Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus

  

  The Lineated Woodpecker is a large woodpecker with a black back and a white shoulder stripe. Its scarlet crest and, in males, red cheek stripe stand out. It taps into wood to find insects.

• Striated Softtail Thripophaga macroura

  This bird is locally distributed in eastern Brazil. Its upperparts are rufous-brown with pale streaks, and its tail is cinnamon-colored. At Sooretama, pairs and small family groups were recorded foraging in the lower forest among dense vine tangles.

• Bornean Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron schleiermacheri

  The Bornean Peacock Pheasant is a pheasant found only on Borneo. Its iridescent eye-spots on the wings and tail stand out, and males and females have different plumage.

• New Britain Boobook Ninox odiosa

  Adult New Britain Boobooks have reddish-brown upperparts and yellow-orange eyes; females are larger than males. They are nocturnal, living alone or in pairs and hunting from forest perches.

• White-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha albicapillus

  This bird is marked by a white crown and rufous underparts. It ranges from western Africa into parts of eastern Africa, using open woodland and waterside thickets.

• Brandt's Mountain Finch Leucosticte brandti

  A finch of open high mountains that feeds on seeds. The head can look darker in breeding plumage and paler outside the breeding season.

• Roberts's Warbler Oreophilais robertsi

  Roberts's Warbler is a small bird of the highlands of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Adults have olive-brown upperparts, yellow eyes, a grayish-rufous breast, a white belly, and rufous flanks. It feeds on small invertebrates in montane thickets.

• Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianinus

  The Pheasant Coucal is a large cuckoo relative with a long tail. It lives in grassland and scrub across northern and eastern Australia.

• Rainbow lorikeet Trichoglossus moluccanus

  A colourful Australian parrot with a blue head, green wings and an orange-to-yellow breast.

• Spinifex Pigeon Geophaps plumifera

  The Spinifex Pigeon's belly ranges from reddish-brown to white across its range. It uses rocky places near water and eats seeds of grasses and other plants.

• Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar

  The Gabar Goshawk is a small hawk with a pale gray-and-white form and an all-dark form.

• Seven-colored Tanager Tangara fastuosa

  This tanager has noticeable violet and orange plumage. It eats fruit and arthropods and also uses forest edges and gardens.

• Santa Marta Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes pernix

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northeastern Colombia. Its original description recorded plumage from a single adult male.

• Brown-backed Solitaire Myadestes occidentalis

  The Brown-backed Solitaire is a thrush of mountain forests from Mexico into northern Central America. It is brown with gray markings and eats mostly fruit in forests near water.

• Cinnamon Teal Spatula cyanoptera

  A duck of shallow lakes and wetlands. In breeding plumage, the male becomes a vivid chestnut color.

• Klages's Antwren Myrmotherula klagesi

  This small antwren lives in the canopy of lowland floodplain forest in northern Brazil. Males are black and white; females have buff streaks.

• Jandaya Parakeet Aratinga jandaya

  This parakeet occurs in northeastern Brazil. Adults have yellow heads and necks with orange breasts and bellies; it also uses forest edges and palm groves.

• Blue-throated Hillstar Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus

  A hummingbird of shrub patches in the southwestern Ecuadorian Andes. Males have a blue throat, while females show grey and white areas on the throat.

• Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus moluccensis

  A small woodpecker whose male has a red streak on the hindcrown. It usually searches tree trunks and branches alone or in pairs.

• White-throated Treerunner Pygarrhichas albogularis

  It climbs trunks and branches while pecking at bark for food, mainly insects. In the Argentine SIB account for the Andean-Patagonian forests, it is more often seen in low valleys during winter.

• Orange River Francolin Scleroptila gutturalis

  The Orange River Francolin is a ground-dwelling bird of dry grassland in southern Africa. It has a striking black-and-white pattern from the sides of the neck toward the throat, and the sexes have similar plumage.

• Rufous Owl Ninox rufa

  The Rufous Owl is a large owl with reddish-brown plumage and pale bars. It rests in leafy cover by day and is active at night.

• Miombo Rock Thrush Monticola angolensis

  An Old World flycatcher of miombo woodland with large trees. It feeds actively on the ground and sings conspicuously while defending its territory in spring.

• Hawaii Creeper Loxops mana

  The Hawaii Creeper searches for small invertebrates in wet ʻōhiʻa and koa forest. A 2015 state plan describes four separated populations above 1,500 m on Hawaiʻi Island.