Meet the world’s animals.

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• Schlegel's Francolin Campocolinus schlegelii

  

  A small gamebird of Central African savanna woodland. Males show a rusty orange head and dark facial markings; the species eats leaves, seeds, grain, and caterpillars.

• Common Flameback Dinopium javanense

  A tree-climbing woodpecker, it braces with its tail while excavating ants and larvae. In Singapore it also occurs in parks and mangroves.

• Akepa Loxops coccineus

  A small Hawaiian honeycreeper, it uses its crossed bill to find insects and spiders in ʻōhiʻa buds and is now believed to remain only on Hawaiʻi Island.

• Cape Barren Goose Cereopsis novaehollandiae

  The Cape Barren Goose is a heavy gray goose with a yellow-green cere. It uses coastal islands and grasslands in southern Australia and grazes on vegetation.

• Spotted Imperial Pigeon Ducula carola

  This imperial pigeon occurs only in the Philippines. Males show stronger gray, white, and dark contrasts, while females are browner overall; plumage also varies among subspecies.

• Creamy-bellied Antwren Herpsilochmus motacilloides

  This small antwren lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Males have a black cap and broad white eyebrow, and the species is reported at 900–2,100 m.

• Bronze-winged Parrot Pionus chalcopterus

  The Bronze-winged Parrot is a medium-sized parrot with blue and green plumage. It lives in mountain forests and other wooded areas of northwestern South America, flying in groups to find fruit and seeds.

• Burchell's Coucal Centropus burchellii

  This large coucal lives in southern African grasslands and around wetlands. Adult males and females look similar, but females are larger. Its glossy black head, chestnut back and wings, and pale belly stand out as it searches for small animals in thickets and reedbeds.

• Hoary-throated Spinetail Synallaxis kollari

  This spinetail is known from very few records in Roraima, at the northern end of Brazil. Its ecology is poorly documented, so the observations cannot be treated as a complete account of its behavior.

• Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus

  A thrush with a white eyebrow stripe. It visits wooded areas in Japan in spring and autumn, often eating fruit high in trees.

• Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata

  About the size of a House Sparrow, it searches for food in leaf litter and thickets by day. It eats insects and plant parts and builds its nest in palm trees.

• Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet Tyranniscus uropygialis

  This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in northern Salta Province, Argentina. The national park database lists forest and montane-forest edges as its habitat.

• Blue-chinned Sapphire Chlorestes notata

  This hummingbird lives in Colombia’s humid lowlands and river-edge forest. Males show a blue-violet throat against glossy green plumage, and it feeds mainly at flowers.

• Red-crowned Parakeet Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae

  A medium-sized parakeet with a red forehead and green body. Its three extant subspecies occupy islands around New Zealand, and the source describes their island distributions.

• Blue-whiskered Tanager Tangara johannae

  The Blue-whiskered Tanager is a rare tanager restricted to lowland and foothill rainforest in western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.

• Greater Spotted Eagle Clanga clanga

  Adults are dark brown with broad wings; young birds have prominent white spots on the back and wings.

• Himalayan Owl Strix nivicolum

  The Himalayan Owl is a medium-sized owl of mountain forests from the Himalayas across East Asia. It has no ear tufts and a pale X-shaped mark across the face.

• Long-billed Forest-warbler Artisornis moreaui

  This small forest bird has a long black bill. It searches leaves for small invertebrates in the mountains of eastern Tanzania.

• Silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera

  A pheasant whose male has white-and-black patterned feathers on its back and long tail.

• Hoffmann's Woodpecker Melanerpes hoffmannii

  Hoffmann's Woodpecker inhabits dry forest and also uses trees near human settlements along the Pacific slope. Males have a red crown and yellow nape; females have a white forehead and crown.

• Dark-breasted Rosefinch Procarduelis nipalensis

  The Dark-breasted Rosefinch has dark pink males with a pale throat and eyebrow. In Thimphu Valley it searches the ground for food in mountain forests and rocky sites.

• American Wigeon Mareca americana

  This duck feeds on plants in wetlands and fields. Breeding males have a green eye stripe and a white crown.

• Namaqua Dove Oena capensis

  The Namaqua Dove is a small, long-tailed dove that searches for seeds on the ground in dry, open country.

• Black-crowned Antshrike Thamnophilus atrinucha

  The Black-crowned Antshrike forages in the understory of humid and semi-deciduous forests. Adult males are gray and black, while females are olive-brown; the species is also recorded in Tumbes, northwestern Peru.