Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous-bellied Niltava Niltava sundara

  

  The male Rufous-bellied Niltava has a blue crown, face, throat, and back with sandy-brown underparts. It lives in forest bushes and undergrowth and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Madagascar Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vociferoides

  The Madagascar Fish Eagle is a large raptor associated with Madagascar’s coasts and freshwater. Its wingspan is about 1.65–1.80 m, and it hunts around water by day.

• Chaco Earthcreeper Tarphonomus certhioides

  This small ground-foraging bird lives in dry scrub in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. It feeds on arthropods and usually forages alone.

• Cocha Antshrike Thamnophilus praecox

  This antshrike was photographically documented at Bretaña in Loreto, northeastern Peru, in 2022. The male is black and the female chestnut; the record site was whitewater-flooded forest.

• Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus

  A slender bird with a long tail. It searches North American woodlands for caterpillars and other prey, then migrates to South America for winter.

• Golden-collared Macaw Primolius auricollis

  This green macaw has a yellow band on its neck and nests in tree cavities.

• Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola

  This yellow finch searches for seeds on the ground. Males have orange heads, while plumage differences in females vary by region.

• Australian Ringneck Barnardius zonarius

  The Australian Ringneck occurs in Australia. Its plumage varies by region, but much of the body is green with a yellow band on the hind-neck.

• Berylline Hummingbird Saucerottia beryllina

  This hummingbird is common in Mexico's uplands. It strays north into Arizona in summer and feeds on nectar while hovering at flowers.

• Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus

  This forest grouse has a fan-shaped tail and red or gray color forms. In breeding season, males drum their wings to court females.

• Jelski's Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix jelskii

  Jelski’s Chat-Tyrant forages in the dense understory of humid montane forest. The Peru Aves page consulted here uses the older combination Ochthoeca jelskii; this entry follows the pool’s name, Silvicultrix jelskii, for the same species.

• Rosy-billed Pochard Netta peposaca

  The male has a conspicuous red bill, while the female is brown. Rosy-billed Pochards feed on plants and seeds in shallow water and may gather in flocks of thousands.

• White-breasted Ground Dove Pampusana jobiensis

  A dove from the islands around New Guinea. The New Guinea form has a dark purple back and a white breast patch.

• Japanese Scops Owl Otus semitorques

  The Japanese Scops Owl blends into woodland with bark-like mottled plumage and is active at night.

• 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.

• Common Jery Neomixis tenella

  A small bird endemic to Madagascar. It uses woody habitats including forest, scrub, savanna, plantations and vegetation around villages.

• Clay-colored Robin Turdus grayi

  The Clay-colored Robin is a thrush widespread in Central America. It visits forest edges, plantations, and gardens, where it eats fruit and small animals.

• Azores Bullfinch Pyrrhula murina

  The Azores Bullfinch has a rounded grey-brown body with a black head, wings and tail. It is confined to eastern São Miguel, where it feeds on native fruits, seeds and flowers in laurel forest.

• Herero Chat Namibornis herero

  The Herero Chat lives on rocky hills and escarpment slopes from western Namibia into south-western Angola. It often eats ants and termites.

• Jerdon's Baza Aviceda jerdoni

  A crested hawk that waits on a perch for prey, it breeds in scattered areas from India to Southeast Asia.

• Patagonian Canastero Pseudasthenes patagonica

  Patagonian Canastero inhabits dry steppe and shrubland in the southern half of Argentina. It is mostly grayish brown, with a whitish, black-speckled throat and a mainly black tail edged with rufous. It feeds in scrub and may hold its tail upright when on the ground.

• Scaled Antbird Drymophila squamata

  This antbird inhabits the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. Males are mainly black and white, females brown and buff, and crown spotting varies among birds.

• Asian Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx maculatus

  A cuckoo whose males have glossy green plumage; it forages in the tree canopy for insects such as caterpillars and ants.

• Mitred Parakeet Psittacara mitratus

  The Mitred Parakeet is a green parakeet with a red face and a long tail. Its native range is on the eastern Andean foothills of southern South America, while escaped birds have formed local feral populations in parts of the United States.