Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ochre-bellied Dove Leptotila ochraceiventris

  

  The Ochre-bellied Dove is a South American pigeon that walks quietly near the forest floor. Its ochre-colored belly and use of the forest understory stand out.

• Wallace's Scops Owl Otus silvicola

  A small owl of forests on Flores and Sumbawa. Its gray-brown body has ear tufts.

• Riparian Antbird Cercomacroides fuscicauda

  The Riparian Antbird uses riverside floodplain forest and dense river-island thickets. Males are gray and females brown to rufous. Habitat and voice help distinguish it from similar antbirds.

• Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus

  The Long-legged Buzzard is a large raptor with highly variable plumage. A Qatar regional account records it as a rare winter visitor.

• Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus

  This African woodpecker uses forests and secondary growth and searches trees for ants, termites, and other invertebrates.

• Blue Coua Coua caerulea

  This large cuckoo-family bird lives in Madagascar. It is about 50 cm long and searches tree branches for invertebrates.

• Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami

  This cisticola lives in African savanna. It has a rufous cap and bands near the tail tip, and gives a high, rising trill from a prominent perch.

• Juan Fernandez Firecrown Sephanoides fernandensis

  This hummingbird is endemic to Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernández Islands. Males and females have very different plumage.

• Fire-bellied Mountain-tanager Anisognathus igniventris

  The 2016 IUCN assessment treats this as a resident of Peru and Bolivia, using moist montane forest and high-altitude shrubland. A 2017 Peru tour report recorded many below Abra Malaga.

• Bornean Crested Fireback Lophura ignita

  The male has glossy blue-black plumage and a crest, while the female is brown. It forages on the forest floor alone or in small groups.

• Blue-winged Goose Cyanochen cyanoptera

  The Blue-winged Goose is restricted to the Ethiopian Highlands and has blue-gray wing panels on a gray-brown body. It grazes near rivers and ponds and spends much of the year in flocks.

• Coastal Miner Geositta peruviana

  This ovenbird is endemic to Peru's arid coastal plain. It walks on the ground to forage and is recorded up to about 700 m along the Andean foothills.

• Izu Thrush Turdus celaenops

  The Izu Thrush is a thrush found on the Izu Islands and other Japanese islands. Males stand out with a black head and breast and orange belly and flanks.

• Fulvous-vented Euphonia Euphonia fulvicrissa

  The male has a blue back and yellow underparts. This euphonia lives in humid forests from Panama through Ecuador and mainly eats fruit.

• Slender-footed Tyrannulet Zimmerius gracilipes

  The Slender-footed Tyrannulet is a small flycatcher of South America. In the current species treatment, the Guianan Tyrannulet, Zimmerius acer, is separate and is not included here. This species lives in moist lowland forest and on tepuis, feeding on insects and small fruits.

• Bocage's Robin Sheppardia bocagei

  This akalat searches for small prey near the forest floor. It inhabits forest and swamp forest, and has rufous tones on the face.

• Red-fan Parrot Deroptyus accipitrinus

  This green South American parrot can raise the feathers on the back of its head into a fan when scared or excited.

• 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.

• Pemba Green Pigeon Treron pembaensis

  The Pemba Green Pigeon has an olive-green back and a gray head and underside. It lives in forests, plantations, and rural areas on Pemba, often near fruit trees.

• Morepork Ninox novaeseelandiae

  The Morepork has dark brown, lightly spotted plumage and large yellow eyes. It is active at night and catches insects and small animals.

• Plumbeous Antvireo Dysithamnus plumbeus

  This antvireo lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Males are gray with a blacker chest, while females are olive-brown. It searches for small arthropods in the lower forest stratum.

• Plumbeous Hawk Cryptoleucopteryx plumbea

  The Plumbeous Hawk is a slate-colored raptor. Birds Colombia lists Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru, and describes it ambushing small vertebrates inside forest.

• Abyssinian Woodpecker Dendropicos abyssinicus

  The Abyssinian Woodpecker has a golden-yellow back and red rump and occurs in the Ethiopian highlands. It uses wooded habitats but is described as elusive.

• Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus

  This large cuckoo occurs from East Asia into Southeast Asia. The sexes have different plumage; it eats fruit and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.