Meet the world’s animals.

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• Masked Mountain Tanager Tephrophilus wetmorei

  

  This tanager occurs in the Andes of southern Colombia, Ecuador, and northernmost Peru. It inhabits the humid ecotone between páramo and forest.

• Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae

  The Gambaga Flycatcher is a small flycatcher identified in part by faint breast streaks and a yellowish-orange lower mandible. It occurs in Africa and southwestern Arabia; breeding activity was observed in Yemen in May.

• Suiriri Flycatcher Suiriri suiriri

  A flycatcher of dry savanna and open woodland in South America. A gray head, olive-brown back, and two gray wingbars help identify it.

• Blue-winged Parakeet Psittacula columboides

  This parakeet of India's Western Ghats has a long blue tail and red bill. Males have a grey head and black neck stripe, and the birds feed on fruit and seeds.

• Long-winged Antwren Myrmotherula longipennis

  This antwren forages in the middle levels of Amazonian forest. Males are gray with a black throat; females are brown to rufous-brown, and the birds often join mixed-species flocks.

• Slender-billed Parakeet Enicognathus leptorhynchus

  The Choroy is a gregarious, noisy parakeet. Groups feed in trees or on the ground while a sentinel watches; alarm calls can send the flock into flight.

• 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-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon mellisugus

  The Blue-tailed Emerald is a small hummingbird that feeds mainly on nectar. By day it visits flowers in its territory and also takes flying insects or small arthropods from branches and spider webs.

• Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon Petrophassa rufipennis

  The Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon has a dark brown body with pale spots and chestnut wing panels visible in flight. It lives among sandstone formations in northern Australia.

• Paradise Shelduck Tadorna variegata

  This New Zealand endemic duck has white-headed females and black-headed males. Pairs are often seen together.

• Rufous-legged Owl Strix rufipes

  The Rufous-legged Owl is a nocturnal owl of the humid forests of northwestern Patagonia. Its underside has bold pale and brown bars, and the thighs and belly are cinnamon-colored.

• African Black Coucal Centropus grillii

  The African Black Coucal walks through wet grassland in search of small animals. Breeding adults have a black body and chestnut wings.

• Karoo Prinia Prinia maculosa

  The Karoo Prinia is a small bird of scrub and tall dense growth in southern Africa. The atlas associates it with Karoo and fynbos scrub in the west and with grassland mixed with scrub in the Lesotho highlands.

• Sunda Thrush Zoothera andromedae

  The Sunda Thrush is a thrush with a scaly-looking pattern on its back. It occurs mainly on Indonesian islands and also in the Philippines, searching for food on the forest floor and in undergrowth.

• White-cheeked Hill Partridge Arborophila atrogularis

  A forest-dwelling partridge with conspicuous white cheeks, it lives in dense evergreen forest and uses the forest floor and grassy edges.

• Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak Rhynchostruthus percivali

  The Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak lives in the southwestern Saudi highlands and has a very thick black bill. White cheeks and yellow wing patches make it distinctive.

• Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus melanoleucus

  The Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle has a white head with a black crest. It watches from trees for mammals, birds, and reptiles.

• Rusty-crowned Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura pileata

  This tit-spinetail is endemic to Peru. It forages in Polylepis woodland and nearby scrub, and occurs on the western Andes and in the Marañón and upper Huallaga valleys.

• Morelet's Seedeater Sporophila morelleti

  A small bird that eats grass seeds in open grassy places. Breeding males vary by region, and southern birds often show a bold black breast band.

• Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher Ficedula strophiata

  The Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher has two subspecies. A male of F. s. strophiata is grayish with a white band above the eyes and a rufous breast patch, and searches for small invertebrates in forest undergrowth.

• Drab Water Tyrant Ochthornis littoralis

  The Drab Water Tyrant is a small, mostly brown flycatcher commonly reported from the Amazon region. It forages alone or in pairs along riverbanks.

• Emerald Pygmy Parrot Micropsitta finschii

  This tiny parrot feeds upside down on lichens and fungi on tree trunks. Plumage and colour patterns vary among subspecies and between sexes.

• Spot-crowned Antvireo Dysithamnus puncticeps

  This antvireo inhabits moist forests from Central America to northwestern South America. It searches for small invertebrates in the forest understory.

• Scarlet macaw Ara macao

  A parrot with vivid red, yellow and blue plumage and a large hooked bill.