Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous-tailed Shama Trichixos pyrropygus

  

  This shama has a warm brown body and rufous tail. It skulks alone in lowland forest understorey and searches near the ground for insects.

• Cambodian Tailorbird Orthotomus chaktomuk

  A small tailorbird restricted to dense floodplain scrub in southeastern Cambodia. Males have a black throat patch, and both sexes have an orange crown.

• 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.

• Purple-chested Hummingbird Polyerata rosenbergi

  This hummingbird lives in humid Pacific lowland forests of northwestern Ecuador and western Colombia. Males have a blue-purple patch on the chest.

• Banded Fruit Dove Ptilinopus cinctus

  The Banded Fruit Dove has a white head and neck, a black back, and grey underparts. Its sharply contrasting plumage makes it distinctive.

• Chaco Owl Strix chacoensis

  The Chaco Owl has a white facial disk edged in dark, a white crown with a brown center stripe, and dense brown barring below. It is active at dusk and night in the dry Chaco region of South America.

• White-fronted Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola albifrons

  In the Peruvian Andes, this ground-tyrant is associated with high-altitude bogs and cushion plants, at 3,700–4,900 m in the Peru Aves account. It can be locally common where suitable habitat occurs.

• Veery Catharus fuscescens

  It breeds in damp forests of North America and winters in South America. It hops through the forest floor while searching for insects and fruit.

• Capped Seedeater Sporophila bouvreuil

  This seedeater occurs in South America. A plumage study separates reddish-brown males as Sporophila bouvreuil and grey-to-white males as the distinct S. pileata.

• Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani

  The Smooth-billed Ani lives in groups in shrubby parts of tropical South America and the Caribbean. Its glossy black plumage and oversized bill stand out.

• Sooty Woodpecker Mulleripicus funebris

  The Northern Sooty Woodpecker is a large woodpecker of the northern Philippines. In the northern taxon, males have broader burgundy facial markings and smaller white spots on the neck than the related southern form.

• Scalloped Antbird Myrmoderus ruficauda

  The Scalloped Antbird inhabits forest in Brazil and often stays close to the ground. Males have a dark rufous rump and tail; females have a white breast with black scalloping.

• Redhead Aythya americana

  The Redhead is a diving duck of North America. In breeding plumage the male has a reddish-brown head and blue-gray bill; the female is brown with a paler face.

• White-rumped Hawk Parabuteo leucorrhous

  This forest hawk is conspicuous for its dark body and white rump. Argentine records place it in humid and subtropical forests.

• Bahia Spinetail Synallaxis cinerea

  The Bahia Spinetail is a small bird of a restricted area of eastern Brazil. It searches for insects in the forest understory, sometimes moving with mixed flocks in pairs or family groups.

• Crimson-fronted Parakeet Psittacara finschi

  The Crimson-fronted Parakeet is a Central American parakeet with a green body and red forehead. It eats fruit and flowers, travels in flocks, and gathers at communal roosts in the evening.

• Salvadori's Pheasant Lophura inornata

  Salvadori's Pheasant lives in montane forest on Sumatra. The cited account distinguishes a southern nominate subspecies from a northern subspecies.

• Bluebonnet Northiella haematogaster

  This Australian parrot has a blue face and throat and a gray-brown body. Its wing colors vary among subspecies.

• European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

  The European Pied Flycatcher is a woodland migrant. In British breeding areas, males are black and white with two white marks on the forehead; females are more subdued brown and white.

• 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.

• 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.

• Sombre Hummingbird Eupetomena cirrochloris

  This hummingbird occurs in Brazil. Gould described its head and back as dark grass-green and its wings as purplish brown; modern species accounts place it at humid forest edges and in the understory, where it takes nectar.

• Beautiful Fruit Dove Ptilinopus pulchellus

  The Beautiful Fruit Dove is a small pigeon of rainforests on New Guinea and nearby islands. It plucks fruit from the ends of branches.

• Barred Owl Strix varia

  A forest owl of North America, with brown-and-white barred plumage. Its calls may reveal it at night.