Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ring-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas caribaea

  

  The Ring-tailed Pigeon is a large pigeon endemic to Jamaica. Its tail has a dark band and a broad pale tip, and it lives in forest.

• Bearded Screech Owl Megascops barbarus

  This small owl is 16–20 cm long. It lives in highland pine, pine-oak, and cloud forest and is active at night.

• Pectoral Antwren Herpsilochmus pectoralis

  The Pectoral Antwren occurs in northeastern Brazil. Males have a black-and-gray pattern, a white eyebrow and a black breast patch; nests have been recorded in relatively open coastal forest.

• Black-and-chestnut Eagle Spizaetus isidori

  This large eagle has a black crest and a chestnut belly marked with black. It lives in humid forests of northwestern South America and takes arboreal mammals and large birds.

• Andean Flicker Colaptes rupicola

  A woodpecker of open Andean highlands, marked by a white rump and yellow wings, that often feeds on the ground.

• Dark-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus melacoryphus

  The Dark-billed Cuckoo has a long tail and a thick, curved bill. In the Galápagos it occurs from lowland sites to humid highlands and feeds mainly on insects.

• Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis

  This small bird lives in sub-Saharan African savanna and open woodland. It has a grey-tinged olive back and a belly whose yellow varies in intensity, and it moves actively among foliage.

• Glittering-throated Emerald Chionomesa fimbriata

  This hummingbird is widespread across northern South America. It has a glittering green throat and a white stripe down the center of its belly. It feeds on nectar and occurs in forest, scrub, savanna, gardens, and other settings.

• Golden-hooded Tanager Stilpnia larvata

  A small tanager of humid tropical lowlands, it also uses evergreen-forest edges, plantations, and gardens.

• Golden pheasant Chrysolophus pictus

  A pheasant whose colourful male displays its feathers to court females.

• Ross's Goose Anser rossii

  A small goose that breeds in the Canadian Arctic and migrates to parts of the southern United States for winter. Adults are white with black wingtips, a shorter neck, and a smaller bill than a Snow Goose.

• Northern Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura longicauda

  This woodcreeper occurs in the Guianas and in Brazil north of the Amazon. In dry-ground and periodically flooded lowland forest, it climbs trunks from the base while searching for insects.

• Great Thrush Turdus fuscater

  A large thrush common in Andean highlands, it is brown with an orange bill and legs. Males have a yellow eye-ring.

• Northern Grosbeak-Canary Crithagra donaldsoni

  A bird of dry northeastern African savanna that feeds on seeds on the ground.

• Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum nigriceps

  This flycatcher lives in moist forest from Central America into north-western South America and catches small insects in the canopy and at forest edges.

• Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope

  It breeds in Siberia and eastern Asia and migrates south. Hong Kong records are from autumn passage and winter.

• Red-browed Amazon Amazona rhodocorytha

  Adult Red-browed Amazons are green, with a red forehead and crown and blue on the throat and upper cheeks. In the wild, they eat fruits and seeds high in the trees of humid forests in eastern Brazil.

• Yellow-crowned Parakeet Cyanoramphus auriceps

  The Yellow-crowned Parakeet is a green parrot that spends much of its time high in the forest canopy. Its yellow crown and crimson forehead band help identify it.

• Spice Imperial Pigeon Ducula myristicivora

  The Spice Imperial Pigeon is a large fruit-eating pigeon found on islands off western New Guinea. A black knob at the base of its bill and iridescent green wings help identify it.

• Moluccan Scops Owl Otus magicus

  The Moluccan Scops Owl is active at night and has black-spotted plumage that occurs in several color forms.

• Great Antshrike Taraba major

  Male and female Great Antshrikes have different plumage: males are black above, while females are rufous-brown above. They hide in humid lowland undergrowth and are often found in pairs.

• Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus

  A hawk ranging from Africa through South and Southeast Asia to New Guinea. It is known for catching bats in flight around dusk.

• Elliot's Woodpecker Dendropicos elliotii

  This woodpecker occurs in forests of western and central Africa. Red on the rear crown is a male trait; females lack it.

• Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus

  The Blue-headed Coucal occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Its crown and nape are black with a blue sheen in good light, while the lower back and wings are chestnut.