Meet the world’s animals.
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- Red-winged Grey Warbler Drymocichla incana
Photo: avocat · (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 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.
- Mountain Robin Turdus plebejus
Adult males and females look alike, with olive-brown upperparts and a pale buff throat. Outside the nesting period, it may forage in small flocks.
- Chinese Francolin Francolinus pintadeanus
The Chinese Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird often found in cover. It searches for berries, insects and other food in the morning and evening.
- Tawny-capped Euphonia Euphonia anneae
This euphonia occurs from Central America to northwestern Colombia. Males have a tawny crown and yellow underparts; the species feeds on small fruits in humid forest and at forest edges.
- Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus
The Eastern Marsh Harrier flies low over open areas such as grassland and marshes, and may perch close to the ground.
- Streak-capped Spinetail Cranioleuca hellmayri
It has a long pointed tail, a rufous crown with pale streaks, and a whitish eyebrow and throat. It occurs in Colombia's mountain forests and searches for small invertebrates at forest edges and in mixed flocks.
- Wing-barred Seedeater Sporophila americana
This South American small bird has a black male with two clear white wing bars. Females are browner, and the species feeds mainly on grass seeds.
- White-throated Rock Thrush Monticola gularis
The White-throated Rock Thrush is marked by a blue crown and a white line down the throat. It ranges across eastern and southeastern Asia and eats insects.
- Masked Water Tyrant Fluvicola nengeta
This small bird has a white head and a black stripe through the eye. It searches muddy river and pond edges for small arthropods.
- Blue-eared Lory Eos semilarvata
This parrot occurs in the montane forests of Seram, Indonesia. Its dark-red body contrasts with purplish-blue cheeks and ear-coverts and black streaks on the wings. Flowers are part of its diet.
- Zeledon's Antbird Hafferia zeledoni
Zeledon's Antbird inhabits humid forest from Nicaragua through Panama to western Colombia and western Ecuador. Males are black, females are brown, and the species forages low in the forest.
- Red-bellied Macaw Orthopsittaca manilatus
This macaw has a green body, bare yellow facial skin, a bluish head, and a reddish-brown belly patch. It occurs in northern and central-western Brazil and Venezuela.
- Arrowhead Piculet Picumnus minutissimus
The Arrowhead Piculet is a small woodpecker of the coastal lowlands of the Guianas. Its underparts have an arrowhead-like scaly pattern; males have broad red feather tips on the crown.
- Orange-throated Sunangel Heliangelus mavors
Males have a throat that can glow orange in good light and a pale band across the breast. Females have a yellowish throat mottled with chestnut.
- Chilean Pigeon Patagioenas araucana
A large pigeon with a vinous chest and a white nape band. It uses forest and gathers in flocks, often staying quiet in foliage.
- Madagascar Pochard Aythya innotata
The Madagascar Pochard is a small brown diving duck. It spends much of its time on the water and dives to find food below the surface.
- Ochre-bellied Boobook Ninox ochracea
The Ochre-bellied Boobook lives around Sulawesi in Indonesia. It roosts in dense vegetation by day and hunts insects from the middle levels of trees.
- Sulawesi Cuckoo Cuculus crassirostris
This cuckoo lives in forests on Sulawesi. It has a gray head, a barred belly, and a banded tail, and it feeds on insects.
- Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens
Two birds were recorded foraging in open hillside woodland at Akagera National Park, Rwanda. The reported birds had green backs and wings, white throats, yellow breasts and bellies, and a dark band through the eye.
- Varied Solitaire Myadestes coloratus
The Varied Solitaire has a gray crown and underparts, a black face, brown back, and orange bill and legs. It lives in humid mountain forest from southern Panama to northwestern Colombia.
- Snow Partridge Lerwa lerwa
A high-altitude partridge of the Himalayas, marked by fine black-and-white barring and a red bill and legs. It may descend to lower elevations in severe winter weather.
- Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator
The Pine Grosbeak is a large bird with a thick bill. Males are reddish, while females and young birds are mostly gray; it eats buds, seeds, and fruit.
- Brown Goshawk Tachyspiza fasciata
A hawk that hunts in forests and woodlands, mainly in Australia. It uses its long tail and broad wings as it pursues birds and small animals.
- Buffy Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes lawrencii
The Buffy Tuftedcheek inhabits wet mountain forests in Costa Rica and western Panama. A study in Costa Rica recorded it searching among the leaves of epiphytic bromeliads for arthropods.