Meet the world’s animals.

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• Buffy-fronted Seedeater Sporophila frontalis

  

  This finch of the Atlantic Forest region of southeastern South America moves in response to bamboo seed crops. Many records are from southeastern Brazil, where birds may gather when bamboo flowers.

• Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo Cacomantis castaneiventris

  The Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo occurs in New Guinea, the Aru Islands, and northeastern Australia. Adults have gray upperparts and chestnut underparts.

• 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.

• Elf Owl Micrathene whitneyi

  The Elf Owl is described as the world's smallest raptor. It hunts insects and other small prey at night and nests in old woodpecker holes and similar cavities.

• Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus

  A forest thrush marked by spots on its breast. It breeds in North America and migrates to Central and South America for winter.

• Allpahuayo Antbird Percnostola arenarum

  This uncommon antbird is known from two small areas of Loreto in northeastern Peru. It is closely associated with forest growing on sandy, nutrient-poor soil.

• Thick-billed Siskin Spinus crassirostris

  The Thick-billed Siskin is a small high-Andean bird with a very broad-based bill. Males have black heads, while females have grey heads; both have yellow rumps.

• Cordilleran Parakeet Psittacara frontatus

  This medium-sized parakeet ranges through the Andes of southern Ecuador and Peru. Red on the forehead and thighs and bare white eye-rings are conspicuous. It can also be found in fields and orchards as well as forest habitats.

• Rudd's Apalis Apalis ruddi

  This apalis lives in thickets and woodland in southern Africa. Adults have a gray head with a short pale eyebrow and search foliage for insects.

• Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus

  The Zone-tailed Hawk is a slender, dark raptor with pale tail bands that hunts around canyons and arid foothills in the U.S. Southwest.

• Flying Steamer Duck Tachyeres patachonicus

  A grey duck with a white wing patch, it lives around Patagonian lakes and rivers, with different head and bill colors by sex

• Plain-bellied Emerald Chrysuronia leucogaster

  This hummingbird has a white belly. It uses coastal mangroves and forest edges and feeds on nectar.

• Puna Miner Geositta punensis

  A ground-dwelling bird of high Andean grasslands in northwestern Argentina. It is brown above, greyish-white below, with cinnamon wings and tail marked by dark bands.

• Green-legged Partridge Tropicoperdix chloropus

  The Green-legged Partridge is a forest-dwelling Asian pheasant. A study in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, recorded ground nests with females incubating alone.

• Andean Negrito Lessonia oreas

  This bird occurs in the high Andes of Peru. Its account describes feeding in short, wet grass beside water; males are black with a rufous back, while females are grey-brown.

• 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.

• Pink-headed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus porphyreus

  The male has a vivid pink-purple head and throat, and the dove feeds on fruit high in forest trees. It is native to mountain forests in Indonesia.

• Reunion Stonechat Saxicola tectes

  This stonechat lives on Réunion. Males show a white eyebrow and wing patch and an orange breast, while the sexes differ in color.

• Masked Saltator Saltator cinctus

  This bird lives in humid montane forest in the northern Andes and is often associated with bamboo thickets.

• Lesser Ground-Cuckoo Morococcyx erythropygus

  The Lesser Ground-Cuckoo lives in arid lowlands from western Mexico to northwestern Costa Rica. It forages on open ground and, more often, in the understory.

• Checkered Woodpecker Veniliornis mixtus

  The Checkered Woodpecker's specimen account describes a dark, white-streaked head and red on the male's hind-crown. In 2022 a pair was recorded nesting in a tamarisk and feeding young in Chubut, Argentina.

• Sulawesi Scops Owl Otus manadensis

  This nocturnal owl varies from brown to rufous and hunts moths and other insects.

• Black Solitaire Entomodestes coracinus

  The Black Solitaire occurs in humid forests of the Chocó region of Colombia and Ecuador. Its black plumage contrasts with white cheek and breast tufts and red eyes.

• Band-tailed Antwren Myrmotherula urosticta

  This small antwren lives in tall forests of eastern Brazil and often forages with mixed-species bird flocks.