Meet the world’s animals.

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• Alor Boobook Ninox plesseni

  

  This owl occurs on Alor and Pantar in the Lesser Sunda Islands. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of Ninox novaeseelandiae, but a study using vocal and DNA evidence supports treating it as a separate species.

• Hooded Visorbearer Augastes lumachella

  This small hummingbird lives on the highlands of Bahia in eastern Brazil. It feeds in open rocky scrub and is described as sedentary.

• Rufous-faced Antbird Myrmelastes rufifacies

  The Rufous-faced Antbird occurs in Brazil south of the Amazon. Males and females have different plumage, and the species searches for invertebrates on the ground in moist forest.

• Golden-mantled Racket-tail Prioniturus platurus

  The Golden-mantled Racket-tail is a parrot of eastern Indonesia's forests that visits fruiting trees to feed.

• Tawny Tit-Spinetail Sylviorthorhynchus yanacensis

  A small furnariid localized in high Andean Polylepis woodland and nearby scrub. Its fine bill and long tail are distinctive.

• Austral Parakeet Enicognathus ferrugineus

  The Austral Parakeet is green with red patches. It forms flocks in Andean and Patagonian forests and feeds on seeds and tree fruits.

• Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina

  In breeding plumage, the male has an orange head and reddish bill; the female is brown. This diving duck feeds on aquatic plants and algae.

• Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis

  It is the largest cisticola in southern Africa. It lives in moist grasslands, where breeding males call from exposed perches and make display flights.

• Red-collared Woodpecker Picus rabieri

  Adult males show a red head and upper breast, green upperparts, and pale bars on the belly; females have a black crown. The species uses forest and bamboo-rich woodland and searches low branches or the ground for ants.

• Black Rosy Finch Leucosticte atrata

  The Black Rosy-Finch is a finch of the high mountains of western North America. It uses rocky high elevations for breeding and descends in winter.

• Djibouti Francolin Pternistis ochropectus

  The Djibouti francolin is a spurfowl that lives in the remaining highland forests of Djibouti. Its belly feathers have a pale streak, and males have two spurs on each leg.

• Redwing Turdus iliacus

  A thrush similar in appearance to a Song Thrush that arrives in Britain in autumn and stays through winter. It searches open country for berries, sometimes visiting parks and gardens in severe cold.

• New Zealand Pigeon Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae

  The New Zealand Pigeon is a large pigeon endemic to New Zealand. Its green and bronze iridescent body contrasts with a white breast; it mainly eats fruit, with leaves and buds in some seasons.

• Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus

  The Harris's Hawk is distinguished by reddish shoulders and legs and a dark tail with white bands.

• Rufous-headed Pygmy Tyrant Pseudotriccus ruficeps

  The Rufous-headed Pygmy Tyrant was recorded in the understory of Colombia’s western Andes. At La Linda, observers heard a few individuals daily and captured an adult male in dense Chusquea bamboo.

• Lesson's Seedeater Sporophila bouvronides

  Lesson's Seedeater is a seasonal visitor to the northern lowlands of Bolivia. The Birds of Bolivia account describes it there as a rare, local nonbreeding visitor.

• Great Shortwing Heinrichia calligyna

  This flycatcher relative lives in montane forest on Sulawesi and uses dense growth near the forest floor. By day, it searches leaf litter and undergrowth for small prey.

• Shining Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites lucidus

  In New Zealand, the Shining Bronze Cuckoo is a small migrant that arrives in spring and stays into autumn. Its back has a green sheen and its white underside is barred. It lays eggs in smaller birds' nests and leaves the care of its young to them.

• Seychelles Owl Otus insularis

  This small owl uses the remaining and secondary forests of Mahé. Short ear tufts, a rufous-brown back, and a low raspy call help identify it.

• Reddish Hermit Phaethornis ruber

  This small hummingbird is about 8 cm long and ranges through Amazonia and the eastern Andean foothills. It is often found in the understory and at forest edges.

• Rio Madeira Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla amazonica

  This antbird forages in the lower and middle forest layers of Amazonia and may join mixed-species flocks. Males and females differ in throat and wing markings.

• Little Lorikeet Parvipsitta pusilla

  A small parrot of eastern Australia. It is green with a black bill and a red patch that extends from the forehead to the throat.

• Chestnut-throated Spinetail Synallaxis cherriei

  This furnariid occurs in central and eastern Amazonia. Its wings are black, with chestnut upper coverts. In one northern Peruvian record, a bird called in young secondary growth and responded strongly to playback.

• Golden-collared Macaw Primolius auricollis

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