Meet the world’s animals.

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• Arizona Woodpecker Leuconotopicus arizonae

  

  This woodpecker lives mainly in Mexico’s Sierra Madre and reaches only a small part of southern Arizona and New Mexico. It has a wood-brown back and spotted underparts.

• Barred Eagle-Owl Ketupa sumatrana

  A large owl of forests in Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, and nearby islands, it is marked by ear-like tufts and bars across its body.

• Olive-streaked Flycatcher Mionectes olivaceus

  This flycatcher occurs in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peru Aves account says it forages at different heights along forest edges and in second growth.

• Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis

  A small bird with black-and-white plumage and a long tail, found from the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia.

• Gadwall Mareca strepera

  The male has fine gray patterning and a distinctive black rear.

• 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-eared Solitaire Entomodestes leucotis

  This thrush lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. A broad white cheek-and-ear stripe stands out against its dark head and underparts.

• Orange-bellied Euphonia Euphonia xanthogaster

  The male’s orange-yellow head and belly stand out against a blue-black body, while the female is browner overall. It eats mainly fruits and berries in moist forest and along its edges.

• Red Pileated Finch Coryphospingus cucullatus

  This tanager-family bird is recorded as native in Argentina. Males have a red crest, rump, and underparts; females have a brown head, back, and wings, with a red rump and pinkish underparts. It occurs alone, in pairs, or in groups among shrubs or on the ground.

• Plain Parakeet Brotogeris tirica

  The Plain Parakeet is a small green parrot that eats fruit, flowers, and nectar and moves in pairs or flocks. It is native to the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil and also visits gardens where fruit is available.

• Partridge Pigeon Geophaps smithii

  This ground-dwelling pigeon is recognized by facial skin and a white stripe along the body. In northern Australia the facial skin is red in one region and yellow in another; it feeds on seeds on the ground.

• Hispaniolan Lizard Cuckoo Coccyzus longirostris

  A cuckoo of Hispaniola and nearby islands, it uses its long tail as it searches among branches for lizards and large insects.

• Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle Spilornis klossi

  The Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle is a small serpent eagle collected on Great Nicobar Island. Adults have a dark crown, grey cheeks, and pale underparts; specimen stomachs contained lizards and small mammals among other prey.

• Black-crested Coquette Lophornis helenae

  The male's dark crest plumes and golden-green throat stand out on this small hummingbird. It visits flowers and gleans tiny arthropods along humid forest edges and coffee farms.

• Spot-winged Antshrike Pygiptila stellaris

  The Spot-winged Antshrike forages in Amazonian forest. Males and females have different plumage, and the bird may move through the midstory and canopy with mixed-species flocks.

• Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia ruficaudata

  A foliage-gleaner that searches for small invertebrates in trees in humid lowland forest. Records extend to 1,300 m.

• Gray Francolin Ortygornis pondicerianus

  The Gray Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird native from Iran through South Asia. It has mottled brown plumage and eats seeds and insects.

• Emerald Pygmy Parrot Micropsitta finschii

  This tiny parrot feeds upside down on lichens and fungi on tree trunks. Plumage and colour patterns vary among subspecies and between sexes.

• Chestnut Woodpecker Celeus elegans

  This 26–32 cm woodpecker forages on trunks and branches by day, taking invertebrates from bark.

• Sula Scops Owl Otus sulaensis

  This owl lives on the Sula Islands. It has a grey-brown facial disk and dark streaks with pale bars on its underside.

• Olive-faced Flatbill Tolmomyias viridiceps

  In a Colombian photo, the nominate form is shown with an olive back, yellow wing bars and a pale lower bill with a black tip. A 2024 study reported one nest each in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.

• Verditer Flycatcher Eumyias thalassinus

  The Verditer Flycatcher is a flycatcher with striking blue-green plumage. It hunts insects in the middle and upper canopy and breeds from the Himalayas into Southeast Asia.

• Salvadori's Teal Salvadorina waigiuensis

  Salvadori's Teal is a small duck of the New Guinea highlands. It lives along mountain streams and fast-flowing rivers.

• Pale-crowned Cisticola Cisticola cinnamomeus

  This cisticola occurs in eastern and southern Africa, in moist grassland and near wetlands. During the breeding season, the male has a brown crown while the female keeps streaks on hers.