Meet the world’s animals.

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• Speckled Nightingale-Thrush Catharus maculatus

  

  An Andean nightingale-thrush of South America. A 2017 study supported treating C. maculatus as a species separate from Central American C. dryas.

• Esmeraldas Antbird Sipia nigricauda

  An antbird of the Pacific slope from western Colombia to western Ecuador. It searches low in the dark understorey of humid foothill forest.

• Cinnamon Teal Spatula cyanoptera

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

• Moluccan eclectus Eclectus roratus

  A parrot of Indonesia’s Moluccan islands, with striking differences in plumage and bill colour between males and females.

• Biak Coucal Centropus chalybeus

  The Biak Coucal is a cuckoo found on Biak and Supiori, northwest of New Guinea. It is usually inconspicuous unless it calls.

• Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus

  A hawk ranging from Africa through South and Southeast Asia to New Guinea. It is known for catching bats in flight around dusk.

• Coal-crested Finch Charitospiza eucosma

  A small finch of Brazil's Cerrado. In Bolivia it has been recorded at a few scattered sites in the north, where it also searches the ground in young growth after fires.

• Grey-crowned Prinia Prinia cinereocapilla

  The Grey-crowned Prinia is a small bird marked by its grey crown. A study in western Nepal reported it in grassland and scrub habitats.

• Blyth's Tragopan Tragopan blythii

  Blyth's Tragopan is a pheasant whose male has red, gray, and white plumage. It forages in the undergrowth of evergreen mountain forest.

• Hispaniolan Amazon Amazona ventralis

  A mostly green parrot marked by a white forehead and blue on the head. Its native range is Hispaniola and nearby islands.

• Freckle-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos analis

  This small woodpecker has white bars across its black back. A Vietnam species account describes it as resident there; another bird reference summarizes it as feeding on invertebrates.

• Green Imperial Pigeon Ducula aenea

  The Green Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon of forests and mangroves in Asia. It eats fruit and spends time high in the trees.

• Oriental greenfinch Chloris sinica

  A small bird of Japanese woodland, grassland and fields. It has a thick bill and eats seeds of grasses and other plants.

• Olivaceous Elaenia Elaenia mesoleuca

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, and northern Uruguay. It closely resembles E. parvirostris, and voice is reported as a useful clue where field separation is difficult.

• Sunda Blue Robin Myiomela diana

  This robin lives in Java’s mountains. In a 2020 specimen study, males were glossy dark blue while females had mainly chestnut plumage.

• Romblon Boobook Ninox spilonotus

  An owl recorded on Tablas and Sibuyan in the Philippines. The studied island birds had a relatively plain head pattern.

• Cipo Canastero Asthenes luizae

  This canastero is endemic to the Espinhaço Range in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. It is restricted to rocky campos rupestres, where researchers have studied scattered populations.

• Little Hermit Phaethornis longuemareus

  A University of the West Indies guide describes this tiny hummingbird as about 10 cm long. The male's throat is slightly darker than the female's; it feeds on nectar and small invertebrates in humid lowland habitats.

• 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.

• Bicolored Antvireo Dysithamnus occidentalis

  The Bicolored Antvireo is recorded in humid Andean forests, including southern Colombia. Males are dark gray with small white wing spots; females have a brown back and a chestnut crown. The bird searches leaves and leaf litter for insects near the forest floor.

• Blue Duck Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos

  The Blue Duck is endemic to New Zealand. It lives along clear rivers with forested banks and occurs on both the North and South Islands.

• Yellow-breasted Racket-tail Prioniturus flavicans

  The Yellow-breasted Racket-tail has a yellow breast and racket-shaped tips on its central tail feathers. It searches for food in the canopy of forests on Sulawesi and nearby islands, often in pairs or small groups.

• Cuban Lizard-cuckoo Coccyzus merlini

  The Cuban Lizard-cuckoo has red skin around the eyes and a long tail. It lives in forest and scrub and eats lizards, frogs, and other small prey.

• Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis

  Adults are pale gray with darker gray wings and a black tail, and fly on long, pointed wings. They breed in the United States and migrate to South America afterward.