Meet the world’s animals.

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• American Scoter Melanitta americana

  

  The American Scoter is a sea duck that breeds in boreal North America and moves to coastal waters in winter.

• Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates

  The Dark Chanting Goshawk is a daytime raptor. It watches for prey from a perch and gives a ringing call during the breeding season.

• Freckle-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus striaticollis

  This South American ovenbird is found in shrub cover along grasslands and wetland edges and builds its nest in shrubs.

• Pileated Parrot Pionopsitta pileata

  The Pileated Parrot lives in humid forests of southeastern Brazil and nearby areas. Males have red on the head; females do not.

• Mountain Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron inopinatum

  The Mountain Peacock-Pheasant is a pheasant of montane forests in the Indomalayan region. It spends time on the forest floor and eats small animals such as insects.

• Red-collared Lorikeet Trichoglossus rubritorquis

  This lorikeet occurs in northern Australia. Adult males have a blue-black head with fine violet-blue streaks and a red-orange collar around the back of the neck. It uses riverside eucalypt woodland, wetlands, and scrub, and feeds on nectar, fruit, and insects.

• Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia

  This bird has a grey-brown back and a paler belly. It is active at dusk and at night, singing loudly from waterside thickets.

• Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis

  Breeding males have a golden head and build nests in grass. The bird eats insects and grass seeds and moves low among the vegetation.

• White-cheeked Bullfinch Pyrrhula leucogenis

  The White-cheeked Bullfinch is endemic to the Philippine mountains and is marked by white cheek patches. It eats fruits and seeds, and also uses insects seasonally.

• Tufted Coquette Lophornis ornatus

  This tiny hummingbird has a rufous crest and neck plumes in males; females lack both. It feeds on nectar and small invertebrates in forest edges, open country, gardens, and cultivation.

• Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata

  This widespread South American dove has black spots on the neck and wings and reddish legs. It may gather in flocks in open areas and towns.

• Greyish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens

  A small eagle-owl with dark brown eyes, it lives in dry open country and semi-desert with scattered trees and shrubs. It feeds on insects and small animals from dusk into the night.

• McConnell's Flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli

  This small flycatcher inhabits Amazonian forest. A 1978 paper, using the former genus name Pipromorpha, recorded it singing by creeks and taking insects from foliage near Manaus.

• Amami Thrush Zoothera major

  A large thrush found on Amami-Oshima, with records also from nearby Kakeroma Island. It searches for animal prey and fruit in mature evergreen forest around humid valleys.

• Gray-throated Warbling Finch Microspingus cabanisi

  The Gray-throated Warbling Finch lives in woodland and forest edges in southeastern South America. Its throat and chest are pale horn-colored, its back is brown, and the outer tail feathers have small white spots. It is recorded as an omnivore in wooded habitats.

• Red-billed Ground-Cuckoo Neomorphus pucheranii

  This large cuckoo has a greenish-brown back and a black crest, and forages on the ground. Its Amazonian lowland range is described as two subspecies in the source account.

• Streak-throated Woodpecker Picus xanthopygaeus

  The Streak-throated Woodpecker lives in forests of South and Southeast Asia. It also uses open woodland and bamboo and feeds on small invertebrates.

• 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.

• Ruddy-headed Goose Chloephaga rubidiceps

  The Ruddy-headed Goose occurs at the southern end of South America and on the Falkland Islands. The mainland population breeds in the south and winters in south-western Buenos Aires Province.

• Philippine Honey Buzzard Pernis steerei

  This honey-buzzard occurs on the main Philippine islands, excluding Palawan. In 2004 on Panay, observers recorded a bird flying above primary-forest canopy and performing a wing-quivering display flight.

• Eastern Woodhaunter Automolus subulatus

  This woodhaunter lives in the humid forest understory of the western Amazon. It searches among leaves and epiphytes for small arthropods.

• Yellow-eared Parrot Ognorhynchus icterotis

  Green plumage and a yellow patch beside the ears identify this parrot. It uses cloud forest and wax-palm habitat in the Colombian Andes.

• Caucasian Black Grouse Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi

  The Caucasian Black Grouse inhabits meadows near the forest line in the Caucasus Mountains. Males and females differ in plumage and tail shape.

• Naretha Bluebonnet Northiella narethae

  This parrot inhabits dry woodland in the far southeast of Western Australia and along the western edge of the Nullarbor Plain. Its brown body contrasts with a yellow belly and red undertail.