis

  The Black Shama is a Cebu Island bird with glossy black plumage and a long tail.

• Red-and-blue Lory Eos histrio

  A parrot with mainly red plumage and blue-purple bands on the head and chest. It occurs in Indonesia’s Talaud Islands and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• 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.

• Yellow-chevroned Parakeet Brotogeris chiriri

  A green parakeet native to South America, with yellow wing feathers. It eats seeds, fruit, and flowers, and nests in tree-dwelling termite mounds.

• Fiery Topaz Topaza pyra

  The male has a copper-colored body and long tail feathers, and differs in color and tail shape from the female. It occurs in the canopy of northern Amazonian forest.

• Dark Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx bocki

  The Dark Hawk-Cuckoo is a large, long-tailed cuckoo with a hawk-like shape, found in montane and foothill forests of Borneo.

• Koepcke's Screech Owl Megascops koepckeae

  This small owl lives in the Peruvian Andes. Its iris is yellow, and plumage varies from mostly grey to brown in some populations.

• Rufous Crab Hawk Buteogallus aequinoctialis

  The Rufous Crab-hawk has a rufous belly and yellow feet. It searches for crabs in coastal mangroves and swoops down from a branch to catch them.

• African Thrush Turdus pelios

  The African Thrush has a gray-brown back and yellow bill; its underparts range from buff and gray to rufous. It uses wooded places from forest edges to gardens.

• Azure-rumped Tanager Poecilostreptus cabanisi

  The Azure-rumped Tanager occurs in Pacific-slope mountains of western Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico. A Guatemalan study recorded it in humid broadleaf forest and shade coffee plantations.

• Acre Antshrike Thamnophilus divisorius

  This antshrike is known from Serra do Divisor in Acre, Brazil. Males are dusky grey; females are grey above and tawny-rufous below.

• Red-winged Grey Warbler Drymocichla incana

  This small warbler has a grey head and back with a red wing patch. It searches for small insects in savanna, riparian woodland and thickets.

• White-bearded Flycatcher Phelpsia inornata

  This flycatcher appears in records from Venezuela. A female described in a 1937 field record had a deep-yellow underside and was noted at small groves and near lagoons. The paper uses an earlier taxonomic name.

• Orange-bellied Fruit Dove Ptilinopus iozonus

  This forest dove lives on New Guinea and nearby islands. Adults of subspecies humeralis are mostly green, with a bright orange patch on the centre of the belly.

• Stejneger's Scoter Melanitta stejnegeri

  Stejneger's Scoter is a diving duck with a prominent swelling at the base of the bill. It moves from northern breeding areas to Pacific coasts for winter.

• Bulwer's Pheasant Lophura bulweri

  A pheasant whose male has a blue face and large white tail. It lives in Borneo's montane tropical and highland rain forests.

• Plain-breasted Piculet Picumnus castelnau

  This small woodpecker inhabits floodplain forest along the Amazon and Ucayali rivers. Its range is closely tied to Cecropia-rich riverside forest, river islands, and nearby secondary forest.

• Cipo Canastero Asthenes luizae

  This canastero is endemic to the Espinhaço Range in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. It is restricted to rocky campos rupestres, where researchers have studied scattered populations.

• Blue-fronted Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hoevelli

  The Blue-fronted Blue Flycatcher is presented as endemic to Sulawesi in a local guide to Sigi Regency. The guide records it at Gimpu, Lindu, Kamarora, Rorekatimbu, Napu and Besoa, and describes it as a forest bird.

• Maroon Shining Parrot Prosopeia tabuensis

  A parrot of Fiji's forests, notable for reddish plumage and green wings. Fine details of its coloration vary by subspecies.

• Fulvous-vented Euphonia Euphonia fulvicrissa

  The male has a blue back and yellow underparts. This euphonia lives in humid forests from Panama through Ecuador and mainly eats fruit.

• Pacific Parrotlet Forpus coelestis

  The Pacific Parrotlet is a small green parrot. Males show blue on the rump and wings, and the species eats fruits and seeds and moves in small groups.